Drumline
December 21, 2002
Copyright 2002 Newhouse News Service
Drumline is the definitive Hollywood college marching-band drama to date and probably until the end of time. One may be enough.
It’s gratifying to see a movie really cover its subject, even if the subject is no world-shaker. This rousing production commemorates the past half-century’s development of dueling show bands at America’s black universities with a loving single-mindedness that movies rarely devote to, say, physics or journalism.
The same single-mindedness also pushes niceties like characterizations, relationships and most everyday concerns off-screen. That’s the trouble with drums, they can drown out everything else.
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