The Replacements

(2000)

Todd Says:

2 STARS

The Replacements is kind of exactly what you probably expect it to be, which is a very predictable, sometimes funny but sometimes not quite, sports comedy. It seems that they tried to make a decent movie here, but just couldn't break out of the typical 'feel-good-sports-movie' formula. It's hard to watch a movie when you know after the first scene or two how the entire rest of the movie is going to unfold.

The acting was just O.K., which is not saying much with a cast who are mostly capable of better. The Characters aren't very interesting or entertaining, and even though there was a time or two that I fell into that 'sports feel-good root for the underdog' mode I found myself mostly not caring what happened. (Of course, I already knew what was going to happen.)

In conclusion, I can't highly recommend this movie to anyone, but if it comes on cable on a rainy sunday, and there isn't any real football on, then you could do worse things with your time.

Alexis says:

1 STAR

What can I say really, I wasn't really looking forward to this film because sports movies are just not my thing. Don't get me confused I will watch the Colts attempt to win at games they should have no problem winning any given Sunday, but football films, they have to be really something to win me over and this one falls short, way short.

First off, the film is not 'enormously funny' as the box suggests. It is rather in an identity crisis, not sure whether it wants to be a comedy, a drama or just another sports film. The characters are annoying at best and some of them are so far stretched (the striking players) that I found myself rolling my eyes. The forced attempt at a love story is almost pathetic and I wonder who is supposed to be the 'audience' for this film. I could care less about most of the main characters and most men would probably feel about the same at their love story attempt.

I've seen Reeves and Hackman do better but at the same time I don't think that they are amazing and Reeves didn't convince me that he could play a quarterback. This film doesn't really have many redeeming qualities but I've seen far worse (even this month) so here have a star.