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The Big Green

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Let's be honest. You already know the beginning, middle, and end to this movie. You know it even if you haven't watched it. Nonetheless, is an enjoyable, albeit incredibly predictable Disney sports flick. Basically, it's Little Giants with a European translation of Football.

When the film begins, an attractive, teacher named Anna Montgomery (Olivia d'Abo) arrives in a small town as a visiting teacher - sort of a teaching abroad half-year deal from England, but without the bad teeth. Anyway, she's a horrible teacher; so she decides to teach her lessons via soccer indoctrination. The kids would rather be doing something more fun, like covering themselves in Cheetos and letting birds eat off of them.

Anyway, the kids name their team after their field in a nearly-stolen-from-Mighty-Ducks concept, and the teacher gets them to play soccer. Naturally, the kids suck when they first begin to play. They're so bad it's almost as if each kid suffers from vertigo or something; they completely lack any sort of athletic ability or coordination. And, the fat, red-headed kid from Sandlot plays a goalie who is afraid of the ball (like Goldberg the goalie from Mighty Ducks), and sees opponents as ninjas, terminators, and zombies (like visions of puppyheads from Waterboy).

Soon enough, just as the sun rises, the movie follows the Disney movie sports formula. The kids that sucked start to win, lose to the best team in town inevitably coached by a jerk, the kids learn life lessons, insert goofy character (Steve Guttenberg), at least one kid on the team overcomes some sort of difficulty, and the good guys vs. bad guys finale for this genre. I'll let you guess who wins.

It's typical, easy to pick apart for a paint-by-numbers script and mediocre acting, but it's still fun enough to enjoy.

This movie is very entertaining. My daughter really enjoyed it since she plays soccer and could relate to the kids learning to play and be a team. Lots of slap-stick comedy that anyone would enjoy.

This was a gift for my sister and her kids. They really like this movie and I decided to send it to them

A family favorite. We could not find this in the stores anywhere and was thrilled when we found it on Amazon. My kids are 19 and 16 and played soccer all through growing up. My son is starting Varsity Goalie for his high school. We all still get a kick out of watching it.

My son is 7 and he and I just love this movie. It was in good condition when it arrived. It is a funny story about a bunch of kind of poor kids that form an awesome soccer team.

A good movie for entire family to watch together. My whole family was able to watch together and enjoy it, without complaining. A great stocking stuffer for Christmas.

The storyline may be predictable, but it's really funny

i think that it was very good for a little kid's movie, and of course it will be predictiable because that's what little kids like, to see a happy ending, they wouldn't like the movie as much if what happened didn't happen.

Just like all the other Disney sports movies [Little Giants, Angels In The Outfield, Little Big League] only it was more boring. Not a very good movie.

I have a seven year old and we love watching this movie together. It's really funny, touching, and fun. Sure, it's not an award winner, but it's positive and fun for the whole family.