Airborne: A Great Piece of Film
I love cheesy ass movies, hell I argued that “Bring It On” was the greatest movie ever last year. But I must now tell you that I have found a movie so great, wait so unbelievably great that there can never, ever, be a movie made to top this.
What if I told you there was a movie with:
Jack Black
Seth Green
and…..
Edie “Freaking” McClurg
Would you not be interested in seeing this movie? Now I know some of you think that I am making this up so that I can tease you, but there is such a film.
Here is a quick plot summary:
This movie is about Mitchell, a southern California surfer, that is sent to live with his uncle and aunt in Cincinnati while his Zoologist parents work in Australia for a year. Mitchell’s laid back surfer style and good looks piss off the hockey players at his new school, but when he scores a goal on his own team by mistake giving the “Preps” the victory in a major ice hockey game everyone turns against him.
Mitchell is left to win over his classmates and the girl of his dreams. Can he do it? Can him and his classmates band together and take out the preps in a skating contest down “Devil’s Backbone”?
I don’t know about you guys but I want to know the answers to those questions! There are three simple reasons why this movie is so great.
(Spoiler warning…. just in case there is one person out there that honestly cares.)
1) Originality- I’ve never seen a movie where a kid moves from a different part of the country and becomes the outsider… and in the end wins over a girl and his rivals. This concept is so original. I really believe that the writers of the Karate Kid went into the future and stole this idea from Airborne and then came back and wrote their movie. Of course I have no proof but since when did that ever stop me?
2) Tense, twisting action- A movie about ice hockey and roller hockey can only logically conclude with some extreme skating down the largest hill in Cincinnati, right? I mean a third hockey game with everything on the line would usually be considered good enough but no, the writers of the movie decided to up the ante and risk everyone’s lives.
3) You can watch the peak of Shane McDermott’s career-
No head shaving or over dosing for this dude, you can see him at his peak here in “Airborne”. Then after he fades into some weird place where the kids from the Hogan Family hang out. It is like Hollywood saw how great he was and decided he could never make another movie again because he would dominate the Box Office so much that it just wouldn’t be right to actors. He never worked after this movie, well unless you count his stint on the short lived “Baby Sitters Club” series.
Airborne… add it to your TIVO today because you are sure as hell aren’t going to find it at your local Blockbuster. Plus you get to see Jack Black in what is possibly the worst performance of a major Hollywood star playing a goalie in one of his first movies, well unless you want to go with Keanu Reeves in Youngblood…. But that is another debate for another day.
Has anyone actually watched Airborne?
Should I write a long awaited sequel to it?
