Though perhaps not the best movie ever, this Denzel Washington vehicle is certainly a good movie to watch on a lazy weekend afternoon when you're surfing the channels looking for something to pass the afternoon.
The story centers around a small school that's suddenly been given a surprise for the new school year - they will be joining together with a black school, and in even more of a surprise, the head coach of the black school will become the head coach of the football team. Needless to say, this doesn't go over well.
The problems start over the summer in football camp, but the ex-head coach, who is of course white (played by the eminently enjoyable Will Patton), handles the transition well - if not exactly gracefully - and the two coaches form a strong bond, and the players eventually come around as well. Eventually, the team follows suit, and what happens on the field is nothing short of miraculous, with the team finishing with an undefeated season and as national runners-up (or so the story goes).
Based somewhat loosely on the 1971 T.C. Williams football team, the movie has been Disney-fied as well as Bruckheimer-ed.
Rated PG for thematic elements and some language, but this is one that the whole family can enjoy.
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