
Machotaildrop is a highly visual and fantastical journey about an amateur skateboarder, Walter Rhum, who realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard company... Machotaildrop. Set in an anachronistic time and place, Machotaildrop is the greatest skateboard company of its day and the regal and grand sport of skateboarding has been thriving for many generations. Walter's journey serves as a window through which we discover the dark underbelly... (Full plot summary below)
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Machotaildrop is a highly visual and fantastical journey about an amateur skateboarder, Walter Rhum, who realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard company... Machotaildrop. Set in an anachronistic time and place, Machotaildrop is the greatest skateboard company of its day and the regal and grand sport of skateboarding has been thriving for many generations. Walter's journey serves as a window through which we discover the dark underbelly of what appears at first to be a benign skateboard company.
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| Globe and MailLiam LaceyAlways daring, Machotaildrop rides that rail between crude amateurishness and giddy creativity. |
| User ReviewMichael TSkateboarding meets willy wonka and the chocolate factory! |
| User ReviewCharly Famazing movie, must see if you get the chance |
| User ReviewPaul BReally good movie, the set and costume design were so rad. A bit too long and slow in some parts, but overall really entertaining and visually awesome. Try to see this one |
| User ReviewChristopher LLike a poor man's Wes Anderson, with skateboarding added. This might sound like a criticism, but it really isn't. I enjoyed it immensely. |
| User ReviewMagill FEven though I saw this movie two days ago, I still can't decide what I think of it. "Machotaildrop" is exactly what you would get if you told Wes Anderson to remake "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", except instead of chocolate and candies, the factory makes skateboards, and you only gave Anderson $100,000 to make it with. That's not an exaggeration or an embellishment in any way, either - this movie really is the Wes Anderson equivalent of a skateboarding Willy Wonka film. And y'know, it could just be brilliance. There are moments of total genius, such as the gang of skateboarding nomads known as the MANWOLFS who live in an abandoned amusement park, or the mysterious anesthetic music labelled only as "Frequency #62". But because the quirky characters, pastel colours, music selection, and block text are all so very close in style to Wes Anderson's, this film could also be accused of being entirely derivative and quirky just for the sake of being quirky. It's really tough call, and I don't think I'll be able to truly decide until I hear more about the production of the film. This could very easily be a case of someone asking a young, ingenious, visionary filmmaker - the next Terry Gilliam - to make a skateboarding movie, and said filmmaker creating this low-budget insanity with a bit of skateboarding thrown in to please the backers. And if that's the case, then this gets four stars - all the way. Whatever the case may be, however, James Faulkner's turn as the Baron is terrific. |