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Summary: Surprising!
Review: This is not much more than a long music video but the performances--especially for this type of movie--are surprisingly natural. Its well directed and this is that rare case where even the outtakes were good enough to be included.Personally, I think surfing at this level is a death wish but there's no denying its exciting to watch.
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Summary: Surf Girl Gets the Wave AND the Guy
Review: It's more than your stereotypical surf girls movie; it's more than a chick flick. Anne Marie is a tough girl trying to make it in a man's sport as well as in life. The friendships with her roommates and the struggle with her sister are timeless and touching. The cinematography is fabulous, as you get a view of the island and the water from every possible angle. This film was wonderful in the theatres and the DVD is even better. With featurettes and deleted scenes as well as commentary, Brian Grazer gives the viewer a clear understanding of his vision, which helps me love the movie even more.
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Summary: A good surfing movie
Review: 'Blue Crush'is a pretty good surfing movie that should entertain many people,especially fans of surfing.The movie kind of felt weird at times though like it was in fast foward,but that only happens at certain times of the film(not in the main parts).Also,sometimes it seemed like the were mumbling a little bit.But this movie does show you some surfing culture and it is more than just hot chicks in bikinis.There are some awesome surfing scenes,too.This isn't one of the greatest movies ever,but it is pretty good stuff.Overall I would give it a 3.5 out of 5.
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Summary: Drawcard: Attractive young women in bikinis for 100 minutes.
Review: When you see the name of Oscar winning producer Brian Grazer (A BEAUTIFUL MIND, 8 MILE) in the credits, you could be forgiven for expecting something special. Sadly BLUE CRUSH (related to the earlier doco in name only) is about as formulaic as movies get and has everything a surfing fan could ever want. For guys who aren't into surfing, Kate Bosworth (REMEMBER THE TITANS) and Michelle Rodriquez (RESIDENT EVIL) are in bikinis for pretty much the whole movie. That's basically BLUE CRUSH's drawcard.
The shoestring plot surrounds Anne Marie (Bosworth) and her dream of winning the world's most dangerous surf competition, the PIPE MASTER. The only problem is the other competitors are all male chauvinist pigs (so that gives female viewers something to [ogle]) and so Anne Marie predictably (as is the case in so many movies coming out these days) sets out to prove them wrong and win the prize. Surfers will enjoy all the action, but anyone else will be bored stiff.
BLUE CRUSH is basically the surfing equivalent of COYOTE UGLY or FLASHDANCE. Flashy commercial garbage that people will watch anyway, and then feel annoyed at wasting 100 minutes of their time. When will Rodriquez finally get a chance to fulfill the promise she showed in GIRLFIGHT?
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Summary: Not the "Bring it on" of surf movies...
Review: This has none of the subversive humor that made "Bring it on" such a refreshing surprise. The humor is pretty standard fare for teen/youth oriented movies: toilet humor, an overweight guy wearing swimming trunks that leave nothing to the imagination -- stuff like that. And there isn't a lot of bad acting in this movie, as some previous reviewers have criticized it for. There is a lot of melodrama, though. For instance, one of the "dramatic" scenes involves some of the Hawaiian locals bullying a tourist off a beach because its native-only beach. Oh, dear. And there's a sub-plot involving a conflict between the main character and her rebellious little sister, but that is abandoned about thirty minutes into the movie. I also had a problem with realism. I've never seen a woman as beautiful as the main character driving a junker like her character does in the movie, and have never seen a looker like her working as a maid in a hotel. The pro football player characters look more like college players. Other than that, it's pretty good lightweight entertainment, with great surfing scenes and plenty of eye-candy besides. My final complaint is the music. I mean, surfing is pretty much the only sport (aside from skateboarding, maybe) that has a style of music specifically devoted to it. I realize that, for the target audience, "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama is an oldie, which is why there's a hip-hop remix in the soundtrack. But how about having an Orange County punk band doing "Pipeline"? Or better yet, have Jill Sobule sing "Surfer girl"? That would have given it the perfect, subversive grrl power edge that this movie needed.
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Summary: So bad it's good
Review: This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The actors sound like they're reading off a script- a very bad script at that. I got the feeling that they just wanted to make a movie featuring all the hottest and most buff people they could find. The relationships between characters are completely bipolar, and the main character's romance is just bizarre. An actual plus is that the surfing scenes look cool, aside from the cheesy freeze frames and fast forwards that make it look like a Mentos commercial. This is the kind of movie that's bad in such a way that the badness actually makes it entertaining.
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Summary: PIPELINE GIRLS !
