Costa!
- 2001
- 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
4.7/10
2.7K
YOUR RATING
The story about a wild week at the Spanish coast. Romance at the beach, competition on the dance floor. Salty water, sweet kisses...The story about a wild week at the Spanish coast. Romance at the beach, competition on the dance floor. Salty water, sweet kisses...The story about a wild week at the Spanish coast. Romance at the beach, competition on the dance floor. Salty water, sweet kisses...
- Awards
- 2 wins total
Peggy Jane de Schepper
- Angela
- (as Peggy-Jane de Schepper)
Nikki Safari
- Empire Propper
- (as Niki Safari)
Carme Elias
- Suarez
- (as Carmen Elias)
Fleur van der Kieft
- MTV Speaker
- (as Fleur van de Kieft)
Featured reviews
It is a typical Dutch habit to dislike anything that comes from Holland. I guess we are too much of a Calvinist country to be able to enjoy anything that we made ourselves. That is why we chased away people like Paul Verhoeven who's films were completely slaughtered by the Dutch critics.
Johan Nijenhuis' film Costa! is a very entertaining and masterly constructed film that is aimed to please. In a genre (romantic comedy) that was not made before in Holland, combined with all the local Dutch stars you can think of and an American-like marketing campaign it is one of the best Dutch films I have seen in years and can be compared with the likes of Coyote Ugly and She's All That. It's result on the Dutch audience equals that of films like Saturday Night Fever and Dirty Dancing.
Hopefully the Dutch film industry is finally growing up.
Johan Nijenhuis' film Costa! is a very entertaining and masterly constructed film that is aimed to please. In a genre (romantic comedy) that was not made before in Holland, combined with all the local Dutch stars you can think of and an American-like marketing campaign it is one of the best Dutch films I have seen in years and can be compared with the likes of Coyote Ugly and She's All That. It's result on the Dutch audience equals that of films like Saturday Night Fever and Dirty Dancing.
Hopefully the Dutch film industry is finally growing up.
Ok let's start with saying that when a dutch movie is bad, it's REALLY BAD. Rarely something with a little bit of quality comes along(Lek, Karakter) here in holland but not often. Costa! is about 4 girls going to Spain to go on vacation, party, get drunk, get laid (u know the drill). It's also about the world of Clubbers or Proppers. Pro's who're trying to lure the crowd into their club.
I'm not sure how long it took to write the script, but i suspect somewhere between 15 minutes and 20 minutes because you're watching a bunch of random scenes for 90 minutes long. Nothing, and i mean nothing is believable in this movie. It's almost too riduculous for words what happens with the storyline. Suddenly the movie transforms into a sort of karate action thing. With a one-on-one fight with 'the bad guy in black' and cliche car chase scenes trough a watertank-car (can it be more cheesy). Also the words character-development and casting are unfamiliar to the makers.
After having seen "Traffic" 3 days before this, i fell from sheer brilliance, from a piece of art to this. This is film-making at it's saddest. And don't start about low budget. Because even with a low budget you could write a better script. It almost seems that the film-makers were too busy partying themselves to make a decent movie.
Anyway the chicks in the water at the end made it up a little bit, but for the rest of it, don't waste your money on such garbage.
I'm not sure how long it took to write the script, but i suspect somewhere between 15 minutes and 20 minutes because you're watching a bunch of random scenes for 90 minutes long. Nothing, and i mean nothing is believable in this movie. It's almost too riduculous for words what happens with the storyline. Suddenly the movie transforms into a sort of karate action thing. With a one-on-one fight with 'the bad guy in black' and cliche car chase scenes trough a watertank-car (can it be more cheesy). Also the words character-development and casting are unfamiliar to the makers.
After having seen "Traffic" 3 days before this, i fell from sheer brilliance, from a piece of art to this. This is film-making at it's saddest. And don't start about low budget. Because even with a low budget you could write a better script. It almost seems that the film-makers were too busy partying themselves to make a decent movie.
Anyway the chicks in the water at the end made it up a little bit, but for the rest of it, don't waste your money on such garbage.
The movie is absolutely terrible but it's cute to see a young Michiel Huisman :D
Costa! is actually one of my favorite movies...
it just makes me feel good every time I see it. Okay, the acting isn't all that and its a real chick flick but it's just a funny, relaxing movie!!!!! If you're a girl (or boy) who loves to watch a movie without having to think too hard, just relaxing then Costa! is the movie for you!
I saw it with my friends in the theater when I was 15 I think and maybe its because of a nostalgic feeling that I still love it, or maybe it's just my taste in movies (I'm a Dirty Dancing,The Notebook,... kind of girl) ... anyway, enjoy the movie!!!!!
it just makes me feel good every time I see it. Okay, the acting isn't all that and its a real chick flick but it's just a funny, relaxing movie!!!!! If you're a girl (or boy) who loves to watch a movie without having to think too hard, just relaxing then Costa! is the movie for you!
I saw it with my friends in the theater when I was 15 I think and maybe its because of a nostalgic feeling that I still love it, or maybe it's just my taste in movies (I'm a Dirty Dancing,The Notebook,... kind of girl) ... anyway, enjoy the movie!!!!!
Rough start that truly shows the soap-background of most actors and not much story.
Overall it's not bad, but just very flat and rather superficial; no very obvious plot holes either tho; along with the surprisingly action packed 3rd act altogether a decently put together movie.
Overall it's not bad, but just very flat and rather superficial; no very obvious plot holes either tho; along with the surprisingly action packed 3rd act altogether a decently put together movie.
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough this is considered to be the first big Dutch romantic comedy, the movie was universally panned by Dutch critics, which strongly affected the mood at the premiere. Producer Joop van den Ende didn't attend because he believed the film would bomb. Director Johan Nijenhuis got severely depressed, and was worried that he would never make another movie. This turned out to be premature, since the movie turned out a box office success, making Nijenhuis one of the Netherlands' most prolific filmmakers and the 'romcom' the most popular Dutch movie genre in the next decades.
- GoofsThe Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet which is used by the main characters, has a Dutch license with a series reserved for commercial vehicles only.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Allemaal film: Betere tijden (2007)
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- Budget
- €1,500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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