Disney + Sports Movies= Success!

Rating: 8/10 (16 March 2008)

"Remember the Titans" came out in the fall of 2000 where it was a slum year in movies until this inspiration movie about an integrated football team dealing with the odds became a sleeper hit.
While I'm not a fan of "inspirational" movies that deal with certain attributes like "believing in your gifts," where there's some kind of conflict to follow like the theme's movie of racism or other biography movies dealing with certain emotions from poverty, out of luck, etc., but somehow without Remember the Titans we wouldn't have all these other movies from Disney popping out of Mickey Mouse's gloves from The Rookie (2002), Miracle (2004), The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), Glory Road and Invincible (2006) with many other films come to follow.
There are two things that make Remember the Titans work for me. One, Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone. I've been a fan of Denzel Washington since forever and I know that no matter if he's playing fictional characters or historical characters (Malcolm X, Glory, American Gangster; all three are the best), he can carry the screen and have your attention. The second thing that makes the film work is the soundtrack from Marvin Gaye to The Temptations where it gives the mood on what's going on with the characters through the good and bad times.
Cool movie.