Remember the Titans – A great story, but the movie is such a cliché

Rating: 6/10 (5 October 2015)

"Remember the Titans" is a well-known film that goes under the category "Drama, Sport and Biography". The movie was released by The Walt Disney Company in year 2000, and was directed by Boaz Yakin. Gregory Allen Howard is the writer of a story set on a background of American football. The film cast is also starring a few famous actors such as: Denzel Washington (two times Academy Award Winner) and Ryan Gosling (Academy Award Nominated). Actually it is very fun to see Gosling in his young days playing a character that don't have much time on the screen. "Remember the Titans" was actually the first real movie Ryan ever starred in.
The film starts at a funeral around 10 years after the main action takes place. First we get a short introduction to football and the Titans from the narrator and daughter of Coach Yoast, Sheryl Yoast. After a bit we get to watch the whole story from when the team first met, until they were united.
When two schools in Alexandria, Virginia, together forms T.C. Williams High School in the early 1970s, black and white students have to go to the same school. The American head coach (Yoast) of the school's football team (The Titans), is also replaced by an African American coach (Boone) at the same time. Problems arrives when players of different races have to play on the same team. Many problems get eased when the Titans travel on a two-week training camp in Pennsylvania (this is the first time they get to know each other), but still there are disagreements. When the players return home, many of the citizens have turned against the state because of the race mix at the new high school. When the football season starts, the players also start accepting the facts of the changes. As the season progresses, many of the players with different skin-colours even get close friends. After the Titans win the football season as the only team with players of different races, the team and the city stands closer to each other than ever before.
"Remember the Titans" is a beautiful and memorable story that really happened back in the start of 1970 in the U. S. Still it felt like Walt Disney threw a good plot away and made a "typical Disney-movie". Walt Disney movies are often very good family- and children movies. Unrealistic actions, conversations and happy endings often makes them a cliché. Not too many of the Disney movies are non-animated pictures, and one can understand why. Non-animated movies made by Disney is very typical, it's like you've seen them before. The picture also have some great sides. One of the positive things is Denzel Washington. Washington is one of the few actors in this movie that really acts believable. He also have what I believe is the most important role. This is because of the character he plays, which I think is the most important character to make this title a dramatic, and in some places, an exciting movie.
"Remember the Titans" is for sure a great and inspiring story. On the negative side I think it is a typical Walt Disney movie with much bad acting, and unrealistic happenings and episodes that is portrayed in a bad way. I know that the main story is based on true material, but the movie also tells us that some of the characters and episodes are fictional, and dramatized inside the main plot. Positive sides are things such as the great acting delivered by Denzel Washington, which really helps to improve the movie. Another thing that I think is good described and portrayed is the friendship of Gerry and Julius. I don't think neither Ryan Hurst (Gerry) nor Wood Harris (Julius) are delivering the performances of their career, but still I think they really manage to act the drama between them becoming friends in a way that absolutely works.