Annapolis moves at a decent clip, but it's all cliches ...
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01/26/06
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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
Top CriticAnnapolis is so gung-ho about the United States Naval Academy's ability to turn boys into fighting men and rebels into scrappy team players that it could easily be confused with a military recruiting film.
01/26/06
Top CriticNeither lagging military recruitment nor movie attendance is likely to be helped by Annapolis, a by-the-numbers underdog drama set at the storied U.S. Naval Academy in the Maryland port of the title.
01/26/06
Top CriticAnnapolis is the perfect movie for someone who has never before seen one.
01/26/06
Annapolis is as predictable as stale bread. You can plot the film's conclusion, oh, at about the midway point. Even the few plot twists can be guessed miles away.
01/26/06
There's a good movie to be made about a townie who tests his mettle against the local elites. Plenty of films exploiting this time-honored premise tend to push the right audience buttons. But the Annapolis script is less a script than a checklist.
01/26/06
Top CriticActually, 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 CriticThis movie samples An Officer and a Gentleman and Top Gun the way Vanilla Ice sampled Bowie.
01/26/06
The only impressive thing about it is the monotony and thoroughness with which it replicates cliches from older, better movies and hammers them into pop alloy to an up-with-me beat beat beat of its musical score.
01/26/06
Top CriticAnnapolis resembles Top Gun and An Officer and a Gentleman only in their infrequent indulgence in cliche, contrivance and crowd-pleasing flourishes.
01/26/06
Top CriticAlthough crudely effective in a strictly formulaic way, the film manages to strike nary an unfamiliar note.
01/26/06
Any resemblance (except qualitatively) to An Officer and A Gentleman is strictly unaccidental.
01/26/06
Apparently the filmmakers are counting on viewers not remembering An Officer and a Gentleman, which seems fairly unlikely. Then again, the plot is so predictable that no prior knowledge is necessary to figure out where it's going.
01/26/06
Stacked with unoriginal plot elements hot off the assembly line, yet still manages to present said story with conviction, tough rings of truth, and a rooting attentiveness.
01/26/06
This film is strictly 'plebe' material and should be booted out of theaters on its white-uniformed rear.
01/26/06
Despite the lack of originality in Annapolis, it is dandy entertainment.
01/26/06
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 CriticIt's a bland campaign for discipline that seems to want you to salute before leaving the theater.
01/26/06
Annapolis reminded me of a junior high production of An Officer and a Gentleman retold by cast members who could only recall bits and pieces of the original film.
01/26/06
... an exhausted wheeze of bankrupt cliches and cardboard characters, the kind of film that has no visible reason for existing, except that everybody got paid.
01/26/06
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