The Circuit

My first review of this reminds me too much of my comment re Black Christmas and this and Clausen's Pier do have common elements in that they are less appealing than some. They are a long way from the magnetism of Pete And Pete or Can't Be Heaven (2000) or Buffy or Beautiful Ohio (2006) or EuroTrip or Ice Princess or 17 Again.

The Circuit often appears to be at the level of Trachtenberg's best, then it goes weak. Some viewings I can find the whole thing watchable, if patchy. Other viewings I feel a need to look at a different feature instead.

The real positive aspect is that for a fan this is now available on DVD, not as an Ultimate Trach but as part of the whole thing. There is still Trach stuff that is not available, but 2010 saw things open up a bit more. Some actors, one can find it difficult to find this sort of second tier stuff.

The Pete, Pete cannon allows Rolling Thunder to be many different and opposite things. The Circuit has that sort of mixture, but if I return to it occasionally there might not always be a need for disappointment.

I race late model and so many things about this movie was extremely unrealistic. For one, the helmets. For a racing movie made in 2008 and the helmets look like 80s style. Al's car has a newer looking ABC body on it while Kylie's car had what appeared to be a body from the mid to late 90s. I know it's just a movie but after Earnhardt's fatal crash in 2001 you would think you'd see drivers with Hans Device on in a 2008 film. Also, during racing scenes, I swear the cars appeared to be going no faster than 40 mph. Days of Thunder by far is still the best racing movie though the movie, "Short Track" is a lot better short track late model racing film!

Michelle Trachtenberg and Drew Fuller had me thinking I'd be in for a good ride but sadly it wasnt good at all.

It is so bad, that I can hardly believe that someone got resources to make it. So full of cliches and so empty. I was making subtitles for it, otherwise I would never watch it till the end. Acting is terrible, story is empty, don't waste your time on this.

The script is terrible! Very much a TV movie. Lines like "do you drive with those" in reference to b00bs and and the very expected "race me" when Kylie is in a verbal confrontation with her dad... the last thing they need to do is race *SMH* I think Michelle and Drew did the best they could with the script... It's hard to take it seriously when the character you're playing has been done a million times and there is no room for any developmental arcs. I feel like everyone had good chemistry in their scenes. It was an easy movie to watch, no stress, nothing to figure out. It was very formulaic, but decent.