Product Details

• Actors: Renée Zellweger, Howie Mandel, Patricia Childress, Max Perlich, Latanyia Baldwin
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Dimension
• DVD Release Date: August 7, 2001
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005K3OV
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,649 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Shake, Rattle and Rock!" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Renée Zellweger stars in this approximate remake of a 1956 rock & roll comedy that featured Fats Domino and Joe Turner in concert, and starred Mike Connors, Sterling Holloway, and Margaret Dumont in a story about killjoy adults trying to ban a teen-dance television show. Zellweger's 1994 update, made as part of Showtime Cable's Rebel Highway series, is similarly set during rock's late-'50s primordial beginnings and costars Nora Dunn, Mary Woronov, and P.J. Soles as uptight citizens putting the squeeze on a dance show hosted by a chipper hipster (Howie Mandel). Director Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) brings his arch touch to this silly but endearing tale (with a big boost from former Warhol mainstay Woronov), while America's sweetheart, Zellweger, literally throws herself into the high-octane part of a wannabe singer-songwriter relentlessly wooed by a bad-boy biker (nice work by musician John Doe). The original tunes could be better, but a subplot involving the uphill aspirations of an African American girl group (led by Latanyia Baldwin) in a racist entertainment industry allows for some vibrant doo-wop performances. --Tom Keogh

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SHAKE RATTLE AND ROCK - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock & Roll: The Way It Should Be, December 22, 2010

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This review is from: Shake Rattle & Rock [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I enjoyed the fact that Shake, Rattle & Rock! portrayed situations as they happened in those days. I am only sorry that due to the passing of James H. Nicholson prevented the proposed sequel from being made as I really would loved to have seen a sequel.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun little movie, August 21, 2002

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Jon E Johnson (Boston, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shake, Rattle and Rock! (DVD)

Once in a while someone manages to get a handle on the spirit of the early rock 'n' roll movies of the '50s. And, to his credit, director Allan Arkush has done it twice; first with "Rock 'n' Roll High School" - quite probably the greatest rock 'n' roll movie ever made - and again fifteen years later with "Shake, Rattle, and Rock." Is it great art? Naw, but it's fun. Be sure to watch for original "Rock 'n' Roll High School" stars Mary Woronov, P.J. Soles, and Dey Young playing their "RnRHS" characters' mothers.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Renee Zellwegger Is Awesome, September 23, 2001

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Josh "Josh" (Sc, Usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shake, Rattle and Rock! (DVD)

I came across this little movie, and I'm glad I did. Shake, Rattle and Rock! reminds me of a toned-down Grease with it's doo-wop songs and group of characters. A small town is taken back by rock-n-roll music. The teens love it, along with a radio tv show host (Howie Mandell), but the parents despise it. Especially Susan Doyle's (Renee) mother and her group of friends.

The characters in this movie are great and ultimately fit into the time era. There's your group of kids who have a band (Renee Zellwegger, Patricia Childress, and Max Perlich), the radio tv host dj (Howie Mandell), the bad boy (John Doe), and a group of young black girls (Latanyia Baldwin, Necia Bray, Josina Elder, & Wendi Williams) trying to make it big in a racial music business. The acting was very good. Especially that given by lead actress Renee Zellwegger. She is so awesome.

Shake, Rattle and Rock! is a great movie, and your 90 minutes will not be wasted.