Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

James Hitchcock "Blue Crush" was not based upon a novel, a short story or a play but upon a non-fiction journalistic article ("Life's Swell" by Susan Orlean). This is not an unprecedented phenomenon- "Saturday Night Fever", for example, was also based upon such an article- but it is nevertheless an unusual one. Non-fiction is a highly important part of the publishing and broadcasting industries, but the same is not true of the cinema. There have been occasional exceptions ("March of the Penguins" being a recent one), but in general film-makers have taken the position that documentaries are something best left to television. So, despite its provenance, the story told in this film is a fictitious one. (As, of course, is the story told in "Saturday Night Fever").The film's surfing sequences have been much praised, and rightly so. Like most Britons I have never tried surfing- weather conditions here are hardly conducive to it- but the exhilarating sequences in this film capture something of the sport's excitement and beauty and go some way towards explaining just why its devotees can get so fanatical about it. You cannot, however, make an entire feature film out of surfing sequences alone. (Well, you probably could, but you would have difficulty getting it shown anywhere except for a few art-house cinemas). So the film-makers had to come up with some sort of storyline to fit around them.What they came up with is a sort of double love story, "girl loves boy" plus "girl loves surfing". The main character, Anne Marie, is a young woman living in Hawaii where she works as a hotel chambermaid. Her great ambition is to be a champion surfer and the film explores the story of how she fares when she enters a prestigious surfing competition, with a subplot about the progress of the relationship between Anne Marie and her boyfriend Matt, a professional footballer whom she meets while he is staying in her hotel.Unfortunately, this plot is banal and uninteresting. It doesn't help that Kate Bosworth, who plays Anne Marie, gives such a poor performance; she mumbles so much that I had difficulty understanding a lot of what she is saying. The rest of the cast are not much better, except perhaps Matthew Davis as Matt; he may not be a great actor, but at least he speaks clearly and distinctly. Yet beneath the bland, feelgood plot there are hints of something deeper and more interesting struggling to get out. We hear of two traumatic events in Anne Marie's past, of how she nearly drowned during a previous competition and as a result abandoned the sport temporarily, and of how she was abandoned by her mother who ran off with a boyfriend. As a result Anne Marie has been forced to care for her younger sister Penny herself, with some help from her friends Eden and Lena. (Don't they have children's services in Hawaii?)The trouble is that we merely hear about these events in retrospect. It might have been if they had actually been shown to us, possibly in flashback, which would have given us a more rounded picture of Anne Marie's personality and the forces which produced it. This would have made for a more interesting film, a story of a woman's triumph over adversity rather than a standard love story against a sporting background. Such a film would probably have needed a more accomplished actress than Bosworth in the main role, but it might have been more rewarding. 5/10. (3/10 for the film itself, with two bonus points for the surf scenes).

