The Longest Yard (2005)
Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.
4 April 1981, Long Beach, California, USA
27 December 1966, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
10 November 1968, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
1 June 1981, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
July 24, 1975 in West Covina, California, USA
2 October 1973, Detroit, Michigan, USA
December 1, 1962 in Fresno, California, USA
April 16, 2009
Peter Segal ("Anger Management") successfully helms his third Adam Sandler project in this funny modernized retooling of Robert Aldrich's 1974 original .
March 11, 2008
Yields the dispiriting insight that Hollywood can't even make credible rabble-rousing junk any more.
May 31, 2005
No uplifting populism here.
May 26, 2006
The new film keeps about 90% of the original story and even some of the original lines of dialogue, yet the changes it makes are all misguided.
May 27, 2005
The pleasure is entirely like eating cake made from cake mix. It's not like you don't know how it's going to turn out, or how it tasted the last time you ate it.
May 31, 2005
A Division III imitation of the original.
May 27, 2005
Whether it's the sight of Reynolds squeezed painfully into a football uniform or the endless footballs-to-the-crotch and tired gay jokes, The Longest Yard has the feeling of mutton dressed as lamb.
May 31, 2005
People will go see The Longest Yard for all sorts of reasons -- its lively humor, the current of violence that's just under the surface, its message of underdog racial reconciliation, or the fact that there's no actual football to watch on TV.
May 29, 2008
A film we could live without, inspired by an original that was anything but essential.
November 26, 2005
Filme poco pretencioso que no busca otra cosa que no sea entretener. No pasará a la historia, pero por lo menos es mejor de lo que parece.
June 24, 2006
Everyone involved with this remake claims the utmost respect for Robert Aldrich's raucously funny 1974 original. So you have to wonder why they crapped all over it, starting with the casting.
November 01, 2006
This edition of Yard has a lighter feel than the original -- well, considering it's a movie about prison inmates.
