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Underdogs

Underdogs (2013)

August. 16,2013
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5.8
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PG
| Drama Family

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.

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Cebalord
2013/08/16

Very best movie i ever watch

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Listonixio
2013/08/17

Fresh and Exciting

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Dirtylogy
2013/08/18

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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Cheryl
2013/08/19

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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leplatypus
2013/08/20

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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elizgomez
2013/08/21

As in really, really bad. The writing is terrible, the actors are horrible. We did get a good laugh at how terribly awful the movie is. I thought it was made 20 years earlier and my husband had dug up a gem from the unwatched movies tucked in to Netflix. There was not one appealing character, the scenes were clichéd... you could guess every single line and outcome. I love football and usually will sit through anything and at least partially be attracted. All I can say is, "Wow!" Was this movie cast from the dregs of an acting school in Akron, Ohio? And what kind of music makes up the background? The music would be better matched to a fern bar. I was stunned to learn this film had grossed over $30,000. Much like "Snakes on a Plane," "Underdogs" movie copies will fill bins in WalMart at a few hundred pennies for hopeful sale for many years to come.

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F Mulder
2013/08/22

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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Lori Sprankle Moreland
2013/08/23

I'm a veteran of sports movies... "Rudy", "We Are Marshall", "One on One"-- I grew up on them and still can't resist the genre. So I'm well aware of the underlying metaphor of struggle and victory as it applies to daily life. I also hold a college degree in Literature, so I can sniff out cheese in a movie. "Underdogs" was refreshingly different.Yes, I loved it because I grew up in the region-- in the cradle of the birthplace of football. But I liked "Rudy", even though I've never worshiped the Football Jesus at Notre Dame. So, only minimal kudos for my love of place. I loved this movie because, unlike many sports movies, it was clear-eyed and real.The cinematography was sharp and by no means low-budget. The camera was so omnipresent yet graceful that it was able to pick up the subtleties of actors' expressions that catapulted the story along. The pacing was never slow either. The movie roared along like a high-school football season,with the viewer caught up in the play-by-play of the tumultuous season, as well as the companion struggle of the movie's main protagonists. The movie really let its young actors tell the story, too, so the point of view came right from the characters' hearts. Although the adults in the film did the usual pontificating, it was really the kids' story.As a veteran of many Film Festivals, I can say that this movie is not traditional Film Fest fare. As Sally Sparrow said so well in an episode of British TV series "Dr. Who", 'sad is happy for deep people'. So not your typical Film Fest Sturm und Dang, but plenty of clear-eyed, uncliched retelling of the football myth and legend in our culture.

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