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Swing Kids (1993) Rank 5 Reviews
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DVD Talk (Earl Cressey)
Swing Kids is an entertaining and interesting film about a different side of Nazi Germany that is often overlooked. Buena Vista's DVD provides the film with an adequate presentation and no extras, though with a low MSRP, fans should have no reservations ...read the complete Swing Kids movie review at DVD Talk (Earl Cressey)
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Movie Magazine International (Monica Sullivan)
Parent Previews
Disney put together a similar movie recently, titled Newsies, about a group of singing and dancing paperboys that decide to fight for better wages. They looked a bit stupid dancing their way to the strike rallies, and the kids in Swing ...read the complete Swing Kids movie review at Parent Previews
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Washington Post (Rita Kempley)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
In the final analysis, this is an unfortunate motion picture. It plays irresponsibly loose with one of the most grim periods of history for the sake of creating a movie with mass appeal. Actually, the most appealing part of Swing Kids is ...read the complete Swing Kids movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
To say that Horner's underscore in Swing Kids is
overshadowed by the jazz is an understatement. To discuss the actual 23
minutes of score available on the commercial album, a disclaimer must be
made right at the start that Horner seems to ...read the complete Swing Kids movie review at Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Released by Hollywood Pictures Hamburg. Nazi Germany. 1939. Peter (Robert Sean Leonard), Thomas (Christian Bale), and Arvid (Frank Whaley) are three "Swing Kids" -- young rebel Germans who have fallen in love with the forbidden: American movies, British ...read the complete Swing Kids movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
"Swing Kids" involves a very small footnote to a very large historical event. In Nazi Germany in 1939, we learn, while Hitler was rounding up Jews and launching World War II, a small ...read the complete Swing Kids movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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