As disjointed as the whole thing is, it's often funny and, on a certain level, endearing.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

There is a bit of heart in Kicking and Screaming, with Ferrell and Duvall both giving nice performances.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 18, 2019

Just too awkward and clunky to be enjoyable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2019

You may have to be dragged kicking and screaming to see this silly kiddie footie flick.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 25, 2019

It's all kept light and funny, but underlying the broad sight gags is a movie that actually has something to say about competition, fathers and sons, machismo and caffeine.

| Feb 28, 2018

Is this all there is to Ferrell's career? Mediocre comedies, and wasted talent?

| Apr 29, 2009

Director Jesse Dylan, desperate to avoid yawns, flails madly with staging, editing, slow motion -- any trick he can think of, whether it fits or works or not.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

If this footy film was in a league it would be languishing at the bottom of the Vauxhall Conference.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 7, 2007

Will Ferrell has become the most unlikely embodiment of wholesome family fun since Fred MacMurray gave up film noir for My Three Sons.

| Aug 16, 2007

The picture is a little about soccer, a little about parenting, and a lot about laughing. Mike Ditka shows up and delivers a kick-butt performance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 26, 2006

Kicking & Screaming succeeds because it understands its target audience, refraining from playing it too cute or crude. Though predictable, it's well executed.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2006

Will Ferrell cria um personagem carismático a partir de um roteiro burocrático e, no processo, consegue divertir e levar o espectador a se envolver com a história.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 25, 2005

... Kicking & Screaming is not very good.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Kicking and Screaming feels as if it were callously vomited out by a machine, along with a couple of spare parts and some putrid grease.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 20, 2005

Robert Duvall is superb (his love of football is well-documented) and seems to really enjoy playing a comic variation of his sports-obsessed father in the classic The Great Santini.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2005

Gets the job done for its core audience of tots%u2014and for no one else.

| Original Score: C | Oct 13, 2005

This isn't the worst setup for a kiddie comedy, but it proves that Ferrell alone can't carry a film.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2005

There are a few broad laughs and Ferrell is everything you would expect him to be - irritating, occasionally amusing and sometimes inspired

| Aug 30, 2005

Ferrell's a funny guy, that much is true, and his frequent adlibbing is always preferable to the scripted humour he delivers, but he's just not right to lead a film like this.

Full Review | Original Score: 32/100 | Jul 25, 2005

Sounds bad, doesn't it?

| Jul 22, 2005