I love this movie. I say I’ve watched it over a hundred times, it may not be that many, but it’s probably close, feels like it anyway. I watched it again today and remembered why I love it so much.

Admittedly, I don’t know much about football, don’t understand a lot about it, but that’s alright, that’s what makes the world goes round. I have been to a few football games, professional, high school and college, people have tried to teach me and it doesn’t seem to sink in, I’ll live. But… I can tell when a team is about to score and occasionally when a play is good and I’m good with that.

I do enjoy football movies, not all and mostly the comedies or at least the ones about the underdog team or player. This is one of them. The bulk of the movie is a comedy, but it’s all about the underdog[s], the replacement players they bring on.  The lead is Shane Falco, “Footsteps Falco”, played by Keneau Reeves, who had ‘that disastrous showing at the Sugar Bowl’ and has plenty of heart, as Coach Jimmy Miginty says the team needs to win.  I was watching the behind the scenes or making of the movie, as dvds have now and one of the football coaches who worked on the movie said, it’s important to make the football moves real, let the comedy come out in the actors and their characters, and he was right, the plays are real and look it and the funny stuff could come out while they’re on the field, but it’s in the huddle or the side lines, not in the plays.

This was just a great feel good movie, you get sucked into their stories, which luckily revolve mostly around their time on the team, but there are some moments in movies that I think they miss, cut out story lines, there are scenes when they focus on a player and you don’t know why, this had one or two, but it didn’t detract from the overall feel of the movie.

I find that it doesn’t matter who you root for in life, when you’re watching a movie, you can’t help but root for the team the movie is about, you might be torn, but in the end, the movie is about them…

So, as I am apt to do, I give this movie four thumbs up, my highest praise, and I will watch it with anyone anytime. Enjoy.