Horrible

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2000)

Folks, this movie was awful. Many comments listed here speak of "laughing out loud" but I only "groaned out loud". There is not a streak of realism, the jokes are lame, and the characters are simply caricatures of old sports stereotypes.
The premise is so flawed. Does anyone really believe the on-strike multimillionaire players would hang out in the parking lot like high school thugs on the playground? And the director couldn't even get the basics correct (the team starts its first drive ever on the twenty yard line, gets two delay of game penalties, and we then see the ball marked on the EIGHT yard line). Picky, I know.
Bull Durham and Caddyshack are funny sports movies. Varsity Blues at least had realistic football imagery. The Replacements, on the other hand, is for the brain dead masses. It was the closest I have ever come to walking out of a movie.