Kicking & Screaming | | Cast : | Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Josh Hutcherson | | Director : | Jesse Dylan | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | May 13, 2005 | | DVD Released Date : | October 11, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 27, 2005 | | Summary | Why was it panned | Content
 | Kicking and Screaming as a good movie (better than Ferrell's Bewitched) Ferrell was fun, but not great. It was though a good attempt by Ferrell and a good 100 minutes of fun. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 22, 2005 | | Summary | it was awesome!!! | Content
| i think kicking and screaming was an awesome movie because not only do i like soccer but i love comedy movies and i thought it was quite funny,i also like how the actors all had different personalities it made the movie more interesting and fun.
i think alot of kids will like this movie i know that alot of my friends liked it and we are 11. hopfully it will go far and the actors will play in alot more movies to come.
thanx to all the cast and crew for making such an awesome movie
from *Lucy the cutie* |
| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | Glad I Waited For the Dollar Theater | Content
| Kicking and Screaming advertises itself as a silly kids movie and that is exactly what it is. It would be very hard for adults (except for exceptionally childish adults) to actually enjoy this movie. I'm sorry, but Will Ferrel is just too over-the-top and unrealistic and the only scenes that are good are the ones where he doesn't dominate them.
But the nice and enjoyable thing is that while it advertises itself as a kid's movie, it stays true to this without trying to add in scenes for the adults. That's right, no scatily clad women or anything that would make me nervous to have my son watch. There was also no foul language. The only thing that would have me concerned was that there were two women with have chosen to live an alternative lifestyle but the movie does a decent job of hiding this from the kidies. At least they hid it enough to not spark the interest of my inquisitive 8-year-old.
But this isn't a movie to spend a lot of money on. I took my family to the cheap theater and spent about as much money as a rental would cost. I would suggest one of these, I wouldn't find it worth spending any more money on. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 05, 2005 | | Summary | I Laughed Out Loud 4 Times | Content
| Will Farrel plays a father to a ten year old in this film. Will's father has bullied his son all his life especially when it comes to playing soccer. Will as a kid would sit out games as a "benchwarmer" (interesting term used a lot in the film) despite his father coaching his side. Will's son "sam" finds himself in the same predicament.Sam's grand father is still coach and a mean one at that.Will Farrel can't see his father bully his poor kid and coaches a team on his own.The story builds on from them. I thought the Mike Dicta's character was pretty funny actually.
There are some very funny situations shown in the movie and eventually I liked it more than I thought I would. It lingers on and ends in a predictable end. I thought the kids that made up "Tigers" did a great job. I laughed my head of in the scenes where the Gladiators defeat Tigers 13-0. There's something about incompetence and fear that just tickles me like mad. Watch it to know for yourself.
There's also a very strange but very funny depiction of Coffee in this movie. There's a Japanese kid around 3 feet in height that was very funny and cute.Overdramatic,cheesy but funnier than most.
Enjoy "kicking and screaming" |
| Rating | | | Date | May 31, 2005 | | Summary | Yet Another Kiddie-Fare Flick Made Watchable By Ferrell | Content
| "Kicking & Screaming" is a great, funny, and rather adult movie for the first half hour. After that, the movie kind of takes a turn, not for the worst, but for a lesser variation on what it was. The opening title sequence chronicling Ferrell's sports follies is hilarious, and it sets a good pace for the rest of the movie. Unfortunately, the movie does not create those kind of laughs for the rest of the movie. Truth be told, Will Ferrell makes this movie watchable. Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Ray Romano could not have done the same thing Ferrell has done here. His adlibs carry most of the movie, as the characters around him go by the script and are not nearly as funny. Most of the scenes with Ferrell and Mike Ditka work because they try so hard to make it funny that it actually works. In my opinion, even though this is a pretty good movie, Will Ferrell was much better in his more adult movies like "Old School", "Zoolander", "Anchorman", "Starsky And Hutch", "Superstar, the first two "Austin Powers" movies, and the more somber "Melinda And Melinda". Even 2003's kid-aimed Christmas movie "Elf" was hilarious, and is one of my Christmas favorites. "Anchorman" is very clever and so is "Old School", but those two movies show just how funny Ferrell can be when he want to be. He doesn't need to tame himself for movies like this when he would have been perfectly fine doing the remake of "The Longest Yard" (he would probably be funnier than Adam Sandler). It seems almost as if he has tamed himself for this role, something he could have easily avoided. The movie is going to bore most kids ages 3-10, mostly because of the long stretches of just talking in the middle. So, if your adlibbing alot of your lines, and the director has only directed R rated movies in the past, why not bump the rating up to a PG-13 and throw in a few sex and drug references and maybe an f-word, or something. People in the general audience tend to discriminate against movies that are marketed for a long time as one of those "Not Yet Rated" movies, and then it turns out that its rated PG. Movies like "National Treasure", which had previews running in late July, was unrated until early November, the same month it was released. "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" began its long marketing career in December was finally rated in March. Both those movies were very good, and there were alot of people that didn't see them because of the PG rating. "Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow" was first previewed to me (I don't know about the other people) when I went to see "Troy". I first found out the rating the week before it came out in September. It was supposed to be released in the summer, but it was delayed probably because of editing. That movie was only OK, but it goes to show what a PG movie can be. This is different. It was rated almost immediately, and it drew a large audience on opening weekend. But people, I can not stress enough that this is about as much a kids movie as "Meet The Focker's". It is geared more towards adults, like "Finding Neverland", but because of the rating people think that it's appropriate for kids. Will Ferrell is the only movies that this movie is watchable most of the time. Without him, the movie is as kiddie-fare as they come.
