Everyone involved with this remake claims the utmost respect for Robert Aldrich's raucously funny 1974 original. So you have to wonder why they crapped all over it, starting with the casting.

| Jun 24, 2006

Homophobia, sexism, racism, ageism and OJ-ism pound against genre clich (C)s as weathered as Reynolds' skin, bludgeoning you into submission.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2005

Adam Sandler, of course, is no Burt Reynolds. But then neither is Burt Reynolds these days, judging by his performance as the team's crusty mentor.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 6, 2005

Segal's version is no sports-film watershed, either, but it is consistently entertaining, athletically brutal, and, more often than not, well-acted.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 4, 2005

Glossy where the original was gritty and raw, silly where the original was scabrous, cartoonish where the original was dangerous and threatening, it aims only to be a lark.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2005

So I'm sure it will come as a surprise when I say the star's latest is a fun, amusing and pretty darn funny (if ultimately not entirely successful) comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 4, 2005

A Division III imitation of the original.

Full Review | May 31, 2005

No uplifting populism here.

| May 31, 2005

People will go see The Longest Yard for all sorts of reasons -- its lively humor, the current of violence that's just under the surface, its message of underdog racial reconciliation, or the fact that there's no actual football to watch on 온라인카지노추천.

| May 31, 2005

The pleasure is entirely like eating cake made from cake mix. It's not like you don't know how it's going to turn out, or how it tasted the last time you ate it.

| May 27, 2005

Whether it's the sight of Reynolds squeezed painfully into a football uniform or the endless footballs-to-the-crotch and tired gay jokes, The Longest Yard has the feeling of mutton dressed as lamb.

| May 27, 2005

Though there's no drearier trend in current movies than recycling, this modified Yard is more smoothly crafted than the 1974 slapstick version.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2005

The Longest Yard works well enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2005

What was already a raucous put-on, a goof on Aldrich's brutal action movies, is now a hyperbolic, gross-out cartoon, with a cast of enormous ex-football stars only adding to the air of facetiousness.

Full Review | May 27, 2005

It's indifferent, charisma-free filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 27, 2005

An odd mix of amusing nonsense and nastiness that chugs along, hit and miss, until the last section, which is the best part of the movie and its real reason for being: the game.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2005

A misguided, miscast remake of the 1974 Robert Aldrich classic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 27, 2005

A serviceable bone-cruncher of a sports comedy, just tough enough and funny enough to reach the end zone.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2005

Unoriginal but confident, it's the kind of effort that's just good enough to keep [Sandler's] track record going.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2005

Good old-fashioned fun from kickoff to the last crossing of the goal line.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 27, 2005