Customer Reviews

Down & Out With the Dolls [VHS]

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Ok, so the acting isn't the best - it started out pretty bad, but then either 1. it got better or 2. I got used to it and didn't care. This is a fun, entertaining movie. I can see how some people could find this terrible, BUT if you're into low budget, independent movies like myself, you will probably like it. If not, save yourself the hassle and avoid this movie. This is a GREAT low budget rock chick flick with lots of sex, drugs, booze, fights, stereotypical plot...and of course rock and roll! I give it 4 stars out of 5 (only because of the predictible rock cliches and...well, some bad acting).

Wow, a very cool find...If you can sit through the Runaways movie or just like rock movies in general, this is great. I agree with another review that either the movie started getting better ( better edits or acting ) or else I got used to it. I would buy on BluRay if it ever came out. The Guitar player (that sang) and drummer and girl friend and Lenny were great.

This is a home movie made by L.A. and Hollywood kids who have access to their parents work toys.

I think the final party scene was just shots of a party, that probably lasted three nights in a row (continuity is sketchy).

Plot is: struggles of a girl band. Girl fights over artistic differences, male dominated rock, fickle friends, divided loyalty over art and real life.

If you know someone in the slums of Beverly Hills then that friend is in the Movie. I kept looking for Tequila Mockingbird and Charles Coulombe in vain.

Okay, so I bought this just because my bro-in-law is in it. But it is still an amusing movie.

Pretty weird, but all the charactors looked and acted natural!
Sierra Feldner-Shaw is totally awesome and would have liked to see more of herin the movie.
The party at the end of the movie was very real and very intertaining.
The music could have been more "Death Metal" like but overall if was okay.
The fillming looked natural and didn't have all that &$%#** freakie skitzo editing.
Its a fun movie.

Although the acting is a bit on the amateurish side, this is a fun and enjoyable movie about the struggles of an all-girl rock & roll band. It is smart, clever, and suspenseful, definitely better than most movies like it, especially the more recent Prey for Rock and Roll. If you can get past the shot on video look, which I felt suited the film just fine, this one is is worth seeing. I enjoyed it immensely, but recommend it more to the indie loving crowd. Others might be put off unfortunately.

Okay -- I'll concede that I noticed the bad acting. In the first scene, there were such bad breaks in the flow of conversation, I thought I was watching a bad porn. But after that I just stopped caring (and it got a little better). I thought the plot was really well-designed. I was gripped to the screen though the whole thing to find out the answer posed in the intro. If you want Hollywood, watch "Josie and the Pussycats."

So bad it is kinda fun. The acting is the worst I've seen since the movie "Coyote Ugly". Just a total joke.