the surfing sequence be what make this movie and some of the wave on big wednesday at the end look too huge and powerful to be real and and the sight of these men stand at the foot of them on their puny little board and battle to outrun the awesome power of the water crash down and be real heart grip stuff . the tale of a group of friend drift through the sixty and seventy and get into scrape and have party and try to avoid vietnam and do all that stuff sixties movie live for and be well enough do and though the script get a bit cliche heavy at some point . the episodic format and a series of brief snapshot take from various moment over a spread of ten year or so and help capture the rambling nature of these people life and and give an insight on how much thing change and yet stay the same between a gang of old friend a the time move on and the world turn . katt fare well a the narrator and core and a be stringfellow hawk a the former champ surfer and and busey give his normal crazy shouty brilliance and but the surf take the honour .