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A thoroughly winning and unexpectedly observant lark about the antics of seven Latino skateboarding pals in South-Central Los Angeles.

Shifting his focus away from white kids seems to have done Clark good, because Wassup Rockers is the least sensationalistic, and hence the least moralistic, of his films. It's an enjoyable if haphazard picaresque.

Could have been a spiky culture clash. When it tries to shock us with its alleged realism, though, it is entirely a bore.

However you respond to Wassup Rockers, it is completely alive, unlike any number of teenage Hollywood movies with their stale formulas and second-hand puerility. And that's mostly to the good.

It may be truer to the lives of his amateur cast to watch them engage in mumbly, inarticulate conversations between rounds of failed skate tricks, but it isn't especially cinematic.

Wassup Rockers is amateurish, but without the redeeming qualities found in "Kids" and "Bully."

Larry Clark's latest finds the grizzled shock-meister in a thoughtful mode and a mellow mood.

Ultimately more laughable than illuminating, at times approaching a level of camp commensurate with John Waters.

Some moments of off-the-cuff beauty aren't enough to mask the creepy heart of Larry Clark's latest look at outcast kids.

It's hard to believe this shoddy, dishonest mess is Clark's sixth feature film, and not the unpromising debut of a rank amateur.