Review of On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter (2014) by Greg B — 09 Nov 2014

"On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter" is a sequel to the 1971 movie about the art of motocross and professional motorcycle racing. Having never seen the original, I have no valid standard of comparison, so I will judge the sequel in its own right.

About halfway through this documentary, it becomes abundantly obvious that there is a heavy-handed message embedded in the dialogue glorifying motorcycle use and its many social benefits. Kids are used as exploitative devices to further said heavy-handed message.

While the cinematography in this film is pretty good and the movie has both informative and entertaining parts, the movie devolves into propaganda about riding motorcycles and minimizes any arguments to the contrary and any associated physical risks to riding.

For example, if the movie shows a professional motocross driver who broke his back in a wipeout and became a paraplegic, it counters by asserting that he was just "doing what he loved." I did not detect the bias in this film until halfway through.

While the film does present an educational survey of the sport of motocross, its execution is also laden with extreme bias ----------------------------------------------- C+.