Indie film legend and writer-director of Boyhood Richard Linklater has called Everyone Wants Some!! the "spiritual sequel" to his Generation X comedy-drama Dazed and Confused. But while that dealt with high school in the 1970s, his new offering takes place in the 1980s and follows a college baseball team during the crazy first few days of the new academic year. Variety says the "master of the modern hangout movie achieves his most sustained comic bliss-out in years".