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Longest Yard, The

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 35 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Sheldon Turner
Tracy Keenan Wynn (1974 screenplay)
Albert S. Ruddy (story)
Directed by: Peter Segal
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 27, 2005
DVD: September 20, 2005
Running Time: 113 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, violence, language and drug references
Starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, James Cromwell, Walter Williamson, Michael Irvin, Nelly, and Edward Bunker
The Longest Yard is the story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Sandler) and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro (Reynolds) who are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game "fixed" to turn out quite another way. (Paramount Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Variety Joe Leydon
Sandler impressively assumes the Reynolds role here, with strong support by Reynolds himself and a slightly restrained but frequently hilarious Chris Rock.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
The new version has the zip of a 96-yard punt return and all the ingredients to inspire the celebratory crushing of empty beer cans.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Its crass good humor makes it an enjoyable, reasonably faithful but over-the-top successor to the original.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
What links the two films in fun and ferocity is the big game, a ripsnorter that is irresistibly entertaining.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The Longest Yard more or less achieves what most of the people attending it will expect. Most of its audiences will be satisfied enough when they leave the theater, although few will feel compelled to rent it on video to share with their friends. So, yes, it's a fair example of what it is.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
This agreeable remake still manages to go the distance.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
It's a definite crowd-pleaser and a perfectly fun night at the movies.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Sandler's frequent director, Peter Segal, also rises to the occasion, giving the proceedings some of the rough-hewn, hard-edged look of the original, and brings it to a funny, satisfying climax that -- happily -- doesn't cop out.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Whether you'll enjoy this loud and rowdy remake of a 1974 Burt Reynolds film depends on your tolerance for three things: football, Adam Sandler and unabashed product placement.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Though Sandler's resemblance to a pro athlete is indiscernible, his mockery of authority and his penchant for buffoonery and slapstick violence make him more of an heir to Reynolds than might be expected.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The new jokes all seem like discards from a Rob Schneider comedy, but for the most part director Peter Segal (Anger Management) and screenwriter Sheldon Turner play a good defensive game, sticking close to the original film's story.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
That's what is missing from The Longest Yard most egregiously. Charm has been kept on the bench.
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
The pleasure is entirely like eating cake made from cake mix. It's not like you don't know how it's going to turn out, or how it tasted the last time you ate it.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Each joke and one-liner is a made-for-HBO zinger, each scene with Sandler a reaffirmation of the old friendship between the two successful SNL alums.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
It strains to be funny where the original's gags were efficiently deadpan, yet it's also so unbearably lazy, stooping to cliché and caricature when it backs itself into the shower.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Kim Morgan
Peter Segal's film, a predictable, choppy affair at best, boasts an understated, likable performance by Sandler, but here we never feel, as we did with the original, invested in the outcome of the final game, or convinced of the redeemability of the movie's sordid protagonist.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
What makes the new movie almost bearable is the byplay between Sandler and Chris Rock.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
The 2005 version refashions the material into a dual vehicle for Chris Rock and Adam Sandler, "Saturday Night Live" alums who specialize in lazy, ramshackle comedies that are just okay enough to not completely suck.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
If you're thinking of seeing it, and you're old enough to drive (or even read this), do yourself a favor and rent the original instead.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
It's a misguided, miscast remake of the 1974 Robert Aldrich classic.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The lack of condescension is the movie's saving grace, if grace is the right word. There's no snobbery to the low-blow humor, or to Reynolds' low-key, genial comeback turn, or to Sandler's more-ingratiating-than-athletic lead performance.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Everyone in this overstaffed showbiz sampler has been better somewhere else. An assortment of talented comedians, character actors, professional athletes, sports commentators, one rapper, and two former sitcom stars sit in this movie like too much food on a buffet cart.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
No classic, but neither was the original starring Burt Reynolds. Instead, it's an odd mix of amusing nonsense and nastiness that chugs along, hit and miss, until the last section, which is the best part of the movie and its real reason for being: the game.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ed Halter
Future analysts of American culture...will no doubt ponder why an incarceration-crazy society ends up rooting for the objects of its own control anxiety as comedic underdogs.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Consistently entertaining, athletically brutal, and, more often than not, well-acted.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Setting such larger aesthetic questions aside, there isn't much to dislike about The Longest Yard, at least once you've gotten used to the pervasive fear of homosexuality that seems to ooze from the film's pores.
