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Nostalgic in the best sense, Everybody Wants Some!! finds Richard Linklater ambling through the past with a talented cast, a sweetly meandering story, and a killer classic rock soundtrack.
All Critics (222) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (192) | Rotten (30) | DVD (1)
There's no storyline. The script just drifts from one vignette to the next as the boys cruise around, ogling girls, haunting the campus night spots and staging a party while their house does its best to remain standing under their assaults. Jun 29, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
There's no storyline. The script just drifts from one vignette to the next as the boys cruise around, ogling girls, haunting the campus night spots and staging a party while their house does its best to remain standing under their assaults.
Sandra Hall
It's as if Linklater is bound by a bro code that obliges him to present these guys in a basically uncritical light. Jun 22, 2016 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
It's as if Linklater is bound by a bro code that obliges him to present these guys in a basically uncritical light.
Jake Wilson
A deceptively subtle comedy, and also a challengingly and almost provokingly unironic film intensifying and cartoonifying what it is like to be young and male ... May 12, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A deceptively subtle comedy, and also a challengingly and almost provokingly unironic film intensifying and cartoonifying what it is like to be young and male ...
Peter Bradshaw
[Linklater's] light touch remains a marvel. Though his characters are often just bouncing from conversation to conversation, night out to night out, the film's direction is never lackadaisical. Apr 19, 2016 | Full Review…
[Linklater's] light touch remains a marvel. Though his characters are often just bouncing from conversation to conversation, night out to night out, the film's direction is never lackadaisical.
Jake Coyle
Imagine "Porky's" as an intelligent character study and you're on the right path. Apr 15, 2016 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
Imagine "Porky's" as an intelligent character study and you're on the right path.
Adam Graham
Another love letter to the magic hour of adolescence from director Richard Linklater. Apr 13, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Another love letter to the magic hour of adolescence from director Richard Linklater.
Rafer Guzman
Living with Linklater's characters as they explore life, unsupervised, without inhibition, engages the heart and takes you back to a freewheeling, optimistic state of mind and body that many of us let go of a long time ago. Feb 21, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Living with Linklater's characters as they explore life, unsupervised, without inhibition, engages the heart and takes you back to a freewheeling, optimistic state of mind and body that many of us let go of a long time ago.
Bernard Boo
It's a rare director that can revisit a formula that he aced more than two decades ago and still manage to deliver something fresh, let alone fun. Dec 7, 2018 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
It's a rare director that can revisit a formula that he aced more than two decades ago and still manage to deliver something fresh, let alone fun.
Di Golding
Linklater's a genius at concretising what are almost intangible sentiments and in tapping into a certain temporal truth about life. Nov 4, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Linklater's a genius at concretising what are almost intangible sentiments and in tapping into a certain temporal truth about life.
PJ Nabarro
The comedy comes from a place of reality and even when said reality is heightened, Linklater does it in a way that rolls off your back. Oct 16, 2018 | Rating: 8.6/10 | Full Review…
The comedy comes from a place of reality and even when said reality is heightened, Linklater does it in a way that rolls off your back.
Derek Deskins
The cast is energetic and spry, lighting up the screen with their charisma and having a ball with Linklater's naturalistic dialogue. Their characters are all distinctive and entertaining, and you get the sense that you know them when all is said and done. Oct 4, 2018 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
The cast is energetic and spry, lighting up the screen with their charisma and having a ball with Linklater's naturalistic dialogue. Their characters are all distinctive and entertaining, and you get the sense that you know them when all is said and done.
Tomas Trussow
Everybody Wants Some!! brings Linklater's lackadaisical, narcotic strut at its highest potency to a Texas college baseball team in the heart of the '80s. Aug 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Everybody Wants Some!! brings Linklater's lackadaisical, narcotic strut at its highest potency to a Texas college baseball team in the heart of the '80s.
