By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald Rating: * *)
It would be easy for me to be mean about Blue Crush but if you rent a video that comes in a box with a photo of three chicks surfing, you'd know what to expect, and that's what you get.
There is a storyline: Anne Marie
(Kate Bosworth) is preparing for the Pipeline Masters on Oahu's North Shore. Anne Marie shares a shack on the beach with her two girlfriends, Lena (Sanoe Lake) and Eden (Michelle Rodriguez), and her younger sister, Penny (Mika Boorem). Anne Marie is raising Penny because their mum ran away.
Anne Marie has other personal demons to battle because the tournament is being held where she nearly drowned three years ago.
Her surfing goes out the window when she meets Matt (Matthew Davis), an NFL quarterback, at the hotel where all the girls work as maids. How can she confront her fears, and win the tournament, and realise her dream to become a professional surfer when her mind — and more graphically her body — are elsewhere?
However, you will not have to worry too much about Anne Marie's life crisis, because the plot is only there to fill time between film of three chicks surfing.
DVD features: movie (105min); commentary by director John Stockwell; commentary by actresses Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake; Making-of feature, Three Friends, One Passion; Filming Blue Crush (techniques for shooting surf footage); Inside the World of Surfing (history, terminology, equipment and best places to surf); Wipeouts (wipeouts and action scenes); Lenny Kravitz music video If I Could Fall in Love; deleted scenes.
Rental video, DVD: May 21
