A startling about-face for Australian director Alex Proyas, and an unwelcome one as well.
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07/18/03
Garage Days (2003)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:23
Rotten:29
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Alex Proyas (DARK CITY, THE CROW) puts his visionary spin on the story of an Australian garage band that is willing to do just about anything to make it to the top - or at least... [More]
Starring: Kick Gurry, Maya Stange, Pia Miranda, Brett Stiller
Director: Alex Proyas
Reviews for Garage Days
A movie of shopworn riffs and borrowed noise, dressed up with considerable surface polish and glam production values.
07/18/03
Garage Days feels like a movie that belongs in the garage; it's where you put things that you can't quite dismiss, but don't really like enough to have cluttering up your actual living quarters.
07/18/03
The jokes are as lame as they are tame.
07/18/03
Though the storytelling is a bit lopsided, the slapdash quality is charming overall, and the movie benefits from colorful characters and a couple of hilarious scenes.
07/18/03
Fast, funny and extremely light.
07/18/03
It's a handsome film, and made with verve, but too often the tone wobbles and far, far too many of its jokes hit with a splat.
07/18/03
The characters are often sketchy at best.
07/18/03
Amiable but oddly amateurish.
07/18/03
An unwieldy mix.
07/18/03
How did it all go so horribly wrong for Alex Proyas in his latest movie, Garage Days?
07/18/03
The whole thing seems to fall victim to the failed sitcom syndrome.
07/18/03
While Garage Days tries a bit too hard to be cool and slips into a darker place than you might expect, you can tell that everyone here is having a good time.
07/18/03
Director Alex Proyas tries to serve up a good-spirited romp, but by the time this one arrives at its welcome conclusion, you may well have had enough 'lively, eye-popping' filmmaking to last the rest of the year.
07/18/03
The movie has a lot of affection for these scruffy wannabes, and I liked the fact that they were not arrogant, aggressive types, but sort of average, with reasonable values and ambitions.
07/18/03
Top CriticA cheery, cheeky, youthful lark that it trips over its Doc Martens in the first few scenes and never gets up.
07/18/03
Absolutely the wussiest rock 'n' roll movie since Rick Springfield's Hard to Hold (1984).
07/18/03
[A] sweet, delectable rock 'n' roll comedy.
07/18/03
Top CriticA small-scale Australian musical with an appealing no-name cast whose charms are obscured by directorial self-indulgence.
07/18/03
A mainstream endeavor tricked out as an indie, Garage Days gives us plenty to look at but no reason to care.
07/18/03
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