Nearly 30 years after THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976) poked fun at overinvolved parents and a reluctant coach's rehabilitation of an apparently hopeless Little League team, this flabby comedy reworks the formula for kids' soccer and wraps it around a squishy story about father-son reconciliation. Ever since childhood, Phil Weston (Will Ferrell), a klutz with the competitive spirit of a paving stone, has failed to live up to the expectations of his macho dad, sporting goods mini-magnate Buck (Robert Duvall). Phil swore he'd never make his own son, Sam (Dylan McLaughlin), feel inadequate. But Sam's getting the treatment anyway, as a member of the Gladiators, the children's s...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG
Length:
95 mins