Dumb, cliched movie

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2002)

A fairly dumb, cliched sports movie is hardly a sin, it's a hard genre
to innovate in given that sports in general are pretty much chock
full of cliches, so I have some sympathy. But The Replacements
transcends dumbness almost to the point of being entertainingly
dumb. One of the key points that no one else (to my knowledge)
has commented on is the degree to which the movie savages
organized labor by glorifying the scab football players. The irony is
that almost all the people responsible for producing the movie are
most likely members of organized labor (screenwriters, directors,
actors, Teamsters, etc.), which helps them maintain a very
comfortable lifestyle, yet none apparently had a problem glorifying
scabdom.
Quite a head-scratcher.