You have to hand it to those OutKast fellas -- even when they make a mess, they do it with style.
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09/29/06
Idlewild (2006)
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Reviews Counted:122
Fresh:58
Rotten:64
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Idlewild has some truly breathtaking moments, but borrows too heavily from other similar movies, and the disjointed script is not worthy of talents involved.
Reviews for Idlewild
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10/13/06
Fans happy to luxuriate in its artistic indulgence, however, will be swept up in the weird, random, fantastic OutKastness of it all.
10/06/06
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10/14/06
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10/14/06
While it's visually inventive, the story's too trite and clichéd to be meaningful.
08/15/06
For a band whose music is suffused with such delicate irony, you’d expect at the very least for there to be a few laughs along the way? There are none. Nothing. Zero.
10/14/06
Top CriticA movie so oblivious to convention and structure that it seems like a Jackson Pollock splatter-painting, without the crucial 'genius' part.
08/24/06
... a tremendously enjoyable, if somewhat disconcerting, experience along the lines of the Dr. Seuss-penned cult fave The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
08/25/06
Idlewild is what it is, though you may never be quite sure what that 'is' is. Still, it's a professional-looking picture, filled with talented, likable performers who give it their best.
08/24/06
There are moments in Idlewild that resonate with the painful 'if only' of missed opportunity, and more than a few that just make you scratch your head.
08/25/06
It's a vehicle for OutKast's music and personality in which the music and lead roles feel like afterthoughts.
08/25/06
If "Harlem Nights" and "Moulin Rouge" had a baby, it would be the entertaining, uneven but delightful "Idlewild."
08/24/06
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07/14/07
In spite of several inspired moments where it exhibits some genuine promise, this desperate attempt to be all things to all people ends up sabotaging any potential to make a memorable contribution to the annals of cinema.
02/08/07
A sludgy, badly photographed, poorly edited bungle whose musical numbers never pop.
08/25/06
Call me crazy, but hip-hop floor shows weren't an especially common sight in the 1930s Deep South.
08/25/06
At once magical and a mess, this musical marks a bold first foray into cinema for hip-hop duo OutKast.
08/25/06
Pretty good for an August dump movie... It's kind of Moulin Rouge light... I don't know anything about music, let alone hip hop, but all of the songs are catchy and the choreography is wonderful.
08/25/06
Too much "idle," not enough "wild."
08/28/06
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