Thoroughly Entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2000)

Of a triple feature, this was the best one of the three. It was the middle one. It was really funny. The movie is a light-hearted movie that doesn't care who it steals from, nor what happens, as long as it entertains. And entertains it does. I am not the type to fall for generic, run-of-the-mill type movie, yet I liked this movie. It was a tamer version of "Major League" football style.
The Plot: "Major League" with a dash of "Any Given Sunday." The players are on strike, and the team has to come up with a winning group of losers. Next, the players have to win three out of the only four games left in the season. In the meantime, the owner has chosen a coach that he had fired years ago.
The acting: Your regular cheeze0ball comedy acting. Nobody is going to win any Oscars for the range of emotions shown in the movie, but at least the acting was pretty good.
*Spoilers Ahead**Spoilers Ahead* So, why did I like it? The strippers as cheerleaders was stolen from the cruder "BASEketball." Yet they worked to make me laugh. The overly aggressive football player made me laugh hard. The three fat guys getting mad at each other was funny. The bodyguards (same people) worked, and even the overplaying of "I Will Survive" (I saw Coyote Ugly last, and it had the song right at the beginning, what made the song get its comeback?) worked for its humor. The movie just clicked. Not that I would see it over and over, but it was a really funny movie that I highly recommend to anyone looking for a not-so-crude laugh (and there were some crude ones, I'm not saying that it was saintly, but next to Me Myself and Irene...), and some good escapism, see this one.
8/10