CORPORATE LINE: Deeply in love with motorcycles, orphaned brothers K.C. (Steve Howey) and Trip (Mike Vogel) Carlyle clean pools to support their hunger for competitive motocross–dreaming of the day when they can get professional sponsorship and compete in the stadium event known as Supercross. Younger Trip is a loose cannon, constantly taking risks that make him a liability for a professional team. As a result, K.C. is the first to get sponsored. Unfortunately, just before his first race, he finds that he was hired simply to make sure that no one gets near the team’s star, Rowdy Sparks (Channing Tatum). K.C.’s jealousy gets the best of him until he embarks on a romance with a spirited young female rider, Piper Cole (Cameron Richardson), whose biker father Robert Patrick (TERMINATOR 2) sees a potential winner in Trip and decides to give him sponsorship.
Loud and colorful, with enough gravity-defying motorcross action to satisfy any fan, former stuntman Steve Boynum’s directorial debut conveys the dangers of the sport as well as the fierce competition and corporate backstabbing it involves. Robert Patrick shines in his brief but effective role. Boasting a sexy young cast and plenty of stunt riding, SUPERCROSS is sure to give younger viewers enough eye candy to breezily pass 90 minutes.
THE REVIEW: This is no EXPN. An hour special of EXPN motorcross is better than 90-minutes of Supercross the Movie. At least we wouldn’t have to deal with the love story and the attempt at a plot. The funny thing is the recent EXPN Winter X Games has had more plots than this entire movie.
THE EXTRAS:
The commentary track with director Steve Boyum does an average job of describing what is on the screen—as if we can’t see for ourselves.
“Look at the amazing Stunts” – Most of this feature is more interesting than the actual film.
“Meet the Stunt Doubles” – The stunt doubles are more interesting than the characters in the film.
“Behind The Industry” – This featurette features the Gary Christopher, the VP of Honda, who talks about how Honda helped with the shooting and the bikes, clothes, etc. So was it important that Honda helped or that they got shameless plugs in the movie?
“Cast & Crew” – Apparently the director Steve Boyum was an ex-stuntman. Big deal.
“The Story” – An extremely weak featurette that is nothing more than a hyped up movie studio promo piece.
FRANKLY: With all the lines that include “Dude” and dull races, Supercross the Movie is one of the worst movies of the year.
+ Charlie Craine
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