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Summary: The funniest football movie ever made
Review: I love sports. I played most of them in high school and still do a lot of them for recreation. I love movies and The Replacements is the funniest football movie I've ever seen.The Replacements is the story about the Washington Sentinels. A fictional football team in a fictional league. The league has had a players strike and the teams are told to replace them. Washington hires Jimmy McGinty(Hackman) a former coach to lead them. The lead player is QB Shane Falco(Reeves) a QB that never got a chance. McGinty puts a team of misfits and former players around Falco and expects him to lead them to victory. Gene Hackman is great in the film. He is one of the best actors of all-time. Few can play a charcter like him. I like the way he plays Jimmy McGinty. McGinty has the fire of Mike Ditka and the wisdom and heart of Vince Lombardi. Hackman does a great job playing him. Keanu Reeves is also great in the film. This is one of the better charcters he's ever played. So often does Keanu work in films with so many other great actors and he always holds his own. He's with Hackman and he holds true to the statement I just said. I'd put Shane behine Neo and Bill as his best charcter he's ever done. This film has a ton of other guys you will recognize. It's a great cast in a great film. I love the Pat Summeral and John Madden cameo's. They are some of the better cameo's ever done. This is a great sports comedy. It will leave you cheering and laughing for more.
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Summary: Tighter than a Chad Pennington spiral
Review: One of the best football mooovies in ages. I would put this little dousey right up there with Neccessary Roughness and the movie staring the man the myth the ledgend Rick Moranis in "Little GIants." All in all the movie will make you feel like a bloody champ. There are some scenes that reek of falsity like when they reek the (rap out of Ted Esquire..oops wrong movie i mean Keanu (Shawn Farris) Reeves car but thats Hoolywould for you. No big deal Keanu, i knew it was all in the movie fa sizzle. The best part is when Curtis Fraknlin has the line where he goes move.Bi+ch. get out the way move. That line is sweet like a big slurpe from 7-11.
What you willl like about The Replacements of the movie is the rarity it has. Only the great Major Leagues follows the same pattern. Going so where meat...bout 90 feets bloke. Anyway pick this movie if you want to be enlighted. Guys like it cuz its football, chicks like it cuz its got Keanu Reeves in it. Also there is sum cheerleaders who are smokin but not as hot as XFL cheer;eaders/.Go Chicago Enforcers 4 life and Tanja.
Watch this movie its good and you be living large and kickin some but.
G-MAN
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Summary: A football movie for women
Review: Of course, this movie could never happen in real life, but what fun to think that it could. Keanu Reeves is great as the quarterback and Gene Hackman as the coach of a team of misfits put together to replace a team on strike and to try to win the championship. This is a movie women can enjoy and have fun watching even if you don't like football. There are great lines and laughs and it deserves a 5 STAR RATING!
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Summary: Great fun on the gridiron!
Review: Here's a very fun movie that parodies how serious professional atheletes tend to take themselves in one of the most comical ways imaginable. It also parodies how seriously we as a nation take football in almost satiric fashion. The film contains some motifs that are certain to be recognized, such as the speedy wide receiver who can get open but can't catch the ball (a-la NECESSARY ROUGHNESS). The former walk-on linebacker out of Michigan State is obviously modeled on the character Tackleberry from POLICE ACADEMY. However, these somewhat recycled thematic elements do not take away from the film. Rather, they add to its charm - and this film is surprisingly heavy on charm! The acting, for the most part, is right on. As he played an inspirational basketball coach in HOOSIERS, Gene Hackman proves that he is equally up to the task of portraying a determined (if somewhat burned out) football coach in THE REPLACEMENTS. Brooke Langton is adorable as the consummate cheerleader-next-door type. The cameos by John Madden & Pat Summerall are simply delightful. This film is highly recommended for fans of sports movies, comedies and (most importantly) those who love football. After watching this movie, one cannot but ponder the one inescapable thought: can you IMAGINE how good this DVD could have been had it not starred Keanu Reeves? (sigh)
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Summary: Highly amusing
Review: No, it's not Shakespeare but you already knew that. Gener Hackman and Keanu Reeves star in this sports flick about a rag-tag football team thrown together in Washington, DC after a pro football players' strike in the 1980s. Reeves is a former player (now a boat cleaner) who once made a disatrous play and swore off the game. The flick is largely about him learning to get back on that horse and play ball! The other players are an amusing lot as well --- Orlando Jones (the former "7-Up Guy"), Rhys Ifans and Jon Favreau). There is a love interest in a cute cheerleader who also works in a bar (the cheerleaders are mostly actually strippers, as the pro cheerleaders are also on strike.) You know how this movie will turn out but it is a funny and entertaining journey anyway.
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Summary: Not Funny
Review: It had a strong point rather then the humor.
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Summary: The Replacements rule
Review: A great movie to learn how to feel good about yourself no matter who you are. It's also a lot of FUN!
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Summary: Best football movie
Review: This movie was amazing. i thought it wouldn't be that good at first but after watching it on tv it has had me watching every showing of it. It is funny, inspiring and has a good story line. This was my kind of film. First class with a good cast, Gene Hackman is superb. Watch out for the bit where they all spew!!
