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83
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82
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82
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81
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22
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Longest Yard, The
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA 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)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Sheldon Turner
Tracy Keenan Wynn (1974 screenplay)
Albert S. Ruddy (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Segal
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 20, 2005
Video: September 20, 2005
Theatrical: May 27, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
113 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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80
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.

75
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.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Its crass good humor makes it an enjoyable, reasonably faithful but over-the-top successor to the original.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
What links the two films in fun and ferocity is the big game, a ripsnorter that is irresistibly entertaining.

75
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.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
This agreeable remake still manages to go the distance.

67
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
It's a definite crowd-pleaser and a perfectly fun night at the movies.

67
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.

63
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.

63
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.

60
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.

60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
That's what is missing from The Longest Yard most egregiously. Charm has been kept on the bench.
60
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.

58
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
What makes the new movie almost bearable is the byplay between Sandler and Chris Rock.

50
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.

50
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.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's a misguided, miscast remake of the 1974 Robert Aldrich classic.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Consistently entertaining, athletically brutal, and, more often than not, well-acted.

50
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.

40
Empire
Ian Nathan
It's less a film than a series of skits exhumed from the Reynolds original.

40
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.

40
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.

38
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.

30
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.

30
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.

25
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.

25
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.

20
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.


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