Mail on Sunday, October 15th, 2006
Those showy rap stars OutKast even Tony Blair dances to their hit Hey Ya! are rumoured to be disbanding but in Idlewild (15) *** they have made a movie and an accompanying album which would be a fittingly flamboyant swansong. Idlewild is brilliant at the ragtime showstoppers and dance numbers, hot on looks and sassy sexuality but dull on character and dialogue. Andre Benjamin Andre 3000 was his band name has acted before (the only decent thing in Guy Ritchie's Revolver) and is elegantly charismatic here as Percival, piano player in a Prohibition-era jump joint in the town of Idlewild, Georgi...
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