The Replacements

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Keanu Reeves is allegedly the star of this film, which you'd have expected to be a straight to video classic. Some films don't deserve a cinema release, and this is so average and uninspiring that it doesn't either. Trying to turn a bunch of rejects into a grid iron team that can take on the world sounds uninteresting. And it is.

Well, you can get a chuckle or two out of this film, maybe even find some inspiration or cheer for the underdog, but for people who know ANYTHING about football, this moving is just one mistake after another. Whomever edited this thing should be drummed out of Hollywood. Just go to the goofs section and that might begin to list all the continuity and factual errors. Players on the field, then off the field in the next shot. Jus the problems with how the structure of the team is built makes no sense. Why fire a coach and hire a new one during a strike? Why no backup quarterback? Why are players playing both ways? What is a QB doing on a kickoff team? it goes on and on and drives me crazy.

This movie was hilarious. It had drama, romance, comedy, and a little action thrown in. I saw it twice in the movie theater, and both times I found myself laughing uncontrollably. The whole audience was laughing. One guy in the audience was laughing so hard that I thought he would pee in his pants! My stomach hurt after the movie because I was laughing so much. It may not have the deepest message in the world, but it did have a good message. No matter how many disadvantages you have, you can still succeed. And like Gene Hackman said, "You know what separates the winner from the losers? Getting back on that horse after you've been kicked off." I also love the romance and Brooke and Keanu's relationship in the movie. It didn't show them in bed or anything. Instead, Keanu was a bit shy around her at first. I thought the whole love story thing was really romantic. The whole cast was great and the music rocked also.=)

Before going to see this movie I thought I'd seen the worst of the worst movies. I mean I've seen nearly half of the movies in IMDB's 100 worst movies of all time (Police Academy 6, Werewolf, and yes even Troll 2). However, never have I wasted the money to see any of these horrible movies in a movie theatre-until now. There was nothing positive about this movie. It wasn't funny. The plot flopped in the first 20 minutes. The acting was mediocre. Originality and a decent dialogue seemed to be missing. And worst of all it seemed to never end. I literally got a headache after it was over. Trust me, this is one movie you should avoid seeing. But if you don't believe me, go ahead and see it...just bring some Extra Strength Tylenol!

I guess I was underwhelmed, but you know, it's a likeable film with few pretentions and some chuckles along the way. Amazing watching an actor with Gene Hackman's gravity and chops slumming with a non actor like Keanu Reeves (is it me, or is his voice breaking?) and the rest of the jock-actors hired on for authenticity. Gene could have sent in his performance as an e-mail attachment (maybe he did) and Rhys Ifans is funny, as he was in Notting Hill. To give "flat affect" Keanu his credit, he seems fairly athletic and carries off the football scenes reasonably well. The day after I first watched it, my kids wanted to see it, and I sat through it again without complaints. That's got to be worth something.

For some misguided reason, I thought this movie would be something besides a cut-and-paste montage of football movie cliches. How wrong I was. Most of the time, I can just forget about a bad movie a few minutes after viewing, but this one made me angry. The lack of originality, the sleep-walking performances by Reeves and Hackman, and stock characters that have been worn out by football movies from Semi-Tough to Any Given Sunday made me feel like a complete sucker for renting this one. Some advice for Hollywood - no more football movies for ten years. By then, there should be some new material to mine. In the meantime, try curling, archery, synchronous swimming, equestrian or anything besides football!

This movie is outrageously funny! I can't think of a movie that made me laugh so much, so hard, and throughout the entire thing. The entire audience was laughing so hard...really...I mean it. A great cast in a truly hilarious show!! Fabulous editing and good tunes, too!