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NUMBERS
Box Office: $40,118,420
VHS Rentals: $4,160,000
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CONSENSUS
The surfing sequences are exhilarating, but the plot is pretty forgettable and trite.
CAST & CREW
Kate Bosworth, Sanoe Lake, Michelle Rodriguez
Directed by John Stockwell
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SYNOPSIS
Set among the white beaches and thunderous waves of Hawaii's North Shore, BLUE CRUSH is an adrenaline-drenched surf picture that boasts a star-making performance from Kate Bosworth. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, sexual content, teen partying, language, and a fight
RUNTIME
1 hour, 45 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 16, 2002
Video: Jan 14, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Universal Pictures
GENRE
Sports/Recreation, Surfing, Drama, Young Love, Beaches, Competitions
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Blue Crush Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "It’s the brilliant surfing photography bringing you right inside the massive waves that lifts Blue Crush into one of the summer’s most pleasurable movies."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"Possesses something rare: a degree of genuine reverence in its depiction of surfing as a sport and a subculture."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
"While surprisingly sincere, this average little story is adorned with some awesome action photography and surfing."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"Predictable storyline and by-the-book scripting is all but washed away by sumptuous ocean visuals and the cinematic stylings of director John Stockwell."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, AUFMUTH.COM
"Think of it as Gidget, only with muscles and a lot more smarts, but just as endearing and easy to watch."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
 "Blue Crush follows the formula, but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling."
-- Peter Bernard, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"It’s inoffensive, cheerful, built to inspire the young people, set to an unending soundtrack of beach party pop numbers and aside from its remarkable camerawork and awesome scenery, it’s about as exciting as a sunburn."
-- Josef Braun, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"What you end up getting is the Vertical Limit of surfing movies - memorable stunts with lots of downtime in between."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"An estrogen opera so intensely feminine that it serves as the antidote (and cannier doppelganger) to Diesel's XXX flex-a-thon."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"I weep for the future when a good portion of the respected critical community in this country consider Blue Crush to be an intelligent film about young women."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"First and foremost...the reason to go see “Blue Crush” is the phenomenal, water-born cinematography by David Hennings."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"'Blue Crush' swims away with the Sleeper Movie of the Summer award."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"Those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
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"These aren't your usual movie surfer girls: (they) ride their own boards and carry themselves with the physicality of athletes..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"The amazing film work is so convincing that by movies’ end you’ll swear you are wet in some places and feel sand creeping in others."
-- Bruce Bennett, SPECTRUM (ST. GEORGE, UTAH)
"Blue Crush is as predictable as the tides. ... The movie feels stitched together from stock situations and characters from other movies."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"When it's all wet, Blue Crush is highly enjoyable. When it's on dry land, though, this surfer-girl melodrama starts gasping like a beached grouper."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
"it somehow managed to make its way past my crappola radar and find a small place in my heart"
-- Jim Chastain, NORMAN TRANSCRIPT
"Much credit must be given to the water-camera operating team of Don King, Sonny Miller, and Michael Stewart. Their work is fantastic."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"There's absolutely no reason why Blue Crush, a late-summer surfer girl entry, should be as entertaining as it is"
-- Jason Clark, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"It cuts to the core of what it actually means to face your fears, to be a girl in a world of boys, to be a boy truly in love with a girl, and to ride the big metaphorical wave that is life -- wherever it takes you."
-- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Though its story is only surface deep, the visuals and enveloping sounds of Blue Crush make this surprisingly decent flick worth a summertime look-see."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"Most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots. The movie isn't horrible, but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wave."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
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FRESH 66%
Avg. Rating: 6.4/10 |
"The film's plot may be shallow, but you've never seen the deep like you see it in these harrowing surf shots."
-- Melissa Ward Aguilar, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Blue Crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"The film would have been more enjoyable had the balance shifted in favor of water-bound action over the land-based 'drama,' but the emphasis on the latter leaves Blue Crush waterlogged."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Looking at the posters for Blue Crush, which show Bosworth, Rodriguez and Lake posing with bikinis and surfboards, I expected another mindless surfing movie. Blue Crush is anything but."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Apart from dazzling cinematography, we've seen just about everything in Blue Crush in one form or the other."
-- Robert K. Elder, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Unlike most surf movies, Blue Crush thrillingly uses modern technology to take the viewer inside the wave. By the end you can't help but feel 'stoked.'"
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Blue Crush has all the trappings of an energetic, extreme-sports adventure, but ends up more of a creaky "Pretty Woman" retread, with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought."
-- Scott Foundas, VARIETY
"It's a day at the beach -- with air conditioning and popcorn."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"An engaging, formulaic sports drama that carries a charge of genuine excitement."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"With so much to feast my dazzled eyes upon, I barely noticed that the plot was missing in action."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
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"On a certain base level, Blue Crush delivers what it promises, just not well enough to recommend it."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
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