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Wick's Review
Summary - Really Great 4.5 click to collapse contents
An all-time great college comedy, EWS!! riffs on pre-PC male privilege in all its semi-decadent glory. It imagines a nationally-ranked baseball team at a third-tier Texas college – the Bad Habit Bears, basically.
As a guy who was a sophomore in 1980, when Richard Linklater’s movie is set, I had a great time laughing along. Post-PC prudes will feel differently. Victims – real and imagined – should stay away, far away.
Linklater calls Everybody Wants Some!! the “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, his all-time great high school comedy set in 1976. They follow his partying years in Texas schools, through a lens absurdly.
Kids, don’t try this at home, er, at school. It’s a highly idealized collegiate experience, mostly from the male POV. I happened to have had a great time in college, yet didn’t hold a candle to these guys. Of course, they’ve got the cinematic reality-distortion field going and they’re top athletes, guys who had it made.
Gotta Love
- They hit every party & bar on campus & in town: jock house, theater, new wave, disco, country.
- They never play an actual baseball game, only engaging in weak-ass preseason “workouts”.
- They diss Van Halen for wearing spandex, then never play the movie’s title song. Loved it!
Just as he did with Dazed and Confused, Linklater introduces a passel of bright new stars with EWS!! – Blake Jenner, Ryan Guzman, Quinton Johnson and Temple Baker. Most of all, Glen Powell stands out as the pseudo-erudite Finnegan. Will any be as big as Matthew McConaughey or Ben Affleck? We shall see.
Richard Linklater, we’re not worthy. No, scratch that. We are worthy, plenty worthy, plenty pleased too.