Prechezer's cast is ingratiating and attractive, and Blue Juice is as buoyant as its terrific rock score.

Absolutely charming, unabashedly offbeat Blue Juice is a quirky comedy billed as Britain's first surf pic.

Although this may sometimes appear to be simply a bawdy soap opera, first-time director Prechezer injects such joie de vivre into proceedings that it scarcely matters.

Ramshackle as comedy and mundane as drama, this noisily energetic and splashily - literally - photographed hang-ten flick doesn't wipe out due to spectacular surfing stunts and the fun of seeing McGregor and Zeta-Jones in pre-stardom mode.