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Plot:
Will Ferrell stars as Phil Weston, an average Joe who's had to put up all his life with his overly competitive father, Buck (Robert Duvall). When Phil decides to coach his 10-year-old son's soccer tea...( read more 
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MCT:August 25, 2008
It sure was a great soccer comedy, but what does it teach? Well, forget about that because that's not what I'm disappointed about. I'm kind of freaked out from Will Ferrell here. Don't you movie watchers think he was "out of the ordinary" in this movie? Think about it.
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MCT:July 9, 2008This turned out to be an okay movie. It was quite funny at times and in the end I was happy to see that he didn't turn out like his father.
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MCT:June 21, 2008
Not bad, not great, has some memorable lines and scenes that make the film enjoyable more than once.
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MCT:June 21, 2008
Kicking & Screaming was quite a funny film, Will Ferrell did another great job of yelling his heart out.
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MCT:May 23, 2008
The more I see of Will Farrell the more I think he only appeals to 8 year olds. That's what I though about this one anyway.
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MCT:May 5, 2008
this wasnt a really good movie but the italian guys were hott and where was josh hutcherson in this movie
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MCT:March 26, 2008
A forgetable family sports comedy. It is a bit predictable, but the cast lead by Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, and a cameo by Mike Ditka makes the movie worthy. It is worth to catch on TV, or to rent it, but it is not worth owning, nor is it something you care about watching multiple times.
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MCT:March 14, 2008
Will Ferrell takes his comedy to the family scene in 'Kicking and Screaming'.
Phil Weston (Ferrell) is an average family man whose father (Robert Duvall) has always been competitive and bullied him.
When Phil's son is kicked off his fathers football team, Phil decides to coach a new team - the Tigers. The trouble is that the Tigers are not the best footballers in the world.
However Phil vows to get to the final and beat his fathers team.
This family film has a good story and has many good laughs.
Ferrell is his usual manic self, although as it is a family film, it is obvious he is showing a lot of restraint from his usual stuff.
As enjoyable as I found this film, I did find that, for a family film, it centered too much on Ferrell's character and less on the children - making it harder for children to assosciate with it.
All in all, 'Kicking and Screaming' is a funny film that can easily be enjoyed. -
MCT:March 8, 2008
This was much funnier than I expected. Will Ferrell plays a father whose son is traded to another soccer team by Will's hypercompetitive father (played by Robert Duvall). Most of the humor comes from Will Ferrell doing what he does best--slapstick silliness. Mike Ditka adds to the fun as a caricature of himself.
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MCT:January 2, 2008Even as someone who loves soccer...I couldn't find much amusement in this. I know it's a Will Ferrell movie and you can't take it very seriously, but I didn't really find much of it very funny.
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MCT:December 30, 2007Out of all the talented people who were on 'Saturday Night Live' in the last fifteen years, Will Ferrell is by far my favorite. He's such a charismatic, energetic and hilarious performer. He truly is a comic genius. He's also one of the most successful SNL alumni of all time. For most of the cast members, after they leave 'Saturday Night Live' their careers go down the toilets. But not Will Ferrell, he only improved his career after his goodbye to SNL, with great comedies like Old School, Anchorman, and even, Elf. Whenever you go see a Will Ferrell film you have the strong expectation of it being really good. Well, Ferell's latest effort, 'Kicking and Screaming', is a disappointment of epic proportions. But that isn't his fault. Poor Mr. Ferrell tries as hard as he can to lift this dud off the ground, but he just isn't able to because of the movie's beyond lame screenplay. Yes, those thinking 'Kicking and Screaming', would be the next great Will Ferrell movie are sadly mistaking. I was one of those people, and that's why I left the theater so incredibly disappointed.
The movie is a little league soccer flick, and it circles around the all-too-familiar plot of the dipstick son trying to live up to his non-supportive father. The dipstick is Will Ferrell's character, Phil Weston. He owns a vitamin store, and is always trying to gain the respect of his father, Buck Weston (played by Academy Award Winner Robert Duvall), who owns a chain of sporting good stores and viciously coaches a little league soccer team, which Phil's son is a part of. One day, Buck trades Phil's son to another team because he isn't a good player. This infuriates Phil, and eventually has him coach the team his son has been traded to, to show daddy he's not a screw-up. The movie pretty much follows the competition of the two father-son coaches. Whose team will win the championship? By the end of the movie, you really don't care anymore, and you're looking at your watch frantically to see how much of this waste of film is left.
It isn't so much 'Kicking and Screaming' is a horrible movie, it's just not a good one by any stretch of the imagination. The biggest problem with the film is the screenplay -- it is absolutely dreadful (to quote Simon Cowell to one of the untalented hack wannabe singers on 'American Idol'). It's very amateurish, and it doesn't go places it should to be funny. It's very bland and so conventional it will have you yawning after the 30-minute mark. Although it succeeds being funny sometimes, for the most part it fails miserably at earning laughs. Whoever wrote this trashy script should be banned from the film industry, because it is just awful. The movie is really saved by Will Ferrell, who really puts forth an effort to make the most of his part, but an actor in a film is only as good as the film's screenplay. Ferrell achieves hilarity in some scenes, but most of his lines are embarrassingly stupid and unoriginal. Mike Ditka is actually pretty good playing himself, and Robert Duvall serves as an example of a waste of good talent in this childish sap fest.
In conclusion, 'Kicking and Screaming' is something you should avoid. If you really love Will Ferrell, it just may be worth watching to see Ferrell break out in a violent rage brought on by too much coffee, but for the lot of us it is just plain old cinematic crap. Grade: C- (screened at AMC Deer Valley 30, Phoenix, Arizona, 5/13/05) -
MCT:December 17, 2007
I only laughed like two times; it was just plain stoop. Mighty Ducks & the Little Giants were WAAAY better than this soccer crap.
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MCT:December 9, 2007This Movie Is Hilarious! I Laugh All The Way Until It Ended. Will Ferrell Movie's Are Always So Enjoyable And Like This One Was About Soccer I Liked It A Lot.
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MCT:November 30, 2007
I saw only part of it but it made me laugh alot. I don't like Will Farrell but he is really good at what he does !!!!
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MCT:November 1, 2007Very funny, one of Ferrell's best. Some great lines and it was really good casting. The kids in this movie were mostly pretty good actors.
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MCT:October 25, 2007
Okay, but very standard. Forgettable enough, I forgot I had seen it, but okay enough that I watched it again rather than stop it.
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MCT:October 24, 2007
Ohhhh Will, I hope the money was good. A tepid, obvious and formulaic sports "comedy" that doesn't have one damn new or interesting thing to say. If I had to say one nice thing about this movie its that they were able to shoot a cleanly choreographed bit of soccer that didn't look like an amorphous blob of kids chasing a ball. This film made me realize that Ferrell is better as a kid (a la Elf) than with them. For performing with kids go to Jack Black.
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MCT:October 19, 2007
It has it's funny moments, but apart from that the plot is the same underdog story, nothing new. Will Ferrell has had better movies
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MCT:October 15, 2007
Decent kids movie. Will Ferrell was brilliant as always. The story could have been better though, pretty predictable!
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steelerchik823posted 405 days ago -
An awesome movie.Josh Hutcherson was one of the best characters.Hes a great actor!
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