Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

	Directed by: Richard Linklater	COUNTRY USA GENRE Comedy/Coming-of-age NORWEGIAN TITLE Everybody Wants Some!! RUNNING TIME 116 minutes
	Produced by: Megan Ellison Richard Linklater Ginger Sledge
	Written by: Richard Linklater

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Jake Bradford	Blake Jenner	½
Jay	Juston Street
Kenny Roper	Ryan Guzman	½
Glen McReynolds	Tyler Hoechlin	½
Charlie Willoughby	Wyatt Russell	½
Finnegan "Finn"	Glen Powell	½
Tyrone Plummer	Temple Baker
Dale	J. Quinton Johnson	½
Beuter	Will Brittain
Beverly	Zoey Deutch

Review

This feel-good nostalgia trip back to 1980 is designed to tell us something about life as a college freshman on a baseball scholarship, but really tells us more about Richard Linklater's romanticized view of his own youth. The story is too slight and generic to give the film any real identity, and Linklater also fails to give it any sort of narrative drive. Instead, he must cling to his "Greatest Hits of 1980" soundtrack and an over-talkative, quasi-philosophical dialogue for effect. With characters who feel more like modern young adults dressed up for a 1980s theme party than actual people from 1980, Everybody Wants Some!! never is able to transcend your run-of-the-mill college flick.