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Rebel Rousers [VHS]

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This movie is a classic bad biker movie. Bad movie and bad bikers. Nicholson and Bruce Dern are great, and it seems that most of the dialogue must have been adlibbed. No one can write this badly. All the sterotypes are here and if you can hold your lunch down, or keep from hyperventilating from laughter, you will have a great time.

This is a good little biker flick IMO.
No, it's far from the greatest one though, that would be Easy Rider (Special Edition).
This one has a great cast that includes Cameron Mitchell, Diane Ladd, Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson and Harry Dean Stanton.
It's pretty much the typical biker movie, but above average cast set it above many of the other biker films of the time.
The Rhino DVD is standard academy ratio fullscreen (1.33:1), mostly likely they way it was shot, considering it's a very low budget film.
The PQ and AQ is pretty darn good.

Overall I really enjoyed "Rebel Rousers"

I didn't think I'd find a worse biker movie (and I like the genre a lot) than Cycle Savages but this is it. I agree with whoever said the dialogue must be ad libbed. Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell and Diane Ladd, and this is the best they can come up with. Mitchell's pathetic attempt at getting help from the people of a one dog town instead of smacking the crap out of the wimp deputy and taking is gun is sickening enough, but this is the lamest excuse for a bike gang I've ever seen. Never thought I'd see a movie that made Cycle Savages look good, but this is it. The one thing this movie has is a couple of real nice looking bikes (which is what I watch motorcycle movies for), the customized Triumph that Dern rides an the high exhuast piped model Jack Nicholson is on are the only semi-redeeming things in this movie.

It's a classic bad movie that's worth watching at least once. It does have a couple slow parts but all in all you'll be laughing out loud and talking about it when its over.