Tough yet tender surfer heroine story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Surfing is extreme sport, but only so-so cinema. When you've seen one wave, you've seen them all: so it soon looks. All the babes who do the surfing in John Stockwell's youth-cult romance also come off an assembly line of blonde bimbos.

| Apr 5, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2002

The movie isn't nearly dumb enough to be much beach fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 22, 2002

The body-doubling and face-pasting are unfortunately blatant.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 18, 2002

A pure celebration of riding the waves.

| Aug 16, 2002

A big, sexy, sun-splashed thrill ride.

| Aug 16, 2002

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.

| Aug 16, 2002

It is trashy good fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2002

Blue Crush is one of those tough-to-sell late-summer flicks made for marketing impossible dreams and fashion. But its main failure is the way it undermines its heroine's drive and strength.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2002

Some surf movies fail because they take surfing too seriously, dwelling on the spiritual sense that comes from riding on the surface of a mighty power. Blue Crush fails for the opposite reason.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 16, 2002

Blue Crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 16, 2002

To anyone who takes it for granted that females are capable of making up their own minds and taking risks, Blue Crush has nothing to distinguish it, save some exciting surfing footage.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2002

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.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2002

With so much to feast my dazzled eyes upon, I barely noticed that the plot was missing in action.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2002