Jacob Oller
I have never been one to hide my admiration for director Richard Linklater. I've always found him to be a hugely talented filmmaker and he's always struck me as a very intelligent and savvy individual. Whenever a new project of his arrives, I'm always filled with anticipation, especially one that's been mentioned in the same breath as his indie classic Dazed and Confused. Why is it then, that Everybody Wants Some!! left me with ever so slight feelings of disappointment? This could simply be explained by having very high expectations so for that reason I waited until I watched the film again before making any final judgements on it. Turns out, my opinion didn't change. Everybody Wants Some!! has many great qualities but it doesn't quite hit the heights of its predecessor. Plot: As he enters college in the 1980's, freshman Jake (Blake Jenner) meets his other, hard partying, college baseball players where he learns to navigate his way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Linklater himself described Everybody Wants Some!! as a "spiritual sequel" to his 1994 indie classic Dazed and Confused. Where Dazed was set in a high-school in the 70's, now we take a look at the 80's and our characters entering their college years. In many ways, it feels like a continuation of the story except for the fact that the characters are no longer the same. This time we're introduced to an assortment (and predominantly male) cast of characters and the camaraderie is almost as infectious as we witnessed in Linklater's earlier film. What's most apparent, however, is Linklater's keen eye for the period and his attention to detail on the style and sound of the 80's is brilliantly realised. As the film is loosely autobiographical, Linklater has a solid handling on the proceedings as he reminisces about his own experiences while being involved in a baseball team in his school years; he captures the competitive nature among young men and fully realises the different personalities from an impressive ensemble. The one glaring omission, however, is the distinct lack of females; with the exception of Zoey Deutch there's really no other female character that has anything to do but be eye candy for the testosterone fueled males. If it wasn't so much fun watching these guys and Linklater hadn't put a light spin on events, then the film would be bordering on misogyny. Thankfully, it manages to escape this pitfall and delivers a hugely entertaining journey where a lengthy 2 hour running time just flies by. Not as accomplished as Dazed and Confused but it has enough style and innocent humour to keep the experience a pleasant one. Who knows, now that Linklater has covered the 70's and 80's, we might well get a 90's version somewhere down the line. He has been known to extend his stories; The Before Trilogy and his Oscar nominated, 12 year project Boyhood were ambitious but hugely successful works. It wouldn't be out of character for him and on the results so far, it would be a welcome completion to a vibrant trilogy. Time will tell. Mark Walker
Super Reviewer
Richard Linklater imagines baseball jocks as nice people in his nostalgic return to early 1970's U.S culture, as we are treated to 3 days with a baseball fraternity prior to the first day of college somewhere in Texas. If you can stomach the opening premise (for this nerd, jocks as nice people is like military intelligence, hard to believe ... and in Texas, no less), the rest ain't entirely so bad. It's a dream scenario of the early '70's presented with a classic rock soundtrack, the past with rose-colored lens set to maximum rose. But don't look too hard, or the flaws of this dream are readily apparent.
Like a thematic follow-up to Linklater's Dazed and Confused, this is an irresistible film that captures the energy of youth with a lot of nostalgia. Full review on filmotrope. com
As with any chronicle of another time, we're dealing with generalizations, but Linklater truly gets the spirit of the age down. It's a time period the director knows well as Linklater himself was a hopeful baseball player at Sam Houston State University in 1980. The affection he has for this subject matter comes through every lovingly recreated scene. There is such an eye for key details, right down to the fashion of the time. Those short shorts, skin tight polyester shirts and abundant mustaches establish the time period just as the corsets and cleavage in a costume drama do. Additionally, music is beautifully woven into the fabric of this production. The scenes in the clubs almost play out like the production numbers in a musical. These dudes have an inclusive zen like impartiality about life. It doesn't matter the style, be it disco, country or punk. They just want to meet women. 1980 was a period when a wide range of various musical styles reigned supreme on the charts. Rock, pop, country, soul, disco, punk, even the very beginnings of rap, were all part of the musical landscape of the times. A diverse range of styles had an equal opportunity on the radio airwaves. It was a very egalitarian musical era. Everybody Wants Some!! celebrates this spirit with sincere joy. It's infectious. fastfilmreviews.com
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