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A zero, but the title describes how the audience is likely to react, perfectly.
Ferrell is one of the film's few bright lights. It's a shame to hide that subversive beacon under a bushel of dully inspirational sports movie cliches.
As lazy, bloated and TV-screen- friendly as shameless promos come.
If you're into Will Ferrell.
Sit in a room by yourself, look at a blank screen for 90 minutes, and you'll have more of a chance of laughing at your own thoughts than you will at this movie.
Is this all there is to Ferrell's career? Mediocre comedies, and wasted talent?
Director Jesse Dylan, desperate to avoid yawns, flails madly with staging, editing, slow motion -- any trick he can think of, whether it fits or works or not.
This sometimes obnoxious comedy is no Elf.
If this footy film was in a league it would be languishing at the bottom of the Vauxhall Conference.
Will Ferrell has become the most unlikely embodiment of wholesome family fun since Fred MacMurray gave up film noir for My Three Sons.
The picture is a little about soccer, a little about parenting, and a lot about laughing. Mike Ditka shows up and delivers a kick-butt performance.
Kicking & Screaming succeeds because it understands its target audience, refraining from playing it too cute or crude. Though predictable, it's well executed.
Will Ferrell cria um personagem carismático a partir de um roteiro burocrático e, no processo, consegue divertir e levar o espectador a se envolver com a história.
... Kicking & Screaming is not very good.
Kicking and Screaming feels as if it were callously vomited out by a machine, along with a couple of spare parts and some putrid grease.
Robert Duvall is superb (his love of football is well-documented) and seems to really enjoy playing a comic variation of his sports-obsessed father in the classic The Great Santini.
Gets the job done for its core audience of tots%u2014and for no one else.
This isn't the worst setup for a kiddie comedy, but it proves that Ferrell alone can't carry a film.
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