A mostly factual re-telling of the story of the Z-Boys, who were already featured in the excellent documentary Dogtown and the Z-boys, Lords on paper seems unnecessary. However, instead of detailing the whole history and all the characters, Lords focuses on the three most famous members, hard-working Stacy Peralta (who wrote Lords and directed Dogtown), arrogant Tony Alva and super-talented Jay Adams, and chronicles their rise to fame and how their paths diverged. The fictional character Sid serves the purpose of being a passenger in the ride to the top, and also to humanize some of the characters who might have otherwise been percieved as almost villainous through the film’s narrative. Although the documentary is more interesting and compelling, Lords does succeed as a film and brings more of sense of closure as opposed to the questions of what happened to…

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