Airborne review from IMDB

**joeymc** · 19.09.2010, 16:40

The "Citizen Kane" of teenage rollerblade movies!
8 January 2002 | by Sean Trudeau (strudeau) (Chicago) – See all my reviews

Airborne is mostly a teen movie marketed back in the early 90's when the rollerblade craze was starting to catch on. It's like the rollerblade companies needed some more exposure, so they gave these guys a bunch of money and said "hey, make the kids crave rollerblades". With all that aside, it is a rather enjoyable movie. Shane McDermott plays Mitchel, a surfer from California who must move to Ohio for a couple months. His performance reminds me of a teenage version of Keanu Reeves in Point Break. Seth Green plays the comic relief hapless friend, and Seth's parents are played by Edie McClurg(secretary from Ferris Buehlers) and Patrick O'Brien. The parents in this are hilarious and they work very well with the rest of the cast. The moviesfollows Mitchel as he tries to adjust to the very different Cincinatti atmosphere. He quickly becomes a heartthrob thus alienating him from every guy in town. So he pretty much spends the next hour trying to avoid trouble, but at every turn it seems to find him. In the course of this he ends up playing ice hockey/roller hockey and then rollerblading. The major flaw of this movie is the motive and identity of the villains. You see very little of them throughout the movie, and their dialogue is terrible. There is also a huge disparity in the look of the males and the females in this movie. Most of the male cast looks and are well into their 20's (with the exception of the Shane and Seth).. The girls in this movie look like a bunch of 12 year olds... But since there isn't a lot of interaction between the two, it doesn't detract from the movie too much. All in all, I enjoy this movie. I really like the approach they have taken with the Mitchel character.. He's just a young surfer dude who is a vehement pacifist. He is very cool and very not violent (hero's always breed violence in modern movies).. He also makes a couple of Zen-like observations which are fun to watch. The movie ends with a rollerblade race through downtown Cincinatti with the hero's facing the "Preps". The rollerblade race is the best part of the movie, and it is very well played out. This movie isn't oscar material, but it is much better then any other "roller-skating" movie, sport genre movie, and many disney-teen movies.. Jack Black also play's a small role in this, and is fun to watch. I give this 7 out of 10 stars.

**joeymc** · 19.09.2010, 16:50

Ps- If you haven't seen it. Pop some popcorn, crack open a beer and look it up on youtube. It might just change your life.

**jakeordie** · 19.09.2010, 17:30

http://www.believeinone.com/?p=110

Read the comments and know that Edwards is King.

**fast eddie** · 19.09.2010, 17:58

Airborne played a huge part in me finding skating

love that move so much!

**joeymc** · 19.09.2010, 18:18

I often think about how Chris Edwards was never much of a grinder... but that didn't stop him from getting thousands upon thousands of kids & teens into rollerblading. He was one of a kind. I didn't appreciate him until I was older... In my teens I was follower Arlo's vision more than Chris' (like many.)

**Alex Coe** · 19.09.2010, 21:41

Anywhere i can see it? never have! I was always a Brink guy.

**wujcik** · 19.09.2010, 21:50

Originally Posted by Alex Coe

Anywhere i can see it? never have! I was always a Brink guy.

Brink = watered down disney airborne

http://extratorrent.com/torrent/1462...DRip.XviD.html

**fast eddie** · 19.09.2010, 21:57

Originally Posted by joeymc

I often think about how Chris Edwards was never much of a grinder... but that didn't stop him from getting thousands upon thousands of kids & teens into rollerblading. He was one of a kind. I didn't appreciate him until I was older... In my teens I was follower Arlo's vision more than Chris' (like many.)

i've been trying to get a Chris Edwards interview for my magazine for the last year, but it's like a friggin' mirage every time the opportunity arises

**jakeordie** · 19.09.2010, 22:29

Originally Posted by joeymc

I often think about how Chris Edwards was never much of a grinder...

Really?
The guy who invented that shit?
The guy doing that shit in Dare to Air?
The guy doing topside variations both ways in '94?
The guy doing 360s to grind WAY before anyone else?

Here let me fix that quote for you;

Originally Posted by joeymc

I often think about how Chris Edwards was never much of a fakeboarder...

Seriously I know what you mean, it was implied by the cultural division taking place in rollerblading at the time. This staged rivalry bullshit, with Vert-Flat-Shorts & Pads-Jesus on one side and Street-Anti-Jeans No Pads-Satan on the other. It didn't matter that Chris pioneered modern street skating, it didn't matter that Arlo was an awesome vert skater.....there was money to be made and the rest is history.

**formerly galenaskater** · 20.09.2010, 00:01

Originally Posted by jakeordie

Really?
The guy who invented that shit?
The guy doing that shit in Dare to Air?
The guy doing topside variations both ways in '94?
The guy doing 360s to grind WAY before anyone else?

Here let me fix that quote for you;

Seriously I know what you mean, it was implied by the cultural division taking place in rollerblading at the time. This staged rivalry bullshit, with Vert-Flat-Shorts & Pads-Jesus on one side and Street-Anti-Jeans No Pads-Satan on the other. It didn't matter that Chris pioneered modern street skating, it didn't matter that Arlo was an awesome vert skater.....there was money to be made and the rest is history.

Thanks for adding reputation to this user. May you be lucky enough to receive the same Reputation back in turn.

i was just going to say, chris did kinks, switch tricks and 360's and probably 540's into grinds wayyyyyyyy before other people even considered it.

**Keith Courage** · 20.09.2010, 00:36

Remember in the late 90s how Louie Zamora's nickname was Snakes? You should probably watch this movie to find out.

On a separate note, the guy that played Snakes in Airborne plays a religious security guard in the new M Night movie, Devil.

Isn't Shane Mcdermott the guy that plays Cyclops?