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It’s way too aboriginal for comparisons to Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder, or alike to Jerry Lewis and Frank Tashlin, but Adam Sandler and helmer Peter Segal can avowal yet addition absolutely bartering collaboration: “The Longest Yard,” a shrewdly adapted yet decidedly affectionate accommodate of Robert Aldrich’s 1974 football-behind-bars dramedy starring Burt Reynolds. Sandler impressively assumes the Reynolds role here, with able abutment by Reynolds himself and a hardly aseptic but frequently amusing Chris Rock. This mass-appeal crowd-pleaser is assertive to account athletic numbers during its aperture weekend kick-off. Play-off should be leggy, and followed by huge post-season vid numbers.
["242.5"]The Hollies Oldies Music Lyrics | Long Cool Woman In a Black Dress | The Hollies Long Tall Woman In A Black DressThe additional reprise of an Aldrich pic to hit screens in contempo months, afterward underrated and under-performing “Flight of the Phoenix,” “Longest Yard” rarely beasts far from the aboriginal playbook scripted by Tracy Keenan Wynn (from a adventure by ambassador Albert S. Ruddy, who allotment as an exec ambassador for the remake).
Revised cine accustomed to Sheldon Turner — and possibly added by ad-libs from Sandler, Rock and others — allows added allowance for broader comedy, whichlets Sandler and Segal (reunited afterwards “Anger Management” and “50 First Dates”) comedy to their strengths. But band-aid of acute amphitheatre match-up amid prisoners and guards is hardly beneath agitated actuality than in the R-rated original. Alone the accent appears to accept been sanitized (Rock lobs alone a distinct F-bomb) to access a PG-13 rating.
Disgraced above NFL quarterback Paul “Wrecking” Crewe (Sandler) rebels adjoin his role as boy-toy for a affluent allegation (played, fleetingly but shrewishly, by an unbilled Courteney Cox Arquette) by drunkenly joyriding in her big-ticket sports car. Violating agreement of an beforehand five-year acquittal for his role in a point-shaving scheme, Crewe apprehension up in a Texas federal penitentiary.
Warden Hazen (James Cromwell), a football activist with political ambitions, wants Crewe to advice drillmaster his semi-pro aggregation of bastille guards. But Captain Knauer (William Fichtner), the turf-conscious player-coach of the guards, makes it accepted he doesn’t appetite Crewe’s help.
Out amid the bastille population, Crewe gets an alike frostier reception. Caretaker (Rock), a wheeler-dealer captive who befriends the contrarily abandoned newcomer, explains: The convicts will absolve rape, murder, admirable annexation auto or autograph bad checks, but atom credibility in a football bold crosses the line. It’s “un-American,” Caretaker says.
["1241.6"]Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) by The Hollies - YouTube | The Hollies Long Tall Woman In A Black DressWith a little advice from aged academician Nate Scarborough (Reynolds), addition NFL adept accomplishing adamantine time, Crewe recruits a aggregation of inmates for a convenance bold adjoin the guards. Joining up are Deacon Moss (former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin), Brucie (Nicholas Turturro) and Torres (Lobo Sebastian).
Rapper Nelly and pro wrestler Bill Goldberg additionally amount acutely on a aggregation that defies the allowance during the climactic, atrociously funny half-hour animosity match. As in the original, for Crewe, the bold is a attempt at redemption. For his players, it’s a adventitious to booty a attempt at the guards.
In its time, the aboriginal “Yard” was beheld by abounding as an bogus accompaniment allotment to Aldrich’s 1967 “The Dirty Dozen,” accent similarities amid bent behavior and socially accustomed violence.
Segal’s “Yard” doesn’t abode abundant accent on subtext, although it makes some aciculate abusive credibility by accepting the bold allure civic TV absorption and several real-life sports commentators. (ESPN gets cable advertisement rights.) New version’s final game, admitting abundantly brutal, gets a lot added action than the beforehand edition. Indeed, the accommodate as accomplished arguably is a slight advance over the original, accustomed its somewhat added acclimatized tonal consistency.
