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Blue Juice

Blue Juice

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An entertaining film
Review: A British surfing film - surely an oxymoron - and nothing like typical American surfing films.

Surfing is only the backdrop and it is more about the lives of a group of friend and some tourists from London whose paths cross in a small seaside town.

Zeta-Jones does what she does best - plays an ordinary (but wonderfully pretty) girl, while the rest of the characters are an array of oddballs.

The humour is very British and this film will appeal more to those of an anglophile nature.

Both funny and sweet, this film was cruelly overlooked by reviewers and cinema-goers alike.

Once the price comes down from the stratosphere, this is a worthwhile purchase.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: WIPEOUT!
Review: A film about British surfer pals and co-starring Ewan McGregor and Catherine Zeta-Jones could be interesting if the film was not Blue Juice. While the story of old school friends reuniting for a fun in the surf and sun theme is non-offensive, the screenplay is. Probably produced as a low-budget summer flick, Blue Juice is a moronic effort that tries to present too many characters in ridiculous situations. Never released in theaters in the US and only transferred to video after Ewan McGregor became noticed after the last Lucas film, Blue Juice stars Sean Pertwee as an over the hill at 30 beach bum with a very young and cute Catherine Zeta Jones as his girlfriend. Their romatic interludes and relationship is threatened by the unexpected and uninvited appearance of Pertwee's three stooges-like friends from London up for a male bonding weekend. Although excellent supporting actors like Stephen Macintosh and Ewan McGregor present believable characters they can not sustain this stinker. The film falters and fails to be entertaining although younger fans of McGregor will no doubt enjoy this little ditty. Predictable, lacking originality, but possibly rental material, Blue Juice is the kind of film every actor has listed on their resume of past credits and wishes they could forget.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Cult Classic
Review: A very funny, typically British film about Surfing in Cornwall.
Great to watch with friends, picking up qotes/lines such as...
"It's not a turd Terry!" - JC "Well what is it then?! a round, brown fish?" - Terry
"Your Beautiful, I'm beautiful..." -as said by a fat silver Terry
"You are many things Terry but beautiful is not one of them"-Dean

A must see for any British Film fan...
There is Sean Pertwee and Ewan McGreggor for the girls, and the sight of Catherine Zeta Jones in her underwear I am pretty sure will attract a male audience too.

GREAT FILM - shame about the unrealistic ending!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It's not British, it's Australian
Review: Another reviewer made the mistake of calling this a british movie...it is not, it's Australian. That fact is what makes the movie interesting. It's an Australian surfer movie...and that's not something that's too common. As a Zeta-Jones fan, I rented this and liked her in the role. Sean Pertwee and Ewan McGregor play their roles well enough to make this a passable moive. I would liked to have seen a bit more surfing footage, and a little less dialog (after all, this was supposed to be a surfing flick), but still, it wasn't too bad, and worth watching for Zeta-Jones fans.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome
Review: Blue Juice is an absolute classic which sums up the Cornish surfing community very well. The film and countryside is true to Kernow and as a Cornish surfer myself, know alot of people in situations very similar. Although actual footage is limited, its a film about their lives rather than a surfing vid. It is balanced well and is funny, true to life and shows what some of our lives down here are really like.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Wicked!!!
Review: Cult classic British film of the 1990's.
Good film, fun to watch especially with mates.

Best bits:
Quotes such as... "your beautiful, I'm Beatiful" - Terry
"Its not a turd Terry" - JC "No what is it then? a brown, round fish"-Terry.

Sean Pertwee please's the girls, while the sight of Catherine Zita Jones in her underwear can catputre the imagination of all men.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not stellar, but fun
Review: I admit, I was a bit unsure when I popped the tape in -- but "Blue Juice" was highly enjoyable. The eccentric minor characters and zany plot are well worth watching on their own, but for me the real draw was the romance between surfer JC (Sean Pertwee) and his lover Chloe (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Not only was their relationship adorable at times, it felt very real. Sean Pertwee did his usual top-rate job as JC, making his character both sympathetic and smouldering. Only one complaint from me: The cover features Zeta-Jones alongside Ewan McGregor, who played a supporting character *and* whose grungy appearence in the film bore little resemblence to the glamor shot on the cover. Moreover, McGregor's name was emblazoned across the cover in the lead actor's usual spot. Umm... so what happened to Pertwee, the actual star of the film?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not stellar, but fun
Review: I admit, I was a bit unsure when I popped the tape in -- but "Blue Juice" was highly enjoyable. The eccentric minor characters and zany plot are well worth watching on their own, but for me the real draw was the romance between surfer JC (Sean Pertwee) and his lover Chloe (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Not only was their relationship adorable at times, it felt very real. Sean Pertwee did his usual top-rate job as JC, making his character both sympathetic and smouldering. Only one complaint from me: The cover features Zeta-Jones alongside Ewan McGregor, who played a supporting character *and* whose grungy appearence in the film bore little resemblence to the glamor shot on the cover. Moreover, McGregor's name was emblazoned across the cover in the lead actor's usual spot. Umm... so what happened to Pertwee, the actual star of the film?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: bought this for ewan but love Sean Pertwee as well now
Review: I always made fun of the surfer dudes before seeing Ewan in this movie. I loved the acid trip scene where Ewan gets embarrassed over his friend's behavior although he gave him the acid. Check out the braided hair on Ewan as well and they had a cool song and sock/p*nis scene as well.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: So I'm a little late....
Review: I am aware this movie has been out for years, must admit the only reason I watched it is due to my Ewan McGregor obsession, but...even that could not hold my attention. There is nothing to hold you to any of the characters, the movie jumps from scene to scene so quickly it is hard to figure out what is going on. I am aware it is a fluff piece of a surfing movie, and not out to win awards, but it should still be (funny, moving, romantic, suspenseful, tragic etc. choose your own adjective) enough to bring you through 94 minutes!


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