Most Ridiculous Casting In History Of Film

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2005)

Adam Sandler as a football player? Come on, now! Okay, we bought it once with "Waterboy," but at least that was supposed to be a comedy and you could suspend your disbelief and buy what they were selling, just like you might have in an old Jerry Lewis movie. "The Longest Yard" expects you to swallow the notion that a short, dumpy (if not chubby), completely non- athletic nerd like Sandler could outdo much bigger and faster players on the football field (many of them ex-NFL stars). Why not just hire an actor that at least looked like an athlete? Or, if you must hire Sandler (for whatever bizarre reason), shouldn't he at least work out a little bit so that he could be in somewhat better shape? Sandler's movies have been unwatchable for years, for similar reasons to this. Sandler must be one insecure guy, because every movie he has been in has cast him as some kind of tough guy, with him punching out someone at least once. That is almost as ridiculous as casting him as a football star. Like so many recent Hollywood remakes, there was no good reason to remake the original here.