Rating: 
Summary: Unredeeming
Review: A remake of a thousand previous movies, "Blue Crush" substitutes surfboards for welding equipment, etc. What was the value in this movie? I couldn't find anything that makes me feel better or like I learned something. Lost girls in a lost generation with no direction and no "rock" to hold on to.... Sorry, this movie is unredeeming from any angle. I wasted both money and time watching this.
Rating: 
Summary: Girl Power
Review: What made me bump this up to a 4 stars was the message: younger girls need to see more empowering movies like this one. Kate Bosworth was very natural to watch, and her rock star surfing was great. As a big fan of Michelle Rodriguez, I also recommend "Girlfight" - another female empowering sports movie. It's so refreshing to see young actresses in physically strong parts. The script is not incredible, but almost every scene is believable and true to life. Girls and young women need to see this one!
Rating:
Summary: Blue By You
Review: When it was announced that actress Kate Bosworth was cast as Lois Lane, in Bryan Singer's relaunch of the Superman film franchise, I decided to check out her filmography to see if she was any good. Going in, I knew that Blue Crush may not be a fair judge of her skills, but my feeling was what the heck, how bad could it be.
Nothing gets between Anne Marie Chadwick (Kate Bosworth) and her surf board. Living in a beach shack on Oahu with roommates Eden, (Michelle Rodriguez), Lena, (Sanoe Lake), and her rebellious younger sister Penny (Mika Boorem), she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Working as a hotel maid to pay the bills, Anne Marie finds everything else she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene. When pro quarterback Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis) comes into her life though, Anne Marie starts losing her edge, as she finds herself falling for Matt.
Inspired by a magazine article by Susan Orlean, called Surf Girls of Maui, Blue Crush goes pretty much by the numbers for a film of this type. Yet it's still an entertaing piece of fluff, thanks to it's great surfing photography and young cast. Directed and co-written by former actor John Stockwell, the film, is a confection from the get go. Stockwell certainly knows what works. Taking a page from Top Gun, where he had a small role as "Cougar", all those elements are there. The females take charge and have fun. The camera loves the sparkling Bosworth...
The DVD is packed with a lot of bonus material. There are 2 audio commentaries The first features track has Bosworth, Rodriguez, and Lake, talking about the film and having fun. The second track with Stockwell is a bit more tech oriented. I think it would have made much more sense if all four had sat down for a single session instead. The featurette, Three Friends, One Passion: The Making of Blue Crush, repeats a lot of stuff heard elsewhere and could have been nixed. Much more interesting for me was the featurette that explained the techniques used to shoot the surfing footage. Along the same lines is Wipeout that looks at some of the most intense surfing mishaps ever caught on film. Inside the World of Surfing is self explanitory. It looks at the history, terminology, equipment and best places to surf and is pretty good for the novice like me. The deleted scenes are just throwaway stuff and wouldn't have made things better or worse. The Lenny Kravitz music video for the song "If I Could Fall in Love", cast and crew bios, some tips on surf fashion and a few DVD-ROM features top off the bonus material.
Blue Crush is a fine guilty pleasure and great fun too.
Rating: 
Summary: Enjoyable
Review: Blue Crush takes you to the Pipeline and throws a different break on the usual surfing yarn in that it focuses on a trio of girl surfers and the way they chase the waves.
Leading the bunch is Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth), a supremely talented surfer who has yet to get over almost drowning at the Pipeline some years earlier. Her friends are Eden (Michelle Rodriguez) and Lena (Sanoe Lake) who live and work with her and try to get her ready for the Women's Pipe Masters carnival at the dreaded beach.
However, just as Anne-Marie is stepping up her efforts she falls for Matt (Matthew Davis) a rich football player who is town on vacation with his teammates and her rigorous training routine flies out the window. Mind you, some of the movies most amusing moments come via his teammates - the room cleaning episode and then teaching them to surf.
Then it's time for the heroine to stand up and be counted where it matters most - on the waves - and what follows is some pretty spectacular surfing footage.
