an average sports movie

Rating: 7/10 (19 June 2005)

i'm a fan of football and living in Texas its a great passion of mine and a lot of the people who live here. I used to really enjoy watching my local high school and my brother's college football teams play. sure they weren't that good but it was about team spirit that kept them alive. his college's team gets to lower bowl games but that is about all they do and my high school made it to the playoffs in the 2nd round but then lost horribly. yet still it was fun and even though I was in marching band I still love to watch football. I also had cool friends who played on the local high school varsity football team.
naturally, i was hoping for a good football film. this film starts out with a chase where Adam Sander is chased for stealing his girlfriend's car. he acts funny toward the cops making fun of them which I found hilarious and then later he totals her car. he is then sent to prison disgraced after a point shaved incident where he will be forced to play a game. Chris rock wises him up so that he doesn't become one of the prisoner's women. they have a hard time finding people at first to join the team which is very difficult but after Adam Sander plays basketball and the basketball players find out how racist the prison guards are they decide to join him. There is a sad moment in this film before it really builds up to the big game. two characters in particular the guy playing ping-pong and of course Michael Irvan's character are athletic in this one. Adam Sandler seems a bit of a stretch for professional football seeing as he never considered playing but still the movie has its moments which I laughed at.
even though I still like this movie I think a better football movie to check out is Friday Night Lights.
Pros Of This Film
-Chris rock being funny
-the players who actually looked like they could be football players
-good film for football crazed fans
-not a good film but you could still enjoy it
Cons Of This Film
-predictable ending (from the game on)
-Adam Sander as quarterback (burt Reynolds younger was better)
-hollywood remake not as good as the older the longest yard
-not the most intelligent film