Leatherheads (Widescreen)
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Movie Reviews of Leatherheads (Widescreen)
Movie Review: No such thing as a small movie when George Clooney is
Summary: 4 Stars
involved. He stars as Dodge, an old, broken down player & directs Leatherheads. It's a little cultivated area of Americana, the early days of professional football done as comedy. It is a time of America losing its innocence in the highflying 1920's. Rennee Zellwegger is Lexxie a reporter trying to dig up dirt on the war record of football's biggest star. I must say this is not one of her better roles. Trying to be authentic for the 1920's is just beyond easy for moviemakers. It is far enough in the past that to look good requires digital recreation. The crowds, the stadiums & more are a illusion. Also an illusion is any real chemistry between George & Rennee. They are both big stars in a relatively small movie. They play it for laughs. Lots of snarky, rapid-fire & well delivered lines between the two of them keeps you entertained. The numerous train scenes are also enjoyable. The critics never fell love with this movie either but I'm sure fans did. The extras on this dvd are many & excellent. A story is told that Clooney is a irrepressible prankster. Everyone waits for it in every movie he makes. But the movie is about to wrap & nothing. Maybe because he's too busy acting & directing. Then... It's all good "clean" fun.Movie Review: Bulldogs and Pigskins
Summary: 4 Stars
Harken back to the days when professional football was played on muddy fields by players who would rather brawl than run the gridiron with grace and the scoreboard was hard to see under the huge shadow cast by the major college game.
George Clooney - director, producer, "co-writer" - stars in this comedy about the fictional Duluth Bulldogs (in the early NFL years, there was the Duluth Eskimos and Canton Bulldogs) and a league on the verge of financial ruin. The fate of pro football hinges on the signing of a former college superstar who is a combat hero.
With the characters loosely based on iconic figures from the early years of the NFL - George "Papa Bear" Halas, John "Blood" McNally, Red Grange - Clooney, as team captain Dodge Connolly, weaves the pursuit of star Carter "the Bullet" Rutherford (John Krasinski), with the chase for attention from Lexie Littleton, a Chicago news reporter (Renée Zellweger).
The slapstick draws from the 1920s-era films that had football as its backdrop, but the climax is the universal debate by fans of big market versus small market, with "free agency" in the controversy. It is a fun gridiron film that refuses to get too serious.
Movie Review: An okay comedy... not as bad as they say
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an okay, old-school comedy, with director George Clooney playing an over-the-hill roughneck 1920s football player trying how to figure out how to crack into the big leagues. Renee Zellweger plays a tough-talking "girl reporter" (ala Katherine Hepburn) who falls into a love-hate flirtation with him... The movie tries, perhaps too hard, to recreate the snappy, zinger-heavy feel of the classic screwball comedies of the 1930s and '40s, and while this film isn't quite "Dinner At Eight" or "Bringing Up Baby," it still has a nice, easygoing charm. In its hazy, golden-lit nostalgia, it also evokes '70s films such as "Paper Moon", etc., that both nod towards the past and give it a little modernistic goose. Personally, I wasn't blown away by this film, but I did appreciate what Clooney was up to, and I think he did a fairly good job making a lighthearted, un-cynical, un-violent, un-grotesque film -- a welcome break from the unending stream of brainlessness and loud noise streaming out of Hollywood these days. Worth checking out... a 3.5, perhaps? (Joe Sixpack, Slipcue film reviews)Movie Review: Good clean fun
Summary: 4 Stars
This was not only a great film for good, clean laughs (only the characters get dirty out in the field), but was educational as well. I don't know how historically accurate it is, but I learned a lot about the beginnings of professional football. It was also refreshing to watch a movie about football that didn't put me to sleep but actually kept me engaged throughout. George Clooney and his motley band of not very professional players who wouldn't know a rule book if it was thrown at them find out what it's like to go against the big guns of college football (with Jonathon Pryce as a rather greasy villain). Meanwhile, Renee Zellwegger plays a wonderfully savvy, manipulative reporter who's after the news story of a lifetime and uncovers a rather embarrassing fact about the new all-star player's past in the Great War. A great bunch of characters, a heart-warming tale, and lots of laughs for the whole family.Movie Review: I liked it.
Summary: 4 Stars
And I'm picky about movies. This is a lighthearted good time with a few belly laughs dispersed throughout. Clooney takes on that leader with a semi-goofy persona character that he demonstrated in "O'Brother where art Thou'.
I'm not going to say that this movie mixes just the right amount of comedy, drama and romance to be perfect......it doesn't. But it is an entertaining, fairly tight-knit, well made and funny movie. Guys will probably enjoy it a bit more because of the football and 'guy-themes' like the occaisional bar fight and machismo driven dialogues. However, the lady I watched it with enjoyed it too. All the actors, including Renee, do a good job.
Nothing deep here - obviously - just good ole, occaisionally witty, fun.