Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Directed by Richard Linklater
A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
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Filmmaker and chronicler of growing up America Richard Linklater describes Everybody Wants Some!! (2015) as the “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, his 1993 coming of age (or perhaps more accurately coming of self) classic.
Think of this as a spiritual cousin to his classic "Dazed and Confused" (1993), with more of the same student hijinks, only mostly from a college baseball team looking for fun, among other things, during a long Texas weekend before classes begin.
The title of Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is the only awkward thing about it: The movie itself — billed as a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, Linklater’s portrait of high school in the late ’70s — feels as easy as falling off a log.
Director Richard Linklater has described this as a "spiritual sequel" to his '70s high-school flashback "Dazed and Confused," but "Everybody Wants Some!!" is a gentler, looser movie.
Rather, writer-director Richard Linklater’s spiritual sequel to his 1993 film “Dazed and Confused” is more like a perfectly shot Polaroid of a really fun party—everything in that moment is so beautifully captured that you relive it as you look, overcome by nostalgia you didn’t know existed.
Set during the weekend before the start of a new college semester, the picture is an evocation of writer-director Richard Linklater’s past, being a follow-on to his 1993 cult hit “Dazed and Confused,” which evoked with similar precision the thoughts and feelings of kids on the brink of high school and also of those just graduating from it.
The talk doesn’t reach the levels of Barry Levinson’s Diner (what does?) but it’s pungent and often double-edged.
This is a movie in the spirit of Federico Fellini’s I Vitelloni or Barry Levinson’s Diner – a witty and affecting drama about young bucks out to have as much fun as possible and who are so busy trying to enjoy themselves that they don’t even realise that they are at a pivotal moment in their lives, on the cusp of adulthood.
These scenes try a little too hard to be charming but they are anyway, and if Deutch has the freckles and immediacy of a classic Brat Pack heroine, it may be because her mother is Lea Thompson of “Back to the Future” and “Some Kind of Wonderful” and her father is Howard Deutch, who directed the latter.