everything you have heard about this movie is true.

disgusting, overrated, pointless

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

This film was verrrry well done. To those that say it wasn't...I guess you have never owned a club where raves took place. I did.I bought this movie in a stack of films and it only cost me 99 cents. Well shock the pants off me.What I thought would be a lame party and just a bunch of stoners walking around talking trash was certainly an enlightenment.GROOVE is EXACTLY what a rave is about...and how would I know? I know because I hosted them myself...packed to the hilt in Vancouver B.C. at PLANET X...and you could guess what the X stood for.Anywayz, this is very well done in terms of casting, lighting performance, music, tone and everything. The scene that struck me most is when Ernie says this...and this is classic to me.Guy: Why do you do this to yourself? Don't even get paid, risk getting arrested, for what? Ernie: You don't know? Guy: No. Ernie: The Nod. Guy: The Nod? Ernie: Happens to me at least once every party. Some guy comes up to me and says "Thank you for making this happen... I needed this. This really meant something to me." And they nod... and I nod back. Guy: ... That's it? Ernie: That's it. That little piece of dialogue is everything...it's what made me want to run the rave at PLANET X, even thought I was't making big bucks...to me it was the NOD...So I know exactly where Ernie was coming from...and I felt the director Greg Harrison was getting to.Watch Groove and relive your youth before it slips away from you in your daily 9-5 and rush hour traffic.I only wish I was at the club...because it was so intense and so real...and made me so jealous that I was only watching it on my TV screen.With a $500000 budget, this is tops.Once again, everybody...extras and all cast included...an awesome job and one very satisfied viewer...certainly worth my time.

I watched this movie because of a trailer I watched on HBO. Never heard of it before, but it seemed interesting.Point is, I loved it to the point of even recording it and recommending it to my friends. I was in the rave scene during the mid 90's, when the likes of Scooter, Faithless, Robert Miles, Mark 'Oh and many others were at their peak.I truly enjoyed this movie and felt I was there the whole night. This movie is definitely not meant for anyone, much less for those who still don't understand what indie films are about. This was certainly not Arakki or Aranofsky, but I have to commend director Greg Harrison for this piece of work.This movie starts with the sound of a modem connecting to the internet... sooooo 1998! It was funny. Then you see all these fast stories about weirdos and their lives.The plot was definitely secondary in this movie. I could not care less about Leyla, or Colin, or whoever... But I guess that wasn't exactly the point.Although the party was somewhat different from what I used to go to, its structure was basically the same: Clandestine party, where you need maps and bribe a few guys to know exactly where you're going; the different levels of music throughout the night, from slow-beat clubhouse to orgasmic trance; the amount of drugs, the doped people, the escape from it all.There were pointless scenes, like those gay guys trying to get to the party (there was already a gay moment between Colin and that masseuse guy.. poor Harmony!). I recognized Rachel True, the gorgeous girl from "The Craft", I had no idea she was on this.I agree with the one who commented that John Digweed would never play in a party like this.. Actually I laughed when he made his cameo... So what was next? Tiesto? Johan Gielen? Paul Oakenfold?This movie was also a reflect of how these parties were about 5-10 years ago. Yes, the electronic scene has become much more commercial, specially in Holland and Belgium. I guess that it's not so special to me anymore, now that virtually everyone has discovered it.And yes, once the party got busted, there's no way they would have gotten away with starting it again!When the party is over, the movie is over, leaving the viewer with the SAME FEELING most ravers had when leaving... "Now what?" After an amazing night of "everything", you have to realize that it's all over and life must goes on... at least for most of us.

i had really looked forward to seeing this movie. it featured a cast that was [for the most part] from my neighborhood and it was set in my town.unfortunately, i hadn't made it out in time to see it in the theater. still, everybody seemed to rave about it so i kept it on my 'to see' list. what a waste of time. it was such a waste that it made me angry i'd dedicated an evening to watching it. groove is bad, but not in a funny way. not funny at all. it seemed really outdated for the time it was made -- more like a poor representation of 1991 ravers or a 40 y.o.'s impression of a warehouse party constructed from vague details provided by a 13y.o.. the pacing was erratic, the dialog was poorly written and i couldn't have cared less about the characters.it was painful. it was embarrassing. it was painfully embarrassing. one comment from a friend sums it up: "it was made by 415 productions for chrissake, what do you expect?" touché.

This film reproduce the feeling of underground parties, in a Hollywood way. So it is a bit naive, happy-ending type, but definitely makes you re-feel the good memories of partying, or gives you an impression if you never experienced it. It shows lot of the ideas behind party-culture, some based on hippy culture (PeaceLoveUnityRespect, rejecting money, pre-made life vs. conscious life, acceptance, etc.) The music and how they used it in the film is also great. John Digweed is very cool, but the other party-scenes also. The film also shows the bad part of party-life (losing time, you dreams about yourself are nicer according to what you can really be). It shows the paranoid parts too, although if you have not felt yourself, maybe you will not realize it, or it will not mean a lot for you. Somehow the whole thing is an utopia what is in every party-people's mind, I do not know, if I ever experienced it as a whole, or it is only a dream. But it is definiately a platonic idea, if you know what it means (it lives inside everybody without experienced it ever).