Your Donations support the Site

Buy Cranky stuff


Buy Movie Posters

Top Selling DVD     Books

  BLU-RAY DVDs:
The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
Happy Feet Two
Footloose (2011)
Tower Heist
Angels and Demons
The Rum Diary
Avatar
Batman Begins
Dark Knight
Fifth Element
The Hangover
James Bond 11 disc coll.
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Mission Impossible GP
Sherlock Holmes AGOS
Star Wars Saga
Ultimate Matrix coll
X-Men First Class
X-Men Trilogy
X-Men Wolverine
 BLU-Ray for Family DVDs 
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Bambi
A Bug's Life
Cars
Chronicles of Narnia set
Coraline
Ghostbusters
Harry Potter 1-8 collection
Iron Man 2 combo
Kung Fu Panda
Lord of the Rings Trilogy Pinocchio
Pirates of Caribbean trilogy
Pixar short films
Ratatouille
Shrek the Whole Story
Sleeping Beauty
The Smurfs combo
Snow White & 7 Dwarfs
Star Trek motion pictures set
Star Wars Saga (1-6)
Toy Story combo
Toy Story 2 combo
Toy Story 3 combo
Wall-E SE

Search engine by FreeFind

click to search site

      Now in Release
The Avengers
Bernie
Carnage
Hunger Games
Joyful Noise
Killing Bono
Three Stooges
Trust

TV/Movie Collectibles

Privacy Policy

To the guys that read this column: You know how you suffer and moan and groan when your girlfriend insists you take them to some Godawful chick flick that requires at least a pound of Kleenex and two hours of time that could be better spent watching [insert favorite sport here]? Well, it's payback time!

To the ladies that read this column: Don't tell your boyfriends, but Cranky sat through Varsity Blues dead center in a crowd of single GenX femmes and can report that, from their reactions, all were as happy as clams that escaped the sauce.

It had nothing to do with Cranky sitting dead center in the middle, though. Damn.

It had everything to do with some great looking guys starring in an absolutely rip roarin whupass fine time of a flick called Varsity Blues. The guys have plenty of fine females to look at as well, and the story is not moronic, so load up on the super sized extra large popcorn and prepare to rock.

Varsity Blues takes no prisoners in its nonstop efforts to amuse and entertain. Set in a small Texas town where nothing is as important as high school football, it takes bits and pieces of the gross out Animal House kind of humor and wraps them around a story of the only kid in town with his head screwed on straight.

That would be Jonathan Moxon (James Van Der Beek), second string quarterback, who sneak reads Kurt Vonnegut while warming the bench. Jon's little brother Kyle is a religious psycho, which starts out funny and only gets funnier. Jon's dad played high school football, too, and wallows in nostalgia. Both father and son are/were coached by the same man, the 35 year veteran and 22 time division title winning Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight) who is worshipped by the town. His single minded devotion to WINNING THE GAME AT ANY COST, including the crippling of his players, is what will set him against Moxon and lead to the inevitable climactic confrontation at the Big Game.

On your way there, you enjoy the adulation and fall of first string QB Lance Harbor (Paul Walker), his cheerleader girlfriend Darcy (Ali Larter, who looks damn fine in a tight red dress) and an absolute zipcode of a guard named Billy Bob (Ron Lester) who has to be seen to be believed. There's a lot more packed into the package directed by Brian Robbins, the man who helmed the strictly for kidlets Good Burger a couple of years back. This time out, it's strictly legal teen plus humor (the flick is R rated) and it's a blast.

Yep, another flick in which the teenkids are smarter than the grownups. Worked for Cranky.

On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Eight Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price to Varsity Blues, he would have paid . . .

$7.00

Silly and sexy and stupid and a great popcorn flick. Varsity Blues was more fun than I expected

Buy movie posters!

BUY THE LATEST DVDs
Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen) DVD (Full Screen)	Lord of the Rings Trilogy DVD
Marx Bros collection	Alfred Hitchcock Collection
Looney Toons Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Rocky & Bullwinkle Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Star Trek TOS Star Trek TNG Star Trek Films Criterion Collections

TV/Movie Collectibles

online movie critics

Privacy Policy

We're Kidlet Safe

Search engine
by FreeFind

click to search site

   Now in Release:

The Band's Visit
Definitely Maybe
Hottie and the Nottie
In Bruges
Iron Man
Be Kind Rewind
Rambo
Cloverfield
Mad Money
U2 3D

28 Weeks Later
Black Book
Bourne Ultimatum
Brooklyn Rules
Death at a Funeral
Evening
The Ex
Fido
Georgia Rule
Grindhouse
Hairspray
Harry Potter - Phoenix
The Hoax
Hot Rod
I Know Who Killed Me
La Vie en Rose
License to Wed
Live Free or Die Hard
Mr. Brooks
Next
No Reservatons
Ocean's Thirteen
Perfect Stranger
Pirates of Caribbean
Ratatouille
Rescue Dawn
Rush Hour 3
Severance
Sicko
Simpsons Movie
Slow Burn
Snow Cake
Spider-Man 3
Stardust

    DVDs on Sale:
300
Alice in Wonderland
Batman Begins
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner
Bridge to Terabithia
Charlie + Chocolate Factory
Cinderella
E.T.
Fantastic Four
Forrest Gump
Gone With the Wind
Harry Potter yrs 1-3 set
Harry Potter Azkaban
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones trilogy
The Lion King
Lord of Rings 12 discs
Mary Poppins 40th LE
Ultimate Matrix set
Miss Potter
Monty Python - Grail
Napoleon Dynamite
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Shrek
Shrek 2
Sin City
Sleeping Beauty
South Park Movie
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Star Wars Ep. 1
Star Wars Ep. 2
Star Wars 3 Full Screen
Star Wars 3 l'box
Star Wars Trilogy (4-6)
The Island
War of the Worlds
X-Men
X-Men 2