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Roller Junkies!
USA 2022
produced by Alan Smithee, Jeffrey Dean Gray, James F Gregory (executive) for Frolic Pictures
directed by Jared Masters
starring McKenna Alvizo, Elizabeth Rath, Jayda Raymond, Jillean Cooper-Watson, Rylee Singer, Dawna Lee Heising, Addison Alex, James F Gregory, Aly Rae Santos-Tanner, Art Roberts, Jordan Case, Tom Gander, Jeffrey Dean Gray
written by Jared Masters, Elizabeth Rath, music by Sean Shimmer
review by Mike Haberfelner
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New to LA, naive and loveable Allison (McKenna Alvizo) manages to track
down her stoner dad (James F Gregory), and she falls in with the notorious
skater gang the Neons - even though she can't skate - that "control
the beach" by selling cheap 3D glasses. Though "gang" might
be a big word as apart from Allison the Neons have only two other members,
leader Sno Flake (Jayda Raymond) and knife thrower Lucky (Rylee Singer).
And they're soon threatened to be driven off the beach by rival gang
Animals - leader Krypto Kim (Elizabeth Rath), slingshot expert Venus
(Jiullean Cooper-Watson) and bad luck Jinxie (Aly Rae Santos-Tanner) - who
sell their 3D glasses even cheaper. This leads to many altercations,
ambushes and the like, until the two gangs decide to bury the hatchet, and
they're having a big party to seal the deal - which is cut short when
Allison collapses and dies. And now it's up to Detective Shmoe (Art
Roberts) to determine whether it was murder - or just an allergic reaction
to peanuts ...
Dawna Lee Heising plays Allison's estranged mother.
Made like a semi-(pseudo-)documentary, including interview
segments and the like, Roller Junkies comes across as a fun parody
of 1970s girl gang flicks, and it certainly hits the retro-tone pretty
perfectly via camerawork and colour scale while never pretending to be a
period picture. But it is also very enjoyable for audiences not at all
into yesteryear's cinema as it does tell an engaging story, avoids an
over-reliance on its "source material", and even reducing things
to a very small scale works for the movie in a pretty hilarious way. So in
all, good fun for sure!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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