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A lot of fun.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Blue Crush is a based on the Outside magazine article "Life's Swell" by Susan Orlean.It stars Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake, and Mika Boorem.The film tells the story of three friends who have one passion: surfing on Hawaii's famed North Shore.John Stockwell directs.Anne Marie, Eden and Lena are best friends. Anne Marie and her friends have been raising her 14-year-old sister, Penny. While Penny is at school,all friends work as maids at a large resort hotel.And most of all, they are surfers. Anne Marie rises every morning before dawn to train for her surfing comeback. She was once considered a rising star in women's surfing but a near-drowning incident temporarily halted her career and left her with deep-seated fears. Her friends, especially Eden, have encouraged her to try it again.Then,Anne Marie has been invited to join in an upcoming surf competition at the famed North Shore surf spot, Pipeline.While the film isn't pretentious as a guilty pleasure,it is amazing that the photography and editing do well to demonstrate the beauty of how it all looks while moving with a momentum that wraps us up in the physical drama.And also,it was made to inspire the young people in whatever endeavors they want to pursue.

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.

Some sports movies are about sports (Remember the Titans) some are about the people who play them (Girl Fight). Blue Crush makes a huge mistake of choosing the latter approach, and it asks the viewer to invest in a handful of characters who are largely under fleshed, and never amount to much more than bodies in bikini's or shorts. The story is choppy and lacks fluidity, resulting in rushed characterization, a lack of explanation, and worst of all, The movie is not very exiting.Blue Crush's sole effectiveness, is that director John Stockwell has designed some phenomenal shots. He is able to work the camera behind the waves, below them or up atop them, sometimes onto the surfboard itself. Blue Crush may have some effectiveness as a sea spectacle but it is a superficial one. It's a flimsy story about flimsy people, frequently predictable. Offering a few laughs and few smiles, in an otherwise bland motion picture.

I just made myself a profile here because of this stupid movie! Why does everybody love it? I mean it sucks! IT SUCKS! It's on TV as I write this, and it's 40 minutes into the movie and I HATE IT already! What is the point of this movie. Boring storyline, no character development (so far at least), no anything. My god, I can't even remember the characters' names and the storyline (what little storyline it has) I just can't find, maybe if I had it on DVD, I could read what it is about, but so far it has been a movie about chicks and surfboards and some nature scenery, that's it! I've wasted 40 minutes of my life... I can't go on writing about this movie, I'm gonna go do something fun, like slam my head against a wall...I would have rated lower if I could, but I give it 1 star because I kick ass.