ROLL (tears) BOUNCE (niggas)

So maybe you can tell from the title I saw the movie Roll Bounce.
While I was in the movie theatre I couldn't wait to get home to blog all about it!

First let me talk about my ghetto behind theatre experience:
I'm from New Jersey but I'm currently living in Maryland just 10 minutes outside of DC. The town that I live in is probably 98.99% Black Folk...maybe even 99.99%. I love my people but I DID NOT LOVE watching a movie with them. So maybe I'm one of those 'ciddity nigros. I grew up in Blackwood NJ. Blackwood is probably 30% black. I was kool with that. There was always a few chocolate faces in the mix wherever I went. I used to long for more...

*record needle screeches across the album...music abruptly stops*

... until tonight.

We file into the cinema and take our seats about 20 minutes before the movie begins. It was a good number of people in there, I didn't expect that many more would come since it was a 4:30pm showing. Chattering started right away. So I'm thinking, this is cool...it'll stop when the previews start. HA!
Before the previews start they play a mini film talking about "SILENCE IS GOLDEN." It might as well have been in Chinese because when the previews started "niggers" were talking and yelling back and forth like we was at the park. I'm kneeing my brother like, Can you believe this??
A half an hour into the movie my folx are STILL making there way in and 'scusing themselves down the row in front, behind, and next to me. UGH! I'm like stop it! Then there was a couple behind us with their children. The couple narrated the meaning of everything to their kids in my ear.Like" da reason dey said that is 'cause when I was little my dad useda say ..." Not to mention that the dad sang E'ry seventies song ...WORD-FOR-WORD!
I was like so much for golden silence, I guess I'd have to settle for silver mumblin, or bronzed mouf running. Oh well. If you can't beat um...
So I turn to my brother when the Roll bounce song comes on and sing in his ear..."ROLLL.....BOUNCE!" He looks at me and says "I guess ignorance is contagious." I just laughed.

Now about the movie, it was pretty good. Believe it or not BowWow was really a believable actor. The story line was terribly predictable but the characters were so lovable that you wanted to hang in there through it. Not to mention that them fools Mike Epps and Charlie Murphy made the movie for me!
I wanted to fall on the floor laughin.(hehehe) I fought being irked by the skate doubles...Nobody is dumb enough to believe the characters were doing all that intricate skating. Especially when the movie would cut to the legs moving, and then back up to the top half dancing. Still the endearing moments were enough to keep you from being pissed for spending $8 to see it.

I knew before going that Bow's character X had lost his mother. BUT I didn't expect that to matter too much to me. And it almost didn't. There was a moment in it that was like straight outta my life... X and his dad (who had a slight resemblance to my daddy) Have a heated encounter ending in both of them breaking down about not having their mother/wife anymore. I been there. So I cried. My brother and I thought "Daddy can't see this movie."
I know by now you think I cry easily, but that's just 'cause I don' let you in too much. But I weeped, quietly of course! My baby wiped my tears. He said to his siblings, "his mom died, like mommy's mommy died." OGH!

But in the end there was joy! I love a happy ending...even though the film didn't go for a totally predictable ending...it was close. I liked it though.
A pretty good movie overall, enjoyable for the fam. But listen just don't go with a bunch of rowdy black folx...unless you don't wanna hear nuffin but them.
Don't be mad at me, it's true. But I LUB U! All of U!
It was too many of ya'll up in there for me to yell "shut up!"...I wasn't tryna be rolled or bounced up outta there...lol!