Varsity Blues Reviews
Movie Metropolis
...slick, well made, and well acted, but it takes no chances. Seems a wasted opportunity.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...someone could make a very interesting, nuanced film about the exalted place that high school football holds in some parts of Texas... this isn't that film.
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Van Der Beek and Voight weigh in with convincing performances .
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Arizona Daily Star
A serviceable 1990s teen flick.
| Original Score: 3/5
Spirituality and Practice
Depicts just how difficult it is to stay true to yourself and your dreams when the call of celebrity comes knocking at your door.
Q Network Film Desk
In addition to the fulfillment of endless high school male fantasies, it also recycles every football and sports movie cliché known to man
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| Original Score: 2/4
NUVO Newsweekly
An utterly formulaic teen sports, sex and suds potboiler!
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Nitrate Online
cheap zirconium garbage
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| Original Score: 1/4
Top Critic
Charlotte Observer
The movie panders to its teen audience with typical crudeness and excessively lewd behavior.
Tired, corn-fed storyline and generic, plug-and-play direction!
An unappetizing mix of raucously vulgar comedy and teen-angst melodrama.
Compuserve
Hasn't an original bone in its rib-crushing body!
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| Original Score: 5/10
Screen It!
Although there are signs of more intelligence lurking about, they're so obscured by the inane sophomoric material that few will recognize they even exist.
DustinPutman.com
I was never exactly bored while I was watching it, but I hasten to add that I was rarely ever entertained.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
TheMovieReport.com
Anyone who misses the heyday of the afterschool special will certainly enjoy this banal tale of self-fulfillment, juiced up with enough alcohol and sleaze to earn an R rating.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Scenes work, but they don't pile up and build momentum.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Although the film takes a worthwhile detour or two, it ultimately finds its way back to the well-worn track of its genre.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Scott Renshaw's Screening Room
Uninspired!
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| Original Score: 4/10
