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Destroying America (Skateboarding Film)

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3 star:		(4)
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1 star:		(5)

 

 

with very little skating and more screwing around and well produced scenes, this video is one of my new favs.

if you like jackass, this smokes that stuff.

buy this now.

This isn't a very good skate movie. The pacing of the non-skate stuff is tedious and cumbersome and not all that entertaining. The scenes with the nurses, for example, are incredibly boring, as the novelty of volleyball-sized twins wears off almost instantly. The destruction of the police car at the end is boring too, at least until they dump it off the building. Tony Hawk's segment left me thinking "huh?" The references to Hawk's Gleaming the Cube role is funny for a second, but it goes on for minutes.

The saving graces are the skate segments, Ming Tran's segments, Gayblader, and the behind the scenes video (especially all the Ming Tran segments). If you can pick this up cheap, it's worth it for that.

The major problem with skate videos today are that they are stale and predictable. Nothing really seperates a skate video from others. This is not the case with Destroying America. Lot's of destruction, high quality footage and a hilarious performance by Erik Estrada make this video great. Not to mention the eye candy provided by the beautiful Rachel Sterling. If you're looking for something new, interesting, entertaining, and different, give Destroying America a view. If you're a jaded skater smark, and pretend to hate anything that differs from the homogenated generic [stuff] you've been watching, then don't watch it.

Jeremy Klein is a genius!!, hot asian girls, the chips guy, destroying property, and skateboarding, awesome video!!

The video is thoroughly entertaining and filled with unexpected surprises. The opening scene is great... it's shot in Chinatown where an innocent looking school girl kicks the hell out of a "perverted white guy" that can't seem to take a hint. The next scene consists of sexy nurses basically bursting out of the nurse uniforms. Scenes that follow are Jeremy Klein and Heath Kirchart destroying everything they run into and outsmarting Ponch... yes, Ponch! What more can a guy ask for? If you're looking for your average skate video - go somewhere else. If you want to be thoroughly entertained - get this video now!

Destroying America, brought to you by Hook Ups, is one of the best skateboarding video's after Birdhouse's The End, and Osiris' The Storm. This Video is jam packed with awsome moves, great bails, and the funny (sort of) plot line. It could have been the best would it have had the bad side of people like Tony Hawk and Jeremy Klein that The End did, but it is still the skateboarding video you should get you, a friend, or your kids this season.

If what you're looking for is a hardcore skate movie, this isn't it, but if you're a fan of Jeremy Klein, then this is for you! If you know Jeremy Klein's humor, and his way of going about things, particularly skating, you know that he isn't the type of guy who practices to hit stuff perfect everytime, he's the type of guy who just goes for, whatever. This movie has hilarious parts, involving Klein, and then some actually wicked skate scenes, maybe not as much as The End may have had, but in this case, it's just enough, this isn't a movie only on skateboarding, it's just, a movie. This is nothing like Jackass, and not even close to people trying to be Jackass wannabes, Klein has been around the skating world way longer then Knoxville, and it shows. Don't buy this movie if you're looking for people stapling their body parts, or dancing around in panda suits, but if you're a fan of Klein or Kirchart, then this is definitley for you.

If you want a skateboarding video DON'T get this. Luckilly, I got this with "The End", which is an awsome video. This is exactly like cky only completely staged, fake, and unfunny. Get CKY if you want original humor. If you really have to see this crap, dont pay more than $2.00 cause it sux.

This is not a skateboarding movie. It's basically a real movie, but has skateboarding in it. It's hilarious and highly entertaining. The movie features great skating by Heath Kirchart and Jeremy Klein as well as: crazy stunts, van smashing, hook-ups tour footage and more. The actual story is about two skaters (Heath & Jeremy) that are being followed around by a cop who is trying to bust them for all the laws they have broken. It kept me laughing for a while. The DVD features are great. There's tons of features. Such as: Cast & Crew pics, bios & photos, behind the scenes, additional footage, board graphics, trailers, ads and much more. Get this vid now!

At first I hated this video, but after a long hiatus I watched it again and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was having a Jackass marathon and this fit in perfectly (along with the Big Brother videos and cky videos). Anywho...yeah there's not much skateboarding but it has Jeremy Klein and Heath wrecking havoc in a van...and Mark Gonzales makes an appearnce. The music for the tour footage is by Cher and surprisingly it fits well. You also got Willy going potty behind some bushes which was funny. Jeremy Klein dressed as a dorky rollerblader annoying Dan Rogers was great. The little skating in it was good along with good music. If you like Jackass, I recommed this, if you want to see amazing skateboarding skip this and get p.j. ladd's wonderful horrible life and tiltmode army's man down.