Richard Linklater’s 1993 Dazed and Confused pitted sadistic jocks against their oddball prey at a Texas high school on the cusp of the summer of 1976. The movie was loose and spirited, goosed along by period rock hits, and it’s now revered as a classic. Everybody Wants Some!!, which the writer-director calls a “spiritual sequel” to that earlier film, moves along to college at the end of the summer of 1980. There’s still a lot of music in the air, but now we mostly have only the jocks for company. They’re a more likable crew than the previous bunch, but the movie is even looser than its predecessor, and its non-story is sometimes talky and bland. There’s no predicting these things, but it doesn’t feel like a classic, writes Kurt Loder.
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