

Bodied is a film which is a great laugh out loud nerdy comedy, as well as an viceral intense drama that will leave your jaw dropped to the floor. The film seems to almost be a perfect mashup of Scott Pilgrim vs The World and 8 Mile as those 2 universes get blended into an epic nerd rap war!

The plot of this film is that the protagonist Adam, (Calum Worthy) is a white boy who while studying for his English thesis gets thrust into the world of battle rap. While he seems to love the world he is entering, he will learn many lessons to make him who he will become! Along the way he finds his mentor Behn Grim, (Jackie Long) and his crew, and falls in love with the combination of poetry / culture as he searches for the answer to the question “who am I?” in a world that wants to put you in your place!

The cast for this film is outstanding which they had to be since the movie features many prominent rap battlers, and seeing as they wrote their own raps, all of them blow you away. The level of wordplay and lyricism in the film makes you jump out out of your seat at the bars being dropped. The film writing and direction is the true star of the film. The film was written by Joseph Kahn and Alex Larsen (a.k.a. Kid Twist) and they expertly guide us through this world and make you invest into their story right from the opening scene.

The film also takes a unusual view on both social and political landscapes. It showcases race, gender, sexual orientation and how all of these themes have many ways to look at them, and that these themes can be taken to extremes at both ends of the political spectrum.

This movie is gets an A Rating. It is a must watch for everyone living in today’s society