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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: February 14, 1986 |
Starring:
Brandy Gold, Bruce McGill, Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Jan Hooks, Mykelti Williamson, Nipsey Russell, Robyn Lively, Swoosie Kurtz, Tab Thacker
Summary:
A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.
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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]
I suppose there's not much point at this late date to complain about how all movies look and sound alike today, how dull stretches in the story are pumped up with loud music, how handy, so-called "comic" hooks (one character has a flatulence problem, another will do anything for sex, another will do anything for money) have taken the place of characterization, how directors don't even try anymore to create a real milieu. [15 Feb 1986, p.G6]
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.
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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]
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]
Mar 21, 2020
A 1980's cheeseball fest, a boring film that's way outdated and Goldie Hawn tries her best to save it but fails.
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