I love Will Ferrell. I was watching this movie yesterday. He works well with the brilliant Robert Duvall who plays his champion father, Buck Weston, who would do nothing but win. Will's character marries Kate Walsh's character and they have a son, Sam, and so does Will's dad and his new wife have a son named Bucky Jr. Years later, Duvall's soccer team exchanges his own grandson to the losing team in the league. On top of that, their coach quits and Ferrell takes over. One of the younger players is a foreign adopted boy, Byong Chun, whose lesbian mothers offer a book about their son's shyness. I love seeing David Hermann play the referee, Greg Kinnear play the opposing coach, Laura Kightlinger as the lesbian mother, and of course Mike Ditka as Buck's neighbor and nemesis. The story is typical and predictable but still watchable and enjoyable.
Review of Kicking & Screaming
