{"id":633484,"date":"2026-10-01T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633484\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:40:11","slug":"rolling-loud-the-movie-review-owen-wilson-in-tone-deaf-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633484\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rolling Loud: The Movie’ Review: Owen Wilson in Tone-Deaf Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAn underage teenager gets snuck into a hip-hop music festival headlined by Travis Scott<\/a> and soon goes missing, his desperate father frantically attempting to find him before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

\n\tNo, it\u2019s not a harrowing drama based on the tragic 2021 real-life events<\/a> at Scott\u2019s Astroworld concert in Texas, where 10 concertgoers were killed in a fatal crowd crush. Instead, Rolling Loud: The Movie is\u2026a comedy. Discuss among yourselves.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRolling Loud: The Movie\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Bottom Line<\/p>\n

\tA bad idea, terribly executed.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRelease date: Friday, October 2
Cast: Owen Wilson, Matt Rife, Christine Ko, Christian Convery, Jolene, Henry Winkler, Travis Scott
Director-screenwriter: Jeremy Garelick
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRated R,
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1 hour 35 minutes\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\tTo say that this effort written and directed by Jeremy Garelick (The Wedding Ringer<\/a>, Murder Mystery 2<\/a>) \u2014 who is modestly described in the film\u2019s press notes as \u201creinventing Hollywood comedy with brain, heart, and guts\u201d \u2014 comes across as tone-deaf is an understatement. Even if you ignore the disturbing parallels to past events, this story of a dad attempting to bond with his 13-year-old son by irresponsibly sneaking him into the popular hip-hop music festival of the title while lying to his wife and the festival\u2019s security personnel just feels icky. Did I mention it\u2019s a true story?<\/p>\n

\n\tYes, the filmmaker apparently did take his 13-year-old to the festival, filled with people walking around in various states of undress and many of them using drugs, against his wife\u2019s wishes. And he did lose contact with his son, unable to reach him because of the lack of cell phone reception. Apparently, rather than feeling chastened, he thought: \u201cWhat a great idea for a movie!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, it still could have worked if the film actually proved funny. Instead, it\u2019s a witless, moronic, slapstick-filled mediocrity that basically serves as a feature-length commercial for the popular music festival where parts of it were filmed (Live Nation is among the production companies). To that end, the film features not only Scott, playing a recliner-chair-loving version of himself (don\u2019t ask), but also such real-life hip-hop stars as Sexyy Red, Ski Mask the Slump God, and Ty Dolla $ign, none of whom are likely to enlarge their fan base.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilson plays hapless furniture salesman Hank \u2014 he works at \u201cRaymond & Ferguson\u201d \u2014 who tells his wife Melanie (Jolene) that he\u2019s taking their son Zion (Christian Convery) to their lake house, but instead brings him to Rolling Loud. There he runs into his co-worker Terry (comedian Matt Rife<\/a>, managing to make his character as annoying as his stand-up), whom he had just been ordered to fire by their boss (Henry Winkler<\/a>, squandering some of that good will from Barry<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tDistracted by Terry, Hank doesn\u2019t think much of it when Zion excuses himself to go to the bathroom. But he becomes increasingly anxious when his son fails to reappear, and that\u2019s when the would-be comic complications ensue.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey include an episode in which Hank retreats to a quiet room, only to discover that his lying conversation to his wife has been broadcast to a disapproving crowd outside; a physical altercation with security guards when he attempts to report his son missing; and accidentally throwing Linda (Christine Ko), a festival volunteer worker, off of a Ferris wheel, injuring a wheelchair-bound bystander in the process. And, of course, Hank also accidentally takes drugs and begins tripping. And the volunteer strips naked to distract the security guards, revealing a forest-level growth of pubic hair in the process. (The appealing Ko, who provides some genuine amusement in her role, deserved better).<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s all about as laborious as it sounds, with Wilson, utilizing his familiar style of motor-mouthed pathos and desperation, working very hard to infuse comic energy into the strained proceedings. By the time he gets onstage with Scott and then disastrously leaps into the mosh pit, all you\u2019re thinking is that he needs to collaborate with Wes Anderson again, and as soon as possible. As for Scott, if he survived the fallout from Astroworld, he can survive this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An underage teenager gets snuck into a hip-hop music festival headlined by Travis Scott and soon goes missing,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,54460,85,46,14178,397,102040,34724],"class_list":["post-633484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-henry-winkler","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-matt-rife","tag-movies","tag-owen-wilson","tag-travis-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}