[6] It was produced by JJ Abrams and Glen Powell who flew with the Blue Angels while filming Top Gun: Maverick.

[1][13] The film shows the close bonds that develop among Blue Angel team members and their cooperative efforts to be precise in flight performances.

Director Paul Crowder said,[14] You watch them do what they do with the Blue Angels, to fly these 22-ton jets 12 inches apart at 400 miles an hour, to have the trust in each other within the entire team—the whole team.

That's something we really wanted to get across to the audience.The film also shows the Blue Angels' first female fighter jet demonstration pilot, Amanda Lee, being inducted "through a fluke of production timing".

The website's consensus reads, "Pulse-pounding when it takes to the skies and agreeably surface-level when it comes to concerns on the ground, The Blue Angels is a marvelous feat of aerial photography.

[15] Film critic Stephen Schaffer writing for the Boston Herald said, "The Blue Angels offers an apt celebration of this American military institution".

[5] Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Frank Scheck said the film uses, "generous amounts of amazing flight footage, much of it shot from within the cockpit".

[24] Writing for The Northern Express Joseph Beyer said, "To call The Blue Angels a real-life version of Top Gun would be too simple, although that may be the easiest possible way to understand the 1-hour-33-minute film so squeaky clean it’s rated G for all audiences.