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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:26
Rotten:39
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: The Longshots means well, but it's a largely formulaic affair, rarely deviating from the inspirational sports movie playbook.
I’m not exactly sure how to put this -- not quite sure I believe it myself, honestly -- but Fred Durst, lead singer of Limp Bizkit (perhaps the lousiest rock band in the long history of lousy rock bands), isn’t half bad at making movies.
There's nothing about the film's workmanlike, achingly conventional direction that says 'Fred Durst.' Thank God
Ice Cube is good, but the story has been done so many times in so many better movies, there's little here to recommend.
Cube gives a layered, subtle portrayal and it is a pleasure to watch Curtis bloom along with Jasmine.
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Pithy in its real-life origins, even if trite in its formulaic construction.
The guy who gifted the world Nookie is making movies these days, and much like the music he created with band Limp Bizkit, Durst's cinematic sensibilities are hackneyed, tiresome, and lack sorely needed rehearsal.
Well, at least the underdog formula has gotten so tight that we can wrap these things up in under 90 minutes.
We're left with an unforced, sweet-natured story about people who find small ways to touch others and rediscover the good in themselves.
If I've seen one movie about a team of underdogs, I've seen a dozen. But I hadn't seen The Longshots before.
Top CriticMusicians in need of a metronome could pick up a steady beat from The Longshots, a thoroughly conventional sports-underdog movie based on the real-life first female quarterback in the Pop Warner junior football league.
A Disney wannabe, Fred Durst's girl power sports flick is ho hum and very forgettable...
Fred Durst seems so anxious to replicate popular sports movies of the past that he never comes up with anything worth exploring in his own movie.
Directed by Fred Durst (of the band "Limp Bizkit"), "The Longshots" is a cookie-cutter feel-good kid's movie that seems like it was made by some faulty gadget stuck on auto-pilot.
...while The Longshots is far from original - much less first-class - it is effective in its own, middle-of-the-road way.
This sweet inspirational story while familiar at times, keeps you thoroughly entertained by mixing healthy doses of humor into the real world drama.
Girl-powered sports film is predictable but sweet.
None of the scenes snap, crackle or pop.
A cliché-riddled, warm and fuzzy, small-town sports drama.
Ice Cube brings his family film "A" game to The Longshots
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