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Summary: The Replacements
Review: My friend and I saw "The Replacements" yesterday and laughed most of the way through it. It was funny and entertaining. Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman were perfect for their parts! It won't win an Oscar, but it's light, has a great soundtrack, and certainly worth the price of the ticket. In fact, I may buy the video when available!
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Summary: The Replacements Deliver!
Review: This movie is absolutely as advertised. A truly funny script and outstanding football sequences make this film laugh out loud delightful from begining to end.For a change, in this sort of seemingly overhyped sports drama, the script, inked by Vince McKewin, is engaging, interesting and surprising (occasionally bordering on the hilarious). Howard Deutch's directing encompasses the broad strokes of the games and the small, intimate moments with equal ease, while adding a visual component to the humour that enhances without stepping on the writing. Gene Hackman delivers (as always) a top drawer performance in a well crafted role and Keanu Reeves actually manages to seem emotionally present for the whole picutre. The rest of the cast, replacements and "regulars" alike are well written and strongly acted. Give yourself a treat before your team starts disappointing you this season, pretend for a couple hours these replacements are yours!
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Summary: Replace the Replacements
Review: It sucked. I don't know how it ever made the screen. The worst movie I've ever seen. I walked out on the movie 30 minutes before it ended because it was so stupid. Save your money.
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: I just saw, this today it was a great football movie, well I don't watch it this was funny well this is worth watching + worth the $$$ Enjoy, the cheerleaders were cute!
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Summary: Funniest Movie of the Summer!
Review: This movie was definitely the funniest movie of the summer. The cheerleaders are lap-dancers from a local strip club. They distract the other teams players by doing sexual movements. Anyways its a great movie with a great plot. SEE IT!
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Summary: I have never seen a better movie!
Review: I just saw this movie last night with 3 of my friends and i thought it was the greatest movie ever! My friend jimmy and I were laughing so hard we couldnt breathe! Keanu Reeves was great and i thought the entire team was just plain hilarious! I have heard a lot of people say... "oh its just like The Waterboy: A football/comedy movie"... Well i have to tell u this movie was 100 times funnier than waterboy! If u havnt seen this movie go see it now! I swear u will not regret it!
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Summary: KEANU SCORES A TOUCHDOWN!
Review: THE REPLACEMENTS IS A LOT OF THINGS THE MOST IMPORTANT IS THAT IT'S ENTERTAINING. THIS IS A MOVIE WITH A LOT OF HEART. YOU'LL FIND YOURSELF CHEERING FOR THE UNDERDOGS AND FEELING THE RUSH OF SOME AWESOME FOOTBALL PLAYS EVER PUT ON CELLULOID. WATCH THE MOVIE AND TELL A FRIEND, YOU'LL WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED.
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Summary: Fumbled Snap
Review: Like Keanu Reeves's The Matrix, this film exists in a parallel universe where nothing makes sense. The movie is set in Washington, D.C., at the end of a professional football season that looks suspiciously like it's taking place in the middle of August. But getting the weather right is the least of the film's problems. The factual errors pile up so quickly that only a person who knows nothing about football could hope to sort out the action. It was like watching a baseball movie where the World Series is a one-game affair played on Labor Day, there are two outs an inning, and the ace of the staff doesn't simply go to the bench but is cut from the team when a single striking pitcher breaks the picket line. I wished they showed us the magic that enabled Reeves to travel from his Washington boathouse to the team's locker room between the end of big game's first half and the arrival of the players and coaches from the field. A little Matrix-like action, with Keanu soaring through the air, would have enlivened this drab comedy. The Replacements tries to be The Bad News Bears in shoulder pads, but the only thing it delivers is bad news.
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Summary: THE BEST FOOTBALL MOVIE EVER MADE!
Review: I was lucky enough to catch a Los Angeles Sneak Preview of "The Replacements" and I was really surprised. I expected it to be like "Any Given Sunday", but it wasn't. This movie was well acted,written, & directed. And it's a laugh-a-minute movie. This movie is so good, it makes "Any Given Sunday" look bad!
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Summary: Uninspired and Formulaic
Review: In "The Replacements" Keanu Reeves stars as Shane Falco, a washed up former college football star who is recruited by the coach of the fictitious Washington Sentinels, Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman), to quarterback his team during a player strike. Falco is, as they say in the movie, a never was. Apparently he was someone with immense talent who froze during a big game in the Sugar Bowl and never recovered from it. The league's players have gone on strike and the league has decided to play the games with replacement players. This is reminiscent of what the NFL actually did during the 1987 season. You know right from the start that "The Replacements" is going to be a movie without any originality or smarts. As soon as he gets the go ahead to use the replacement players, McGinty manages to drag up from the depths every sort of misfit and miscreant to fill out his roster. His players include a convict, an insane cop, a gambling-addicted Welshman, a sumo wrestler, etc. Not to mention that the only replacement cheerleaders they can find in the entire Washington, DC metropolitan area are "exotic" dancers. From the players McGinty picks to the replacement cheerleaders to the uninspired casting of Reeves and Hackman, this movie is as formulaic as Hollywood gets. There's even an outwardly tough, inwardly tender head cheerleader for Reeves to woo. Even the depiction of the striking players as greedy and arrogant is from right out of the Hollywood handbook. Oddly enough, the only thing that saves this film from being a one-star debacle is the few scenes involving John Madden and Pat Summerall. Madden and Summerall, playing themselves of course, add a little humor to an otherwise humorless flick with their funny descriptions of onfield miscues. There is a great movie waiting to be made about replacement professional athletes. "The Replacements" is not that movie.
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