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The Longest Yard

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The Longest Yard (2005)

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Reviews Counted: 160 Fresh: 48  Rotten:112 Average Rating: 4.7/10
 
Consensus: This Yard has some laughs but missing from this remake is the edginess of the original.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

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 immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough), Sandler plays an... 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 immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough), Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving. Fed up, he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup. This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary. His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship. Crewe timorously agrees, suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season. To the ragtag inmates, this is the chance they've been waiting for, and they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards. In THE LONGEST YARD, Sandler steps out of the spotlight he enjoyed in films like BILLY MADISON and HAPPY GILMORE and is instead content to let his sizable cast of costars shine in the comedic light. Both the guard and the convict teams are infused with solid contributions from a swath of entertaining personalities: ex-football stars Michael Irvin, Bill Romanowski and Brian Bosworth; pro wrestlers Bill Goldberg and "Stone-Cold" Steve Austin; ESPN anchors Chris Berman and Dan Patrick; and famed rapper Nelly. However, it is Chris Rock, as Crewe's friend Caretaker, whose scenes never fail to steal the show, providing some of the movie's most memorable laughs. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Nelly, James Cromwell

Director: Peter Segal
Story: Albert S. Ruddy
Screenwriter: Sheldon Turner
Producer: Jack Giarraputo

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 9, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 16.9

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Peter Segal - Director
  • Music Videos - 1. ERRTIME - Nelly
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Alternate Scenes
  • Extended Scenes

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2/5

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

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05/29/08
Richard Luck
Channel 4 Film
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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.

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06/24/06
Time Out
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A fast-moving treat.

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09/09/05
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]
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2/5

Homophobia, sexism, racism, ageism and OJ-ism pound against genre clichés as weathered as Reynolds' skin, bludgeoning you into submission.

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09/09/05
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
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2/5

Adam Sandler, of course, is no Burt Reynolds. But then neither is Burt Reynolds these days, judging by his performance as the team's crusty mentor.

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09/06/05
Paul Arendt
BBC
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2/5

The film looks fine, but [Segal] never even tries to make something out of this thin material.

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08/04/05
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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2/5

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

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03/11/08
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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2.5/4

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

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11/01/06
Mary Lasse
Christianity Today
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2/4

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.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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3/4

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

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11/26/05
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola
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4/10

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

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09/30/05
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
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2/4

Drama that's not dramatic enough and comedy that's not funny enough.

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09/30/05
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs
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3.5/5

A worthy remake and companion piece to the Reynolds film.

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09/23/05
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies
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2/4

Never have I seen a movie so unashamedly aimed at demographics.

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09/20/05
Linda Cook
KWQC-TV (Iowa)
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2/4

Never have I seen a movie so unashamedly aimed at demographics.

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09/20/05
Linda Cook
KWQC-TV (Iowa)
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C

The lesser of two yards.

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09/19/05
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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1.5/4

Environmentalists will tell you that recycling is a good thing but the Adam Sandler vehicle The Longest Yard goes out of its way to prove otherwise.

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07/21/05
David N. Butterworth
rec.arts.movies.reviews
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1/4

Three decades after the original, all the rough edges have been sanded off, and the film has been given the obvious, spoonfed approach of a Hollywood summer movie.

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06/30/05
Frank Houston
Palm Beach Daily News
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2.5/5

I was never bored, but I wasn't necessarily entertained either. Mine was a sociological interest. What's going on?

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06/23/05
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
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C

Laced with crude racial stereotypes and a rash of homophobia that's akin to a minstrel show, "The Longest Yard" makes Sandler's "The Waterboy" look like an oasis.

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06/20/05
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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