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Comedy on December 29th, 2006 by Chad Everett
The Texas State University Fighting Armadillos just won another championship. Unfortunately, they were also caught cheating on a grand scale. Boosters were giving money to players, the players were using steroids, and just about every violation that could be a violation was found on campus. So the football program has been dismantled. They aren’t allowed any scholarships. The games are blacked out. Boosters aren’t allowed. Players must come from the student body and grades must be maintained. It will be a tough year.
About the only thing they can do is get the best person to run the program, and that’s just what they do. They hire Ed ‘Straight Arrow’ Gennero (Hector Elizondo) as the coach, because he’s widely regarded as not taking anything from anyone.
In fact, he was fired from his last job by the boosters because he wouldn’t allow players to take gifts, so it looks like he’s the perfect man for the job. He brings on his long-time assistant Wally Rig (the great Robert Loggia) to run the defense and they are off and running. At least, if they can put a team together, they are.
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Drama on October 7th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This is actually like two movies in one.
The first is fairly typical Adam Sandler fare: It’s what you’re used to seeing if you’ve ever seen, well, any of his movies. It’s also what you’re likely to think of if you actually saw the trailer for the movie.
Dad’s too busy for the family, he heads out for a universal remote, gets a truly universal remote, and can control anything. Hilarity ensues. He uses it to walk the dog faster, watch the girl in the short shorts run slower, make the jerk next door look stupid, that sort of thing. There is absolutely nothing surprising about any of this.
What is surprising is that somewhere in all of that, they completely forgot to mention that it’s (maybe) half the movie.
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Romance on June 29th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Adam Sandler generally isn’t the first actor you think of when it comes to dramatic performances, and this isn’t really a dramatic role, but he did a pretty decent job. Sure, there are moments. There are references to his other films, whether it’s the inclusion of his buddies or names or what-have-you. But there are also moments where he and Drew Barrymore really do fine job of making things work.
Henry Roth (Sandler) is something of a serial liar. He works at the aquarium, but you wouldn’t know it if you were to happen across him in a bar. He tells women that he works for the CIA – or just about any other secret organization – in order to avoid having to call them. He only dates tourists, so that they will leave at the end of their trip and he doesn’t have to see them again. Ever. But that changes when he meets Lucy (Barrymore) one morning at breakfast.
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