Side Out
- lindsaybjerregaard
- Dec 22, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 29, 2020
IMDB Synopsis
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
IMDB Rating: 5.6/10
Our Rating: 7.6/10
Our Reviews:
Imagine Top Gun with none of the fighter pilot action—just all 90’s volleyball and awkward sex scenes—and you’ve got Side Out. A little dweeb named Monroe who’s out in California working for his rich uncle’s law firm for the summer decides to trash his uncle’s hospitality and professional opportunities, instead opting to become a “professional” beach volleyball player. He somehow gets good enough to compete in a Jose Cuervo-sponsored professional tournament and typical sports movie challenges ensue. The best part about this movie is the wardrobe, which features lots of baggy, pleated dockers (for in the office), neon Mossimo volleyball outfits, and hot pink shoulder pad tops with transparent plastic backs (for waitressing at bars where people throw molotov cocktails at each other).
What if the Top Gun volleyball scene was a movie?
In the 80's beer was used as a performance enhancing drug, but I think it only works if you don't shower? Kinda like Samson if his hair is cut off.
Needs more ratty couch sex with random women.
Is the hardest part of this movie to believe 1. that C. Thomas Howell's character decides to go pro in volleyball in like 6 weeks, 2. that he apparently does so while being 5'10" and athletically unremarkable or 3. that he wins his first ever major competition against Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos, the Wayne Gretzky and Babe Ruths of the sport? Nope, it's 4. an unemployed guy rents an apartment basically 100 feet from the ocean in Southern California.
You really shouldn't name your movie after obscure sports rules.
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