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Director Peter Segal (50 FIRST DATES, ANGER MANAGEMENT) and comedian Adam Sandler are at it again in a fun remake of the 1974 classic, THE LONGEST YARD. In the role of Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, first immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough), Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving. Fed up, he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup. This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary. His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship. Crewe timorously agrees, suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season. To the ragtag inmates, this is the chance they've been waiting for, and they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards.In THE LONGEST YARD, Sandler steps out of the spotlight he enjoyed in films like BILLY MADISON and HAPPY GILMORE and is instead content to let his sizable cast of costars shine in the comedic light. Both the guard and the convict teams are infused with solid contributions from a swath of entertaining personalities: ex-football stars Michael Irvin, Bill Romanowski and Brian Bosworth; pro wrestlers Bill Goldberg and "Stone-Cold" Steve Austin; ESPN anchors Chris Berman and Dan Patrick; and famed rapper Nelly. However, it is Chris Rock, as Crewe's friend Caretaker, whose scenes never fail to steal the show, providing some of the movie's most memorable laughs.
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Genre: Comedies
Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
Relase Company: Paramount Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
UPC: 00097360462845
Summary
Product Title: The Longest Yard (DVD - 2005)
Lowest Price: $5.99
Power Score: 2.8 | 2 Reviews
Strengths: it's hilariuos, and nevergetsick ofthe movie!
Weakness: it has its sad moments, but it isn' much of a weakness.
it's a great movie! i really recommend it. if you haven't seen an Adam Sandler movie, you should check it out. i never get sick of watching this movie over and over again!
Longest Yard, The (2005) receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 2.43 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #6,905 movie of all time, #363 movie from 2005 . The rating and ranking is based on an average of 244 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the movie ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other movies ranked, click on the link below.
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This Yard has some laughs but missing from this remake is the edginess of the original.
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Strengths: Some pretty funny lines and situations
Weakness: the cross dressing prison b***hes were extremely gross, and annoying, and depicted many times throughout the film
Like most Adam Sandler movies, he has a couple moments where you laugh heartily at a line, or a quirky situation. But then comes the rest of the movie. The part where it isn't funny for a variety of reasons. It might be just plain gross, or the humor just swings and misses. Whatever the case, you may as well stock this movie, in another lackluster film, that will end up in the bargin bin at your...
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