Wave Twisters

Wave Twisters is one of the greatest movies i have ever seen. if you're into the old-school bboy style at all, you will definitely love this movie. SF's famous graffiti DougOne interprets DJ Q-Bert's excellent Wave Twisters soundtrack into a masterpiece of the bboy arts: breakdancing, graffiti, mc'ing, and of course, skratching. If you're even mildly interested in any of these things, this movie is for you.

Watch drunk or stoned. There is no other way you will appreciate this deliberately weird little film.

One star for its existence.

One star for the clearly difficult editing.

And one star for not completely grossing me out.

I give this flick a 10 for the tight DJ mixing skills from DJ god Qbert and his crew. As for the film I gave it an 8 because however it is visually awesome except everything is exploding wildly on the screen and it's totally crazy to watch. I like how the animation goes perfectly with the songs so that's another plus. However I only viewed this DVD a few times and gave up because I only like it for the beats. Again, too much stuff exploding in your face, it's like watching fireworks all day long and it'll make your eyes go haywire. Watching it is just hypnotic, like looking at a nonstop spinning swirl, and it'll make your eyes go crazy!

I have never really liked dj music, or dance music either for that matter. But a friend of mine put this in, and I was hooked. DJ Qbert has a very unique style of using records that you normally wouldn't normally exspect to hear used by by a DJ. Think old space cereals on vinyl. Also, unlike other DJ's, He uses the bare minimum. A sampler playing a beat with a few sounds, and a record player. And with that minimalistic aproach, he creates the entire sound track of this movie, the dialouge, the back ground music, the sound fx, everything! The movie itself is a combinations of sci fi cliche's and obvious plays on classics such as star trek and star wars. But there is also that layer of the street mid 80's. The constant presents of things like Atari's, old arcade style games, grafiti, toys, and old school rap essentials give the movie a very unique almost indescribable feel. If you are in to really different and exsperimental movies, you should really check it out. But, I must worn you, you might end up with a few new cd's when its all over, because the music is very addictive...

Why did I give this a 6? It is above average but certainly not the best thing since sliced bread.

The whole thing about the movie "fitting the songs" is really not that big of a deal. It is not impossible to make beats and sound clips fit a mediocre plot..

If you are a DJ, a techno|hiphop head, or on acid - this deserves a 10.

If you are into animation and like the heavy beats of the DJ world - this film probably deserves an 8 or so...

But if none of the above fit your persona, you'll be bored within 20 minutes - after you realize that "hey, it has no creative story..."