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Plot Summary
Grammy®-winning OutKast members Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) and Antwan A. Patton (Big Boi) star in this dazzling story in the key of cool. At a sexy, sizzling nightclub, piano player Percival (Benjamin) lives life by the rules, while Rooster (Patton), the club's flashy lead performer, struts his stuff on the stage. But everything changes when greed, fame and murder threaten to destroy them and the place that ties them together. Critics are calling Idlewild "a fresh, hip and imaginative extravaganza that will dazzle and thrill audiences from beginning to end." (Shawn Edwards, FOX-TV)
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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48%- Reviews Counted: 125
- Fresh: 60
- Rotten: 65
- Average Rating: 5.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: By jumbling genres, fashions, music and locales, and riddling bullets through much of it, Idlewild ends up feeling disjointed and disquieting.
Rotten: Idlewild comes alive only during the production numbers, which look and feel more like music videos than music as storytelling.
Fresh: Fans happy to luxuriate in its artistic indulgence, however, will be swept up in the weird, random, fantastic OutKastness of it all.
Fresh: You have to hand it to those OutKast fellas -- even when they make a mess, they do it with style.
Customer Reviews
Idlewild Sankofa Style
Idlewild looks to the past while moving toward the future. As a 50+ year old musicals viewer, I applaud Idlewild's success in providing pure entertainment for today founded on classic musicals of the past. A man, a woman, love, loss, hope reborn stirred in to engaging dance numbers and banging songs is a recipe for a movie you will want to see more than once.
Simply Amazing
This movie is nothing short of awesome. The minds of Andre and Big Boi always exceed the norm. This is an amazing collaboration of the past, present and the future. Definitely 5 star worthy!
Great from beginning to end!!
I enjoyed everything about this movie.... the actors, dialog, dancing, I love this movie!!!
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