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So last night Jason and I sat down to a nice quiet evening with Larry Clark and his indelible tale of childhood angst and wacky class bending action entitled 'Wassup Rockers'. Though I found myself immediately turned off by the glaring grammatical error in the title I decided to give Mr. Clark the benefit of the doubt and persevere. Lucky for me I was not disappointed. This film is without question the single greatest children's classic I have ever seen. 'Wassup Rockers' is everything that such wuss-puss crowd pleasers like 'The Goonies' wishes it could be. If nothing else it is contemporary, it deals with issues affecting kids today. I know that when Robert Lewis Stevenson was a child finding pirate gold was probably a very pressing concern, but the only notable pirate booty these days is sitting in a basement in Bangkok in the form of about a million low grade copies of 'The Dark Knight'. Tweens and Teens of this century can't identify with a bunch of wise cracking suburbanites who spend their time spelunking through booby (get your giggles out now)- trapped catacombs while being chased by a scary old lady and her two sexually frustrated sons. They want to see skateboard tricks and punk rock music. They want to see gunshot wounds and affordable 40oz's. They want to see 'Wassup Rockers' and trust me...so do you.
- Cody