Underdogs
Underdogs
PG | 16 August 2013 (USA)
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The story of a small-town high school football team in rural Ohio destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.

Reviews
Karry

Best movie of this year hands down!

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SnoReptilePlenty

Memorable, crazy movie

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AshUnow

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Kien Navarro

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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mark-120-970906

Incredibly flat movie that had a promising cast and a nice story. The movie just lacks any punch as everything is predictable and just kind of fumbles along. And, while the lead actor was OK, he was physically too small and underweight to portray any standard high school QB - not believable at all.There's too many classic football movies to re-watch vs watching this one.

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leplatypus

This is the usual American sport production in which the « good » little beats the « bad » big. To be accurate, here, this thematic is multiplied three times : football, girlfriend, father's job. So it's full of values, maybe too much of them. However, this genre is interesting because it shows that American education (so poorly rated in my hypocritical country) offers a path for teens. In France, sports are totally rejected from schools but every one laments over teens violence ! The movie offers also a (soft) critic of wild capitalism and money, which is rather unusual ! At the end, the movie fails a bit because it's too much about winning ! In love, business or sports, the point is not to be a winner but to give everything, whatever the outcome may be ! But as the unknown cast for me is rather good, the movie is watchable, all the more than it offers Nat as a surprise guest-star ! I left you the pleasure to discover her part and i'm still wondering how after a decade of nearly break after « Johnny English », she decided to come back with this one ! Anyway, she is good and happy and maybe it was her the « underdog » ?

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F Mulder

This movie takes place in my hometown. It was exciting to see some of the places I visit on the big screen. That being said, the movie is low budget all the way. Especially the acting. Terrible through and through. And, it always is a shock to see recruiting at the high school football level. Everything about the movie is cliché: from the ragtag losing football team at the beginning (no one seems to do anything right), to the champions at the end (way too over the top). I guess Americans are suckers for the underdog story, but how many times do we have to see the same thing portrayed on screen. Two minutes into the movie, anyone in the theater could have accurately written the ending. No surprises. And, the parallel storyline with the quarterback's father was a little too convenient. Couple items of note, there are no palm trees in stark county, Ohio (except maybe indoors), and the Underdog team didn't seem to have enough players to field both offense and defense.

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yogi89

Terrible movie with some bad acting. Mrs Burkett was terrible and stuttering dad was unbelievable. Turns out to be an ad for suarez's eden pure heaters. Good local flair and commentating by the local whbc sports reporter but not enough to make it worth the matinée price or the 1hr 45mins. of my time that I can't get back. The best I can say about the movie is that quality filming was present. Doesn't look low budget.My children and spouse graduated from Aquinas and they were embarrassed to see their school in this movie.Movie is predictable and takes part of the local storyline into the movie. Those that worked at the Hoover company lived the working part of the story.Save your time and if your local wait for the DVD release, should be in about 2 weeks.

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