A Division III imitation of the original.
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05/31/05
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The Longest Yard (2005)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:14
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: This Yard has some laughs but missing from this remake is the edginess of the original.
Theatrical Release:May 27, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $158,018,439
Synopsis: Director Peter Segal (50 FIRST DATES, ANGER MANAGEMENT) and comedian Adam Sandler are at it again in a fun remake of the 1974 classic, THE LONGEST YARD. In the role of Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, first... [More]
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Reviews for The Longest Yard
Top CriticNo uplifting populism here.
05/31/05
Top CriticPeople 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.
05/31/05
Top CriticThe 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.
05/27/05
Top CriticWhether 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.
05/27/05
Top CriticThough there's no drearier trend in current movies than recycling, this modified Yard is more smoothly crafted than the 1974 slapstick version.
05/27/05
Top CriticThe Longest Yard works well enough.
05/27/05
Top CriticAn odd mix of amusing nonsense and nastiness that chugs along, hit and miss, until the last section, which is the best part of the movie and its real reason for being: the game.
05/27/05
Top CriticAlthough Sandler has occasionally broken the pattern, most recently with Spanglish, here he returns to the old, profitable, well-worn rut.
05/27/05
Top CriticA misguided, miscast remake of the 1974 Robert Aldrich classic.
05/27/05
Top CriticA serviceable bone-cruncher of a sports comedy, just tough enough and funny enough to reach the end zone.
05/27/05
Top CriticUnoriginal but confident, it's the kind of effort that's just good enough to keep [Sandler's] track record going.
05/27/05
Top CriticGood old-fashioned fun from kickoff to the last crossing of the goal line.
05/27/05
Top CriticThe new version is not nearly as convincing or as credible as the old.
05/27/05
Top CriticSee it if you think Adam Sandler is Joe Montana. See it if you like men in team-issued tight pants. See it if you like men in prison-issue tight pants.
05/27/05
Top CriticIt's surprising how much of the movie is flat and how predictable the gags are.
05/27/05
Top CriticThe characters sound like they were dreamed up during the drive to the set.
05/27/05
Top CriticThe Longest Yard seems to be one of those Sandler efforts that occupy a middle ground between goofy comedy and quasi-realistic drama.
05/27/05
Top CriticThe Longest Yard more or less achieves what most of the people attending it will expect.
05/27/05
Top CriticPainfully unnecessary.
05/26/05
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