![]() ![]() Truthfully, both movies handle this theme pretty effectively. The leader of a group of misfits leaves behind their friends in pursuit of victory, popularity, or money, before having a pivotal conversation with their dad about the value of fun and friendship, then rejoining their group and taking the victory.īoth movies remind us that sports are about community, fun and friendship, and that those are the best prizes one can win. There’s also an absolutely awesome bowling-alley-party scene and another great father-son scene about the importance of choosing your friends over competition.Īt the end of the day, these two very different films are both about similar core things. ![]() Long, winding story short, a local tournament with the rival school comes down to a bowling competition, Todd joins the team, Alex leaves his friends behind to become a popular kid and they all come together in the end to defeat the rival school. In case you were wondering, yes, it is pronounced the same as Macklemore. In “Alley Cats Strike,” a significantly lower budget and stranger movie, we follow Alex, the son of a struggling bowling alley owner.Īlex spends his days with his group of misfit bowling pals, living in the shadow of more popular sports, dominated by local star Todd McLemore. ![]() However, the team are total jerks, and things come to a head when the captain of X-Bladez puts gravel on a racetrack in order to send Gabriella into a gnarly wipeout.īrink and his dad have an honestly really effective scene about defining yourself by who you are and not what you do, and Brink rejoins his friends for the national tournament, eventually beating his former captain in a final showdown. So, Brink abandons his friends to join Team X-Bladez, the top-ranked inline skating team in the country. That’s one parent.”īrink’s dad, though, isn’t able to work at his job on the construction site because of an injury, and the family’s tight on money. “I have a mom, and I have a Jerry,” Peter said. He has a group of fellow rollerblader friends, including the talented Gabriella and the comedic relief, Peter, who is always griping about his step-dad Jerry. “Brink” follows the journey of the titular character, Andy “Brink” Brinker, as he grapples with who he is and why he pursues the sport he does. One is about an incredibly awesome, incredibly 90s extreme sport, and the other is about perhaps the least extreme sport known to mankind, bowling. “Brink” and “Alley Cats Strike” are both very different and oddly similar films. We decided to just watch the first 10 minutes of 2000s “Alley Cats Strike” out of curiosity, but immediately got sucked in for the whole 90-minute affair. ![]() We had never seen this thumbnail in the sports section of Disney+ before, and the idiosyncratic name immediately pulled us in. The thumbnail showed a group of 14-year-olds bowling… and having a blast. One of my roommates decided to go to bed because he had “class” the next day and “didn’t want to waste another two hours of his time.” My other roommate and I, however, noticed something odd in the suggested queue of movies beneath “Brink.” To be honest, I missed the first half of the movie while I worked on chili, but my roommates filled me in after I wrapped up our admittedly delicious dinner.Īfter “Brink” ended (I will be talking more about “Brink” later), something strange happened. I sat down with my roommates last night and tossed “Brink,” the 1998 classic about the radical world of competitive inline skating, on in the background while I made chili for everyone. I’m not sure how exactly this happened, but I watched two Disney Channel Original sports movies this week. ![]()
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