Search for:. Follow Following. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Funny plus redeeming personal side by susan5 Will's best movie! Funny, with a redeeming quality. If you have kids you will love it. Generally okay for ish year old's - only a few lines made it PG I don't know why they didn't make it a G by leaving out those few lines. Very funny. The father-son relationship was poignant. The coffee theme was so relevant.
If you enjoy Will F. Because we live in such a success-oriented culture rather than a character-oriented culture, the "win-at-all-cost" them is also very timely in our sports-focused society. Not the deepest, but one of the funniest by oceanave "Kicking and Screaming" is probably one of the funniest juvenile comedies ever done - it's more of a parody than anything else, and of course, it can't be taken too seriously.
Its greatest strength is that it is very identifiable - the whole intra-family competitiveness theme is a tried and true one, especially when it comes to athletics. In this movie, it is bolstered by brilliant comedy with an extremely talented group of actors. Will Ferrell is always best when he does the wacky stuff. The awkward predicaments he seems to inflict upon himself are the heart and soul of the movie - take the scene where it dawns on him that two lesbians are actually parenting one of the kids on the soccer team.
He has a countless number of great moments like that. Phil is a bundle of neuroses, not the nicest guy in the world, but he's very well-meaning. His gradual move from coffee-hater to coffee addict was a great subplot. Duvall has never been a comedian, but he definitely knows how to play the hard-ass jock dad.
They were lucky to get him to do this "little" movie. The addition of cigar smoking Mike Ditka playing himself was also a lucky strike. He doesn't disappoint, referring to Italians with a redneck-decisive emphasis on the "I".
Of course, the focus of the movie is the kids, and there are some big talents in the group. Steven Anthony Lawrence does well as the quirky Mark Avery, and Elliot Cho is hysterical as Byong-Sun, the smallest kid on the team and adopted son of the lesbians.
The boys who play the Italians, brought over from Italy, obviously opened up new territory for the writers. They have a few good lines here and there -and they seem to accept that the kids on the team, and the neurotic adults, are just products of a nutty culture.
After seeing Jesse Dylan bomb hard with "American Wedding", I almost promised myself I'd never watch any more of his films. I was pleasantly surprised, and after about ten viewings, am still laughing at "Kicking and Screaming. Awesome by jackdelamare I chose to watch this film on the TV because there was nothing on. I looked at the information and saw that the famous actor and one of my favourite actors, Will Ferrell was in this film.
I watched it and really got into it. He plays a good coach, but not a normal coach. He tries different plays with his team, even though they are not the best. Will Ferrell gets back at his dad for being such a stuck-up person and then realises quite near the end of the film that he is acting like his dad was to him.
He has a new game plan, not just all about the Italians kids. Overall this film is quite funny and good for the whole family. Very good acting from everyone. Worth watching. To be honest I never had the opportunity to have seen it in theaters when it was released seven years ago. But I was fortunate enough to purchase it near my local video store and when I saw saw it, I was as giddy as kid in a candy store as I couldn't wait to slip this bad boy in my DVD.
Still his dedication towards his work is flawless and his over the top zaniness will likely to tickle your funny bones, even the most hard-edged stoics might have a chuckle manifested within their stone-cold personalities. But that's the best asset about the film, it can have a strong impact on the younger audiences and at the same time the adults and the hard-edged cynics are entertained at the same time.
The central story is about a young man named Phil Weston Ferrell as he tries to liven up towards his dismissive and harsh father Buck Robert Duvall. Buck has never expressed any type of compassion towards his son partially because Phil has never had the same interests as Buck like sports or anything of the masculine flavor.
Phil grew up to operate a store that endorses vitamins for kids which has for years made ol' Bucko cringe. In everything that Phil set out to achieve Buck had to always usurp him, even if if meant knocking him down a notch just to remain the alpha male in the Weston household. Phil however, has to learn the art of inflicting tough love of his own as he graciously volunteers to coach his son Sammy's soccer team who's at the moment on an embarrassing losing streak that his grandfather traded him to.
Buck shows no remorse for his actions, but the battle of tough love that finally brings the father and son of Buck and Phil closer than they've ever been before. Will Ferrell truly makes his mark here in all his yelling and outlandish tactics will truly have you in stitches with laughter.
Switching from high energy proteins to strong brewed coffee he transforms into a uncontrollable almost maniacal maybe going beyond abusive in tough love than his father inflicted on him. Duvall shows he can do comedy as the tyrannical, obnoxious Buck.
At first glance, it appears like Buck's character is someone you would truly love to despise. NFL legend Mike Ditka also shows his acting chops are splendid just by being himself. All the kids in this movie provide much needed comic relief much like the kids in Arnold Schwarzenegger's vehicle "Kindergarten Cop".
We get a good overview the assets and liabilities of competitiveness and the sacrifices parents must consider when applying pressurizing tactics on your kids. But when the movie's over, it's all in fun and parents can sit on the couch with their kids and be just a family for the next minute and thirty five minutes. I loved this movie so much. Sure it's not one of the greatest sports story ever nothing beats "The Best of the Best" but I guarantee, you it will likely put a smile to your face.
I don't know about you girly girls, but all us manly men are well-rehearsed in sports competitiveness. This isn't something that you carry through high school and then grow out of, oh no, you're stuck with it for life. I may have been at my most intense when running over a catcher back when I played high school baseball, but I'm still known to throw an elbow in the church basketball league and to do a little trash talking during a heated ping pong match.
If you refuse to believe a ping pong match can get heated, then you've never played it the right way. Anyway, this is a movie whose humor feeds heavily off the fuel provided by the competitiveness of all the men involved. Whether it be Robert Duvall a real man who says the only daily vitamin he needs is a steak going toe-to-toe against Will Ferrell in a passionate game of tether ball or Duvall and Mike Ditka constantly trying to outdo each other or Will Ferrell becoming so addicted to coffee that he installs a cappuccino machine on the bench and forces Ditka to resign as assistant coach, the chemistry just works.
It's a chemistry that is hard to accurately depict in writing. A chemistry whose effectiveness lies in the delivery. For example, there's a young Asian boy on the soccer team named "Byong Sun. She starts to spell it, but he stops her and says, "I think I got it.
I'd try to concentrate on the movie, then I'd think about how self-assured Ditka was that he now knew how to spell the name, and I'd bust out laughing all over again. Then later in the movie when Ditka yells out, "Way to go, Bing Bong!
It's just one of those things. Or when Ditka tells the kids, "I eat quitters for breakfast and spit out their bones," and then Ferrell deadpans, "Delicious. It's all in the timing and delivery. Sometimes this type of humor is so subtle that it might not be fully appreciated, so I'm warning you now to pay attention to it. Speaking of Ditka, he steals the show.
He has a natural talent for comedy like this, and it's hard not to laugh when he's on screen wearing a Bears sweater vest or a shirt that has "Ditka" on it. Just sit back and enjoy his competitive bickering with Duvall.
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