Product Details

• Actors: Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ewan McGregor, Steven Mackintosh, Peter Gunn
• Directors: Carl Prechezer
• Writers: Carl Prechezer, Peter Salmi, Tim Veglio
• Producers: Peter Salmi, Simon Relph
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: March 14, 2000
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003XAKX
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #78,485 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Blue Juice" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Wax up your boards and hang 10 (or whatever) where the big waves come crashing in: off the English coast at Cornwall. Huh? No endless summer? No two girls for every boy? No, but in Blue Juice one can see what most of us probably never even thought about: the British Isles are indeed islands and, not incongruously, there's a considerable surfing culture with a handful of homegrown legends. One of the latter is JC (Sean Pertwee), a skilled surfer so driven by the challenge and so dedicated to his mates that it threatens his meandering romance with the long-suffering Chloe (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The two have planned an extensive, around-the-world trip as a kind of prelude to discussing marriage, but the arrangement is threatened when three of JC's old childhood chums arrive from London. One of them (played by Steven Mackintosh) is a famous record producer who has sold his soul (in every sense) to reap profits from fashionable electronica. Another (Ewan McGregor) is a chronic screwup resorting to hustling junk to unsuspecting customers. The last (Peter Gunn) is an anxious sort terrified of marrying his longtime girlfriend. Together, these four guys look like a pack of nowhere men and they know it: while the story largely focuses on JC and Chloe, there's plenty of material for the supporting characters to indulge in mucho self-loathing. The film never quite jumps off the screen and the script may be hampered by too many layers of character eccentricity, but this is still an enjoyable piece with some fine comic performances. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

On the outside jc is a surg legend who has it all: looks fame and chloe the hottest girl in town. But the truth is jc is turning 30 and after ten years of dangerous waves he is finding out that growing older and growing up can be more treacherous than even the toughest reef breaks. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/20/2003 Starring: Ewan Mcgregor Catherine Zeta Jones Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R Director: Carl Prechezer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, December 5, 2003

By	pyemaster (Cornwall,Eng.) - See all my reviews

Blue Juice is an absolute classic which sums up the Cornish surfing community very well. The film and countryside is true to Kernow and as a Cornish surfer myself, know alot of people in situations very similar. Although actual footage is limited, its a film about their lives rather than a surfing vid. It is balanced well and is funny, true to life and shows what some of our lives down here are really like.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Beach Bummer, September 30, 2000

By	"flickjunkie" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Blue Juice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The only thing worse than surfers without any waves is a film about surfers without any waves. For viewers who love surfing this film will be a gigantic disappointment since the total number of minutes of surfing footage struggles to reach three.

The story is a slice of life about beached surfers who are waiting not for the perfect wave, but for any wave at all. J.C. (Sean Pertwee) is an aging super surfer who is flirting with a commitment with his girlfriend Chloe (Catherine Zeta Jones). Just as he is about to find grown up bliss with the woman he loves, three old surfing friends turn up and convince him to hit the beach looking for monster waves at the Bone Yard. The trouble is, there are no waves until the very end of the film, so most of the story dissipates itself on a meandering succession of disconnected beach happenings.

The acting is mostly mediocre. Sean Pertwee has a few comical moments, but his acting was generally mundane. Ewan McGregor was decent as the drug dealing wild man, by far the most interesting and peculiar character of the bunch. Probably the funniest performance was turned in by Peter Gunn as Terry who turned his corpulent body into a continual sight gag. Catherine Zeta-Jones was sexy as usual, but her character didn't really have enough meat for her to show much acting ability.

There is really not much here on which to comment. I rated it a 3/10. It's a real beach bummer.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars haha, July 31, 2002

By	Beth-o (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Juice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Very cute movie. It portrays the life of 4 friends having what I guess you could call, a mid-life crisis. Ewan Mcgregor did a fantastic job of being the goofball in the movie. He was adorable. I was suprised by the movie, because it was a surfer movie, but it had a nice plot. A good plot. It was humorous how it all worked out.