Who am I supposed to be caring about?

Rating: Null/10 (29 January 2005)

OK- this movie actually ended up being better than I expected. They did a good job of showing the contrast between the obsessive attitude that winning is life and death, and the realistic attitude that even though it sucks that they lost, life still goes on and it does actually mean something to know that they tried their best. It's not like their lives were wasted or anything because they didn't win the championship. But I couldn't ever really get INTO the movie because they failed to develop a character that the viewer would care about. This movie needed at least one well-developed protagonist, rather than a slew of distanced characters who are, for most of the movie shown to be, well... not very good people. I kept thinking, "who am I supposed to be caring about here?" I guess the coach had potential, but this movie needed a Norman Dale, and this character wasn't even close.