Underdog comedy about air drumming as a metaphor for life. With a guest appearance by Neil Peart (1952-2020) as himself. 89min imdb
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Movie, 89min (VPN:USA)
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Recap:
On the day they buried his mother, Power had a date with his fate: he turned on the radio, and they were playing Tom Sawyer.
Roughly 20 years later he is a hapless air drummer, and moments before the important strike in the copper mine starts, he loses his job, disappointing his father again. Now that nothing holds him back anymore, he goes to Mexico and competes with the toughest of illegal underground air drummers. Since he is an autodidact, he has never seen anybody anybody play air drum before (very much like Jeff Healey never saw anyone play the guitar), so he doesn’t know about the importance of the stool, and yet he manages manages to stand his ground, drawing the attention of Carlos who leads the best air drum group of New Jersey. So Power goes to Newark, where he falls in love with the deaf daughter of a once-rocknroll-slut-now-religious-nutcase woman. And together with Carlos and his team he prepares for an air drumming contest in New York with a cash prize of $2000.
Did you know that Phil Collins actually once did something right? I didn’t. For me he always was just the ugly little dwarf from the bubblegum pop music charts. So I was wrong. I ignored a song of his which is the soundtrack for one of the most important and most impressive sequences in this movie, and it works. Oh yes it does.
Personally I didn’t expect much of this movie. Of course I’ve spent a fair share of my life with playing air guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But when I heard many years back that there is an annual air guitar world championship I was not amused. My thought was that this kind of competition was something for losers like athletes or chart musicians, but surely not for those who rock. But this movie simply is too good to nag about that kind of thing. As a matter of fact, air drumming here is some metaphorical hyperbole analogy or however they call it. This movie is about the important things in life, and it rocks. If you don’t love it, if you maybe don’t even understand it, well that means that you just don’t rock.
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