The Longest Yard (Widescreen Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Longest Yard (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Great Remake
Summary: 4 Stars
The remake of The Longest Yard was actually really well done. Most remakes are so far off and way too overboard but this one was just right. If you are a fan of the original and love football then I think you will enjoy this. I would recommend this movie for one of those nights you just want something simple.Movie Review: See the Original!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Why mess with perfection? Would "The Good,the Bad and the Ugly" be better if the film was updated with some more current talent?
"The Longest Yard" from the 70's is a first rate football/prison flick about disgraced QB Paul Crewes trying protect himself and then do right after landing in prison for a few years.
The remake is a pointless update, and if seen in context of the original, it is in excercise in nothing but capitalist exploitation and the "repackage-all-that-sells" attitude of Hollywood. Adam Sandler is capable of good comedy, but does not have the football background Burt Reynolds had to make credible. Chris Rock and Nelly are tiresome and a predictable reach to crossover to the BET and Hip-Hop crowd. The first try wasn't without humor, but also showed a very serious side to life in stir. The remake is all laughs and "don't drop the soap" jokes.
The first "Longest Yard" was a film, this "Longest Yard" is a PRODUCT.
Movie Review: There goes the neighborhood!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was all laughs from beginning to end.
A remake of the 1974 film of the same name. Adam Sandler plays Paul Crewe, an former NFL player who was kicked out of the sport after being suspected of throwing a game. Down on his luck, Paul Crewe gets thrown into jail after drunkingly driving his girlfriend's car on national television.
While in jail he is convinced to put together a football team made up entirely of convicts to go against the prison guards. Burt Renolds, who starred as Paul Crewe in the 1974 movie, plays the coach of the Mean Machine team. Chris Rock also plays Caretaker who comes up with many of the plays. The rap artist Nelly plays a very fast running back and James Cromwell, the warden from The Green Mile, plays the Warden of the jail in this movie.
A lot of this movie is a scene by scene, line by line remake of the original except that a lot of the language and racial references were toned down. The original movie was rated R but I think they figured out that they would make more money with a PG-13 movie and replaced all but one F-word with substitutes, most of them being the more widely accepted S-word. This might have worked because the movie actually made some decent money and the teenage crowd was a large contributor to the ticket sales. In fact, I wouldn't have seen this if it had retained its R rating.
I think most would agree that this wasn't as good as the original, but it is still just as funny though a lot of the darker humor from the original movie has been replaced with something a bit more slapstick. There are many running gags but the one that killed me the most was replacing one guard's steroids with female hormones instead. Throughout the movie you see him acting more and more feminine. Of course, hillarity ensues.
I wouldn't recommend this for any youngster as they flirted with an R rating and probably came just short of earning it. If you are looking for a movie that will inspire you to be good or make you a better person, this is not it. This movie is just for those who are looking for a fun time and are willing to look past the unreality of it all.
Movie Review: Remake-- Mistake
Summary: 2 Stars
I don't know if it's the cast I didn't like or what; but it just wasn't good enough for me. The movie wasn't dark enough in a setting sense. I think a night time game would have been more engrossing and I give the casting a grade of D.
The comedy angle was corny this time around as the new MEAN MACHINE does not jell as a likeable unit; as the original film did. Too many jerks in this movie, and I didn't buy Sandler as quarterback.
Movie Review: LONGEST YARD
Summary: 4 Stars
Anyone can play football.This movie is about football. The people in this movie r in jail but not in real life. The guys in jail r going to play the gards in a game of football. The guys in jail get to practis on a dirt field kind of a desert looking sand field. Most of the fast people are black, which paule crew has to play one of them in a game of basketball. If paule crew loses he has to leave and if he wins deke and his crew have to join the team.