For a movie centred around a bunch of Baseball players, it does take a bloody long time for them to play baseball. Everybody Wants Some!! is one of those few movies that have zero complication at all, instead being 2 hours of drinking, partying, "the old in and out" and just having a good old time.
The film essentially has no story what so ever. A baseball team do conventional teen antics until class begins... That's it. Although Narritively the film goes nowhere particularly it will never bore you as, being young and kinda dumb, the team attend a variety of crazy parties and spend their free time doing all sorts of random activities while talking about philosophical stuff. The film aims to deliver messages about individuality and competitive American masculinity. It's more about what the film is saying rather than what its doing.
The unknown ensemble cast was great. Everyone as good as each other and creating extremely believable chemistry and friendship between them all. They bounce off one another throughout the film and the film is centred and lives off them bonding together as a team. The acting allows the film to work.
Richard Linklater's film also utilises the nostalgia of the 80's. Sadly, me being born later meant that this nostalgia was lost on me personally, but for anyone whose around 40 this film should have an awe of nostalgia around its time setting, costumes and music soundtrack etc.
Overall Everybody Wants Some!! is a well acted and nostalgic movie that doesn't really go anywhere in its narrative story but also delivers meaningful messages you'd expect to see in a coming-of-age teen film. Its like a sort of sequel to Dazed and Confused and Boyhood... That is if Dazed and Confused where in the 80's and if Boyhood was set 30-40 years earlier and picked up immediately where it left off.
The film essentially has no story what so ever. A baseball team do conventional teen antics until class begins... That's it. Although Narritively the film goes nowhere particularly it will never bore you as, being young and kinda dumb, the team attend a variety of crazy parties and spend their free time doing all sorts of random activities while talking about philosophical stuff. The film aims to deliver messages about individuality and competitive American masculinity. It's more about what the film is saying rather than what its doing.
The unknown ensemble cast was great. Everyone as good as each other and creating extremely believable chemistry and friendship between them all. They bounce off one another throughout the film and the film is centred and lives off them bonding together as a team. The acting allows the film to work.
Richard Linklater's film also utilises the nostalgia of the 80's. Sadly, me being born later meant that this nostalgia was lost on me personally, but for anyone whose around 40 this film should have an awe of nostalgia around its time setting, costumes and music soundtrack etc.
Overall Everybody Wants Some!! is a well acted and nostalgic movie that doesn't really go anywhere in its narrative story but also delivers meaningful messages you'd expect to see in a coming-of-age teen film. Its like a sort of sequel to Dazed and Confused and Boyhood... That is if Dazed and Confused where in the 80's and if Boyhood was set 30-40 years earlier and picked up immediately where it left off.