a by-the-book redemption-through-sports story with a few laughs, a few clichés, and those few annoying stereotypes that could have easily been omitted
Guys and Balls (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 5
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:2006
Synopsis: Ecki is a young gay man who works in a bakery in Dortmund and plays soccer on his local team. Already under pressure for playing badly, his homophobic team-members surprise him in a compromising... Ecki is a young gay man who works in a bakery in Dortmund and plays soccer on his local team. Already under pressure for playing badly, his homophobic team-members surprise him in a compromising position and throw him off the team. With the help of his sister and a cranky former soccer star, he tries to form an all-gay soccer team to challenge his old team in a grudge match. Ecki's journey in self-realization is filled with wonderful surprises and interesting characters in this delightful romantic comedy from Germany. -- © Regent Releasing [More]
Starring: Maximillian Brückner, Lisa Marie Potthoff, Jochen Stern
Starring: Maximillian Brückner, Lisa Marie Potthoff, Jochen Stern
Director: Sherry Horman
Director: Sherry Horman
Studio: Regent Releasing
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Reviews for Guys and Balls
It's surefire entertainment: loopy and predictable, but tremendously likable.
A by-the-numbers ensemble dramedy that hits every underdog and gay-fish- out-of-water cliche on the nose.
Hormann provides a light enough touch to make the proceedings palatable, if not quite enjoyable.
It sounds like gay porn, but it's actually a delightful romantic comedy from Germany.
If there's a gay cliche who doesn't flounce through this feel-good German comedy, he must have been out of town when the casting call went out, but its fundamental good nature is tough to resist.
With commendable literalness, the makers of the German soccer comedy Guys and Balls have settled on a title as cheerfully unsubtle as every one of the film's jokes.
Though it does elicit some laughs, we've seen this story of over-achieving underdogs too many times.
Guys and Balls is an inventory of such cliches, but at least they’re trotted out with a modicum of proficiency.
This jubilant, exhilarating film works like a wonder tonic. It's as captivating as they come, by its very definition a big, fat, fantastic crowd pleaser.
The sexuality of the protagonists is just another plot twist in this mildly funny sports comedy that never seems to accept its characters as people rather than cliches.
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