Idlewild

Idlewild bristles with energy and color...

...it’s best enjoyed by fans as an expensive experiment in how far you can push the music video medium...

...is, on closer inspection, an elaborate, sometimes too-busy, riff on the theme laid out in Percy’s introduction: the thrilling, frustrating artifice of life and death.

Outkast fans will presumably flock to theaters to see this movie...

...their characters here serve as a handy metaphor for the hip-hop performers themselves, with Rooster/Patton as the outgoing, bling-bling businessman and Percival/Benjamin as the sensitive, introverted artiste.