Read Full Review >Empire Ian Nathan
It's less a film than a series of skits exhumed from the Reynolds original.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
The Longest Yard lives or dies with its physical humor, a form of recent comedy I like to call slapstick sadism.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Sandler's performance is aimed squarely at the fans who love his smarty-pants man-boy shtick and Rock gets off some funny lines, but overall this is one dreary, formulaic slog through sports-movie cliches.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
"The Waterboy" was funny because Sandler doesn't look like a football player. When he swaggers around The Longest Yard starting fights and taking beatings without flinching, he only reminds us how little Steve McQueen and how much Woody Allen there is in him.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Whether it's the sight of Reynolds squeezed painfully into a football uniform or the endless footballs-to-the-crotch and tired gay jokes, The Longest Yard has the feeling of mutton dressed as lamb.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Softer, louder and cleaner than the 1974 version, the new film sentimentalizes the prisoners and the game, filing down their sharpest edges so that winning becomes a matter of triumph rather than resistance.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The result is a quickly paced, slickly filmed entertainment that's also as crude and rude as the PG-13 rating will allow. It's mighty mean-spirited too, aiming "satirical jibes" at everyone from black illiterates to white rednecks, from breakers of the law to enforcers of the law, from society's elites to society's dregs.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Kevin Williams
Where the original was a serious film with funny moments, this movie isn't sure if it's a drama or comedy, too incompetently rendered to be both. What it accomplishes instead is to be nothing at all. An excessive, stupid, empty-headed nothing.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
What was already a raucous put-on, a goof on Aldrich's brutal action movies, is now a hyperbolic, gross-out cartoon, with a cast of enormous ex-football stars (plus the 7-foot-2-inch Indian wrestler Dalip Singh) only adding to the air of facetiousness.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 56 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sam gave it a7:
Adam Sandlar stars in an inserting role as a confused ex-football pro whose life gets turned upside down after he is arrested and sentenced to prison for drinking and driving with a vehicle he stole from his girlfriend. The first 15 minutes of the film are boring and leave the viewer indifferent. The jokes become more and more ridiculous as the plot unravels in a federal state prison. Sandlar continues to drain out his performance as a boring, heartless man while James Cromwell, Burt Reynolds, and Chris Rock essentially convey grand performances as very interesting and at times hilarious people. Seeing Sandlar’s character develops through humor and pain make the movie more and more interesting. As my Dad always said, every movie should have Character, Conflict and Change. This movie has all three and after a bad start it really gets good. Despite the fact that, at times, the PG13 slapstick stereotypical prison comedy gets tiring, the movie manages to sustain entertainment with well-done direction, a excellent soundtrack, and a great twist for an ending that combines a vigorous combination of humor and drama. B. 3.1 stars.
Josh H gave it a10:
I love this movie. It is funny.
Baker W. gave it a2:
This pitiful remake was even worse than the self-consciously mediocre original. Sandler is trying to make a career by reprising a variation of himself in every movie he's in. Is he that one-dimensional? Is there nothing else he has to offer? Apparently not.
Joey K. gave it an8:
Very funny. Although the faces may look familiar, it's not quite a typical Adam Sandler movie like Little Nicky or Billy Madison. It has it's good jokes, it's cheap jokes, it's solemn moments, it's tense moments, and protagonist has a nice "likable" feel to them. I've never seen the original, so I won't compare. But either way, I reccomend this movie.
tom s. gave it a6:
Has its moments, but all in all does not match up to the original.
Jason Q. gave it a10:
If you are a foot ball fan you will love this movie it is funny, intersting, and weird but over all it is the BEST movie EVER!!!
Angela W. gave it a10:
This is the best movie in the hole world. i have watched it over and over and over again and i never get boared. if only every movie was as good as this one.
