Fails At Either Comedy Or Drama

Rating: 4/10 (22 January 2012)

I saw it at a house party last night. I heard it was a classic, but unfortunately I wasn't very impressed. It had some laughs, and was farcical in parts, but not enough to make this film a genuine comedy, and it didn't work as a drama either.
None of the characters are really developed or win our sympathy. The coach's marriage has fallen apart, but why shouldn't it have? He's quite an obnoxious hole, really. The Hansons add comic relief by being overgrown boys who happen to be extremely dirty players, and they induce the rest of the team to do the same and they start winning by abandoning their former clean play, though one player stops playing in disgusted reaction. On top of that, the movie is full of profanity, nudity, vulgarity, and cheap homosexual jokes. Anger at the woman who was about to let the Chiefs fold for profit is one thing, but calling her little boy a fag who would suck cock when he got older was genuinely ugly.
Lowbrow entertainment can be funny; this isn't the case here.