Enjoyably mediocre

Rating: Null/10 (10 June 2001)

*The Replacements* actually isn't that bad, just, you know, enjoyably mediocre. Sports movies are sports movies, and this one has Keanu Reeves as a football player, Orlando Jones, an Irish guy who says, "Bollocks!" a lot, a Sumo wrestler, two big black bouncers, a very adamantly focused ex-army guy, an attractive love interest with nice cleavage (hey, she's in a cheerleader outfit for half the movie...), a load of strippers-turned-cheerleaders, and Gene Hackman, among other things. It's hard not to be pleased. And it even gets a bit of a nice feel-good message at the end. And it's fun. All in all, it's a good movie to just turn off your brain and enjoy.