Shake, Rattle and Rock!
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Actor: Howie Mandel, Latanyia Baldwin, Max Perlich, Patricia Childress, Renée ZellwegerBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-07
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dimension
DVD Reviews of Shake, Rattle and Rock!
DVD Review: TV Station's Mistake Blows My Mind
Summary: 4 Stars
So, today I randomly come across this movie "Shake, Rattle and Roll" on the Reelz channel. Anyway, the info on the movie was that it was done in 1956, starred Fats Domino and Lisa Gaye. I go back and forth to the info and can't believe it is a movie produced in the 50's. Everything, of course, looks like the 50's - but the vibe was of later years. Anyway, it took me a while when I was in that mindset - "Well, the Reelz channel must know what they are doing - this seems like a movie that wld be called Shake...."
So, I am looking for evidence of anything for me to prove it couldn't be the 1956 movie. Anyway, I decide - of course - to google the movie and there weren't many pictures of it - so I still didn't conclude that it was a mistake on the television station's part regarding the title and year made.
The reason I am writing this is to try to explain that strange moment in time before I realized it was Renee Zellweger and not some wildly modern-looking actress in the 50's. I thought for about 15 minutes that Renee was Lisa Gaye. I read Lisa's biographies and tried to figure how she looked so contemporary. You know how some of the Elvis movies look somewhat contemporary? I thought for a second it was plausible. It wasn't until I went back and was convinced that the other lead was Howie Mandel that I then googled the movie name along with Howie's and I found out what was really going on.
Anyway - that's just the background on my strange experience with the movie. So - how do I say this? I just couldn't believe that that perky, very alive gal singing along with a band could have in reality been born in 1935. I couldn't imagine her aging and today would be of advanced age and looks (sans the face lifts ala Joan Rivers).
It was just a strange moment thinking that I just had to see how this Lisa Gaye aged - she looked so young in the movie and so similar to Renee Z. Anyway, I got this ageless image of us with our essences as individuals as basically what we looked like in our 20s. I am in my 50s now - and am not looking forward to aging ungracefully (so I am pursuing alternative methods for defying the aging process). 'Maybe that is why I am focusing on the strange Twighlight Zone feeling I had before I realized that the Reelz channel just miscredited which movie they were actually airing.
I guess in that moment - before I was aware that it was actually Renee Z, I felt that I wanted to do everything I could to stay young.
So, now that I realize it was a 90's version with a younger Renee Z; I can say that it is clearly somewhat 'affected.' The women who disliked Rock and Roll and were fighting it seemed staged and it really isn't a top-notch effort. However, it is fun to check out what they did with the movie to try to bring to life the 50s.
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Description of Shake, Rattle and Rock!
SHAKE RATTLE AND ROCK - DVD MovieRenée Zellweger stars in this approximate remake of a 1956 rock & roll comedy that featured Fats Domino and Joe Turner in concert, and starred Mike Connors, Sterling Holloway, and Margaret Dumont in a story about killjoy adults trying to ban a teen-dance television show. Zellweger's 1994 update, made as part of Showtime Cable's Rebel Highway series, is similarly set during rock's late-'50s primordial beginnings and costars Nora Dunn, Mary Woronov, and P.J. Soles as uptight citizens putting the squeeze on a dance show hosted by a chipper hipster (Howie Mandel). Director Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) brings his arch touch to this silly but endearing tale (with a big boost from former Warhol mainstay Woronov), while America's sweetheart, Zellweger, literally throws herself into the high-octane part of a wannabe singer-songwriter relentlessly wooed by a bad-boy biker (nice work by musician John Doe). The original tunes could be better, but a subplot involving the uphill aspirations of an African American girl group (led by Latanyia Baldwin) in a racist entertainment industry allows for some vibrant doo-wop performances. --Tom Keogh
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