In fact, it is this exciting and at times stunning wave action that is the star of Blue Crush and you get up-close and personal with the power of the ocean.
Bosworth et al are very good as the surfers - in fact the whole cast is good - and while the plot is not an academy award winner, it has a believable and sensible ending.
Surfies will love it.
Rating: 
Summary: Awsome Surf Movie for Surfers and Non Surfers alike!
Review: Without a doubt Blue Crush is an extremely good movie. It's inspiring, fun to watch, and definitly makes you want to get out and surf.
Anne Marie Chadwick is a girl living with her best friends, and avid surfers Eden (Michelle Rodriguez) and Lena (Sanoe Lake) in a beach shack with squeaky doors and a leaky roof off the world-famous North Shore of O'ahu, Hawaii.
They get around in they're awsome unrestored, '61 Chevy Impala, and eat twinkies for breakfast.
Rating:
Summary: Cool as blue
Review: If you're looking for a good chick flick, a good beach flick, and a good surf flick, this one's for you. Champion girl surfers vie against each other and their own personal fears in the world of competitive surfing. The surfing scenes are awesome and Kate Bosworth and Michelle Rodriguez deliver fine performances as the water nymphs.
Rating:
Summary: Awesome Movie
Review: This movie is inspiring. It makes you feel like you can accomplish anything. These girls have flaws, but overcome them to be the best. It shows that you should take chances in life; not to be overcome with past fears. Awesome movie. I watch it everytime it is on TV. Although others on this site seem not to like it, I think that it is a great movie. Blue Crush definetly makes you want to go out and swim!
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Summary: The Surfing scenes are very cool
Review: This is another selection I was able to borrow from the library. It was on the shelf, and I was curious. Okay granted the movie is not academy award winning, but there were some pretty decent scenes. Anne Marie is a competitive surf boarder who is trying to get over a near drowning. She is trying to move forward, but this near drowning keeps holding her back. In addition to that she is trying to make ends meet working in hotel and is taking care of her younger sister. The of course is not without it's club scene, and some drinking is involved, but it's not overboard. It fits the story line. There is also a nice little love story. I could have done without seeing the big guy in swimming bikini like trunks (shudders at the memory). You will get caught up in the excitement of the surfing competition on Oahu's Bonzai Pipeline. The cinematography during those scenes was spectacular. The movie is okay, but the surfing scenes are the most exciting part of the movie for sure. It made me want to actually learn how to surf, being a thrill seeker. Surfing does look like fun.
Rating: 
Summary: Against the Tide
Review: I hate to throw cold water (no pun intended) on a film that most reviewers seem to have enjoyed, but a thoughtful look at this movie reveals it's not really an awful lot to cheer about. The story is old-hat cliche'; Young, aspiring girl overcomes fear based on an earlier accident and triumphs over obstacles. In the meantime, there is the obligatory romance with jock, fight with long-time girl-friend who is living vicariously through our heroine and much-expected and telegraphed final denouement. The soundtrack is certainly nothing to write home about. Technically, it's not good. There are many places where the dialogue is all but unintelligible (turn on the captions). The selection of music is questionable, at best. This movie supposedly used surfing as its vehicle for getting its message across, yet the soundtrack is almost exclusively rap--great if you're a fan of Eminem, but where are the great old surf songs of the 60s? The acting is passable, if predictable. We don't really care too much about these girls, with the possible exception of Penny, our heroine's young (12-13?), whiney, bratty sister who mouths off to her older sister and friends, smokes and displays her knowledge of sex at the drop of a hat. We never do find out what happens to her. Anyway, the surfing footage is adequate, although I don't understand what the fuss is all about regarding the "fabulous footage". It's nice, but I've seen better camera shots on ABC's old "Wide World of Sports" when it used to cover the Pipeline championships. But the bonus extras on the DVD are nice. Summarily, it's a nice movie to waste 90 minutes on, but don't expect it to live up to the hype of most of the reviewers here.
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