Review – Varsity Blues

In the mood for a juvenile comedy about high school football? Well, if you’d like your sophomoric humor and seemingly endless parade of closeted gay innuendo mixed in with a hearty dose of heavy-handed message about the evils of everything from abusive coaches to binge drinking, then you’ve come to the right place. Amusing moments are few and far between, and for the most part appear to have been borrowed from Porky’s. Actually, I’m not sure I would have liked this movie even when I was a member of the target audience; MTV Productions’ take on being a teenager rings as false as it is stupid, particularly when the film reaches its far-fetched denouement. If being a teenage jock is really like this, I’m grateful to have missed the experience. See if desperate