NOW THIS FILM I REALLY ENJOYED.IT WAS SO GOOD HOW THEY MADE IT,AND THE CHARACTERS WERE HILARIOUS.IT CAN BE ENJOYED BY ALL OF THE FAMILY.MY DAUGHTER AND HER FRIENDS ARE ALL TEENAGERS,AND THEY ACTUALLY SAT AND WATCHED IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH.I WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT I COULD WATCH THIS FILM SO ANY TIMES,AND IT WOULD STILL MAKE ME LAUGH.THIS WOULD MAKE A GREAT VIEWING FOR A FAMILY OR A FRIENDS NIGHT IN. IT IS ADDED TO MY COLLECTION FOR MY NEXT GIRLY NIGHT ...
TRAY64 24.01.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Cool Runnings (DVD)
Cool Runnings is the best movie ever. It is about four Jamaicans who make up the first Jamaican bobsleigh team. They enter the team bobsleigh event in the Olympics, they don’t win but they earn the respect they wanted. The movie is really funny with lots of original ideas. The movie is just as funny each time you watch it I have watched about three times and I still find it funny. The only bad thing about Cool Runnings is that the makers didn’t make ...
theblobster 29.01.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Cool Runnings (DVD)
Advantages: Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time. Disadvantages: One of John Candy last films.
This one of those family-oriented sports movies that I have fond memories of from my elementary school days. Off the top of my head, I can name The Air Up There, Iron Will, and the Mighty Ducks in this category as well. They weren't masterpieces, per se, but they were pleasant, fun, and sometimes inspirational. The thing about a sports movie is that the passion that a dedicated athlete feels is usually something that can translate itself visually ... ...movie about a passionate chess player, it's not as exciting to watch the final climactic moment when the hero checkmates his opponent, as it is to watch a game winning shot. What I'm getting to is that one of the draws of a sports movie is being exposed to that passion and desire in our hero. In this case, the hero is Jamaican sprinter Derice Bannock who was accidentally tripped during the Olympic trials, but is determined to make the Olympics anyway. ...
supereddman98 13.02.2006
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Based on an improbable but true story,Cool Runningsconcerns the Jamaican bobsled team that ... more
competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenon) does a fine job with both the absurdity of the situation (the athletes had never even ...
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Based on an improbable but true story,Cool Runningsconcerns the Jamaican bobsled team that ... more
competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenon) does a fine job with both the absurdity of the situation (the athletes had never even ...
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You'll love COOL RUNNINGS - the outrageously funny hit inspired by the true story of ... more
Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team. They were four unlikely athletes with one impossible dream. Now, with the help of ex-champion as their coach (John Candy - Uncle ...
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Christopher Ettridge, Victor McGuire, Emma Amos, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Elizabeth Carling
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Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst