Adventures of Power: Air Drumming Comedy Starring Ari Gold and Adrian Grenier
What the heck is this? Vince and Ari from Entourage are starring together in a comedy about air drumming? Well… not exactly. It turns out the real-life Ari Gold is not a powerful Hollywood agent but rather an actor, director and musician, and his first feature-length movie Adventures of Power just premiered earlier this year at Sundance. Strangely, he does play in a band with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, and he recruited him to co-star in the movie along with frequent Christopher Guest collaborators Michael McKean and Jane Lynch.
Adventures in Power is a comedy about a social misfit from a small-town on a quest to become the greatest air drummer in the world. Although the idea feels like it’s been done before (and yes, Rainn Wilson has a similar movie coming out later this year called The Rocker), I thought the trailer seemed moderately amusing, and the involvement of McKean and Lynch certainly gave it some credibility. However, then I started reading some reviews from Sundance like this one from Devin at CHUD, and suddenly I found my interest starting to wane. Let me throw it to you guys… does Adventures of Power look like it has potential, or is it another case of “been there, done that”? Check out the trailer below. (Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.)
Comments (11)
Am I the only one who doesn’t find air guitar or air drumming the least bit funny? I know some people found the whole “Air Gutar Nation” thing amusing, but I mean, come on– a feature length narrative film based on it? I find it to be a tired bit.
Maybe I am still just in the midst of the “Just watched Lake of Fire” down mood, but “Adventures of Power” just looks dumb.
Posted by Jon Rocks on March 20th, 2008Like most comedies now, its good for a couple of cheap laughs.
Posted by Baychuk on March 20th, 2008I didn’t see a single thing in this trailer that made it look as though it were worth watching.
Posted by Rian on March 20th, 2008Films are still being made on the back of “Napoleon Dynamite.” This one is no exception.
The saddest part of that is that “Napoleon Dynamite” was just on okay movie to begin with.
Posted by Jon Rocks on March 20th, 2008This trialer doen’t protray the movie as well as it could be. I saw the film at the Sundance Film Festival is Utah with some of my friends and we all agreed it’s way better than Napoleon Dynamite. This is a good, clean humor film that I recomend. (Ari Gold answered questions after the film and said he had been filming for about a year before Napoleon Dynamite came out, and just desided to go ahead with it because it is its own story.)
Posted by Alma King on April 15th, 2008#5 is right. I saw it in the same situation and this trailer doesn’t do it justice.
Posted by Kyle on May 31st, 2008Any film with that many Rush references is worth a watch…and Napoleon Dynamite is one of the greatest comedies around. Whats the matter? Too close to the bone for you?
Posted by Geddy 'Steady' Lee on December 4th, 2008I loved that an episode this year of the geek television series Chuck used a Rush song during a public event where Chuck beats the high score on a video game cabinet. The Rush song was quite appropriate. The name of the song escapes me at the moment.
Posted by Reed Farrington on December 5th, 2008Well, in the movie it’s Tom Sawyer. Not sure what it is in Chuck, but maybe YYZ?
Posted by Crispy Crew on March 5th, 2009I likes me a cowboy Vinnie Chase.
Posted by Johnny Drama on October 26th, 2009Lovin the beard
I have a good feeling about this movie…
Posted by Jim Kosior on December 1st, 2009My best friend is an accomplished drummer,
and I am looking forward to surprising him
with this one as soon as possible so that
it can be a total surprise. I think that I
will tell him that it is like an Indiana Jones
type.. urban adventure.. sort of… It should
be crazy. I just committed accidentially to
purchasing the movie poster on Ebay, because
I actually thought that it was a dvd and poster.
Anyway.. air drums.. air guitar.. air piano?
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