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United Kingdom · 1995
Rated R · 1h 30m
Director Carl Prechezer
Starring Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Steven Mackintosh, Ewan McGregor
Genre Comedy, Romance
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JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up.
Ramshackle as comedy and mundane as drama, this noisily energetic and splashily - literally - photographed hang-ten flick doesn't wipe out due to spectacular surfing stunts and the fun of seeing McGregor and Zeta-Jones in pre-stardom mode.
Although this may sometimes appear to be simply a bawdy soap opera, first-time director Prechezer injects such joie de vivre into proceedings that it scarcely matters.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Prechezer's cast is ingratiating and attractive, and Blue Juice is as buoyant as its terrific rock score.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey
The movie seems much, much longer than its 90-minute running time. [15 June 1998]