Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Gavin Purtell Another really enjoyable Linklater film - very different to 'Boyhood' and almost a sequel to the high school-set 'Dazed and Confused' - 'Everybody Wants Some!!' is the story of college, as seen through the eyes of baseball pitcher Jake (Jenner). He has it pretty good - an off-campus dorm (not quite a fraternity) at an unnamed Texas university, where he and his teammates pretty much have free reign. The film's set in 1980 and looks the piece - great cars, crap hair, dodgy fashion, mo's everywhere. Plus, the music!The soundtrack is exceptional, and I imagine if you were of the right age in 1980, it would take you straight back there - The Knack, Cheap Trick, ZZ Top, Parliament, Blondie, Queen, Pink Floyd, Devo and, of course, Van Halen, with the eponymous song. There's plenty of fun and plenty of characters, with the teammates going to three different parties in three nights before classes commence - but the film's not all about drugs, sex and alcohol - although they're quite prevalent. It's really about finding out who you are or want to be as a young adult and along with the quips, jokes and games, there's a few nice philosophical moments thrown in - plenty courtesy of Finnegan (Powell) and Dale (Johnson).Beverly (Deutch) is a nice love interest and it's great to see most of the dozen characters get a decent airing. A few oddballs for the laughs, but plenty of realistic college-age pastimes too. There's no real focus on baseball other than for about 15min, which is good. It's a good cross between 'Bad Neighbours' and 'Animal House', with not as much outrageousness, but a fair bit of heart. The film's probably 20min too long, but it's still enjoyable with a good ending.

JohnnyNo5 OK my title is a tad bit harsh but it is basically how I feel about this after watching it, it was certainly not all boring and I think as a whole is more watchable than some other movies but for a 'comedy' was not what was expected, there was not even a moment of laughter during the whole movie let alone a small chuckle, I feel this could just as easily be call a drama instead of comedy and it could have easily ended after twenty minutes or gone on another 2 hours and either way I feel the audience would end up knowing the characters just as well and had just as good a story told. The acting was great and I found the individual characters likable (the tiny amount that I knew them) but I found the story to be very thin without any substance and character development to be non existent culminating by going nowhere and simply ending on a flat note.

pc95 "Everybody Wants Some", written and directed by Richard Linklater, is certainly a tribute to 80s comedy and era culture. It starts out promisingly for the introductory 15 min or so setting up the place, time, and characters - 1980 Southeastern Texas College which may be fictional (I've never heard of it) pretty well. The look, costuming, and locales are done well. The problem though is this movie runs almost 2 hrs and spends over an hour of it portraying a cycling a frat-lifestyle partying over 3 or 4 days which comes off as one overlong scene. If you can manage though the semi-monotony into the last 30 min, the movie finally picks up on some good character development and love interest. This love-interest should've been put in the first quarter or third of the run-time and more the focus. I liked the movie for its homage, and although it did have several funny parts its strength might've been served in more drama rather than repetitive antics. 6/10 - mixed.

regas As a huge fan of Dazed and Confused, yes, I actually saw it first in a movie theater, this movie stunk so bad I can't believe it actually got released at all. Even the out-take rap video at the end sucked so bad. Some of the lines were good and the music was spot on, but who wrote this movie really? Were they professional writers or high school kids? I kept going back and looking for something positive to say and I honestly can't think of a thing. Oh, the 442 was cool. If this is all you got left in your Rich, time to hang up your spurs. Really...