I'll keep saying it:  If drag was good enough for Shakespeare, then it's good enough for Hollywood.

The Longest Yard

directed by Peter Segal (50 First Dates)
screenplay by Sheldon Turner
based on the 1974 screenplay by Tracy Keenan Wynn
story by Albert S. Ruddy (Cannonball Run)

produced by Jack Giarraputo (Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star)

starring Adam Sandler (Bulletproof), Chris Rock (Bad Company), Burt Reynolds (Cop & 1/2), James Cromwell (Species II), Nelly (Snipes), Walter Williamson (Mr. Deeds), Edward Bunker (Tango & Cash), Lobo Sebastian (Alex & Emma), Courtney Cox (Masters of the Universe), Nicholas Turturro (Excess Baggage), Bob Sapp (Elektra), Terry Crews (White Chicks)

lowdown:  Re-make of the 1974 prison football classic.

low expectation: 
        It isn't the season for football movies, not even high concept retreads with a lot of star power.  Besides, Sandler has already done football.  He's also done hockey/golf and baseball (sort of).  He does get to play a little basketball in The Longest Yard at least, but I'm really waiting for the moment that he starts coaching a bunch of loser kids.  Maybe he can do the field hockey movie I've been waiting for.  I see him coaching a bunch of teenage girls.  I don't know why.
I mean, as long as he's not playing the loveable moron of Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, films that had an original, at times odd, sense of humor and instead is pairing up with Chris Rock doing conventional jokes, he really should go to the bottom of sports comedy barrels. 

con:  Original stars appearing in remakes just reminds audiences of how much better movies used to be (see Peck and Mitchum in Scorsese's Cape Fear)
con:  The dumb-ox stereotype lives on

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website:
LongestYard.com

synopsis/press release:
     "The Longest Yard" is the story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Sandler) and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro (Reynolds), who are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game "fixed" to turn out quite another way. -- © Paramount Pictures

Expectation Key


there's no possible way I will ever see this

I might eventually see this but I'm not really expecting much

anticipating the release of this one but I'm sure to be left unsatisfied

such high expectation of this film only leaves room for disappointment