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The Game Plan

The Game Plan (2007)

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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 100
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 72

Despite The Rock's abundant charisma, The Game Plan is just another run-of-the-mill Disney comedy.

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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 13

Despite The Rock's abundant charisma, The Game Plan is just another run-of-the-mill Disney comedy.

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Average Rating: 3.6/5
User Ratings: 384,412

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Movie Info

Gridiron Gang star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson picks up the pigskin once again for this sports-themed family comedy concerning a football superstar who abandons the gridiron to answer the call of fatherhood. Joe Kingman (Johnson) was a star quarterback destined for greatness; not only is the Boston-based team he plays for well on their way to the championships, but he's got all the money and fame that a man could want out of life. A perpetual bachelor whose one brief marriage ended many moons ago,

PG, 1 hr. 50 min.

Comedy

Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

Jan 22, 2008

$90.5M

Buena Vista

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All Critics (102) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (75) | DVD (21)

It's what I like to call an amnesia movie. Six months from now, if someone asks me about The Game Plan, I'll be hard-pressed to remember what it's about or who's in it.

October 1, 2007 Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Generic to the point where it might be called Sport-Themed Disney Girly Movie All Rights Reserved.

September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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There are worse ways to spend two hours with your children, and The Game Plan, in trying to please everybody, fairly much succeeds.

September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment (1)
San Francisco Chronicle
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[Pettis] overplays cute to the point where you wish the Rock would practice one of his wrestling moves on her and ship her off to Kid Nation.

September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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Apart from a heart-tugging plot twist, some lesson learning and more random football talk, that's about it. Oh, except for the scene in which Kyra Sedgwick farts. Be sure to update your resume, Kyra.

September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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Director Andy Fickman seem to have thrown everything into this artificial comedy, in the hopes that something might stick. Almost nothing does.

September 28, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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The Rock scores in cute (if predictable) comedy.

December 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

A barf-inducer. A hurl-promoter. A projectile-vomit-stimulator.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comments (2)
Guardian [UK]

Somebody give Dwayne Johnson a decent role, please. Sure this is relatively inoffensive, but he's a great screen presence and deserves better.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment (1)

Despite its cheesy story, The Game Plan has one major trump card: The Rock is actually quite good.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment (1)

Johnson's amiable performance makes this watchable for the target audience; namely sporty daddies and spoiled little girls primed to assimilate their lives into the Disney brand.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Even The Rock's immense charisma cannot save this predicatable fare.

March 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Watchable comedy that manages to overcome its formulaic plot and cliche-laden script, largely thanks to Johnson being such a likeable comic actor.

March 6, 2008 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
ViewLondon

Despite its almost painfully silly predictability, this film somehow manages to be engaging and rather enjoyable, thanks mainly to The Rock's on-screen charisma.

February 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | Comment
Shadows on the Wall

...it ultimately seems unlikely that the movie will appeal to viewers outside of its target demographic (ie pre-pubescent tots).

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

It's dumb but you know exactly what you are getting into from the very beginning... so you only have yourself to blame if you watch this and feel ripped off.

January 29, 2008 Comment
KPBS.org

Extras on the disc include nine deleted scenes, and a fairly lame reel of outtakes.

January 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

The Game Plan makes The Pacifier look like No Country for Old Men.

January 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

This fish-out-of-water comedy revolves around the shopworn storyline featuring an exasperated adult driven batty by the sudden onset of the responsibility of having to be a parent.

January 23, 2008 Full Review Source: Sly Fox | Comment
Sly Fox

Formulaic, but watchable.

January 23, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Game Plan

A cute movie that was a lot of fun that had me and my daughters giggling all night. Good family fun.

July 22, 2008
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

THE GAME PLAN was a very sad movie. And when I say that it was very sad, I mean the fact that it was made is sad. It's such an awful "family" take on a football film, and it could have been so great...if 97% of it was cut out.

August 22, 2011
spielberg00
Alexander Diminiano

Super Reviewer

    1. Joe Kingman: You need to be a mom to do this stuff.
    2. Monique Vasquez: I don't know about that. True mothers are smarter, kinder, and better at just about everything.
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)
    1. Joe Kingman: I thought you were dead.
    2. Karen Kelly: I can assure you I'm not dead.
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)
    1. Peyton Kelly: [to Joe] My name is Peyton. I'm your daughter.
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)
    1. Joe Kingman: Peyton, I have an an answer for your question. After this game, win or lose, you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)
    1. Peyton Kelly: My mommy says Fanny's Burgers make kids fat and give you gas.
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)

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