The film is quite lightweight for the subject matter, but Washington and company make it watchable.
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08/07/08
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Remember the Titans (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 126
Fresh: 89
Rotten:37
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Consensus: An inspirational crowd-pleaser with a healthy dose of social commentary, Remember the Titans may be predictable, but it’s also well-crafted and features terrific performances.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Sep 29, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $114,297,071
Synopsis: While on the surface, high school football may seem like an innocent game played by the young, for the young, it is, in fact, much, much more. For millions, including many fans who are well removed from their high school years but who love to... [More]
Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Hayden Panettiere, Donald Faison
Director: Boaz Yakin
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Reviews for Remember the Titans
Although there's enough emotional manipulation here to fill a river with tears, it's hard not to be swept up...
07/31/08
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Maybe it's all true. But one is always a little discomfited when life, or a movie, imitates weary melodramatic patterns this slavishly.
07/31/08
Top Critic Yakin's hackwork is so slickly manipulative and preachy it has the tone of a politician's TV commercial...
05/29/08
The leads, Denzel Washington and particularly Will Patton, are so good they occasionally make you forget the material is shameless.
03/26/07
Top Critic Unless you find the idea of such an earnest, well-meaning mixture of rah-rah sports action, social commentary and maudlin tearjerker off-putting from the start, you'll find that this example is professionally crafted and perhaps even momentarily stirring.
07/24/06
The emphasis on the players' developing mutual trust, is absorbing to watch and cleanly directed.
06/24/06
The film tries its best not to point fingers and avoids the strawmen racists that are so easily shown in other movies.
03/15/06
... a highly manipulative, utterly predictable and greatly entertaining film
01/29/05
The best performance here, though, is by Will Patton who infuses his Coach Yoast with the humanity that's strangely missing from Washington's Coach Boone.
05/22/03
Remember The Titans won't win any Oscars and it won't explain the rules of American football but the glow will last the whole way home.
04/08/03
A moving story with nice work from young actors Wood Harris and Ryan Hurst, among others, as the young men forced to see beyond skin color.
02/08/03
We've seen this kind of sports movie a thousand times, but you know what, I like that movie.
12/08/02
Is perfecting the art of middle-of-the-road really what should be applauded in movie making today?
12/08/02
A sprawling, muscular gridiron movie that, surprisingly enough, doesn’t have all that much to do with football.
10/15/02
A wonderful crowd pleaser, and as long as you don’t expect too much of it or think about it too deeply, it will remain a favourite.
09/14/02
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