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60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
    75
    It's surefire entertainment: loopy and predictable, but tremendously likable.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    If there's a gay cliche who doesn't flounce through this feel-good German comedy, he must have been out of town when the casting call went out, but its fundamental good nature is tough to resist.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Adam Nayman
    70
    With its clean narrative lines, easily grasped message and literal kick-line of affable, non-threatening gay characters, the film is carefully calibrated for mass appeal. It leaves no shortcut or pratfall untaken, and it will be all the more popular for it.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Levine
    70
    Both totally predictable and unerringly charming, with all of the quirky players, training montages, and father-son drama you'd expect.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    A wry, robust comedy of broad, sometimes crass humor set in the ultra-macho world of a small-town German soccer team.
  6. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Joshua Katzman
    70
    Following the same general blueprint as "The Bad News Bears" or "The Longest Yard," this engaging, well-paced German film directed by Sherry Horman includes a vibrantly funny script by Benedikt Gollhardt.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    60
    The climactic game provides an opportunity for some of the most sustained - and literal - gay bashing in movie history, even if the outcome is no more surprising than that of any other underdog comedy.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
    50
    Golhardt's screenplay has enough quirkily charming moments to compensate for its plethora of stereotypical characters and cliched situations, and director Sherry Hormann provides a light enough touch to make the proceedings palatable, if not quite enjoyable.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    There are moments of genuine emotion between the wacky tryouts and the nail-biter finale, and it seems churlish to complain. But there's little room for laziness around superior players like "Shaolin Soccer" and "Bend It Like Beckham."
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    40
    A by-the-numbers ensemble dramedy that hits every underdog and gay-fish-out-of-water cliche on the nose.
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