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If you don't go into this movie with overly high expectations, but just go with the flow, this movie can be very enjoyable. So it isn't Academy Awards material. How many movies are? Anyway, for a teen high-school love story, this isn't bad. I enjoyed the skating, even though I have been to Pittsburgh enough times to recognize most of the streets, and certainly the skyline. I am more bugged by the movies made in Canada that try to pass themselves as U.S. locations (that tax credit must be a real biggie!)

If you like fish-out-of-water movies or H.S. love interests, give Airborne a look.

I hope Mitchell eventually made his way here to O'ahu and surfed our waves! Now there is Airborne! (especially the latest thing, Kite surfing!)

Laters brah

I enjoyed this movie as a kid, but have only recently re-watched it. Present impressions are not as favorable, but at least one aspect was impressive. Granted, the storyline was nothing new and at times corny, but there was a bit of vocabulary and a few good lines. What most impressed me was the novelty of the street skating scenes. These moves were being done by a few people at the time, but most kids like me had never seen such things. As I just watched now, I was surprised at things like the flip on the half pipe and riding walls and jumping cars and grinding rails. For 93, that's just plain amazing. For a lot of my friends this movie became a sort of street skating manual. We even painted dragons on our skates like the main character. Some of us even went on to be sponsored and I think it all started with this movie. Considered from this perspective, Airborne is definitely innovative and classic.

I absolutely *love* movies, and if I had to use a word to describe it the word would be *awesome.* Seth Green is one of my favorite actors, and this breakthrough performance is hilarious. I hear that he improv'd half of his lines in this movie, and his dancing is enough to make you fall over in laughter every time! Shane McDermott is a story of his own, with his intense eyes and killer smile he is totally invincible to all those Cincinatti bullies!! It's so sweet how he refuses to fight anyone and how he is so "zen." Overall, this movie kills in the deathmatch and I recommend it to *everyone*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!=D

After having some moderate success on a low budget kids soap opera, "Swan's Crossing," (which has developed a cult following thanks to the participation of actress Sarah Michelle Gellar), actor Shane McDermott starred in this minor, but intensely watchable sports-themed movie, mostly involving in-line skating, but also some hockey and skateboarding and surfing as well. "Airborne is a very 'physical' movie, that required the actors and countless extras to perform their own reckless stunts on camera. The action set piece, which makes up for the entire last third of the film, is really an exciting adrenaline rush. The camera work is quite amazing, putting the viewer right inside the high speed race down "The Devil's Backbone," a dangerously curvy downhill road that the skaters must share with car traffic, as they try and shove each other off the road and into rocks. I was especially impressed to see McDermott doing all his own stunt work. That is clearly not a double, and he is a very skilled skater. But this movie has more going for it than action. The photography is gorgeous with it's exotic angles and selection of a super bright color scheme that makes every scene look like it was filmed through stained glass windows. Even Cincinnati looks beautiful! Those surfing scenes look amazing in their blue splendor, especially on the big screen. Big names like Seth Green and Jack Black got their starts here. Seth is quite unforgettable as Wiley. We even get some romance that is very sweet, and some of the comedy is downright brilliant. Add in the music of Stewart Copeland and you have a 90's classic. I hadn't seen this since the 90's and re-watched it recently, worried that it might not be as good as I remembered. You know what? It's better, and it's proof that movies they are making today are just not as good as what they were producing back then. It's like movies had a soul, and a kind of innocence, that is blatantly absent from movies being churned out today. As family entertainment, I cannot recommend "Airborne" highly enough.

Laid back teenager Mitchell Goosen (Shane McDermott) loves his California surfer lifestyle. However, when his parents get a grant to live and do research in Australia for the next six months, Mitchell is sent to live with his aunt and uncle Irene and Louie Metzner (Edie McClurg and Patrick O'Brien) along with Mitchell's cousin Wiley (Seth Green) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Once there, Mitchell finds himself the object of ridicule by the other students which is only further exacerbated when he accidentally loses a game for the school's hockey team. Mitchell deals with the barrage of pranks from hockey team captain Jack (Chris Conrad) and the rest of the team, he finds a way to use inline skating to redeem his image and win the affections of Niki (Britney Powell).

