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Avg. Critic Score: 30 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Not for kids 15 and under
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    What Grind lacks in cinematic skill, it makes up for in heart, which is what most dudes-in-arms flicks are missing. Given the option of spending eternity with these gentlemen or the boys of ''American Pie,'' I'd choose the lads of Grind. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Sweet, in its meandering way. It has no meanness in it, no cynicism, no desire to be anything other than what it is, an evocation of the fun of living your life as a skateboarder. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Supplies stretches of actual skating footage by pros doubling for the stars. It's in these moments, freed from the earthbound pull of its market-tested components, that the movie briefly relaxes into the sheer thrilling audacity of flying into the air propelled by a board on wheels. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    A textbook example of the charm-free ephemera dumped by studios during the waning days of summer. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Buried somewhere under the gross-out jokes and the wet-lipped ogling at an endless parade of jiggling bikini-clad flesh in Grind is the kernel of a cheerful little movie about the world of competitive skateboarding. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times |

    Manages to capture enough honest moments to make it watchable, but it's never really funny enough to recommend to anyone who's outgrown short pants and kneepads. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Sitting through the teen skateboard comedy Grind is, well, a grind. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    What the problem comes down to is a group of filmmakers making misguided choices in an effort to broaden the movie's demographics beyond those who attend X Games. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    The most humorous actor in the film, Joey Kern as Sweet Lou the cradle-robbing ladies' man, gets laughs only because he's performing a note-for-note rip-off of the Matthew McConaughey character in "Dazed and Confused." Read full review

  • 20
    Washington Post |

    A lightweight skating story/road-trip film, is apparently the best it can do, which is to say, not good at all. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Not for kids 15 and under Pretty much a complete waste of time.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has strong language and sexual references and situations for a PG-13. The characters cheat and steal. Characters drink, sometimes to excess. There is a lot of gross humor involving bodily functions. One strong point is the presence of some classy and capable female characters.
  • Families can talk about why Matt is so hurt by his parents' decision and why his behavior toward women is so inconsistent with what he says he wants from them. Why do the guys want sponsorship so badly? Will they behave differently toward other aspiring professionals than the way the current professionals treated them?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Gross potty humor.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Mild peril, some bullying.
  • sex false3 Sex: Many sexual references and situations,
  • language false3 Language: Strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking.

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