Very well executed

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Powerful

This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

I'm not going to trash this movie. It's another example of how we all like to root for underdogs. Rick Moranis's team of misfits fills a bill that has been filled over and over and over. There are the organize guys, the team of villains. They have the nice uniforms and they have learned to play at a high level. Not only that, they seem to always have that quality that we love: they make fun of our poor guys. Of course, our guys have a couple of skinny kids with broken glasses and an overweight one who passes gas, enough to make another team pass out. Anyway, since this is just kind of harmlessly contrived sport, it works at its appropriate level. Remember, in the forties, people cheered as Harpo Marx broke every rule in football. It was all good fun anyway.

Little Giants (1994): Dir: Dwayne Dunham / Cast: Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, Shawna Waldron, Sam Horrigan, Devon Sawa: Recycled comedy about the smaller factor that achieves certain victory or acknowledgment. It is one of the countless rip-offs of The Bad News Bears. Misfit football team go through odd training so that they may challenge and defeat the team that rejected them. Puh-lease! Can anyone sense the bile? Rick Moranis plays the typical widowed father who brought his daughter up on sports and doesn't know how to approach her from a feminine standpoint. Ed O'Neill plays his rival brother in a variation of his Married...With Children role. They compete and eventually arrive at the predicted outcome. Shawna Waldron plays Moranis's daughter who can handle herself against the tough male competition. She tries out the feminine outlook but will realize that kicking butt on the football field is her thing. The worst performance goes unfortunately to Sam Horrigan who plays the embarrassing secret weapon player Spike who is a moron who speaks in the first person. Waldron will obviously send him flying on the field. This is also an early appearance of Devon Sawa. Dwayne Dunham does fine directing with a few visual elements but the film reworks tired themes such as teamwork and friendship that seem distant in this dying genre. Score: 3 ½ / 10

This movie was an absolute mess of a movie i truly expected more from and I'm glad i never got to finish this movie while watching it today because of what an awful movie it really was. The movie stars Rick Moranis as Danny O'Shea a man whose daughter didn't make the pee-wee football team but then decides to form a football team of his own when there was a lot more bad players than good ones. Like I said before I truly expected more from this film because this movie focuses more on Danny and Kevin (played by Ed O'Neill) constantly arguing with each other instead of it focusing more on football than anything else. I mean if you are going to make a movie about pee-wee football then focus it on pee-wee football instead of something else. The acting for this movie is just plain terrible just like the movie is. All Ed O'Neill does to Rick Moranis in this movie is just try to make him feel bad. Before i watched this movie i thought it was going to be as good as other great football movies such as Remember the Titans, and Invincible. This movie is one of 1994's worst films ever and when i was watching it i was desperate for it to end.

I still have yet to se a good family film about sports. It's always the same: bad team, gets good player, practices, and narrowly wins in the last three seconds of the game. How predictable can you get, Hollywood? I'm getting tired of this trash. Oh, and let's not forget the one or two mandatory swear words they always throw in to ensure PG and not G. However, Rick Moranis' "nerd" talent was good in this film, and kids might get a kick out of it. I wouldn't get mad if this film was labeled "kids", but it's not. It's labeled "Family", so make it family, writers! John