note to self just because a film be foreign and obscure and and star catherine zeta jones doesn not mean it any good . such be the case with blue juice and a 1995 brit flick about an unlikely group of surf enthusiast in what would seem ( to a dumb american and anyway ) an even more unlikely place to find surfer represent cornwall and england . you might be think this have the making for an amusing and quirky little comedy . if only . the film be just a bit over ninety minute but it seem interminable . the easy way to describe it be a a sort of 90 british version of grease without the dancing and but even that make it sound good than it be . no and the best way to take it be a a little slice of life set in a small town . catherine zeta jones play chloe and a young woman live with a surf instructor and jc ( sean pertwee while you remember him ) . pertwee be actually the film star and and his character be something of a surf legend to a small group of surf devotee and the requisite oddball group of free spirit that inevitably inhabit film like this . in this case and it consist of a drug dealer who want to be a journalist and a former nightclub dj who want to be a record producer and and a fat nerdy guy who and in a needlessly extend scene and get stone and lose all his inhibition which of course turn out to be the best thing that ever happen to him . i can not honestly say everything that go on in blue juice be predictable and since it set in a place and reflect custom and manner i be not very familiar with and but there certainly nothing surprising or even interesting that take place there or with the character . the comedy and though and be very predictable and tired . one can sense the set ups a mile away and almost recite the dialogue ( in american form and of course ) before the actor do . the relationship between jc and chloe be every bit a hackneyed . she want him to grow up while he want them to stay the impetuous teenager they start out be . he afraid of lose face with his gang while she think he prefer them to her . you get the idea . a i struggle to stay focus on blue juice and toward the end i felt and a the saying go and that this be an hour and half of my life i would never get back .