Review: LET'S SET THE ACTION BACK IN CONTEXT ! The Billabong Pro Tahiti 2003 is taking place, at the moment, in TEAHUPOO (cho-po), now a favourite(very scary)spot for more and more pro surfers around the world.
KEALA KENNELLY won the competition for the fourth time (1998-2000-2002-2003): undoubtedly the Queen of TEAHUPOO. The talented ROCHELLE BALLARD took the second place.
Were also there : Melanie Redman-Carr, Layne Beachley, Chelsea Georgeson, Heather Clark, Kate Skarratt... well, only big names of the pro female circuit !!
Yes, Yeah, women's surfing is on the wave and on the good one but the best is yet to come, with no doubt !
As far as I know, BLUE CRUSH (2002) is the first film dedicated to women's surfing : KEALA KENNELLY & ROCHELLE BALLARD play themselves. The film is good, unpretentious and refreshing.
The huge (montrous) waves of the NORTH SHORE (Oahu-Hawaii) will leave you breathless. The "dragonesque" roaring sound added is chilling !
JOHN STOCKWELL takes you INTO THE HEART OF THE CURL and let me tell you, you really feel like drowning.
BLUE CRUSH is a pure juice action movie !
KATE BOSWORTH, SANOE LAKE, MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ & MIKA BOOREM are very persuasive : so are all of the promising protagonists of the film !
BLUE CRUSH IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF A NEW KIND OF "ENDLESS SUMMER" !!
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Summary: Sucks!
Review: This movie is, too put it nicely, terrible! I had watched some previews and it looked really good, of course previews can make any movie look good, even this one. The whole story is basically about a girl who adores surfing, works as a maid, and is pretty much broke after she gets fired for complaining about the condition of a room that she was ordered to clean. In need of money, she gives surfing lessons to a random football player, and of course she totally falls in "love" with him. But she has a surfing competition coming up and needs to practice, or she'll lose. In addition to needing practice, she's afraid because of an accident she had three years ago while surfing. Then comes the completion, which is painful to look at. I won't go into details, but it's a classic fairy tale ending and everything is perfect. So, if you enjoy that sort of thing, go right ahead and enjoy, but me, let's just say I was strongly disappointed. Shame, shame.
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Summary: The Pros and Cons of the dialogue and characters wipe out!
Review: Pros: Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, some killer surf sequences, Beautiful people, beautiful cinematography, fun, humorous, interesting, brilliantly shot, good cast, refreshing ending, great story, nice subplots, an easygoing sense of exuberance, inspiring in-the-wave sequences, one feels he or she is actually THERE, formulaic plotting and drama, original location/setting in Hawaii, attractive women with goals other that being attractive, Cons: The romance, the little sister, time taken away from actual surfing, story dwells too much on failure and loses steam on land, familiar territory, some corny teen events, more time on land than on the water, some of the acting is pretty bad, occasioanl cliches and underdeveloped characters, not enough actual surfing, unfathomable romance, predictable moral-of-the-story, lack of originality and plot, middle drags on, no story line, and the sex scenes took away from the movie
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Summary: Bikini-clad Girls Surfing
Review: Watching girls in bikinis is cool. Watching girls wearing them while surfing is even better. Kate Bosworth is wonderful in the title role. She is both athletic and sexy, and she has a nice romance with a mainland football player in the middle. The aerial, underwater and from-the-wave surfing shots are breathtaking. The feeling of riding a wave - and wiping out - is captured wonderfully. The rhythmic music heightens the athleticism. And the movie reaches a climactic conclusion during the wave-pounding all-girl surf competition finale (after a fun and emotional luau, of course). Kate spends most of the feature fighting her own demons. In the final she watches another girl go down only to be carried off on a stretcher. She herself gets caught underwater where she has to fight to regain the surface. She is consoled on the beach, but returns to attack the waves. The photography throughout the film is tremendous. No sport has ever looked more graceful or awe inspiring. And no movie before it has ever captured the relentless power of the wave (visually or aurally) as it pounds you mercilessly after a spill as this. I thought that Blue Crush would turn out to be a chick flick. But it is actually much deeper - without being too sappy or heavy-handed. The message is all about achievement. It also doesn't hurt that Kate Bosworth looks fantastic both in her plunging neckline black dress at the luau, and in her sleeveless tee (to protect her from the sharp coral) over a skimpy bikini at the end. The finish is extra triumphant (of course). And Michelle Rodriguez appears in one of her best roles as Kate's friend and conscience. This is not just a good movie. It is probably the best (most realistic) surf movie ever made. I ended up liking it a lot -- and I think you will too!
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