Mid90s is shot in the best 90's underground style on 16mm film and contains (far too much) 90s pop music. The time frame and moods are very believable in the film's simple and diminutive choreography.
Pretty uninspired with little originality. I really wanted to like this.
Mid90s is Jonah Hill's love-letter and confronting examination of a decade we now look back upon with incomparable admiration and respect. It's got everything: skateboards, VCRs, Super Nintendo, Sony PlayStation, Ren and Stimpy t-shirts and gangsta-culture.
As someone who grew up in the mid-late 90s and didn't fit in at school, this provided rather cathartic, comforting viewing... at times it was hard to tell where fantasy stopped and reality started.
Mid90's looks and feel like it was actually recorded in the time period it is set in. Everything from the way the kids act to how they dress is spot on.
It doesn't follow a usual story arc you'd expect. But it's very natural, the story is good and the soundtrack is better.
This felt like Clerks turned into a coming-of-age skateboarding movie. It worked well.
Great movie to watch with your teenage kids.
An authentic, period-specific film about the struggles many teens go through when navigating through adolescence. Each of the core characters depicted is shown to be dealing with their own personal struggles and social issues -- be it trying to find friendship and acceptance, pursue their passions, or numb themselves to their own harsh realities.
