TheColt

I saw this movie in summer 1995 and I have to tell you it comes too close to home for me. My parents escaped the Beirut war and are Armenians as well and unlike the characters in the movie, we were more fortunate in the American dream. But for the majority of those that do immigrate, they go through the exact same struggles that the characters in "Chickpeas" go through. If you ever come across it, I definitely recommend viewing it.

Disney or MGM should bring the reruns of this show back on the air...it was such a good show and unfortunately back in the day when Disney was a pay channel, not many kids could watch the show (I only caught it when we got the Disney preview). Now that Disney is a regular cable channel, at least show the reruns so that kids today could see what it is to be a REAL teen band that actually plays instruements.

This movie was good and definitely worth the $7 I payed to see it. It could have been great if it didn't move so slow in the middle of the movie and if that whole love triangle was removed from the plot entirely. That is what basically took away the greatness away from this movie. Feines tells the typist to send a message to HQ and to propoganda producers that Zaitsev is slacking off yet nothing more is mentioned about it? That was the major plot hole of the movie I saw coming due to this love triangle. If it weren't for that, this movie would have been EXCELLENT. However, its just a good movie worth owning on DVD when it comes out. It was also weird that the end credits were in the form of propoganda 3-D material...never seen anything like it 6 out 10