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Thunderstruck


OKC Thunder star Kevin Durant’s movie debut hurts as much as an NBA Playoffs loss to the Miami Heat.

Harrison Lott August 24th, 2012

Editor’s note: For Thunderstruck, the new family comedy starring the Thunder’s Kevin Durant, it struck us that, since the movie is really aimed at pre-teen and teenaged KD fans, who better to review it than an avowed Thunder fan of that age? Here with his review is guest critic Harrison Lott, a 15-year-old student at Edmond Memorial High School.

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I am a huge Oklahoma City Thunder fan. Kevin Durant is my favorite athlete. I went to his basketball summer camp a couple of years ago and got to meet him. He was chilled — a real nice guy.

When I heard he was going to star in his own movie, Thunderstruck, I was interested. After I saw the trailer, I wasn’t looking forward to seeing it, because the trailer made it look dumb.

It was dumb. It is corny, like a Disney Channel movie. That’s because most of the actors who are in it are bad, especially the main kid, Brian (Taylor Gray, TV’s Bucket and Skinner’s Epic Adventures). He looks like he was from a lame Disney Channel show and has a wack haircut.

Thunderstruck is about a kid who accidentally gets Kevin Durant’s basketball powers after they touch a basketball at the same time. Then Brian becomes the star of his high school team and Kevin Durant goes into a slump. Brian was a nerd who sucked at basketball and then he was a popular kid who was good at basketball. He was shy before and then got cocky.

I feel like the trailer showed me everything. It’s a dumb story and I feel like I’ve seen it before. The jokes were overused and the people who say them are just bad.

The high school coach (Jim Belushi, TV’s According to Jim) is stupid. Coaches don’t act like that in real life. Brian’s girlfriend, Isabel (Tristin Mays), is not cute and the movie didn’t need a romance in it.

Kevin Durant’s agent (Brandon T. Jackson, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son) was good in his role. I guess he is the second-best person in the movie, behind Kevin Durant, of course.

Kevin Durant does OK for not being an actor. The way he is in this movie is the way he is in real life.

There is a commercial in the middle of the movie for his Nike KD IV shoes, which are real. It’s also at the end of the movie, but that was pointless. It didn't need to be in there and didn't have to do with any part of the movie.

I wouldn’t recommend Thunderstruck to anyone, except maybe little boys ages 5 to 10. I still like KD and the Thunder the same, but the movie is boring and dumb. I don’t want to see Kevin Durant do another movie, because he's better at basketball. —Harrison Lott

 
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08.27.2012 at 09:26 Reply

You don't understand, Harrison. Insulting low-brow comedy is what you're supposed to like. Come on! :-)

 

08.27.2012 at 09:30 Reply

It'd be interesting to learn how these NBA star crap movies get done. Do they make a ton of money no matter how terrible they are? Sounds like something the Gazette should be writing about.

 

08.28.2012 at 07:48 Reply

It would be awesome if the Gazette could get their web developer to fix the comment lag that results in the same comment being posted 2-7 times.  Does no one who works there realize this is happening?  

Seriously, make a comment, click "publish my comment" and it will take about a whole minute for verification of posting.  In that time frame the commenter has resubmitted the comment multiple times, and it all goes through.  It makes some commenters seem like jerks or spammers, but it's totally the sites fault.

Please Please Please, fix the site.

 

 
 
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