dilloncw02 When viewing a movie centered on the sport of surfing, some may feel like they're on the outside looking in. But Blue Crush, a "summer box office guilty pleasure" according to the New York Times, directed by John Stockwell, does in an incredible job of displaying the surf world while drawing in the average American by employing the typical Hollywood love story. Most Americans think of the sport of surfing as a thing for Californians or Hawaiians and synonymize it with the words "hang ten," "righteous," and "gnarly." But in Blue Crush, Stockwell is able to connect the inner workings of one of the most dangerous sports in the world to the story of just a typical local Hawaiian girl aiming for her shot in one of the most prestigious big wave surf completions in the world.Produced by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, Blue Crush stars some well-known actors in Hollywood like Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis and Michelle Rodriguez but also adds an actress who can truly relate to the world of surfing in Sanoe Lake, an ex pro surfer and face of billabong. Kate Bosworth who stars as Anne Marie Chadwick, lives with friends and fellow surfers Eden (Michelle Rodriguez) and Lena (Sanoe Lake) and is trying to prove to her other local friends and herself why and how she earned her wild card admission into the Billabong Pipe Masters Competition. While attempting to balance a job as a hotel maid, her dreams and raising her younger sister, Anne Marie struggles to find who she is and how she is going to be able to continue the current lifestyle she is living. While on the job, she falls for pro football player Matt Tollman (Matthew Davis) and begins to lose sight of the competition she has worked so hard for but soon realizes she is out of her element and doesn't know what to do. She eventually figures out a way to balance all of the things in her life and how to be herself while maintaining a relationship with her friends, sister and boyfriend and manages to achieve success while competing in the Pipe Masters. The key to making this movie such a success was the outstanding cinematography. Stockwell and Universal Pictures display masterful camera work anytime someone was on a surfboard, which was a lot. Shooting all different angles of the waves that the stunt doubles surfed on, from the views inside the pipe of the waves to even getting beautiful shots of the undertow and coral reefs, Stockwell displayed his brilliance by understanding the key components of what drive the very sport of surfing. On top of magnificent camera work, the story line is something so original and specific in the sense that it is a movie based around surfing and the surf lifestyle, yet so relatable to the average person who doesn't know much about surfing at all. Granted this movie was shot in Hawaii and is about the sport of surfing, Blue Crush is a great all around movie that is not just a typical summer flick. It's certainly a movie for people who enjoy surfing or are surfing enthusiasts, but it is also a movie for the general population as it lures them with an exotic landscape and puts a twist in the typical Hollywood love story of romance, heartbreak and fairytale ending. I, being someone who has been to every site where this movie was shot, recommend this movie to all based upon the legitimacy it contains about the lifestyle of surfing and the entertainment and drama it provides to keep the movie goer hooked throughout the entire motion picture. It may not have won an Oscar, but it is definitely an excellent and intriguing motion picture that shows the "behind the scenes" view into the world of surfing while still being entertaining.

Kristine When I was at Wal Mart a few weeks ago, I saw a DVD that had three movies in it for 10 bucks, Blue Crush happened to be one of them, so I figured to go ahead and see the film, I mean, decent price, the movie might be worth a look. So I watched Blue Crush last night and I have to say that when I remembered seeing the trailer for Blue Crush when it first came out and it looked like the most lame thing ever, I was 17 years old at the time, so watching this now, it was better than what I expected. But still, it was nothing special, it was like one of those movies that you see once, and you're happy with seeing it that one time. It has fun sports, hot actors(that really can't act), and a decent story that's worth a look, even if it is a little too much of a chick flick at times.Anne Marie is a young girl in Hawaii who lives with two other friends and her little sister. Her mother ran away and left her with all the responsibilities of being an adult. Anne Marie is also a competitive surfer and kicks butt on the waves, so much so, that her room mate, Eden, wants her to compete in the pipe line contest, which is extremely dangerous and Anne Marie has a fear off since she almost died from a wipe out when she was a little girl. A hot tourist, Matt, distracts her and has a steamy affair with him, she forgets who she is and has to get back on track in order for her dreams to come true.Blue Crush is a cute movie and has an uplifting and positive message to go the distance and make your dreams come true. Sounds cheesy, but I think young girls need more movies like Blue Crush, it's cool for the tween crowd. As an adult, like I said, it's average, but it was a decent film. There's nothing terribly wrong with the film, there are a few unbelievable things and it's a little predictable, the acting is alright, but it's all good, it's just a cute film. Blue Crush is worth a look if you're looking for a sport type of film, but for me, that's all that I'm going to have of the film.5/10

ptb-8 Good looking but ultimately routine surfing drama with 3 girl lead actors instead of guys.... offers more than it delivers mainly because there isn't a lot the producers can do with the material that hasn't been seen already in IN GODS HANDS or BIG Wednesday or even NORTH SHORE or Brit silliness BLUE JUICE or Australian travesties like LIQUID BRIDGE. In between great looking surf footage is the usual suburban TV level scenes in semi squalor, wild parties and teen arguments... or silly scenes in the workplace (hotel chambermaid scenes that are disgusting and just plain ugly....toilet bowls and condoms....ugh, yawn etc). Aimed squarely at teen audiences... primarily girls, and with the added butch aggro in the usual cranky performance by Michelle Rodriguez, there is absolutely nothing in this film for adults... sadly even those young adults in their 20s.