Stuck in Iowa » movie review http://www.stuckiniowa.com It's all about corn, football, and not so many lakes or things to do. Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:27:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Longest Yard Movie Review (2005) http://www.stuckiniowa.com/the-longest-yard-movie-review-2005/ http://www.stuckiniowa.com/the-longest-yard-movie-review-2005/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:39:14 +0000 Smoother http://www.stuckiniowa.com/?p=9 Continue reading →]]> The Plot
This is a remake of the 1974 prison football comedy, The Longest Yard. It’s been done well and very similar to the original even down to the dialogue. It’s a story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Sandler) and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro (Reynolds), who are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game “fixed” to turn out quite another way. We’re supposed to believe that Crewe is a former NFL MVP however it’s a little hard to believe because he’s just Adam Sandler and not beefed up much at all.

The Longest YardThings I Learned From This Movie
- former pro athletes can’t get away with BREAKing the law all the time
- if you throw a professional game, everybody will hate you
- prison guards in Texas can beat the crap out of inmates and get away with it
- if you’re in prison, you’re pretty good at football
- black people are better at football than white people
- you can sneak anything into prison using a cake
- big guys can be sensitive too!

My Rating:
3 out of 5 Ears of Cizzorn
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Final Thoughts
I found the moving boring at times, but funny at times. I recommend this movie for a date, but I suggest renting instead of spending money at the theater for it. It does not take advantage of the big screen very well.

Movie Details
Genres: Comedy
Running Time: 1 hr. 49 min.
Release Date: May 27, 2005 (nationwide).
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, violence, language and drug references.
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Links
The Longest Yard Official Site

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My short review: Scary, exciting, some funny parts. I liked it because it seemed like something that could happen in real life and the reactions from the cast were that of a real life situation.

Here’s the description from Yahoo Movies

When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox’s (Kate Beckinsale) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they are forced to spend the night at the only motel around, with only the TV to entertain them… until they discover that the low-budget slasher movies they’re watching were all filmed in the very room they’re sitting in. With hidden cameras now aimed at them… trapping them in rooms, crawlspaces,..

IMDB Info
Official Site

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