Airborne is a 1993 sports dramedy that focuses on the then increasingly popular trend of inline skating. Producer Stephen McEveety developed the story alongside childhood friend and children's book author Bill Apablasa and brought the project to Mel Gibson's then new production company Icon wherein McEveety would produce a number of Gibson's projects over the following two decades. As Gibson was a stable of Warner Bros. Airborne was released through the company but very much came and went making a little under $3 million before being pulled from theaters. Critical reception wasn't particularly kind from whatever critics bothered to watch the movie with many complaining about the threadbare plot and superficiality of the film and it's hard to disagree with that assessment as this movie is very much a time capsule of the most vapid and superficial parts of the 90s.

From the opening scenes following Mitchell skating and surfing to "magic hour" shots to his return home where his parents tell him the news he'll be staying in Cincinnati, Airborne feels like a mixture of one of those TNBC Saturday morning sitcoms that aired alongside Saved by the Bell (albeit without canned laughter) with some pretty impressive skate work performed by skating group Team Rollerblade. Airborne has all the hallmarks of an early 90s teen sitcom and except for the color palette, it has a sitcom setup, with sitcom jokes, and a sitcom delivery. This was model/commercial actor Shane McDermott's first time in a leading role and he just does not carry a movie. Most of the film sees him in a very one note mode with a mostly vacant smile on his face that's supposed to be "laid back" but with how the movie is framed and everything it feels like he's one line away from trying to sell us some Capri-Sun. But I think the biggest problem from the film comes with the underlying message which feels like it's taking shots at pacifism and instead trying to tell its audience that bravado and d-baggery is the only way to earn respect of your peers. While Mitchell never hits anyone as he professes his admiration for Gandhi through the movie, he does "win" the respect of his peers and love interest by depantsing one of the rival "preps" and playing into their superficial egos with the hockey team stuff and given the leanings of McEveety and Gibson it's kind of hard to disassociate the film's stance from its producers.

I will say there is some entertainment value to be had especially from the early performances of Seth Green and Jack Black in supporting roles and there is some impressive stunt work on display with the skating scenes. Despite those impressive points however, the movie is so thin that there's not much Green and Black can do to elevate the material and the skating scenes go on so long especially in the climax that goes on for slightly over 15 minutes.

Airborne is not a good movie and the only compliment I can give it as that unlike another roller skating movie, Solarbabies, at least this one is a cohesive whole that doesn't show signs of a troubled production. Not worth a recommendation unless you're looking for a time capsule of the most embarrassingly vapid aspects of the 90s and 90s filmmaking.

Airborne is mostly a teen movie marketed back in the early 90's when the rollerblade craze was starting to catch on. It's like the rollerblade companies needed some more exposure, so they gave these guys a bunch of money and said "hey, make the kids crave rollerblades". With all that aside, it is a rather enjoyable movie. Shane McDermott plays Mitchel, a surfer from California who must move to Ohio for a couple months. His performance reminds me of a teenage version of Keanu Reeves in Point Break. Seth Green plays the comic relief hapless friend, and Seth's parents are played by Edie McClurg(secretary from Ferris Buehlers) and Patrick O'Brien. The parents in this are hilarious and they work very well with the rest of the cast. The moviesfollows Mitchel as he tries to adjust to the very different Cincinatti atmosphere. He quickly becomes a heartthrob thus alienating him from every guy in town. So he pretty much spends the next hour trying to avoid trouble, but at every turn it seems to find him. In the course of this he ends up playing ice hockey/roller hockey and then rollerblading. The major flaw of this movie is the motive and identity of the villains. You see very little of them throughout the movie, and their dialogue is terrible. There is also a huge disparity in the look of the males and the females in this movie. Most of the male cast looks and are well into their 20's (with the exception of the Shane and Seth).. The girls in this movie look like a bunch of 12 year olds... But since there isn't a lot of interaction between the two, it doesn't detract from the movie too much. All in all, I enjoy this movie. I really like the approach they have taken with the Mitchel character.. He's just a young surfer dude who is a vehement pacifist. He is very cool and very not violent (hero's always breed violence in modern movies).. He also makes a couple of Zen-like observations which are fun to watch. The movie ends with a rollerblade race through downtown Cincinatti with the hero's facing the "Preps". The rollerblade race is the best part of the movie, and it is very well played out. This movie isn't oscar material, but it is much better then any other "roller-skating" movie, sport genre movie, and many disney-teen movies.. Jack Black also play's a small role in this, and is fun to watch. I give this 7 out of 10 stars.

