| 72 |
Mr. Showbiz
An agreeably and unapologetically lightweight late-summer blockbuster.
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| 70 |
Rolling Stone
What The Replacements does have is energy.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
As obvious as they get, and it wears its message on its bloodied jersey.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
The story of the triumphant underdog is irresistible, even when every single plot point comes marching down Main Street.
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| 63 |
New York Post
Formulaic but surprisingly charming.
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| 50 |
Variety
A frankly formulaic but agreeably funny comedy about has-beens, wannabes and never-weres.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
Although this movie doesn't have an ounce of depth, it's so thoroughly amiable and upbeat that you'd have to be in a fighting mood to find fault with it.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
So lazy and rote, it feels like a rerun the first time you watch it.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Slap-happy entertainment painted in broad strokes, two coats thick.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Any ESPN commercial at all leaves it in the dust when it comes to imaginative firepower.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Just like a low-budget football comedy, only with money.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Deutch never raises the film beyond its paint-by-numbers blueprint.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Harmless, mindless and shameless.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
The incisive, close up photography by ''The Sixth Sense'''s Tak Fujimoto outclasses the story by yards.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
A genial and instantly forgettable sports comedy.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Sometimes seems longer than a rainy Super Bowl.
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| 38 |
USA Today
One of those movies that goes for a jarringly new emotion every 30 seconds or so while the story's foundation is collapsing.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Lame even by triumph-of-the-underdog sports-comedy standards.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
So vulgar and incoherent that even Hackman's gifts can't score a touchdown.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
You might want to sit out this season.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
This is the laziest kind of filmmaking.
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| 25 |
Portland Oregonian
A movie so lame that Keanu Reeves lends it gravity with his mere presence.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
A field goal, not a touchdown.
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| 20 |
TNT RoughCut
Mind-achingly mediocre in every regard.
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| 12 |
San Francisco Examiner
Like two hours of outtakes in search of a studio audience.
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| 10 |
Dallas Observer
It's absolutely awful, and even Gene Hackman can't carry it across the goal line.
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| 10 |
Chicago Reader
This programmatic male-bonding comedy doesn't even borrow well.
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| 10 |
Film.com
Merely reconfigures the same predictable gross-out jokes, sentimental platitudes, and decorative sex that figure into half the screenplays in circulation.
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
A haphazard film about half as sophisticated as the average beer commercial.
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| 10 |
Film.com
A sports movie as distinguishable as one M&M in a bag, working off a formula as easy-to-read as an onsides kick.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
A desperate, broad comedy.
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| 0 |
Salon.com
The worst movie of the new millennium.
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