You know, it was fun

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2000)

I was surprised at my own reaction, but The Replacements was a real fun. It is formulaic, predictable and all that, but without asking for much it delivers inobtrusive entertainment. A standard Hollywood story of a pack of underdogs, packed with locker room humor and cute, strippers-turned-cheerleaders girls - perfect recipe for a rainy summer evening. Well, come to think of it the story isn't that standard (don't worry, you'll still have the girls and the jokes). The underdogs - they stay underdogs, they don't get litesabers or turn out to be some crack team of Australian football players. So you don't get one of these hard-to-believe Hollywood plots, as in dozens of other sport movies. It's ain't your dad's Dirty Dozen, not even Madden's Dirty Dozen. As it saz in the movie, the guys really have no tomorrow - they are there just as the replacement players, so they might as well just have some fun. Did they? I dunno. I did. Then I went and rented Fireworks again, to polish my taste buds :)