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Summary: YES VIRGINIA, FOOTBALL CAN BE ENTERTAINING!
Review: "The Replacements" has been touted as a remake of "Major League". Nothing could be further from the truth... "Major League" is about a down and out professional baseball team with an owner that tried to destroy their indomitable spirit, only to inspire their manager to lead them on to victory. In "The Replacements", the owner, Ed O'Neil (Jack Warden), wants nothing more than to WIN after being abandoned by his overpaid professional players and coaches to an NFL strike. What they share are comedic and uplifting attributes. Desperate to achieve his goal, O'Neil hires a formerly "fired" head coach, Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman), who has an unorthodox approach to getting the job done. Jimmy takes on the job after O'Neil guarantees non-interference in the make-up of the "team". He then gathers a collection of players whom he believes have unrecognized and overlooked talent... athletes who, for the most part, failed to "shine" in the eyes of the NFL scouts. As he initially identifies the key players to his staff, the film switches to a brief clip of their present day existence... a key element to the plot. We see that he is virtually pulling people with athletic ability "off the street" into the arena of professional football. Concurrent to the formation of the team, the film includes an audition of various "ladies" to fill the positions of cheerleaders... as the season has progressed to having only four games remaining before the playoffs, I am presuming that these positions were vacated by the strike also. The lead cheerleader, Annabelle Farrell (Brooke Langton), has difficulty maintaining her composure as some of these auditions are absolutely hilarious. Annabelle is the #1 Sentinels fan. She doesn't date football players, especially quarterbacks. The film shifts between the auditions and the "practice" sessions where we see the players character development. Brilliantly portrayed is DEA agent Danny Bateman (Jon Favreau), an over aggressive line backer that is the epitome of a silent type with basic "animal instincts". Throughout the film, he "abuses" his teammates as much as the opposition. Bateman initially has disdain for Earl Wilkinson/Ray Smith (Michael Jace), a former pro football player serving time for assaulting police officers. "Smith" is "on loan" from the Maryland Penal System. The Jackson brothers, Jamal (Faizon Love) and Andre (Michael Taliferro), play the guards... both ON and OFF the field. Sumo wrestler Jumbo Fumiko (Ace Yonamine) brings elements of humor as a loveable character that you wouldn't care to have sit on you. The "preacher", Walter Cochran (Troy Winbush), is a former pro running back who's hope for fame had been dashed by a knee injury. Brian Murphy (David Denman), is a deaf receiver with a superior natural talent for running the patterns. The kicker, Nigel 'The Leg' Gruff (Rhys Ifans), is a Welch soccer player with a gambling problem that can kick a ball the length of the field. Another brilliant performance is that of receiver Clifford Franklin (Orlando Jones), he could be the fastest man alive, he might be "hall of fame" material, too bad he can't catch a Twinkie... BUT he maintains his "I will survive" attitude up into the final moments of the film! To round out the team we have the quarterback, Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves)... a former brilliant college player that fell flat on his face during a bowl game. Keanu Reeves appears to be a natural for this roll... and with John Madden calling colorful play by plays with straight man commentary by Pat Summerall, his long time co-announcer, you at times forgot that THIS... IS A MOVIE! "The strikers", Eddie Martel (Brett Cullen), an unmotivated, mean-spirited, self serving, former superbowl winning QB, and his cohorts Wilson Carr (Archie L. Harris) and Malcolm La Mont (Evan Dexter Parke) provide ample controversy and tend to make "The Replacements" more endearing with every encounter that occurs in the plot. The story takes you through the four final weeks/games of the regular season. The Sentinels have to win three to make the playoffs... the only way they can do it is if everyone plays their absolute best... including the cheerleaders... who are an intricate part of their successes on the field. The team gets off to a rough start, they have trouble with the most basic element of the game... the huddle. They set new records for P E N A L T I E S. The choreography of the plays is superb with an abundance of humor. The dialogue has elements of corn, but also elements of inspiration. The team develops an admirable cohesion both on and off the field. They are two and one as "the strikers" cross picket line on the day before the fourth game against Dallas. Interspersed throughout the story are poignant introspective moments of various key characters. In the course of the plot, "The Replacements" prove to be very loyal and likeable characters. They become a TEAM, but for them, after game four, there is no tomorrow. So grab a beverage of choice and an assortment of munchies and sit back and enjoy this sometimes melodramatic, sometimes romantic, and mostly funny escape from reality. I'm not a big fan of professional football but after watching this film several times, I have discovered that football can really be very entertaining!
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Summary: A few good men...
Review: Well, Gene Hackmann is top-class, and.... and the cheerleaders are sexy, and... the story was done before in Major League, and Keanu Reeves somehow is always watchable even when he's doing nothing. Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) is pleasantly offensive, like a Welsh Rod Stewart. The best scenes for me were between coach McGinty (Hackmann) and owner O'Neil. The rest is Hollywood shmalz. Oh, and it taught this Brit how American football works. Apparently loosely based on the real story of Washington Sentinels.
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