Disney is GREAT with football movies

Rating: 10/10 (29 August 2006)

First Remember the Titans and now Invincible. Disney has really got the right formula for making a good football movie. I actually think Invincible is better than Remember the Titans. If you like football movies then you will love this. And if you don't like football movies, you will still love this. It's that good.
This movie tells the story of Vince Papale, a huge fan of the Philadelphia Eagles during the 70's (a time when the Eagles were at a real low point). After a horrendous season, the Eagles hire Dick Vermeil to try and restore a little dignity to the franchise. Vermeil decides to hold open tryouts to any Eagles fan who thinks they can make the team. He's trying to put a little energy back in the fans. Papale, a 30 year who never played college ball, gets talked into going to the tryout by his friends. To find out more you will have to watch this wonderful movie.
The best part about this movie isn't the football aspect of it (although I would be lying if I said I wasn't on the edge of my seat pumping my fist in the theater). The best part is Disney's ability to show the poverty the people of Philadelphia were suffering from. You really sympathize with Papale and everyone around him. When he suffers, you suffer and when he triumphs, you triumph. If you haven't seen this movie yet, get to the movies this weekend.