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NUMBERS
Box Office: $56,178,945
VHS Rentals: $11,320,000
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CONSENSUS
Essentially a sports movie with drums, the energetic Drumline somehow manages to make the familiar seem fresh.
CAST & CREW
Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones
Directed by Charles Stone
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SYNOPSIS
Charles Stone III's crowd-pleasing drama spotlights the previously unheralded world of university marching bands--more specifically, the cutthroat world that energizes Southern black campuses. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, innuendo and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 55 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 13, 2002
Video: Apr 15, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
20th Century Fox
GENRE
Comedies, Dramas, Coming Of Age, Drama, Drummers, Drums
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Drumline Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
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NEWS ARTICLES
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 "The symbols float like butterflies and the spinning styx sting like bees. I wanted more."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"The pleasures that it does afford may be enough to keep many moviegoers occupied amidst some of the more serious-minded concerns of other year-end movies."
-- Gregory Avery, NITRATE ONLINE
"Don't expect any surprises in this checklist of teamwork cliches..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"...enthusiastically invokes the percussion rhythm, the brass soul and the sense of fierce competition that helps make great marching bands half the fun of college football games."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
 "There's a reason why halftime is only fifteen minutes long."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"The film's saving grace is the brilliant execution of its march numbers."
-- Bill Chambers, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"There's something about a marching band that gets me where I live."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"This is such a high-energy movie where the drumming and the marching are so excellent, who cares if the story's a little weak."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"By the time its otherwise paint-by-numbers story reaches a finale, Drumline has made band seem cool -- no small feat in the wake of American Pie 2."
-- Dan Fazio, CITYSEARCH
"Any movie that makes hard work seem heroic deserves a look."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"With its young cast and an appealing balance of uplifting attitude and irreverent humor, Drumline has the potential to be a sleeper hit."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
"Drumline ably captures the complicated relationships in a marching band."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Its over-reliance on genre conventions, character types and formulaic conflict resolutions crushes all the goodwill it otherwise develops."
-- Dan Jardine, APOLLO GUIDE
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"Cannon's confidence and laid-back good spirits are, with the drumming routines, among the film's saving graces."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Director Charles Stone III applies more detail to the film's music than to the story line; what's best about Drumline is its energy."
-- Nick Carter, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Rife with nutty cliches and far too much dialogue."
-- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The band performances featured in Drumline are red hot... [but] from a mere story point of view, the film’s ice cold."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"We may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerdy thing again."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"More than compensating for the formula script are Drumline's tuneful glory and driving rhythms, along with a pulsating vitality that never flags."
-- Bruce Feld, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"The fantastically edited scenes of battling bands in action are guaranteed to set your heart racing."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"A sugar-coated Rocky whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks."
-- Ian Grey, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Perhaps it's cliche to call the film 'refreshing,' but it is. 'Drumline' shows a level of young, Black manhood that is funny, touching, smart and complicated."
-- James Hill, BET.COM
"Amazing! A college story that works even without vulgarity, sex scenes, and cussing!"
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
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FRESH 92%
Avg. Rating: 6.9/10 |
"Offers little that's surprising or groundbreaking, but, because the script is smart enough not to insult us and to develop a group of interesting characters, the act of watching the film is an entertaining experience rather than a tedious exercise."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Drumline is a movie that treats its characters and audience with respect; it can't be accused of being a dumbed-down teen comedy."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Not exactly worth a drum roll but a movie with enough collegiate ka-boom to earn its title, Drumline is a percussion-driven musical variation on every sports pic you've seen about the talented hot dog who eventually learns to become a team player."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"Not a bad way to spend a couple of hours."
-- Jonathan Curiel, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Drumline has a lower profile than almost any other holiday movie, yet it boasts a higher fun quotient than many of its more touted competitors."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"[Drumline] is entertaining for what it does, and admirable for what it doesn't do."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A superlative B movie -- funny, sexy, and rousing."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Drumline is -- the mere suggestion, albeit a visually compelling one, of a fully realized story."
-- Daphne Gordon, TORONTO STAR
"An exhilarating serving of movie fluff."
-- Mark Holcomb, VILLAGE VOICE
"Brimming with energy and spirit."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
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"A big, loud, bang-the-drum bore."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
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