Who i didn't warm to at all. Pointless lesbian subplots involving the fat bus driver and the ugly girl on the team. Pointless racist sub plot, OMG the mexican got called a wetback. Shock! Oh and a crappy disney ending where everyone loved everyone else.....even the estranged daughter of the coach. Awwwwwwwwwwwww. Utter rubbish.
shareThe only things I noticed wrong with it was a missing rear view mirror and a boom mike reflected in a tailgate.
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yes indeed, dems da breaks sadsack. i love sam rockwell, he elevates any movie he's in. sorry you were unable to enjoy this gem of a great sport film :(
shareThe movie was Awesome!!! Very heart warming
shareI was pleasantly surprised.
I love this movie and everything about it. The 'matronly' (read 'overweight') bus driver.
The way the kids try to be 'politically correct' about some things.
The way the has-been coach is SO unattractive and mismanages his relationships. The way his ex-wife looks to be guilty of the same things.
All this, and the setting of a town that doesn't look like it was constructed in L.A., all made this a great film, IMO.
The movie was not good. It did not make any sense that he would be able to coach in the first place. Shouldn't he have to teach a class if it is at the high school? And then the bus driver can be a coach too? Add on to that the girls could not play bball at all (even by the end of the movie), so it makes no sense that they would have won any games. The acting was not good as well. If you watch some of the scenes where they are practicing and also in the games you can see them almost laughing. Terrible.
shareI don't disagree with you for not liking a movie, since everyone has their own tastes but your reasoning is weird and way off base. For your information, if you ever read this again,
Basketball coaches can be anybody. The coach used to be a good bball player, and iirc, he was a coach in the past as well. So he had experience. My high school men's varisty coach's only affiliation with the school was the basketball team and we were a D1 school.
Secondly, the coach gets to pick his own staff and often has multiple assistants. So yeah, she didn't have any experience but that didn't matter because the head coach picked her to be on his staff because of her experience handling female emotions.
Third, if you watched the beginning of the movie, these girls did have talent but they were lazy and didn't really respect the game so their talents were not being utilized. At the beginning of the film, they were out of shape and had no sense of teamwork or stability. The coach brought the best out of them and got them to respect the game and maximize their skill. That's usually what coaches do.
Lastly, acting is subject to your interpretation really so if you thought it sucked then that's your prerogative. I thought Sam Rockwell was great as usual and I never really expect great acting out of teens, so I really just thought it was fine, usually what you would see out of real life teen girls.
I have had worse coaches/teachers than this. Sam Rockwell is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
this movie is great... so funny and light. emma roberts and sam are cool in it.
I know the campy disney feel isn't quite too popular, but bear in mind the movie's target market. In that end, I feel it was done well.
Sam Rockwell is just awesome in any movie I've seen him thus far.
Pointless racist sub plot, OMG the mexican got called a wetback
The paranoia about homosexuals played against the trust invested in the drunk head coach. And to a lesser degree, the community's lack of interest in the older creep dating one of the players.
SPOILER: think of the principal confronting the coach. Right after his daughter drove him home & the AA pamphlet on the dash. All that tension about the "lost keys" and he was worried about lesbianism.
The paranoia about homosexuals played against the trust invested in the drunk head coach. And to a lesser degree, the community's lack of interest in the older creep dating one of the players.
It wasn't a crappy Disney ending. They lost.
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