Rating: 
Summary: One of the Best Movies I've Seen
Review: "Cool Runnings" is one of the best movies I have seen.
The story line, John Candy and the Jamaican Bobsledders,
the switch from warm Jamaica to cold Calgary all make for a
warm and funny movie. I'm going to take the advice of another
reviewer and watch it now to revive the "feel-good" feeling
of the entire movie. A classic to buy and keep. A true
comedy.
Rating:
Summary: One of the Best Movies I've Seen
Review: "Cool Runnings" is one of the best movies I have seen.
The story line, John Candy and the Jamaican Bobsledders,
the switch from warm Jamaica to cold Calgary all make for a
warm and funny movie. I'm going to take the advice of another
reviewer and watch it now to revive the "feel-good" feeling
of the entire movie. A classic to buy and keep. A true
comedy.
Rating:
Summary: Cool!
Review: ... of this mostly fictional account of the trials and tribulations of the Jamaican Bobsled Team in the winter of 1988. No matter that it's mostly fictional, it's a wonderful, uplifting story. With a terrific performance by John Candy as the coach and a great supporting cast as the team this movie tells a story of triumph, redemption and personal achievement. Billed as a comedy, it has it's chuckles in the first half as the team is formed and begins training in the warm Jamaican climate, but once the boys reach Calgary and are confronted with their obstacles, it becomes very serious. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds to not only qualify for the competition, more less have a chance at a medal, this movie outRockys Rocky. Unless you're made of stone, the heart-warming scene following the crash combined with the stirring music will at least cause a lump in your throat.Whenever I feel down, I throw this movie in the VCR and 1-1/2 hours later I feel much better. It's great therapy. Try it.
Rating:
Summary: Not excactly a stroke of genius...
Review: ...but funny nonetheless. I haven't seen it since I saw it in the theatre the first time it came out, but all I remember was that I laughed so hard I was rolling. But then again, I was a 10 year old, young and foolish, and might not have known what was funny and what wasn't. I still remember a wee bit though, and I thought it was imaginative. I mean, who else would make a movie about bob sledding, and then adding a dash of humour? Watch it just for the fun of it.
Rating:
Summary: Inspiring!
Review: After watching this movie I found it inspiring, it brings out the spirit of competition in you, but also fills you with a feeling of hope, and desire. This movie is about the unlikely event of a Jamaican bobsled team competing in the olympics (it actually happened though). John Candy does a great job of portraying a coach that is disturbed about his past as an olympian, and has become the total opposite of an olympian. Anyway as the story goes two friends (an olympic sprinter hopeful Darice, and a pushcart driver Sanka) have a plan to form a bobsled team after an olympic trial mishap for Darice that prevented him from going to the summer olympics. They meet up with two other Jamaicans (who also happen to be the other two sprinters involved in the olympic trial mishap), and with their future coach (John Candy), and then head off on a hilarious journey to the 1988 Calgary Olympics. This movie is very hilarious all they way through until the last half hour when everything catches up with the team, and then the movie takes a sudden heart warming turn that tugs at your heart. Then to top it all off on the third day something tragic happens, and then the movie truly becomes inspiring, and brings out your spirit of competition.
Anyway enough about the movie, buy it, and enjoy it over and over again.
Rating:
Summary: Heart- warming and inspiring...
Review: Bobsled to a Caribbean is like a Yeti to the Sahara desert. Both simply dont exist!. And yet, 4 guys with dreams in their eyes, set out to acheive the unmaginable in the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. To represent their country Jamaica in Bobsledding!. "Cool Runnings" is based on this true story, but with a few changes that needless to say, is aimed at making the movie more dramatic. Leon(Derice Bannock)is an athlete aimed at making amends for his failure to secure a berth in the Jamaican Sprint Team. With no way out, he decides to try Bobsled, a sport no Caribbean in his right mind would even know it exists. Irv Blitzer(John Candy), a disgraced former champion Bobsledder decides to train Leon the intricacies of this "bone-shattering" sport. To compete in the event would however require 3 more bobsledders to make up the team. In comes his best friend Sanka(Doug.E.Doug), the tempermental Yul Brenner(Malik Yoba) and the reserved Junior Bevil(Rawle Lewis). What you end up with is a team of hysterical proportions, but with a heart. "Cool Runnings" is not so much about the event as it is with the main characters. The Jamaicans are determined to compete in an event that is considered solely the domain of a few Icelandic- Nordic nations. The 4 guys are felt out of place, racialized and ridiculed at the event while the coach(Candy) is humiliated and taunted at every turn by the organizers. The crux lays in how they overcome their hardships and ultimately win the crowd, if not a medal. The movie is absolutely hilarious considering the Jamaicans have never seen snow in real life. The initial training on their island is itself worth every penny you paid to watch this movie. However the movie's main strength is in its moral message. "Believe". The movie is based entirely on this one word. Leon is superb in his role as the leader who never gives up. John Candy is without doubt an actor with a heart of gold. Every movie he has been involved in, he brings in that 'human element' into picture. He is perfect as the flawed but determined coach. The find of the movie however, is Rawle Lewis as Junior Beville. He has the best dialogues and behind that meek physique ,stands a truly compassionate and competitive character. Sanka is the funny bone whose expressions are enough to spill your guts out while Yul Brenner is a tough but protective fellow who eventually warms up to the team and gets transformed at the end of the event. Ultimately it is the will and the confidence they derive from each other at every turn of the event that makes this movie so heart-warming. The movie has a nice flow to it and the music is catchy. Jon Tutletaub(Director) puts everyting in the right place and the direction is straight forward but slick. Though some parts of the movie are fictionalized, it is forgivable since the main theme isn't lost. Infact it actually enhances it. I must say that movies like this generally tend to have a predictable ending. You'll know you'll have a happy one at that. But watch Cool Running's final few scenes and the phrase 'finish the race' will take a whole new meaning to you. The ending is inspiring..surprising..simply magnificent. Go watch it.
Rating:
Summary: 5 Stars??
Review: Can somebody please tell me where the button for 6 stars is??? This is by far one of the funniest movies ever---I'd say it deserves AT LEAST 6 Stars, don't you?
Rating: 
Summary: A Gem of a Movie!
Review: Cool Runnings is a fast paced, well-filmed movie with just enough action to keep you entertained and just enough sentiment without being syrupy.The required profanity to get the coveted PG rating will offend only the most prudish. John Candy never picked his movies carefully, but he hit on a good one for him here. This is Rocky I without the blood and melodrama, a root for the underdog movie that doesn't leave you feeling cheated in the end or ashamed you actually sat through a movie with a preschool plot.The bobsled scenes are exciting and colorful. Buy this movie for a family night where mom and the kids will laugh and cry and dad won't doze off.
Rating:
Summary: One of Candy's finest moments
Review: Cool Runnings is definetly one of John Candy's finest moments. Brilliant performances from him, along with the determined Leon as Derice Bannock make this movie one of my favourites. It is unfortunate that a sequal was not made, but after that ending, there really isn't anywhere you can go with the idea. I highly recommend this movie.
Rating:
Summary: Just no defaults !
Review: Cool runnings is enjoying, funny and most of all, it niques its mother !!
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