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

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

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

... a rather schizophrenic movie; groaningly familiar around the edges but with a pair of frighteningly unpredictable monsters at the centre.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 12, 2005

... as entertaining as watching your neighbor's kid's soccer game, not because you want to, but because you have to.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 21, 2005

... barely watchable.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 21, 2005

Dylan has to rely on Ferrell's manic energy to keep Kicking & Screaming a step ahead of Ladybugs in the youth soccer movie pantheon.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2005

A zero, but the title describes how the audience is likely to react, perfectly.

Full Review | May 19, 2005

Ferrell is one of the film's few bright lights. It's a shame to hide that subversive beacon under a bushel of dully inspirational sports movie cliches.

| May 13, 2005

As lazy, bloated and 온라인카지노추천-screen- friendly as shameless promos come.

| May 13, 2005

If you're into Will Ferrell.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2005

It just plods along, harmless but lifeless, going exactly where you think it's going.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 13, 2005

Sit in a room by yourself, look at a blank screen for 90 minutes, and you'll have more of a chance of laughing at your own thoughts than you will at this movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 13, 2005

Both Duvall and Mike Ditka, who plays himself and helps coach Phil's team, spend too much of the movie on the bench, and while they're there, the jokes run thin.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2005

Even a soccer-savvy audience has better things to do -- like instilling unsportsmanlike behavior in their kids or sabotaging rival teams.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 13, 2005

Most of the time, [the kids] go along. Most of the time we do, too.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2005

A limping string of laboured sight gags and sentimental clichés.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 13, 2005

The sort of almost-there family movie for which half-stars exist in ratings.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2005

Rather shakily directed by Jesse (son of Bob) Dylan, who possibly knows something about larger-than-life fathers.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 13, 2005

The kind of movie that makes you wonder why anyone would even bother making it in the first place.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 12, 2005