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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 9781415709351
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415709351
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 10464
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: May 27, 2005
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Sandler) and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro (Reynolds) who are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game fixed to turn out quite another way.System Requirements:Starring: Adam Sandler Chris Rock Burt Reynolds William Fichtner James Cromwell Directed By: Peter Segal Running Time: 113 Min. Copyright Paramount Pictures 2005Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 097363434948 Manufacturer No: 343494
Amazon.com:
Adam Sandler is no Burt Reynolds, but his remake of The Longest Yard is amusing enough to stand on its own. Inheriting the role played by Reynolds played in the 1974 original, Sandler plays Paul Crewe, a scandalized former football star who violates his parole and winds up back in the slammer, where an ambitious, corrupt warden (James Cromwell) manipulates him into forming a convict football squad to compete with a team of bullying prison guards. But where the original (directed with characteristic ruggedness by Robert Aldrich) was a semi-comic study of inmate resistance against powerful oppressors, Sandler's version is a formulaic comedy about winning against the bad guys. That makes it a softer, less meaningful film, and Sandler (reuniting here with Peter Segal after Anger Management and 50 First Dates) lacks the depth to convey anything more than amiable redemption, resulting in a movie that's easily enjoyed and easily forgotten. A co-starring role for Chris Rock could have been electrifying; instead it's just OK, as is Reynolds as the prison team's old-pro coach. That leaves us with a few good laughs on the football field and from Cloris Leachman as the warden's elderly, oversexed secretary, good work from rapper Nelly in a supporting role, and the lovely sight of Courteney Cox (as Crewe's nagging girlfriend) in a dazzling low-cut dress. In unnecessary remakes like this, fringe benefits count for a lot. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Worstest Movie
Lord have mercy this was bad. Obviously an ESPN club activity. This would have been MUCH more believable with actual actors. Way too over the top on the musical score, too.
Romo, why?
Salsbury? Please!
Irvin? Aren't your fingerprints on a crack pipe somewhere?
Burmese: You probably don't get the joke.
Bosworth, ugh.
I mean really, you guys should be ashamed.
Rating:  - Well....I Liked It!
The negative reviews of this movie are the people that loved the original "The Longest Yard", and I can understand that,...but that just takes away the fun of the movie. I personally thought the movie was great and funny. The characters are likeable, Adam Sandler isn't the best actor but he is pretty believeable in the movie. Burt Reynolds was the main character in the original movie, but reprises his role as the supporting cast along with an celebrity cast with Chris Rock, Steve Austin, Nelly, WIllaim ... Read More
Rating: - longest yard
longest yard is a very good movie.it is a movie about a group of prisoners playing football. the prisoners have qb who used to play in the nfl and a cople of other good players.the prisoners win the game i would rate it 5 stars i likethis movie a lot.
Rating: - Fumble. All I can say is Fumble.
What did I like about this film? Was there anything worth keeping with this nearly play by play remake that would make even the British version blush? Outside of the hits and the music, there was absolutely nothing. "The Longest Yard" was the sorriest sad sack of a comedy ever to be called a film. While it tried to be identical to the first, it misses the mark mainly due to the characters, the cheap inserted jokes, and the obvious over budget. Do we need to be spending millions of dollars to make the ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Remake
The remake of The Longest Yard was actually really well done. Most remakes are so far off and way too overboard but this one was just right. If you are a fan of the original and love football then I think you will enjoy this. I would recommend this movie for one of those nights you just want something simple.
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