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09/26/08
Feel the Noise (2007)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:3
Rotten:21
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Despite the different musical genre, Feel the Noise is as generic as any music-themed film that has come before it.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $5,867,786
Synopsis: The street beats of New York City and Puerto Rico meet in this film from Alejandro Chomski (TODAY AND TOMORROW). Born and bred in New York City, Rob (Omarion Grandberry) dreams of making it as a... [More]
Starring: Omarion Grandberry, Zulay Henao, James McCaffrey, Kellita Smith
Director: Alejandro Chomski
Reviews for Feel the Noise
Top CriticAn awkwardly executed drama with a leading man better suited for the concert stage, not the movie screen.
10/10/07
Could have used more music.
10/08/07
You really can feel the noise...right down t your bones. And that's what this above-average movie is all about: Music.
10/07/07
Producer Jennifer Lopez's cameo in the film's climactic Puerto Rican Day parade sequence feels like a victory lap for successfully bilking film financiers and moviegoers out of their money.
10/19/07
This music-driven melodrama aims to salute and promote a cultural phenomenon -- reggaeton music, in this case -- by slathering it all over an instantly forgettable, cliché-laden pop flick.
10/08/07
Instead of trying to find the heartbeat of reggaetón, the movie resorts to teen conventions, banking that its target audience -- Latino teens, who don't often see themselves onscreen -- won't know enough to demand better.
10/08/07
I didn't feel this noise.
10/08/07
Dramatic tension and narrative momentum are MIA.
10/13/07
...rambles heedlessly from cliche to cliche...
10/11/07
...a music-fueled drama with far less substance than most CD liner notes.
10/05/07
Top CriticThis simplistic teen drama features an engaging young star but doesn't miss a "follow your dreams" cliche.
10/08/07
A cool blend of Puerto Rican and Nuyorican rhythmic, racial and family ties that bind, Feel The Noise likewise taps into a hot fusion of African derived sounds and sensibilities that connect those multiple cross-continental roots together.
01/25/08
For whatever reason you go to a movie like this, the results are bound to disappoint.
10/05/07
A horrid excuse for teen escapism...for those who find Hannah Montana too challenging.
10/05/07
Reggaeton has officially come of age: The burgeoning subgenre now has a terrible, opportunistic exploitation movie to call its own.
10/12/07
It’s hard to fault a screenwriter for cramming every idea he’s ever had about anything into his first movie for fear there won’t be a second.
10/20/07
No one will mistake director Alejandro Chomski's Feel the Noise for great drama. But there's an undeniable sweetness to the characters, the performers are highly appealing, and the music sizzles.
10/08/07
Possibly the least provocative hip-hop movie ever that didn't star Lil' Bow Wow, Feel The Noise is the kind of feel-good/kid-with-a-dream-overcomes-the-odds story we're used to seeing starring white kids named Hilary or Lance.
10/12/07
It’s the subtexts -- about minority kinship and Hispanic self-actualization -- that resound. If only its fable (and leading man) didn’t keep getting in the way.
10/08/07
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It's rare and refreshing for a film for teens to go beyond the usual menu of familial and peer rival and sexual tensions, to delve into the shared DNA and cultural commonality between African Americans and Latinos. 
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