This is one funny movie even though the football game is so brutal

Rating: 8/10 (26 May 2005)

In this movie remake, a former NFL MVP pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) is sent to prison. The warden (James Cromwell) wants Paul to help coach his semi-pro prison guards' team back to the championship. Paul says no at first, but the sadistic warden has him beaten and put in the hot box. Paul now agrees to do anything the warden wants. Paul comes up with the idea that the guards need a warm-up game with the inmates. Paul gets the Caretaker (Chris Rock) and Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) to recruit a team of the meanest and biggest inmates in the prison. The inmates only join the team to get their revenge against the guards in a no-holds-barred game. At first, Paul is just playing a football game, but later he realizes that he wants to win the game for his teammates, and his new friends.
In the original 1974 movie, Burt Reynolds played the quarterback. The first movie was a little more serious and not as funny as this one. This movie can stand on its own, because it is a totally different type of movie. This is still one funny movie even though the football game is so brutal. Actually, if the referees let them play games like this one, most of the players would end up in the hospital. If you want a lot of laughs, go see this movie. (Paramount Pictures, Run time 1:49, Rated PG-13) (8/10)