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(2005)

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6/10
It's OK
olz_152 December 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Beat Kids is a nice movie which has lots of little moments. In a nutshell the story is about a kid nicknamed "fool" and his journey to become a good drummer.

There's no real point to it really.

He's got a bad relationship with his father who drinks and and gambles, and he doesn't want to become like him. So he doesn't. There's a love interest who he never goes after. There's a music teacher that the students trick. The film is really lots of little stories that don't really amount to anything.

I like the film because really life is just like that, the stories are still enjoyable and each add a different element to the film which makes up this teenager's life.

However I don't see any real point in watching it again. In life there are more profound lessons to be learned which prevent this film becoming a good account of the life of a teenager. For this reason the film falls short. It really just crashes and burns because it doesn't really achieve anything. It does have its funny moments and I cannot say that it wasn't interesting and so I'll give it a 6/10 as my vote.

It's OK.
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9/10
Full of great Drum rhythm
skyart13 February 2007
I watched this movie twice on the way flied to Japan. Yes, I watched twice. I was so touch by these rhythms of drum beat. It's a so simple and straight story. After come back to USA, I order the imported CD from amazon without delay. Yes, it's so good and can't get rid of the beat from my brain. I do hope there is US version DVD, but it's just too small story so there is no way to have US version to be released. I name it as one of my top rated movie in my hundreds of DVD collection. The structure of this movie is sort of combining "school of rock" and "drum line". The story talk about student's desire thought and how they face their problem. How they stand their life for it. I understand this is no Hollywood style commercial movie but a typical Japanese style story. If people watch some more Japanese movies will understand what I mean of that. A simple story make a great effort to everyone's life.
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