This is essentially a Karate Kid remake on rollerblades, but it is charming nonetheless. It never pretends to be something it isn't. Jack Black and Seth Green give you glimpses of why they have become successful today.

This is one of those movies that if I channel-flip to it...I will ALWAYS see it through to the end.

* So the writer decided he wanted a movie whose climax was rollerblading scene down the hills of Cincinatti.

* To make it interesting he makes it a race between two teams. Needing a team we can root against, he makes the antagonists "preppies" (since everyone hates preppies and he could skip writing any character development for them besides their group label.

* Realizing that he couldn't write enough script to say why he and his teammates hate the preppies, he decided that before our hero and pals teamed up, they were enemies.

* In figuring out why our hero and his enemies team up against the preppies, the writer decided "shorts"ing a preppie would suffice.

* To decide why our hero and his teammates were enemies, the writer thinks that our hero should a laid back surfer dude.

* Looking over his story outline, the writer noticed how thin it was and added several elements to plump up the script. Such items included a wacky friend (Seth Green, who takes a character you'd normally want to punch and makes him watchable), a Pauly Shore and Juliet romance with the sister of one of his enemies, and random acts of roller-hockey (specifically the kind where you're not allowed to play defense).

The writer had the right idea about ending a movie with wicked rollerblade race down steep curvy hills, but the plot devices used to get that point are so awful, that you'll need to wear your cringe-proof vest to watch.

Although certainly the writer of this film owes much of his inspiration to Steinbeck and Depression-era authors, it has more than enough substance to stand on its own. In hindsight, Airborne is more than just a high-flyin' roller-blading epic—it is a depiction of the culture wars that exist in our society today. Mitchell represents the coastal "corporate" American coming to the Midwest to pillage its' resources (in this case Cincinnati's finest ladies). Augie is the repressed commoner, perhaps a factory worker, who resents Mitchell at first because of his pedigree and obvious social graces. Wiley is the guy who is striving to make it out his internal strife anyway he can, and shrouds his blatant homosexuality in clever retorts and hooded sweatshirts. Jack is obviously the old farmer, who has seen it all in his day and now is bitter that time is no longer his friend.

However, the "Preps" represent something far more imposing than anything Mitchell brings to the table. They obviously represent Communism. If the Cold War taught us anything, it is that Communism can only be contained by a roller-skating race through Cincinnati that ends at the birthplace of democracy, Riverfront Stadium. No wonder Jack Black jumped at the chance to make this ambitious film. The subtle nuances of this cultured classic cannot fully be appreciated in two or three sittings. Nay, the marrow of this film must be sucked dry before you can truly see the vision behind this movie. Step aside Shakespeare...

Airborne is a fun movie for teenagers. Shane McDermott is Mitchell Goosen, a hot young Californian surfer. His parents are leaving for Australia for a few months. But instead of taking him along, they send him to ice cold Ohio to live with his Uncle Lewis, Aunt Irene, and his cousin Wiley (Seth Green).

Poor Mitchell is alienated in his new environment as people shun his pacifist surfer outlook. While he's charming to the girls, the gang of steroid-pumped high school hockey players he runs into hate him, and they try all they can to give Mitchell a hard time and make his visit in Ohio as difficult as he can. Mitchell has to find a way to adjust, but that's pretty hard to do when you're dating your adversary's sister in that old fashioned Romeo and Juliet cliche. Mitchell's only peace offering is his ability to rollerblade, which will come in handy during some finale competitions in which the guys all get their opportunity to bond.

The story is kind of stupid and hard to believe knowing that some of the high school guys are played by actors like Jack Black and Chris Conrad who are long past teen years. But, Shane McDermott and Seth Green both offer a few good laughs, nonetheless. However, the beauty in this movie is indeed the skating scenes, particularly the five-minute downhill race along Devil's Spine. It is a fantastic sequence, especially if you like skating movies. It's just a nice grunge days movie about rollerblading.

This movie is predictable from start to finish. The "surfer" who is out of his element in Cincinnati. Who has trouble at first making friends and fitting in. And then is the big hero at the end overcoming the odds and getting the girl. Seth Green as Wiley and Patrick Thomas as Uncle Louis have memorable scenes. But overall, this movie is been there, done that. This movie begs the question: How can life revolve around hockey? In Cincinnati? Don't remember any professional hockey teams there. Avoid at all costs. 0 stars out of 5 IMDB Scoring 1 out of 10.

