Prayer of the Rollerboys
- lindsaybjerregaard
- Dec 22, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 29, 2020
IMDB Synopsis
In a dystopian near future America, a young man infiltrates a powerful drug dealing rollerblading youth gang that runs his town in order to end their reign for good.
IMDB Rating: 5.6/10
Our Rating: 8.3/10
Superlatives:
Best Squad: White supremacist rollerblading youth gang
Our Reviews:
Corey Haim, sporting hair that looks like a tumbleweed glued to his head, is a gifted rollerblader who’s working as a pizza delivery boy in a dystopian future where the economy has crashed and Los Angeles has devolved into an (even worse) smog-filled hellscape. He somehow gets convinced to go undercover in a white supremacist rollerblading gang that’s cooking up drugs and unintentional hilarity ensues, mostly due to his pervy, foul-mouthed, drug-addled little brother who gets mixed up in the mostly nonsensical situation. The best part is a final rollerblade chase scene between Corey Haim and the Nazi gang leader, who’s got a really impressive, curly blonde mullet. It’s like Disney’s Brink! on bath salts.
Hitler youth, but make it 1990.
My favorite genre of 80's movie, the post-apocalyptic hellscape. Although this is just economic collapse, so the future version of the 1930's. This movie taught me that the ultimate weapon has been, and always will be, angry boys on rollerblades.
Cocaine meets rollerblading. Standard 80's fare.
Visions of a post-apocalyptic future in that strangely unique period ranging from 1988 to 1992 at the time seemed brutal and over-the-top. Watching this film from the perspective of a global respiratory pandemic in the 21st century will fill your heart with warmth and joy. A tale of a group of disaffected young MAGA-in-training, Rollerboys in their matching white trenchcoats and headbands gallivant in perfect synchronized skate strides through Venice Beach, warehouses, and those streets where the LAPD dump the indigent after wrongful arrest. Kids those days knew there was no "I" in team!
This the future your anti-gay marriage aunt warned you about.
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