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Annapolis (2006)
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Reviews Counted:107
Fresh:11
Rotten:96
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Jan 27, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $16,814,615
Synopsis: When he won a coveted admission spot tothe Naval Academy at Annapolis, local kid Jake Huard (James Franco, "James Dean") thought all his dreams had come true - but his battle to become the man he... [More]
Starring: James Franco, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Roger Fan
Director: Justin Lin
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01/28/06
Step right up and enjoy this dull, stiff, pointless retread. But if you think you've heard it all before -- you have, you really have -- then save your movie ticket allowance for something else.
01/27/06
If the powers behind this pasteboard mockup of a film wanted to remake AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, why didn't they just go ahead and do that? . . . [I]f they wanted to remake ROCKY, why didn't they just go ahead and do that?
01/24/06
Bulling ahead through hackneyed scene after hackneyed scene, it grinds out an hour and 48 minutes of nonstop cliche, never offering so much as a marginally clever line, never succumbing to an original thought, never veering from the rutted path.
01/27/06
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.
01/31/06
Top CriticAnnapolis is the kind of hybrid military movie that can really only be truly enjoyed with diminished expectations and a sharp sense of parody.
01/25/06
Actually, the lyrics to In the Navy are more sophisticated than Annapolis, which was assembled by the handy-dandy Disney make-a-movie kit and is loaded with parts borrowed from other films.
01/26/06
Top CriticThe Patriot Act should be invoked to keep this trite feature from public consumption.
01/27/06
... Annapolis is ordinary in every way.
01/26/06
Top CriticAnswers the question, how many cliches can be squeezed into one film?
01/28/06
As a naval take on the boot-camp movie, it’s so bland and homogenized that it makes last year’s decidedly so-so Jarhead look audacious in comparison.
01/27/06
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.
01/27/06
Top CriticAnnapolis throws the same punches as many of its inspirational fellow cadets and almost, but not quite, wins the fight.
03/24/07
Much as I enjoyed screenwriter Dave Collard's freshman effort, Out of Time, there's not much to say about his sophomore (and sophomoric) screenplay, which seems to have gleaned its insights from the fortune-cookie factory.
01/26/06
Top CriticThis is like the saccharine substitute for the real thing... it makes you long for the original.
01/27/06
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.
09/17/07
Character development and narrative substance are absent in this wispy movie about beefcake and getting a knack for teamwork in an oppressive atmosphere.
04/15/09
This is the essence of this masculine melodrama -- the boys find themselves reflected elsewhere, and fall in love with themselves.
01/27/06
The funniest film of 2006. If only any of the laughs were intentional.
01/26/06
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