This movie is hilariously funny. Shane McDermott's monologues, meant to be serious at the time (When you see that perfect wave.. .) have aged into top notch hilarity, and Seth Green's scenes are pure gold, showing the then-young actor at his comedic best, year before Austin Powers. Throw in a then-unknown Jack Black and a bunch of funny little high school types, and then Edie McClurg on top of it all, and you have one of those perfect 1980s-early 90s films, with the perfection and classicness of which that can't seem to be replicated today. This is truely one of the littlest known, but funniest movies of all time. Those who fancy themselves amateur critics would call it a period piece, a comment on the culture clash that can exist within our own country, and a farce on rollerblades. I say the only disappointment in watching it is the realization that more modern movies are nothing like it.

Just watched this can't believe I never seen it in 1993 in my teenage years. I really enjoyed it, great teen movie, some future big stars like Jack Black. The skate race at the end is the best skating I ever seen in a movie.

To be quite frank Seth Green is the best thing this movie as the rest of the cast is either far too static or fixed in their characuture roles. Not to be too hard on them as the 'action' scenes do take up quite a lot of the film time. So if your into the quirky sense of humour that is Green's check it out, possibly tape for future appraisal. But don't bother buying unless you know that you love it!.... But in saying that I do!!!

OK the movie Airborne is really not as bad as people make it out to be. Granted it is not cinematic heaven but for basically the age group that it is made for its pretty good. the movie came out when i was 11 years old so at that time i thought it was a great movie. now if i was to sit and watch it now i probably would think it was a really corny movie. at the time though i thought that shane mcdermott was hot so the movie was very appealing. he really wasn't the best actor but at 11 i wasn't really critiquing the acting, i just watched a lot of movies if i thought the lead guy was hot. if you are over the age of 15 this movie is probably not going to appeal to you but if you are younger then you might like the rollerblading scenes and the fact that there is a cute male lead. also seth green is in it and he can always save a movie with his comedic performance.

Airborne is not the worst movie I have ever seen, though not through lack of trying. This has to be one of the most pointless and, generally speaking, poorly acted movies ever made. The plot seems to be completely ridiculous and the character development makes no sense. The ending of the movie makes a 180 degree turn and leaves all of the issues and questions posed unresolved.

One positive about this movie is the scenery. Being set in Cincinnati and showing a number of buildings and the actual skyline unique to the city is a plus. If you enjoy bad movies, you will love this film. A terrible movie in every facet, it will satisfy your hidden desires to see something that is really truly bad.

I was watching this flick in a hotel room on HBO early in the morning and thought that it was some sort of parody at early 90s B comedies. Then I thought "there is no way that this is actually an early 90s comedy. They are beating me over the head with plaid and rollerblades and other 90s clichés." The I realized Seth Green and Jack Black were in it and I realized that it must in fact be a parody. WRONG! 1993 baby. This movie is so campy, but is so damn entertaining. It's like one of those songs that no one wants to admit they love, yet everyone loves it. Like "I Saw the Sign" or something. Check out this flick at the very least to see Green and Black early in their careers.

Not a thinking movie thats for sure, but the roller bladding was quite interesting and I'm glad to see no real fights... a light film to be taken at face value.

7/10

I promised someone that we'd watch a movie together, and she came home with Airborne. Gee, how I managed to sit this one through, I still don't know. Because this hotch-potch of stupid, incoherent scenes is probably the worst I've ever seen. Whoever did cast the actor who tried to play Mitch? This guy really doesn't know a single thing about acting. I've seen children on primary school doing a musical, and they acted a lot better than he did! Well, the only 'good' thing about Airborne is that it gives me the opportunity to vote 1 out of 10, for the first time!

Almost every movie you see nowadays there's a fight or someone getting shot. In this movie Mitch plays a kid who is not afraid to say "I won't fight you." Instead when he is forced to fight for the girl, he uses his wit and skills. Everyone in this movie does a great job especially Seth Green. Nobody plays the misunderstood kid better than he does. Airborn has drama, action, and a whole lot of comedy.

This movie was, admittedly, the big-screen equivalent of Nickelodeon immaculately conceiving Disney's baby; however, the "I'm Too Sexy" fashion show was worth every second of my life spent on all the rest. I confess that the thrill was cheap, but it was no less a thrill.