Review of Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) by K Nife C — 11 May 2016

"Brainless and dull" is what I said when I asked for my ticket refund. That about sums it up. Who would have thought that a drama-less comedy-drama full of obnoxious banter from miscreant baseball players in the 80s would be such a waste of time? For the first act, you find out how much you don't care about any of the characters.

In the second act, they treat each other poorly in a relentlessly repetitive search for poon. They yell, they quip, they drink, and they screw, all punctuated by dancing scenes, driving scenes, and scenes involving each character demonstrating their machismo.

All of this is an attempt to evoke nostalgia because the sets, costumes, and hairstyles are all from the 80s. What makes this irrelevant is that you could seriously plant the entire story and cast in a different time period and still evoke an equal amount of nostalgia for that time period.

So why did Linklater choose to set this in 1980? Maybe he wanted to make a sequel to "Dazed and Confused", but didn't have any story ideas. And the 80s come after the 70s, right? I think the real reason is because if you lived as a young adult in 1980, you are currently old enough to be exiting the 25-39 year old demographic dearth in the movie-going population.

Lo, and behold, the other people in the theater with me were 45-60 years of age. I feel bad that whatever they experienced back then (around people like the characters in this movie) looks a lot like being around most groups of adolescent males.

In that sense, Linklater succeeds in portraying the timelessness of being a mundane, unremarkable bro.