Product Details

• Actors: Jim Adkins (II), Billie Joe Armstrong, Travis Barker, Rigger' Dan Beard, Matthew Beauchesne
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Melee / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
• DVD Release Date: December 9, 2003
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000Z80CK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,404 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Riding in Vans With Boys" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

"In the summer of 2002, Blink-182 invited the little-known band Kut U up to accompany them, Green Day, and Jimmy Eat World on The Pop Disaster Tour... This film is an uncensored look at four friends as they live their rock star dreams and trash everything in their path." Includes live performances by Blink-182, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World.

Special Features: Limited Edition Atticus and Macbeth stickers; 20 mins. of additional footage including deleted scenes and interview outtakes; Audio commentary from Blink182's Mark Hoppus & Tom DeLonge, Kut U Up's Chris Cote, and producer John Sclimenti; Photo Gallery; Riding in Vans with Boys Soundtrack presentation; Scene Access

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong steals this movie!, February 19, 2005

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tovangar "tovangar" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Riding in Vans With Boys (DVD)

Buy this DVD even if you aren't a fan of Green Day, blink, Jimmy Eats World or Kut-U-Up (although I guarantee that you will be a Green Day fan AFTER viewing it) because it is the funniest thing you will ever see. This movie could have been a mess, but Oscar-worthy editing and a great sound track saved the day. It's actually a good film, deserving of recognition. We watch it at least once a week and sometimes twice a day.

My fave bits are:

-Green Day on stage (Mike Dirnt is wonderfully loose-limbed),

-a shirtless (and extensively tattooed) Billie Joe Armstrong rubbing cake in Mike's hair,

-Billie Joe spanking or kissing a variety of guys,

-Billie swinging from the chandelier of a two-story hotel room until it rips out of the ceiling and later limping down the hotel hallway dragging the chandelier like some demented party favor until he runs into Mike, who collapses in laughter,

-Billie branding a somewhat willing Chris Cote from Kut-U-Up ("How could I say no to the King of Punk?") on the bum with a pool bridge (heated with cigarette lighters) after convincingly telling him, "Just put a little Neosporin on it; it'll be fine, I swear!",

-Billie proudly showing his charmingly horrified wife, Adrienne, the damage to Chris' ass.

The manic joy in Billie's eyes throughout these adventures is a thing of beauty.

My only regret is that Tre Cool isn't on camera more. He's shown with his then wife, who appears to have a pretty tight rein on him, although near the end he does manage to get off a quick champagne toast, "Here's to ass f*cking!"

"Riding in Vans with Boys" is money well spent.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Whacked in a good way, October 4, 2004

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M. Schmidt "item535" (KANSAS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Riding in Vans With Boys (DVD)

I was introduced to this DVD almost a year ago. Since, I have watched it about once a week. Regardless of whether or not you like Blink 182's "Pile-of-Music" or rock out Green Day, or even the stylin's of Kut-U-up this DVD is hilarious. The fact that all this happened unscripted makes it even better. The Soundtrack rules too, including music from YOVEE and Jimmy Eats World.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The members of Kut U Up are insane., December 10, 2003

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Jay Ryan (Richmond, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Riding in Vans With Boys (DVD)

If you stuck an IV pumping straight Vodka into the blood of MTV's Wild Boyz and made them into a punk band and sent them on tour with Blink 182 and Green Day...and made it into a DVD documentary, you get...one hilarious, crazy, drunken mess of a DVD that you will want to watch over and over. Riding in Vans with Boys is a must see DVD for any punk fan!!!