Will Ferrell plays Phil Weston, owner of a vitamin store and father of ten year old Sam Weston (Dylan McLaughlin). His father, Buck Weston (Robert Duvall), has always been highly competitive. From sticking a soccer ball in Phil's cradle as a child to playing him in a tetherball tournament as an adult, he has always wanted to win. Sam plays on the Gladdiators, Buck's soccer team. Buck always keeps Sam on the bench throughout the entire game, and finally, when Phil confronts him about this, Buck informshim that he has traded Sam to the Tigers. Think of them as the "special" soccer team. When the coach drops out because the kids drove him crazy one game into the season, Phil must take over or dissapoint Sam and the entire rest of the team by forfitting the entire season. After several humiliating losses, mostly to Buck's team, Phil makes the executive decision and arranges some intense practices. These scenes are not that funny, but they really should be. One kid eats worms. Ha-ha! Another pretends to be pregnant by shoving a soccer ball up his shirt and yelling "It's about to come out!". That's the highlight of the entire sequence. Oh lord. Other moments in the movie just are not funny because they try too hard. The entire last act with "The Italians"is just an excercise in seeing how far and how funny one joke can be.It's the equivalent of seeing how many tricks a one trick pony can do. Phil eventually gets obsessed, almost dangerously, in the game. Big suprise, the kids stop having fun. Sam quits the team, and Phil starts going a little Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction" with the look of the team. He makes himself a costume, blue with black tiger stripes, and starts to coach the kids with that. For some reason I don't think they took him very seriously, or will ever take him very seriously. He looks like a pimp. Sans the cane and fuzzy purple hat. Phil enlists the help of Mike Ditka (playing himself here), who is his fathers arch enemy. Phil's team begins to get better, and soon they begin to win. This is when Phil gets too cocky for his. . .britches? No! Too cocky for his pimp costume.
Soon, late into the third act, in the last 45 minutes, the movie picks up pace again and begins to get funnier. Of course, like there is with every kid movie, the coach teaches a valuable life lesson to all his kids. This happened in the terrible "Hoosiers", and most recently in the well done but mortally flawed "Friday Night Lights". Only this movie does it in a more stylized way, and when it is over we realize what has happened, It never comes to our mind that the coach is preaching when he is actually doing the act. Like all other sports movies, the kids come together to help one another. The outcasts, the shy kids, and the too-cool-for-school kids. Again, this happened in "Hoosiers" with everyone trying to get that Jimmy kid on the team, and so Gene Hackman. . .that was the "French Connection", sorry. In "Friday Night Lights", all the team mates tried to help Boobie Miles to get off his major ego trip (it doesn't help because they end up losing). Seriously, though. Who names there kid Boobie? They are just asking for trouble with that one. Why not Bobby? Billy. I could think of a million better names that Boobie (and it really did not help his character in that movie when in the middle he started blingin' it out). I'm sorry, but this movie, although very funny and clever in parts, is just another predictable kid movie that will appeal to several adults. Ferrell was much funnier as Frank The Tank in "Old School", and he was a riot as the chauvanistic Ron Burgandy in the guilty pleasure "Anchorman". This is the kind of movie that will provide many laughs on family pizza night, just make sure you have several glasses of soda first. If you really like Will Ferrell, like me, catch this in theaters and you probably will not be terribly dissapointed. I know I wasn't. If you don't really like him, skip this and take the kids to "Madagascar", and if you're geeky like that "Star Wars" for the fourty-eighth time. This is more the kind of movie Ferrell should have done during his SNL hiatus, not as a fully developed movie star. I secretly kept hoping he would strip down and streak across the soccer field. Will, here my plea: Go back to R and PG-13 movies, not these kind of kids movies. I hope there will be a directors cut when released on DVD.
Rated PG for Language and Sexual Innuendo.
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