Swing Kids

 (1993)



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Swing Kids
  • User Rating 33 votes
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Good, But too predictable
Oct 25, 2008
Toni - yahoo.com
It is good, but too predictable. Every time I predicted something, it came true. This is not good. Other than that, it was right on the money.... Full review
Good, But too predictable
Oct 25, 2008
teaspoon_12 - yahoo.com
It is good, but too predictable. Every time I predicted something, it came true. This is not good. Other than that, it was right on the money.... Full review
peopel this movie realy sucks!
May 19, 2008
hrs90 - yahoo.com
Folks don't even try to buy this movie. If they would give it to me foro free i still wouldn't wat it it really sucks. Lots of boring stuff! :-(... Full review
Strangulation Of Culture
Mar 07, 2008
bkoganbing - imdb.com
I do love swing music and love the music and artists from the era. So did my parents who were contemporary with it. But they had the good fortune to love it in the USA. It was a dangerous thing... Full review
"It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing."
Mar 04, 2008
LilyR - yahoo.com
This movie was awesome. I saw it in my world history class and it really opened my eyes to how it would have felt to live under Hitler, even for the Germans themselves. It also shows the cruel treatment of innocent... Full review
"It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing."
Mar 04, 2008
lilyr92 - yahoo.com
This movie was awesome. I saw it in my world history class and it really opened my eyes to how it would have felt to live under Hitler, even for the Germans themselves. It also shows the cruel treatment of innocent... Full review
This movie is so good
Feb 25, 2008
SarahG - yahoo.com
this movie is so good.like we watched it during ss for 3 days. And omg the gay kid who sits next to me...he got a boner lol!!I guess he really thought the crippled guy was hot lol. But it was really... Full review
This movie is so good
Feb 25, 2008
dirtbikeliz - yahoo.com
this movie is so good.like we watched it during ss for 3 days. And omg the gay kid who sits next to me...he got a boner lol!!I guess he really thought the crippled guy was hot lol. But it was really... Full review
Friendship
Feb 12, 2008
mymontanagirl - yahoo.com
This movie was made to show what friendship was all about back in the day when life was the worst, I think this is a great movie, I have this movie in my collection and watch it frequently.... Full review
swing heil
Dec 29, 2007
friendsfreak36 - yahoo.com
this movie is a favorite because of the music, the dancing and the acting. swing music is phenomenal and the dancing is just fantastic!Robert sean Leonard, Christian Bale, and Frank Whaley are amazing in this. Frank Whaley plays arvid so we... Full review

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Swing Kids Critics Reviews
| Sep 03, 2002
DVD Talk
Summary: Swing Kids is an entertaining and interesting film about a different side of Nazi Germany that is often overlooked. The swing music, though, is great, and quite uplifting. ... Full Review
| Apr 23, 1993
Deseret News
The performances here are all quite good and the enthusiastic dance scenes are toe-tapping highlights..... ... Full Review

Chicago Sun-Times
Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned, could have been the original Swing Kid. In an ambiguous scene early in the film One of the peculiar elements of this film is that the Kids don't seem very political. ... Full Review

skymovies.com
A moving eye-opener in some ways, it will certainly make you cheer for the Swing Kids as they spit dangerously in the eye of authority.....Okay performances really needed to be special to lift this film to excellence..... ... Full Review

James Berardinelli's Reviews
Nothing else in the nearly two-hour film comes close to these moments for color, style, or impact, which is a prime reason why Swing Kids is so weak. Swing Kids has a multitude of problems, the most glaring of which is its loose treatment of history and the Nazis. ... Full Review

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Swing Kids Movie Review
associatedcontent.com – 2009-07-06
The movie opens with Peter Muller and Thomas Berger entering a swing club, The Bismark. They move through the packed club and join the friend Arvid at a table. ... Full Article

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I could've filled this entire list strictly with movies set in Nazi Germany, but I decided to limit myself to one selection from this genre, and chose the one with the most personal resonance. ... Full Article

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'Swing Kids'
nypost.com – 2009-03-29
TODAY'S HOT TOPICS BY ALL ACCOUNTS, the buffet wasn't particularly good. The so-called mat room smelled like a gym locker, and you'd do well not to ask what was floating in the pool. ... Full Article

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associatedcontent.com – 2008-01-11
Everyone has their laundry list of favorite films of all time. But everyone also has another list: the films they will drop what they are doing to watch on cable or have seen so many times they can quote it... ... Full Article

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'Swing Kids' (PG-13)
washingtonpost.com – 1993-03-05
"Swing Kids" is a bad idea whose time has not come.It's "Cabaret" as Col.Klink might have envisioned it, a nutty anti-Nazi a go-go for teenagers, set to American music. ... Full Article

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Swing Kids (1993)
matchflick.com –
From Amazon : In 1939, Nazi Germany declares war on freedom and demands conformity from its youth. But a group calling themselves Swing Kids rebel with their "swing music" from America. ... Full Article

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