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is this film as terrible as the rating reflects?


i thought that it looked kinda good and i wanted to see it but the rating has just been declining...what made it so bad in some people's opinion? was the pacing uneven? was it not funny? i was hoping this would be a hit like i wanted be cool to be a hit? i hope the rating goes up

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Are you people serious? this was a good movie! It was funny! I HIGHLY reccomend it!

--Laura--
*Actress in the Making*

"We are gladiators! We are gladiators!"
-Kicking and Screaming

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It was horrible, I left halfway through it was so bad.

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i thought it was a kool movie. my friends mom hates Will Ferrell and she ended up liking the movie!!!! it was funny 2!!!!!!

~*Amy*~

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I don't like Will Ferrell at all and kind of found the movie "dull".....
I thought that the Ditka/Juicebox stuff was funny, Phil's addiction to coffee, and well, thats pretty much it.

I wanted to take my 8 year old to a movie and that is what he chose. He plays soccer though, and really liked the movie.

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I have seen many worse movies about the very same thing. I have seen many better ones too.

It's in the middle.

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You guys need to relax, this movie was fun and funny. MIke Ditka has fists like small trucks. And I loved the whole thing with the coffee.



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No, it's not as terrible as the ratings. It's not great. But quite bearable.

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I thorougly enjoyed the movie, and I was very surprised by the low rating. I don't know what people were expecting from this...they must have had images of Wil Ferrell's other movies in their heads and then judged it according to those. But even then, I vastly prefer this to Elf, which was so lifeless I couldn't finish it. This movie has a really sweet nature about it, and the rivalry between Duvall and Ditka is hilarious; it reminded me of an episode of King of the Hill, which everyone hated when it first started, but has sort of become a standard in subtle satire.

I don't know what people have against light-hearted movies these days; it's not enough to have a good time or for a movie to give you good-natured pleasure -- people would rather see something with a million quirks a second; they're afraid of liking something if it's deemed too minor. They want something that can be defended on intellectual terms. Maybe that's why the film didn't score with modern audiences: it's completely without cynicism. It's got a lot of those ridiculous, quirky one-liners, but it's not snarky or clever, which is the current mode for popular comedies -- the complete work of Charlie Kaufman and Wes Anderson, for example. If people actually got past the fact that this movie is very formulaic, maybe they'd realize what a light, goofy spirit it has. It has more in common with slapstick and Francois Truffaut's comedies than it does with a movie like Rushmore; and for me, it's the former that we need most.


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Don't bother, I only had one meager chuckle

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It was pretty funny...I would give it a 7.5/10 lol...but it could've been a lot better.

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Come on people! What did you expect? If you didnt like it then you expected way too much! I expected a light hearted comedy and go exactly that... and for what it is.. it's a great movie

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I must say this is probably one of the worst movies ive seen in a very long time. I am usually a big Will Farrel fan but this movie was just imbaresing. It had a few moments but the directing and editing was just bad.

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I agree with KingOfCollege,

All you others that are bashing this film need to get your heads out of your asses, and see what audience this film is meant for, not to boost your egos by bashing it for what its worth. This is family film, with a hollywood moral, so what? Its entertaining, its funny, good cast and some very funny moments.

to all you egocentrical idiots that saw the movie and hated it, why do you even bother to run to your computer to flame it on this site, when you hated it and didnt laugh? pathetic.

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