Real-life military trainers -- regardless of gender -- never make you say, 'Wow you're hot!' They make you say, 'I'll do whatever you want, please don't hurt me.'
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01/27/06
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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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Reviews for Annapolis
Because the cast is interesting, Annapolis is watchable, but with so many better things in theaters it seems a waste to spend an hour and a half with such mediocrity.
01/27/06
Annapolis isn't anything but an over-boiled, corn-fed version of An Officer and a Gentleman.
01/27/06
The Patriot Act should be invoked to keep this trite feature from public consumption.
01/27/06
[Franco's] flinty eyes speak volumes in Annapolis, a punchy drama that connects.
01/27/06
The Village People's In the Navy video was more convincing.
01/27/06
This is the essence of this masculine melodrama -- the boys find themselves reflected elsewhere, and fall in love with themselves.
01/27/06
A corny, eighties throwback, with thematic mushiness, regressive sexual politics, and cheesy montages to match.
01/27/06
take along some Krazy Glue: It's the only thing that will keep your eyes from rolling repeatedly at the hoary cliches and trite situations... take a nap-polis and spare yourself 108 minutes of pure tedium.
01/27/06
It's a formula plot, but it's handled with some humor, some heart, and a sure hand on the camera.
01/27/06
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
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
[It's] an embarrassingly limp drama that could only please audience members who have never been out to see a movie before.
01/26/06
Where inspiration fails it, workmanlike competence gets it though.
01/26/06
These aren't characters, these are character templates, and the story they've been cut-and-pasted into couldn't be more cornball.
01/26/06
Huard's flirty interplay with Ali is so pathetic I don't think Brad Pitt could even win over the girl with lines as bad as these.
01/26/06
The funniest film of 2006. If only any of the laughs were intentional.
01/26/06
Saying Annapolis is predictable is like saying water is wet.
01/26/06
Rather than settle for one uninspired story, Annapolis gives viewers two.
01/26/06
While Lin's camera locks onto every clenching jaw muscle, he obliterates the fight footage with blurry close-ups and jagged cuts
01/26/06
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