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The Iron Ladies (Satree lek) (2001)

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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.

58

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

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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

Nov 9, 2004

Strand Releasing

All Critics (42) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (15) | DVD (3)

Broad, sentimental but ultimately irresistible.

January 17, 2002 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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If you can tolerate its predictability, you may fall for Iron Ladies' lighthearted spirit and affectionate humor.

December 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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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.

December 7, 2001 Comment
Boston Globe
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Fun if formulaic.

November 29, 2001 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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The outcome is predictable, the characters irritatingly flamboyant. But you still can't help but cheer for The Iron Ladies.

November 2, 2001 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
Detroit Free Press
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That the movie is fun is undeniable. That it is bad is inarguable.

October 19, 2001 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Leaves you longing for the full time whistle

May 22, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

Fails to dig below the surface novelty of its subject.

January 20, 2003 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly

This is a terrific sports story. It is unfortunately something less than a terrific film.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | Comment
San Diego Metropolitan

This is still just a basic 'underdog sports team' movie. It's a charming one, but it's nothing special.

March 1, 2002 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | Comment
EricDSnider.com

[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.

February 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | Comment
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

It isn't very coy, but it avoids individual stereotypes.

December 23, 2001 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

For all of its dubious gender archetyping (which, admittedly, does go with the prescribed cultural territory), it's hard to hate the film.

December 9, 2001 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International
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Audience Reviews for The Iron Ladies (Satree lek)

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
deano
Dean McKenna

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Pretty funny, with some great quirky characters.

July 2, 2008
threefolddado

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