When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.
The film risks self-importance, but when Peralta admits through tears just how much he loves his skater charges, it imparts what every parent knows ...
– Nick Schager,
Village Voice,
1 Nov 2012
rotten:
Gradually becomes an echo chamber of personal dramas and exploits, not to mention propulsive soundtrack cues - all within a sport already nursing a penchant for self-documentation.
– Nicolas Rapold,
New York Times,
1 Nov 2012
fresh:
This film makes a great companion piece to Peralta's "Dogtown and Z-Boys,'' which leaves off where "Bones Brigades'' begins.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
2 Nov 2012
fresh:
Like a high school reunion, filled with affectionate memories of an earlier, more innocent, time.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Nov 2012
rotten:
An exhaustive - no, make that exhausting - look at a team of young skateboarders ...