Movie Review: ****Stomp: Stomp the Yard (1997)

This is an HBO special of a different flavor.  It starts with six people with a constructed wall made of iron bars.  The are strapped along the wall with some mobility, and they swing back and for and play percussion on the items they have connected to this wall.  These items include pipes, wheel hubs, sinks, any old thing.  It is quite hypnotic to listen to the rhythm and see them swinging back and forth as they play.  We next see them in their truck heading to a big garage.  In the truck they play against the ceiling and the dash and using the horn.  They then get to the warehouse, where they do three numbers using brooms and tap.  On broom broke so you know it was recorded live.  There is a shop where a group of people playing cards.  They make rhythm with with their cards, and mouth noises.   It cuts back to them later, and we have a rhythmic lunch with the sound of apples being eaten.  Then there is a basketball rhythm which is cool, and then to the kitchen.  The banging on the kettles along with the chopping knives make this rhythm.  Then the go down to the sewer, and people are in the sewer with pipes, and combine the sound of the pipes, with a sheath over the pipes which when slip up and down makes a cool sound.  I think I liked this best. 
It starts to rain, so we have a song with with kettle drums making the sound of the thunder with a steady rain coming down.  We have a song with the rhythm of clapping.  Finally we get to the climax son, the trash can banging song with the lids being banged like cymbals, and sometimes slid along the floor, trash cans being played with drum sticks and then hit against each other.  And then big kettle drums being swung two at a time as someone walks an plays them, and some upside down that sounded like mamba drums.
This show goes fast, with no stops.  Fifty minutes strait of percussion can be a bit much.  However they keep it interesting with the dance going along with the percussion.  There are people sliding, dancing with brooms, swinging, jumping, throwing objects to each other.  It made for an entertaining show.