X Games: The Movie

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X Games: The Movie

PG

2009

1h 32m

Documentary

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Filmmaker Steve Lawrence goes behind the scenes at the 2008 summer X Games for an unprecedented look at the event, capturing all of the raw emotion and drama. Among the featured athletes are Shaun White (skateboarding and snowboarding), Travis Pastrana (moto x and rally-car racing), Danny Way (skateboarding), Ricky Carmichael (moto x), Bob Burnquist (skateboarding) and Kyle Loza (moto x).

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Critics Consensus

Though fans of the event will likely enjoy X-Games 3D: The Movie, most will find it a poorly put together, skin deep, extended advertisement for the extreme sports competition.

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Rated: B

Feb 18, 2012

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Drew Toal

Time Out

Such dime-store philosophy, coupled with the running commentary from the Games' heinously Spicoli-esque announcers, ruins an otherwise gripping, in-your-face experience.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 26, 2009

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Adam Markovitz

Entertainment Weekly

Aside from unrevealing sit-downs with a few key players, X-Games 3D: The Movie is mostly an overlong demo reel of increasingly gutsy tricks.

Rated: C+

Aug 21, 2009

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Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

You might enjoy this oddball ESPN documentary about extreme sports including skateboarding, motorcycling and motocross. Mostly, I think, it's aimed at kids and/or extreme sports enthusiasts.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 5, 2009

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Andrew Wright

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

A slick, fawning, shamelessly commercial puff piece that occasionally hits on an eye-popping image and just goes sick.

Aug 24, 2009

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Gary Wolcott

Tri-City Herald

The highlight is a contest of wills between three contestants of the extreme skateboarding of the Slam event. It is heavy drama worth the price of the ticket.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 22, 2009

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Audience Member

Went and seen this movie and loved it. Great sport shots and three D was awesome best three D movie ever.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

It's a cool documentary with some slick looking stunts in 3D

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

I wish I had seen this in 3D. The MegaRamp battle between Jake Brown, Danny Way, and Bob Burnquist was so sick.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

This is totally worth watching just to see skateboarder Danny Way's five runs on the mega ramp. He crashes, breaks his foot, then comes back out and does 3 more runs on his broken foot--including another crash! It's not a comprehensive account of the X Games, but it does cover athletes in skateboarding, motocross, and rally cars. Some footage of other sports, but no profiles. I watched it in 2D because 3D is laaaaaame.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

This is less of a movie then it is a recap. The 1hour and 30minute runtime drags on as you just watch footage from previous x games. The interviews are the only new thing but they aren't interesting enough to get you through this movie. The saving grace was watching the skateboarding footage, the jump over the great wall and the mega-ramp. But just remember if you keep up with the x-games every year, you're not seeing anything new. 3/10

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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I feel that Ultimate X was a better Xgames film, but this one went more into the story of the journey and what it means to be in X. Great scenes and really good guys.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Steve Lawrence goes behind the scenes at the 2008 summer X Games for an unprecedented look at the event, capturing all of the raw emotion and drama. Among the featured athletes are Shaun White (skateboarding and snowboarding), Travis Pastrana (moto x and rally-car racing), Danny Way (skateboarding), Ricky Carmichael (moto x), Bob Burnquist (skateboarding) and Kyle Loza (moto x).

Director: Steve Lawrence
Producer: Phil Orlins
Screenwriter: Greg Jennings
Production Co: ESPN
Rating: PG (Extreme Sports Action|Accidents)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 12, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.4M
Runtime: 1h 32m

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