Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 15
The sports movie Iron Ladies is as predictable and sentimental as many of its American counterparts.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 5
The sports movie Iron Ladies is as predictable and sentimental as many of its American counterparts.
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Average Rating: 3.6/5
User Ratings: 2,128
Mon and Jung are amateur volleyball players who are constantly rejected from teams because of their homosexuality. Their luck changes when they are drafted by the Lampang Volleyball Team, headed by the indiscriminate Coach Bee-a lesbian. After Mon and Jung join the team, nearly all the players resign to protest. Unfazed and determined to put a winning team together, Coach Bee asks the duo to recruit some of their friends: a gay army sergeant, a transsexual cabaret star, a set of outrageous
Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
Visuthichai Bunyakamjana, Jira Malikul, Youngyooth Thongkonthun
Jan 19, 2001 Wide
Nov 9, 2004
Strand Releasing
All Critics (42) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (15) | DVD (3)
Broad, sentimental but ultimately irresistible.
If you can tolerate its predictability, you may fall for Iron Ladies' lighthearted spirit and affectionate humor.
Not since Cool Runnings, the film about the Olympic bobsled team from Jamaica, have we had a sports movie so offbeat and upbeat as The Iron Ladies.
Fun if formulaic.
The outcome is predictable, the characters irritatingly flamboyant. But you still can't help but cheer for The Iron Ladies.
That the movie is fun is undeniable. That it is bad is inarguable.
Leaves you longing for the full time whistle
Fails to dig below the surface novelty of its subject.
This is a terrific sports story. It is unfortunately something less than a terrific film.
This is still just a basic 'underdog sports team' movie. It's a charming one, but it's nothing special.
[T]he film's rather narrow target audience may enjoy this bit of silly fluff. But many others outside that group will probably find it strained and even painful.
It isn't very coy, but it avoids individual stereotypes.
For all of its dubious gender archetyping (which, admittedly, does go with the prescribed cultural territory), it's hard to hate the film.
Amazing and outrageous funny true story of Thai volleyball team composed mostly of transsexuals, transvestites and some rather effeminate gay guys to the national championships in 1996. That also happened in an extraordinary true story of a Thai boxer - Beautiful Boxer.
January 26, 2009
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