This is a rites of passage ensemble comedy in which many of the best moments are the crudest, most lowbrow ones.
Some will balk at the macho sexism that runs rife, but Linklater perfectly captures the lust for life that accompanies those early college days. It’s magical.
A perfectly pitched blast of nostalgia, which will transport you to that time in life when the future stretched before you and anything seemed possible.
Nothing much happens, but that’s the point in this beautifully observed exploration of what it’s like to be young and male.
The dialogue is witty, the sense of period is spot on and there is also a vulnerability beneath the bluster and bravado of young men enjoying the time of their lives.
As an ensemble they’re just incredibly likeable, funny and endearing – much like the film.
The attitudes towards women are unenlightened, but the freshmen of Richard Linklater’s joyful 80s campus movie reveal occasional complexity.
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