Blue Juice (1995)

Early great acting by Ewan McGregor....a fun surfing movie with a sweet young Catherine Zeta Jones before she was famous

This isn't going to win any Oscars, but if you like Cornwall (especially Mousehole), or Catherine Zeta-Jones, or Sean Pertwee, or if you are a person who wants to see everything which has Ewan MacGregor in it, this would be a watch. The plot really comes down to whether it is better to live as a free spirit, throwing caution to the wind, or whether there is a time to settle down. There is an on again, off again romance here. Some of the architecture and natural backdrops for this film are excellent. I felt the acting was at times indifferent, and something was just a bit disjointed about it, but I still enjoyed it overall. Poet Heathcote Williams has a great supporting part as The Shaper, and Jenny Agutter has a very brief, but brilliant, cameo.

Perhaps I am the wrong age (or generation) to enjoy young people making fools of themselves with booze and drugs.The scenery was worthwhile with the ocean and waves and Catherine. That's it!!!

I always made fun of the surfer dudes before seeing Ewan in this movie. I loved the acid trip scene where Ewan gets embarrassed over his friend's behavior although he gave him the acid. Check out the braided hair on Ewan as well and they had a cool song and sock/p*nis scene as well.

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.

dislike

Ok but not worth spending the money. I bought it because I loved Catherine Zeta Jones in the Count Of Monte Christo

When the package arrived, the disc was loose in the case. Thankfully it doesn't appear to be scratched, just smudged. I have yet to try watching it, hopefully there's no damage. I can't tell whether the disc came loose during handling or whether it was just never properly put in.

simpatico per una serata divertente

Pour les fans de Catherine Zeta Jones, notamment dans sa période 20's. Dommage que le film ne soit qu'en Anglais.Il n'y a également que des sous titres anglais. Mais on comprend assez facilement l'histoire.

A sweet movie that captures a bit of 1990s Cornwall culture and has some great scenic shots. The only reason I'm giving it 5 stars, though, is because it stars the incomparable Sean Pertwee--I would watch a movie of him watching paint dry.

Sean Pertwee?! Catherine Zeta Jones before she became mega rich and mega famous?! Ewan Mcgregor before everyone loved him?! What's not to like?!JC is a surfer based in rural cornwall (it actually used to be like that), Catherine Zeta Jones doesn't want to go around the world but JC does, she wants to stay in rural cornwall and purchase the cafe they run. (To be honest, looking at how property values have rocketed in Cornwall since then, it would have been a great idea, and JC is clearly an idiot). Anyway, some of JC's old mates from when he was a London ragtag badass decide to visit Cornwall for Terry's stag do (Terry is boring and fat and sports double denim, not cool), so Ewan Mcgregor (a dugged up loser with long hair and clearly sponsored by Stussy) and Josh Tambini (a big time record producer with slick hair, slick hats and a slick wardrobe - he looks like he is in a boy band and is instantly dislikable in the way that we always hate the guy with money) jump in a black Range Rover, throw a surfboard on the roof, drug and kidknap the fat guy and burn it down to Cornwall in time for English Breakfast Tea with JC and CZJ.Anyway, it's pretty bad timing as the lads haven't told JC that they're heading down, he is in the middle of an argument with CZJ (something about her flirting with an older man, much much older... Oh hang on that might have been real life with Michelle Douglas), so they all descend on Cornwall and decide to stay in the worlds smallest caravan in a field. Our man Josh Tambini is bank rolling the whole affair without realising it whilst Ewan is being a right nonce and trying to sell dodgy drugs to the locals whilst stealing Josh's credit cards and pretending to be a badass.Lots of other awesome stuff happens, including a very 1990s rave in which Terry falls in love with Guinneverre after being given Ecstasy (apparently the good stuff) by Ewan. What a knob. That's a bit of a long story but you'll like it.I won't spoil the ending but there's some great scenery and it'll make you want to move to Cornwall, but don't, because Cornwall isn't like that anymore because people with Range Rovers from London have bought up all the property, so in winter there's no one in Cornwall other than artists and heroin addicts and in summer it's full of very nice cars driving very slowly round very small lanes.Enjoy it, I did!

Love this film and it was great to watch it again after many years!