In short, it's the funniest, smartest comedy of the year, and hopefully a harbinger of things to come in the genre of teen comedies. His dancing becomes a metaphor for whatever makes us happy in life, and the sweet earnestness of the film is contagious. Eminently smart and memorable, and featuring bravura performances by William H. Macy and Philip Seymour Hoffman, among others. It uses baseball, action and unforced sentimentalism to create something men can enjoy for emotional reasons as well as aesthetic ones. The sappy Garth Brooks song at the end merely serves as a contrast to how unmanipulative everything had been before that.
Every scene is important, every performance spot-on.
You can sit there in awe of the painstaking work that went into the film, or you can ignore that and just enjoy the bad puns, good puns, endearing characters and sly satire. It's too bad, because it's one of the most sublime, wistful movies I've ever seen, examining with great insight the dynamics of friendship. Hopefully it will find its way into this country in 2001. The Worst Movies of 2000 1. It was a tight race, but this ill-conceived sequel to the 1999 curiosity emerges victorious in the Worst Movie of the Year category.