Yeah, I really don't understand the current (7.4) rating for this movie. Who knows, maybe this rating will change as more people have seen the film.
I mean, don't get me wrong. It wasn't one of those movies where I felt afterward, "like wow, I'm about 88 minutes closer to my inevitable demise." It held my attention. I even thought some of it was funny. But still.
It's not like it was bad, because it wasn't. Everyone involved did their jobs properly, except for whoever wrote the script/endless-string-of-clichés.
Seriously. Could this possibly be more of a "Let's get the team back together for one last game against our hometown rivals" type of movie? And it would be one thing if it stopped there.
It doesn't. Throw in one relationship on the rocks, a paternity subplot, the ever popular "cute silly foriegner," and, you know what, I really don't have the patience to list all of the clichés. To give you an idea, about 1/3 of the way through, there is, very much, a non-ironic montage. Yes, that's right. A montage.
Fact is, Murray is best in the following two types of movies: A) Films (such as Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, and Ghostbusters) which are just sidesplittingly hilarious and B) Ones that are serious and/or sweet without pretension (Royal Tennenbaums, Lost in Translation)
Unfortunately, this movie was neither one.
6/10
I mean, don't get me wrong. It wasn't one of those movies where I felt afterward, "like wow, I'm about 88 minutes closer to my inevitable demise." It held my attention. I even thought some of it was funny. But still.
It's not like it was bad, because it wasn't. Everyone involved did their jobs properly, except for whoever wrote the script/endless-string-of-clichés.
Seriously. Could this possibly be more of a "Let's get the team back together for one last game against our hometown rivals" type of movie? And it would be one thing if it stopped there.
It doesn't. Throw in one relationship on the rocks, a paternity subplot, the ever popular "cute silly foriegner," and, you know what, I really don't have the patience to list all of the clichés. To give you an idea, about 1/3 of the way through, there is, very much, a non-ironic montage. Yes, that's right. A montage.
Fact is, Murray is best in the following two types of movies: A) Films (such as Caddyshack, Groundhog Day, and Ghostbusters) which are just sidesplittingly hilarious and B) Ones that are serious and/or sweet without pretension (Royal Tennenbaums, Lost in Translation)
Unfortunately, this movie was neither one.
6/10