You deserve a break today....

Rating: Null/10 (29 June 2005)

"Remember the Titans" (2000): I was SO glad to see Denzel Washington in "Training Day". He'd finally taken a role outside of his Sidney Portier Phase II "proud black man" recipe. Well, "Remember the Titans" is nothing new for HIM, or ANY of us. It's a Disney product: wall-to-wall cliché, full of holes, & pumped up on emotion, despite it's being a true story that could have been played straighter. No doubt, if you have nothing else to do with your life, you can take one of the big D's animated features, and find fish or 4-legged creatures that draw straight lines to the characters in "...Titans". There are no surprises here, and is classically unchallenging in that McDisney way. Hey, it WORKS for most Americans.