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92 MINUTES | BOSTON COMMON + FENWAY + HARVARD SQUARE + CIRCLE/CHESTNUT HILL+ SUBURBS

Stuntman tuned auteur Steve Boyum spins together motocross racing and sibling rivalry in this stock retread. The Carlyle brothers, K.C. (Steve Howey) and Trip (Mike Vogel), are Frick and Frack everywhere they go, be it slinging dirt on the course, at work, cleaning pools, or as roommates. Trip is the reckless and more talented of the two, but it’s the cautious K.C. who lands the big corporate sponsor — though he’s engaged merely an enforcer to protect the CEO’s spoiled son. Chicks are in the mix too, but at least not as thong-clad groupies: the girlfriends, plucky fellow racer Piper (Cameron Richardson), and aspiring attorney Zoe (Sophia Bush), are strong, caring, and introspective. The themes about corporate greed and blood being thicker than money resonate, but that doesn’t save the film from predictability and cliché. The only driving reason to see Supercross is Boyum’s wham-bam footage of dirt bikes soaring through the air and slamming into the mud.