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Avg. Critic Score: 36 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A blatant re-spin of ''The Fast and the Furious'' that also happens to be a far better movie. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    It will all look pretty ridiculous to grown-ups, but to 13-year-old boys (and adults with well-tended inner versions thereof), Biker Boyz will be the perfect testosterone-fueled, flash-edited, music-driven joy ride. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    All of this is intriguing material, but the movie doesn't do much with it. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Never really busts out of second gear. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Gene Seymour

    There's more than a little Oedipal melodrama tossed into the mix. But the movie rarely gets as sappy or as contrived as one keeps expecting. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Though it's only 90 minutes, the film drags, making these not-so-easy riders pretty tough to watch. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post |

    Has the stink of man-musk all over it. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Guy flicks can be just as galling as the chick variety. Here's Exhibit A in how to lose an audience in ten minutes. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    The obvious idea is to stage a motorcycle version of "The Fast and the Furious." Instead we get the flat and the tedious. Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    The movie is so sloppily written and directed that its bits of bluster never cohere. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ Think MTV does biker movie with great cast.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that characters drink, smoke, and use strong language. There are sexual references and situations. There is some sexual humor and there are references to promiscuity and issues of paternity (with a traumatic discovery), but the relationship of the main characters is loving and devoted. Characters are in peril and there is serious injury and one death. Characters also "hustle" by pretending not to be able to race and betting a lot of money. While most characters are African-American, the gangs are open to all races, and Jaleel's group has white, Hispanic, and Asian members. Characters get tatooed. The bikers engage in racing that is not just very dangerous but also illegal, and at one point some are arrested.
  • Families can talk about how the biker culture is like and not like other cultures they know. What are the rules? How is status determined? How does that compare to groups in school? In sports? Or show business? What do you think about Smoke's decision in the last race? Why does Jaleel say what he does about the helmet?
The good stuff
  • rolemodels true2 Positive role models: Most characters strong, brave, African-Americans, interracial friendship and loyalty.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Characters in peril, one killed, one badly hurt.
  • sex false3 Sex: Sexual situations and references, including paternity questions
  • language false3 Language: Some strong language
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and smoking
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