Varsity Blues Critic Reviews

The movie is also brisk and wholehearted and smarter than you expect.Read the full review

This flick has modest ambitions, but it delivers the goods in a fresh manner.Read the full review

A paint-by-numbers story that offers no surprises and a hero and villain etched in white and black with few shades of gray.Read the full review

Unfortunately, Voight is not in every scene, and, when he's absent, Varsity Blues has a tendency to flounder, descending into the realm of formulaic sports movie melodrama.Read the full review

A trashy little movie about drinking, football and drinking, is also one of those films that pretends to moralize about the very behavior it milks for every giggle it can get.Read the full review

Director Brian Robbins ("Good Burger") and screenwriter W. Peter Iliff ("Prayer of the Rollerboys") have wrapped their moral fable in a glossy package of hard football action and towel-slapping, hard-body fun that might seem exciting if you've never seen a movie before.Read the full review

A movie that doesn't buy into all the tenets of our national sports religion; the subtext is that winning isn't everything.Read the full review

We are aware going in that Varsity Blues' cannot be a landmark of world cinema. Yet working within the tired formula, the picture turns out to be not so bad.Read the full review