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The Replacements Movie Trailer
The Replacements Film (2000) Official Trailer - Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman Sports Comedy HD
The Replacements Movie Description
In The Replacements movie, Despite the fact that The Replacements Full Movie is a completely unoriginal and predictable rehash of a dozen 'losers to winners' sports stories, it's so hysterically funny that I didn't even care. The story is excellent.
The players are on strike in the NFL and scabs are called in to end the season. Our heroes have less ability but more will and uniqueness.
Quarterback, Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) once had a promising career, but he falls apart psychologically when his team is defeated in the College Bowl Game and he is labeled as a player who will fail in the big game. Folds.
Of course, while visiting the NFL, Shane falls in love with the head cheerleader (Brooke Langton), who never dates the players (except this time, of course).
It's all just a mundane excuse for a raunchy and silly comedy that has some side-splitting moments. You really need two things to enjoy this The Replacements movie.
You need to love football and you need to enjoy slapstick, banana peel comedy. I realize this limits the audience considerably, but for those who deserve (and I am one), this The Replacements film is a scream.
Director Howard Deutch (Pretty in Pink, Grumpier Old Men) did a great job on the football scenes. He hired 45 professional football players (former NFL players, Canadian Football League, etc.)
to do the football scenes and sent the actors to a three-week football camp. The action looked real because it was real. The players were told to play and hit as they normally would. Sure, the plays were choreographed, but they were real football plays.
The comedy was raunchy, outrageous and lewd, with a great deal of physical humour.
The cheerleader scenes were a riot, especially the cheerleader tryouts. The scene where he starts dubbing sexual acts to distract the opposing team was priceless.
There was also fast-paced football humor that required more than just a passing knowledge of the game.
Can't say too serious about acting. Keanu Reeves tries to play a serious comeback and romantic role amidst all the silliness and it doesn't really fit with the rest of The Replacements movie.
However, he was an excellent athlete. He made most of his on-field shots and looked very reliable as a quarterback.
Gene Hackman was good when he was making snappy witticisms, but his inspirational 'Hoosiers' imitations were wrong.
The Replacements movie actually featured supporting actors such as Orlando Jones (Clifford Franklin), Michael Taliaferro and Faizon Love (The Jackson Twins), Ace Yonamine (Jumbo Fumiko), Rhys Ifans (Nigel 'The Leg' Gruff) and all the cheerleaders.
Comedy work. Jon Favreau gets a special mention as the insane SWAT. Officer turned linebacker took the role of the wild man to the next level.
The Replacements movie won't be fun for everyone, but it will have some people falling off their chairs. I rated it 8/10.
Deduct two points if you're not amused by sloppy and rude behavior, and deduct two points if you're not a football fan. For the rest of you, prepare to split gut.
Those are the words of the coach (Hackman) before the final regular season game for the "replacement" players who are filling in for the hitting regulars. The "Never Been" QB (Keanu Reeves) should try to lead them to victory.
"The Replacements Film" is primarily a good screwball comedy, but much better than "Best of Show" and "The Waterboys." Some may even take away the "message" about the importance of teamwork, belief in yourself, true love (the QB and head cheerleader). But all that is secondary.
I rate it high for pure escapism entertainment, but with decent acting by Reeves and Hackman, and some almost-believable football action, with heavy goofiness. Lap-dancers became cheerleaders, completely distracting the opposing team.
The tag-team vomits after the Japanese sumo wrestler eats too many eggs before the game ("I gotta beef up!") The policeman, who, like "Waterboy", can get angry (the coach says, " I want you to get me the ball," and he does.)
The Welsh kicker who is "wirr-rri strong" and smokes a cigarette while kicking. "I Will Survive" Dance in Jail After Barroom Brawl with 'Regular'
To make a good screwball comedy, the writer and director have to walk a fine line and here they do it well.
John Madden and Pat Summerall, playing the announcers, are really funny. Meets DVD picture and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound standards.
To work, comedy has to be unpredictable. And that's why "substitution" works so well. Oh, it's not that the plot is unpredictable, because from.
But the actual comedy embedded in that plot is often delightfully bizarre and quite unusual in this very good-natured and amusing The Replacements film. For example, the first scene takes place in a completely unexpected setting and proceeds in a really odd-ball way.
As is the case most times, Keanu Reeves' acting is subtle. In The Replacements movie you have to see the eyes that are so eloquent when he is discouraged and listen to the little exhaled breaths that express his state of mind so well (and very comically) when He happens to be with a girl he finds attractive.
It's all there, and a lot more, if you look closely. Reeves is totally believable as a guy who needs a second chance to do something he loves - play football.
He seems to be a different person on and off the field - and that's what The Replacements film was trying to convey.
The development (redemption is just a bit too strong a word) of Reeves' character is masterfully portrayed. The struggle to overcome that provides a nice solid center around which all the hilarity revolves and vice versa becomes fun.
Gene Hackman and this ensemble cast did a great job - everyone has their moments.
If there is a weakness in The Replacements movie, it is the romance. It's not that Brooke Langton and Reeves aren't good in the clinic — they have a definite chemistry. But it seems like there should have been just one scene with any real substance between them.
"The Replacements Movie" has also been successful as a football film. great photography and sound; the script's inventiveness in dreaming up the unusual and ridiculous, yet still plausible, events of the game; And the clear focus on training and portrayal of physical moves, all add up to a film that sports fans will love.
And yet, soccer games are presented so clearly that anyone who isn't soccer-savvy can understand everything that's happening, even for the first time.
Comedy is tough--making people laugh for two hours at a theater is quite an accomplishment.
And that's certainly what the audience did when I saw "The Replacements Movie." As well as cheering loudly for the "home team", clapping at the end, and feeling like dancing to "I Will Survive" like they did in The Replacements movie.
As well as realizing that we can survive and be ourselves - just like those lousy, cynical replacements.