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Thrashin’ is the quintessential bad ’80s movie. There’s an anemic plot involving two warring skateboarding gangs and a boy who falls in love with the sister of a rival gang member. It’s a goofy Romeo and Juliet on tiny wheels, where none of the kids have parents and most of life’s mysteries are answered with a good musical montage. Thrashin’ is really just a term for ‘extreme skateboarding’. If you’re not into it, then don’t watch the movie, because there’s nothing else in this stinker worth diving for. Not even Josh Brolin. Brolin is a good actor today (he’s even got an Oscar nomination under his belt), but in Thrashin’ he’s got the charisma and personality of a petrified turd.