Uinterview har postat en ny recension av filmen Skateland som har premiär i maj i USA. Filmen fick 3.5/5 stjärnor.

Movies that revolve around the topic of teenage angst often find themselves casting … well, angsty teenagers or actors just a hair’s breadth from it, which unfortunately rarely translates onscreen as authentically as one might think. Skateland is no exception. Neither Fernandez nor Greene are quite developed enough in their craft to flesh these characters out, though they are trying so hard it’s undeniably endearing. Fernandez brings just a streak of youthful naïveté to Ritchie, which makes it more forgivable that his lines often fail to flow organically. At times it sounds like he’s reading off a cue card. Greene is marginally more comfortable in front of the camera, as if she’s internalized some lessons about what not to do on the sets of all those Twilight movies. Melinda McGraw and Brett Cullen, who play the Wheelers’ parents, give heartfelt performances, but their characters are sometimes contradictory and poorly edited.

As a classic teen drama, Skateland is a far cry from The Breakfast Club. It is, however, a thoughtful and measured film that prizes subtlety and heart over heavy theatrics and contrived dialogue. Despite their occasional awkwardness, the actors add a dash of genuine tenderness to the script without diving overboard into the maudlin abyss. Skateland highlights a generation’s lost youth without making any lofty pronouncements about self-discovery or endless love, thereby allowing us to experience true nostalgia instead of some manufactured, generic feel-good emotion other directors try to endlessly replicate. We see the characters’ lives from their perspectives, not our own disillusioned ones. Burns has the courage to tell his story without falling back on the tricks of the trade, and therefore saves his vision from becoming just another uninspired, genre-driven formula. At the end of the day, I think Hughes would be proud.

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