Yar, you be here: White Squall > Customer Reviews

White Squall Customer Reviews (10 - 12 of 16 Reviews)

If you liked Dead Poet's Society (DPS is better because of Robin Williams) or A Separate Peace by John Knowles, you will like this movie. It is a movie that leads you on a journey, using a group of rich kids that signed up for a year at sea. Jeff Bridges is the tough captain that sets out to instill discipline and teach them that they must respect him, the ship, and, most importantly, each other.

I won't give away the ending, but the movie succeeds in delivering its messages of honor and individual responsibility. It does a fantastic job of delivering this message while leading you along a journey with Jeff Bridges and the crew of the ship.

One of the most underrated movies in the world
A group of teenage boys learn discipline, courage, and what it's like to stick together as a unit as they aboard the Albatross and ride it out into the great wide open in the Caribbean. Whether they're there because their parents want them to grow up and learn responsibility, or whether they're there because they want to be, they will all learn the comraderie, the hardships, and everything else that goes along with traveling to sea. All of the good and the bad must come together when the Albatross runs into a white squall, a MAJOR storm at sea.

How could anybody not love "White Squall"? There are a lot of great movies about going out to sea, and "White Squall" is up there with the best of them. It's not like "Crimson Tide", "U-571", and those; it's a spectacular coming of age film that has nothing to do with war. Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, and the rest of the crew do a good job of acting, and Jeff Bridges does the best of all in portraying the sternness, yet warm-hearted character that is the Skipper.

If you're a fan of coming of age movies like "Stand By Me", and if you like very entertaining movies that explore the hardships of life to a tee, get "White Squall" right NOW! It's one of the best movies you've never heard of. Example line from the movie: "I don't want it to end. I don't want to go back to what I was before I came here: anonymous".

Poignant portrait of courage and friendship
I loved this movie because of the scenery, and main four boys in the movie played by Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillipe, Jeremy Sisto and Eric Micheal Cole. There are other boys, but these ones stood out to me. They go to school on Jeff Bridges ship and at first they hate each other, then they start doing their homework together and become close friends. I got attached to them so when the storm hit them and some of them drowned, my heart was aching for days afterward. It's a true story, so it makes the impact all the stronger. The part about the dolphin was pretty strong, but to me it was making a statement about how parents end up reaping what they sow. It's really good, you have to watch it with your eyes and heart open so you understand the whole thing with all the kids issues. And of course the storm scenes are intense. Overall good film.