Blue Crush

Rating: 1/10 (2 February 2006)

While it has some good acting, the storyline to BLUE CRUSH is the worst ever to be put to the big screens. The "why in the world did Universal studios take this one up" leaves you with more questions than answers. Teen championship surfer-chick Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth), who is gang leader to a threesome of other surfer-chicks, was a 'pro-circuit' surfer until three years ago when she had a near death accident with some coral while surfing. She finds a kindred spirit in footballer Matt (Matthew Davis), loses some good friends over basically nothing and finally decides to take up the pro-circuit again. Everyone makes up and the story ends with some crappy music. When the producers were putting this one together, they were either so drunk that they were just short of passing out, or they hoped that with some good acting and a few sex scenes they could take emphasis from the abysmal plot and character development. Although I think this one would be better off on the cutting room floor, it has some good values. With strong friendships, peer pressure, living-out dreams and how to dispose of condoms it should get people through the 104 minute production that left all in tears of boredom. Director John Stockwell tires to make it a movie that would bring teens in from all over the world. But as the old saying goes, "Second rate articles in second rate magazines turn into second rate movies".