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The Longest Yard (2005)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 163
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 112

This Yard has some laughs but missing from this remake is the edginess of the original.

Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 21

This Yard has some laughs but missing from this remake is the edginess of the original.

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One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an alcohol problem have taken their toll, Crewe is arrested for a serious traffic accident aggravated by the fact he was drunk. Crewe is sentenced to Allenville Penitentiary, where Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) is something of a football fan. Hazen had

PG-13, 1 hr. 53 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Peter Segal , Peter Segal

Written By: Sheldon Turner

In Theaters: May 27, 2005 Wide

On DVD: Aug 3, 2004

Box Office:$158.0M

Paramount Pictures

A Division III imitation of the original.

May 31, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

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No uplifting populism here.

May 31, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Ed Halter

Village Voice

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People will go see The Longest Yard for all sorts of reasons -- its lively humor, the current of violence that's just under the surface, its message of underdog racial reconciliation, or the fact that there's no actual football to watch on TV.

May 31, 2005 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

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The pleasure is entirely like eating cake made from cake mix. It's not like you don't know how it's going to turn out, or how it tasted the last time you ate it.

May 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

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Whether it's the sight of Reynolds squeezed painfully into a football uniform or the endless footballs-to-the-crotch and tired gay jokes, The Longest Yard has the feeling of mutton dressed as lamb.

May 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

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Though there's no drearier trend in current movies than recycling, this modified Yard is more smoothly crafted than the 1974 slapstick version.

May 27, 2005 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Mike Clark

USA Today

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Peter Segal ("Anger Management") successfully helms his third Adam Sandler project in this funny modernized retooling of Robert Aldrich's 1974 original .

April 16, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Poor remake pushes the edges of PG-13.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

A film we could live without, inspired by an original that was anything but essential.

May 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Richard Luck

Film4

Yields the dispiriting insight that Hollywood can't even make credible rabble-rousing junk any more.

March 11, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

This edition of Yard has a lighter feel than the original -- well, considering it's a movie about prison inmates.

November 1, 2006 Comment

Mary Lasse

Christianity Today Source: Christianity Today

Everyone involved with this remake claims the utmost respect for Robert Aldrich's raucously funny 1974 original. So you have to wonder why they crapped all over it, starting with the casting.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Time Out

The new film keeps about 90% of the original story and even some of the original lines of dialogue, yet the changes it makes are all misguided.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Filme poco pretencioso que no busca otra cosa que no sea entretener. No pasar� a la historia, pero por lo menos es mejor de lo que parece.

November 26, 2005 Comment

Jorge Avila Andrade

Moviola

Watching Rock and Sandler try to recruit prisoners onto the team and then train them is very funny...

October 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Wordmag.com

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Michael Szymanski

Wordmag.com

If you're looking for a predictable, unoriginal, mediocre offering from the good folks over at Happy Madison, rent this puppy...

September 30, 2005 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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July 30, 2008

Colin Montgomery

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The Longest Yard remake is a yet another prime example of a remake that is terrible. The film is awful. With a bad cast, it's no wonder that this film is bad. James Cromwell and William Fichtner are the only two good actors here, and they are totally wasted on a bad film like this. Adam Sandler continues to prove that

October 3, 2011

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

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