Blue Mountain State
2010
Original language: English
- comedy
The story
Three incoming freshman in a big-time, Midwestern college football program have to juggle football, girls, class and nonstop hazing.
What it’s like
Bright, flat daylight over a sprawling campus, fraternity houses and muddy practice fields, shot in the loose, bouncy single-camera style of early-2010s network comedy: quick cuts, mock-documentary asides, and snap zooms on reaction faces. The palette runs saturated and sunny, with jersey reds, stadium-lit night games and bar interiors glowing warm and sticky. Music leans on pop-rock and cheap comic stings, and the laughs come fast and crude, so the mood is rowdy rather than reflective. Think lazy Saturday afternoon, background noise while folding laundry, or a sociable late-night binge with friends. Its tone is irreverent, locker-room bluster softened by a sincere streak of loyalty between its three young men, whose arcs follow a few scruffy outsiders learning to earn their place on a team and in a crowd. Intensity is moderate: plenty of sexual innuendo, partial nudity and bawdy humour, hazing pranks that play as slapstick, and some drinking, but no real gore and little genuine cruelty. For people who want raunchy, good-natured college comedy with sports energy and nothing that lingers after the credits.
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