Nice eye candy, not much else

Rating: 6/10 (13 July 2005)

The girls are cute, just turn off the sound. Kate Bosworth deserved better than this script. Mika Boorem is adorable and a good actress. Sanoe Lake is one of the most annoying people to ever appear in film. She tries mightily to take over the movie. Loud, obnoxious, and tries to act black. Michelle Rodriguez once again plays the tough girl. Surf culture has apparently been washed away by hip-hop "culture." Just like everything else. Dominated by trash talking burnouts, baby mamas and tattooed hoochies. People with something to prove, even if the viewer couldn't care less. Bosworth's character could have just as easily been a street racer, "You Got Served" dancer, boxer or Pokemon master ("Gotta catch 'em all!) Um, if you say so. The fab future of becoming a pro-surfer apparently means women turn butch. Sorry but Kate's too pretty and feminine, unlike Michelle and Sanoe (nice bodies, hard faces). The picture is shot beautifully, but hampered by repetitive flashbacks to Bosworth's wipe out.