Prior to winning a date with Tad Hamilton and charming Superman and… well, I don’t really know what else because Kate Bosworth really hasn’t been in a lot of movies. Though, she's starred in a little surfing flick entitled “Blue Crush.”
The beachy girl–power movie focuses on three best friends who live in the townie part of the Hawaiian North Shore. They live and breathe surfing and surfing alone. Kate Bosworth’s Anne Marie is especially talented and is invited to participate in the famous Pipe Masters surfing competition on the North Shore. However, Anne Marie had a near–drowning incident three years earlier. Since then, she's had a lot of trouble getting back up on the board when it comes to the huge waves, so she has to get into gear the week before the competition takes place. Lucky for her, she has two awesome best friends and a sexy NFL quarterback to help her get through those incredibly tough times.
Just about any critical review of this movie reveals that the plot is horribly “meh,” but the cinematography of the ocean is seriously killer. The message isn’t half bad either — who doesn’t love a good old “girls can do sports, too?” The Hawaiian landscape plays out like the best shot Sandals commercial of all time. Plus, Warren Huntington III ("Legally Blonde") plays the charming QB who gets into Anne Marie’s pants. And if none of what I’m saying is convincing you to watch “Blue Crush," there's a hilarious football player named Leslie who makes the whole thing totally worth it: think fat black guy dancing in a speedo (or as he calls it, a "nut container"). The plot of this movie is certainly lacking, but the waves and the people are just so goddamn pretty that the “Blue Crush” DVD has earned a permanent spot in my dorm room.
