Everybody Wants Some!

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!  (2016)  ¢ ¢
    D: Richard Linklater
    Blake Jenner, Justin Street, Ryan Guzman,
    Tyler Hoechlin, Wyatt Russell, Glen Powell,
    Zoey Deutch, Temple Baker, J. Quinton Johnson
Richard Linklater's followup to "Dazed and Confused" moves on in time from the '70s to the '80s, while the drinking, doping and hazing shift from high school to college. This time the partying protagonists are hot-dog jocks, members of the school's championship baseball team, and if the cost of playing ball is spending most of your time with these assholes, who the hell would want to? Spending a two-hour movie with them is more than enough. There are a couple of characters who aren't entirely unsympathetic. Both are pitchers, which automatically makes them suspect among their position-playing teammates: Everybody knows pitchers are weird. Which might be Linklater's subversive comment on the team and its prevailing mentality. The weirdos - the only characters who seem capable of thinking beyond their dicks - are the only ones you'd really want to know.