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- 1986
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 46 m
- 1986
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 46 m
Summary A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.
Directed By: Michael Ritchie
Written By: Ezra Sacks
- 1986
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 46 m
- 1986
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 46 m
Wildcats
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Summary A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.
Directed By: Michael Ritchie
Written By: Ezra Sacks
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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1 Review
55% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
36% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
41
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
55% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
36% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
In Wildcats, Hawn remains a pre-eminently delicious comedienne, even if the notion of a "Goldie Hawn movie" is becoming perilously predictable. [17 Feb 1986, p.68]
This is another of the iron-buttercup roles in which Miss Hawn has been specializing since ''Private Benjamin,'' films in which her inspired dizziness masks an unexpectedly strong will. Initially, that contrast was delightful. But it has begun to seem less and less funny as Miss Hawn's films develop a preachier edge.
The action ranges from mildly humorous to merely vulgar; and far too many of the laughs revolve around racially crude confrontations between sweet, blond Goldie and denizens of the big, bad ghetto. [10 March 1986, p.33]
Despite some exuberant football action, a pair of buoyant rock-sound-track montage scenes and a tidy, uplifting finale, Wildcats is a disappointingly timid fable. It’s refreshing to see a strong-willed female character like McGrath, who’s loaded with grit and determination. But she’s surrounded by so many cardboard figures--her ex-husband is a cowardly worm, her rival football coach a wild-eyed chauvinist--that her triumph has the hollow ring of comic melodrama.
Wildcats is clearly an attempt by Hawn to repeat a formula that was wonderfully successful in "Private Benjamin": Wide-eyed Goldie copes with the real world. It was less successful in "Protocol," and now it's worn out altogether.
The knock on movies like Wildcats used to be that they belong not on the big screen, but on TV. But times have changed. Wildcats isn't good television, either. It's just Goldie Hawn's latest. [10 March 1986, p.C6]
Silly but not always funny, WILDCATS relies too much on Hawn's familiar screen persona, getting little mileage from the actress' "serious" moments, yet it manages to provide more than a chuckle or two.
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Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
American Comedy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
