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Kicking
& Screaming  (PG)
DVD
Release Date: October
11, 2005
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Price $16.98
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Will Ferrell
is at his full, frenzied power as Phil
Weston, a married, uncoordinated would-be
sportsman with an uncoordinated would-be
sportsman son--and an unresolved relationship
with his coach father, Buck (Robert
Duvall),
who has very little tolerance for the
uncoordinated. When Buck trades his
own grandson to a real loser of a little
league soccer team, Phil naturally takes
over underdog coaching duties and the
two men butt heads. |
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could easily, and perhaps rightfully,
dismiss all of this as a dumb, demented
Meatballs or Bad News Bears rip-off,
but it's pleasantly dumb and sometimes
hysterically demented: Encouraged by
his neighbor, ex-Chicago Bears coach
Mike
Ditka
(yes, playing himself), Phil stops his
vitamin regimen and becomes wildly addicted
to regular doses of caffeine, which
turns him into a monster of a team leader.
In addition to Ferrell, Duvall does
a doozy of a comic riff on his Great
Santini role, and even Ditka is unexpectedly
funny. It's a formula film with just
enough far-out notions to keep you chuckling.
-- Steve Wiecking --This
text refers to the Theatrical Release
edition.
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