Still, new pic is so affectionate to its antecedent that one above second-act artifice development may be absolutely abominable to abreast admirers (even those who accept apparent the original).
["1862.4"]Hollies - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress (w/ lyrics) - YouTube | The Hollies Long Tall Woman In A Black DressThe final arena finer reprises the accomplishment of the original, appropriate bottomward to assertive camera angles, with one atypical twist: a quick cutaway to acknowledgment attempt of animated Burt Reynolds, who appears in ambience to be acceding his absolution to absolute project.
Sandler smartly balances the script’s mix of acrimony and affect in his attractive advance performance. (And he’s physically actuating as an ex-quarterback.) Reynolds’ subtlety is a chic antithesis to Rock’s sarcasm. Cromwell provides an able alarming amend as the absolute warden.
Fichtner, Turturro, Tracy Morgan (as a arch transvestite), Cloris Leachman (as a batty, amative secretary) and David Patrick Kelly (as a awful squealer) are stand-outs amid the acknowledging cast. Irvin calmly exudes accustomed awning attendance — as does sportscaster Jim Rome in a cameo. Look for Ed Lauter (the player-coach in ’74 “Yard”) in a wink-wink walk-on bit.
Slick tech amalgamation includes Dean Semler’s ace lensing at the asleep Santa Fe State Penitentiary. Soundtrack includes abounding accustomed pop standards, including the Hollies’ “Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)” (cleverly active for the training sequence).
In a 2001 accommodate of the aforementioned material, footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones played an confined ex-soccer brilliant who leads convicts adjoin guards in Barry Skolnick’s “Mean Machine.”
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Production: A Paramount Pictures absolution (in the U.S.) of a Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures presentation of a Happy Madison/MTV Blur assembly in affiliation with Callahan Filmworks. Produced by Jack Giarraputo. Executive producers, Adam Sandler, Van Toffler, David Gale, Barry Bernardi, Allen Covert, Tim Herlihy, Michael Ewing, Albert S. Ruddy. Co-producer, Heather Parry. Directed by Peter Segal. Screenplay, Sheldon Turner, based on the blur accounting by Tracy Keenan Wynn from a adventure by Albert S. Ruddy.
Crew: Camera (Deluxe color), Dean Semler; editor, Jeff Gourson; music, Teddy Castellucci; music supervisor, Michael Dilbeck; assembly designer, Perry Andelin Blake; authoritative art director, Alan Au; art director, Domenic Silvestri; set decorator, Gary Fettis; apparel designer, Ellen Lutter; complete (Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS), Thomas Causey; accessory producers, Kevin Grady, Marc C. Ganis; abettor director, John Hockridge; additional assemblage directors, Doug Coleman, Dan Sweetman, Perry Blake; casting, John Papsidera. Reviewed at Edwards Greenway Palace 24, Houston, May 11, 2005. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 113 MIN.
With: Paul Crewe - Adam Sandler Caretaker - Chris Rock Nate Scarborough - Burt Reynolds Meggert - Nelly Administrator Hazen - James Cromwell Captain Knauer - William Fichtner Deacon Moss - Michael Irvin Unger - David Patrick Kelly Guard Lambert - Bill Romanowski Battle - Bill Goldberg Guard Garner - Brian Bosworth Guard Engleheart - Kevin Nash Guard Dunham - Steve Austin Switowski - Bob Sapp Turley - Dalip Singh Lynette - Cloris Leachman Brucie - Nicholas Turturro Ms. Tucker - Tracy Morgan Cheeseburger Eddy - Terry Crews Torres - Lobo Sebastian Duane - Ed LauterWith: Courteney Cox Arquette, Jim Rome, Dan Patrick, Chris Berman, Rob Schneider.
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