NOT SURE IF WE WANT SOME
‘EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!’ TRAILER REVIEW BY METRO CREW
Being called a “spiritual sequel” to director Richard Linklater’s 1993 coming-of-age tale Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! follows a group of college baseball players in the 72 hours before classes begin. Like their Dazed predecessors, these students spend the film partying hard while contemplating their place in the world. While we’re not sure that this will join the ranks of Linklater’s greats, we’d see it.
Everybody Wants Some!! opens at Kahala Theatre April 22
JAMES: I’m surprised that Richard Linklater is doing this. It seems like trodden territory. There’s a scene where a group of guys rolls up in a car saying “Hey, ladies.” Then they all look at each other and say “lesbians” in unison because they were rejected. Parties, bong hits, booze and Linklater. Classic combo. What’s surprising are the cliches, though. Then again, this is a sequel to Dazed and Confused, which was great. So I have high hopes for it.
CHRISTINA: I love coming-of-age films, I love Dazed and Confused, and I absolutely love Linklater, but I can’t say that I think this looks good. It looks like a watered-down version of Dazed. It touches on the same themes — “who am I going to be, it’s our last chance to let loose before (insert big life event) happens” — but doesn’t seem to do so with as much poignancy. However, the trailers for Dazed and Confused probably looked like just a bunch of bros partying as well. All that said, I will definitely see this movie, mostly because I would see anything from Linklater.
NICOLE: For some reason Tyler Hoechlin does NOT look college-aged at all (although he’s not that old, right?) — must be that insane mustache he’s sporting. He gives off that vibe of that weird, almost-pervy uncle that gives you your first sips of beer as a kid.
CHRISTINA: The whole film is set within the few days before school starts, which is promising — any time Linklater plays with time constraints (as in the Before trilogy), the results are amazing.
PAIGE: To really stick a knife in Christina’s heart, the only movie of Linklater’s that I have seen is that cinematic tour de force known as School of Rock. Which I did not like.
JAIMIE: There was something charmingly nostalgic about everything this trailer promised. Not because I can personally relate to that time period, but because I wish I could. And the soundtrack sounds killer.
PAIGE: I like period movies, but I like period movies that are about … really old periods. Like, 1920’s flapper dresses old. Or like the sharp lines of post-war fashion after WWII old. Old stuff is the best when half the people who remember it are already dead. A time capsule to a world we can never truly know. All this to say that I am the one person who does not appreciate the nostalgia heroin injection that this movie seems to promise.
JAMES: This makes me nostalgic for Freaks and Geeks, a throwback about high school in the 80’s that came out in 1999. But I didn’t experience high school in the ‘80s, so I’m not sure what I’m nostalgic for. I remember The Wonder Years, which was oozing with nostalgia, but that took place in the suburbs of the ‘60s, which I never experienced either. That’s the cool thing about these comedies — I get older, they stay the same.
