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Remember the Titans

EMAILPRINTBuena Vista Pictures

Remember the Titans reviews
48
9.3 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 32 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Gregory Allen Howard

Directed by: Boaz Yakin

Release Date:
Theatrical: September 29, 2000
DVD: March 20, 2001

Running Time: 113 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG for thematic elements and some language

Starring Denzel Washington, Scott Miles, Will Patton, and Donald Adeosun Faison

In 1971 high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, Virginia. But when the local school board was forced to integrate an all black school with an all white school, the very foundation of football's great tradition was put to the test. (Walt Disney Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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88

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Works better and cuts deeper than the mostly fictionalized "Hoosiers."

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88

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A civics lesson about integration very artfully - and entertainingly - disguised as an upbeat family sports movie.

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80

Film.com Tom Keogh

A huge surprise: a startlingly resonant yet unabashedly entertaining slice of American history, a popcorn movie with complex observations about, of all things, racism.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Earns its emotional moments, and it takes the audience along.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

A conventional, button-pushing but emotionally affecting tale.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Has the outer form of a brave statement about the races in America, but the soul of a sports movie in which everything is settled by the obligatory last play in the last seconds of the championship game.

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75

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

It has a good heart, though, and makes an amiable introduction to the integration battles of the '60s and '70s.

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75

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Lively and inspirational, with terrific performances from a big star and a host of supporting players.

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75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

It really does communicate an optimistic sense that race is irrelevant and we can all live happily ever after together.

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75

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Washington and the others score in this predictable but rousing film where the big victory is over attitudes.

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75

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Only a very stony heart could resist its pull.

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75

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, in an atypically high-minded and low-budget frame of mind, manages to breeze through most of the gridiron genre's obstacles with his admirable, crowd-pleasing Titans.

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75

Mr. Showbiz Larry Terenzi

Ultimately nothing more than a live-action cartoon. A high-minded, inspiring cartoon, but a cartoon nonetheless.

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63

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

A proudly unsophisticated demonstration of racial progress.

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63

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

The script's hokiness flattens the performances.

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50

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

A shrewd, pulpy crowd-pleaser.

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50

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Herman Boone was no doubt a terrific football coach, but the lessons to be drawn from his success in Alexandria are ambiguous, and Remember the Titans is too wrapped up in its weepy macho sentimentality to address them clearly.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Denzel Washington, by now, could do this sort of role in his sleep.

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50

The New York Times Dana Stevens

If Remember the Titans is corny, it's unabashedly, even generously so.

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50

Variety Todd McCarthy

Earnest and well-intentioned.

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50

TNT RoughCut Susannah Breslin

Perfectly effective when judged on its own merits, but is that really enough anymore?

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50

TV Guide Steve Simels

This mix of sweat and uplift in the Civil Rights era doesn't quite come off, despite some strong performances and the fact that it's based on a genuinely inspirational true story.

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50

Chicago Reader Michael Miner

The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.

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40

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Falls short of both the social history lesson it so pointedly strives to impart and the sport it so roughly embraces.

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40

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Distressingly shallow.

38

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

History as filtered through the faux-liberal prism of Hollywood's dream factory, and an insult, I believe, to the people who actually carried the fight and endured the pain for civil rights.

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30

Film.com Peter Brunette

Simplistic and non-controversial, and thus is virtually guaranteed commercial success.

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30

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

Bruckheimer's latest is in some crucial respects worse than those earlier blockbuster bids ("Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Coyote Ugly") -- certainly it's more fraudulent -- because unlike those films, which don't claim to be about anything other than thrills and tits, Remember the Titans means to be about race.

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30

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

Its heart is in the right place, but it has no soul.

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20

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

A feel-good movie only in the sense that it wants to reassure today's white people about our own enlightenment and how far we've come in the evolution of our attitudes about race.

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10

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

So smug and so proud of itself, and you can tell that everybody involved conceives of it as a civics lesson instead of a story, that they squeeze all the life out of it.

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10

Village Voice Dennis Lim

Boorish and flatulent.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 52 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Cody M. gave it a10:
I hate critics this movie was one of the best movies ever made and shows a truly captivating experience. ive noticed that everyone should ignore critics and they should all be fired because they are obviously not human. This is a must see for families or anyone who isnt racist.

Esther S. gave it a10:
I love this movie it is my all time favorite and I love to watch over and over again.

Abby L gave it a10:
This movie was so good and touching. Who cares if it's inaccurate? It's a damn good movie.

Karl F gave it a10:
This is a fantastic movie that I enjoyed very much. I loved the era appropriate music and I remember the tension of those times as well. The story being true and my love of sports drove this on to the bank for me. The critics boorish and childish admonishments are clearly screwed along geo-political lines as the contrast between ACTUAL viewers and snotty reviewer prejudices could not be more clear here.

theorange gave it a10:
This movie is a sports classic. Its moral and sports parts go well hand in hand and make the movie what it is. It is not a Fellini-like piece but it is about as much as you could expect from a high class sports movie.

Amy O. gave it a10:
These critics are so stupid! I bet if the critics had to do it all over again they'd give it a much higher grade. Even We are Marshalls got a better rating than this! WTF!! I cried when I first saw this movie, the story was emotional and told from the heart. It's the only movie I never get tired of watching.

Ethan S. gave it a10:
I'm sick of all these snooty uptight movie critics that can't recognise a movie masterpiece, and bad mouthing such an amazing movie. Not only are there strong emotional content but there are also the necessary kick butt football scenes!!!!!!!!!!

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