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Annapolis (2006)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 111
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 100

In the immortal words of the Village People; 'In the Navy/ You can sail the seven seas/ In the Navy/ You can put your mind at ease.' However, if you're a movie critic, your mind was not put at ease by Annapolis; instead, you were probably felt uneasy because of the remarkable similarities between the plot of this mediocre, cliche-ridden drama and Top Gun and An Officer and a Gentleman.

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Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 29

In the immortal words of the Village People; 'In the Navy/ You can sail the seven seas/ In the Navy/ You can put your mind at ease.' However, if you're a movie critic, your mind was not put at ease by Annapolis; instead, you were probably felt uneasy because of the remarkable similarities between the plot of this mediocre, cliche-ridden drama and Top Gun and An Officer and a Gentleman.

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Movie Info

A poor but ambitious young man strives to make good in one of the most competitive institutions on Earth in this military drama. Jake Huard (James Franco) is a young man from a small Maryland town who grew up in a blue-collar family with few opportunities. Wanting to make something of himself after completing high school, Jake set his sights on attending the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, where he narrowly makes the cut and becomes one of the 1,200 applicants selected for the freshman

PG-13, 1 hr. 43 min.

Drama

Dave Collard

Jun 27, 2006

$16.8M

Walt Disney Pictures

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All Critics (115) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (104) | DVD (14)

Jake [is] forced to swallow his pride and ask girly Brewster to train him. It's a marginally subversive moment in a movie that otherwise falls in line.

January 31, 2006 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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This isn't as much a movie as it is a recipe for a cinematic casserole in which the ingredients are clichés and rip-offs.

January 28, 2006 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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Annapolis is less like a movie than a virus -- one that clings so tenaciously to its host genre that it begins to take on the characteristics of a real movie, even though it's just faking.

January 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
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Judging Annapolis by its most appealing attributes (among all the cliches): It's not bad superficially, but neither is it all that it could be.

January 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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The movie plays out with the same martial drumbeat inevitability of a parade march.

January 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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While Officer is an almost-great movie, Annapolis, watered down and one degree further from inspiration, is merely an almost-good movie.

January 27, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Annapolis has the seeds of a good, if derivative, film in it, but gives that up in favor of being a mediocre boxing film.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

This military drama never gets moving. Just mainly posturing by all sides concerned. The screenplay was definitely missing in action. Paul Chambers, CNN.

April 3, 2010 Full Review Source: CNNRadio | Comment
CNNRadio

Character development and narrative substance are absent in this wispy movie about beefcake and getting a knack for teamwork in an oppressive atmosphere.

April 15, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

A naval cadet becomes a man in this unoriginal drama.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

What Annapolis really is, more than a college movie or a boot-camp movie, is a boxing movie, and a run of the mill one at that.

September 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinematical | Comment
Cinematical

Annapolis isn't a bad movie, but it's certainly a derivative, run-of-the-mill one.

April 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Annapolis throws the same punches as many of its inspirational fellow cadets and almost, but not quite, wins the fight.

March 24, 2007 Full Review Source: UGO | Comment

...basically a military-recruitment commercial.

November 27, 2006 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

full review in Greek

October 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
Movies for the Masses

It's difficult to find anything to praise about Annapolis.

September 1, 2006 Comment

If you like cliches, you'll love Annapolis.

July 26, 2006 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

The innumerable "saw it coming" plot contrivances begin to stack up like so much cinematic cord wood.

June 29, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

...it's not just Franco's character who is one-dimensional; it's everyone in the movie.

June 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

...if you haven't seen many other military movies or sports movies or underdog movies, Annapolis may not be as mundane for you as it was for me.

June 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

It's a pleasure to watch James Franco and Tyrese Gibson square off against each other as two men heading for a showdown.

June 26, 2006 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Comment
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

It's never less than excruciatingly predictable, unintentionally funny and dripping with moldy clichés.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review
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Audience Reviews for Annapolis

James Franco is just lovely. It has a good storyline too.

June 2, 2007
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Rachel F

Super Reviewer

This film is a bit familiar to An Officer and a Gentleman, but except the boxing. Really great tale of courage and honour, even what I thought of James Franco is alike Richard Gere and Tyrese Gibson is alike Lou Gossett Jr in their characters.

December 26, 2006
deano
Dean McKenna

Super Reviewer

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