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Production Year: 2005 - Action/Adventure - Director: Peter Segal - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Burt Reynolds, William Fichtner, Nelly, James Cromwell, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler

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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...
more...Wrecking Crewe, first immortalised 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 co-stars 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.





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Mean Machine
A review by JM1234 on The Longest Yard DVD
November 25th, 2007


Author's product rating:   The Longest Yard DVD - rated by JM1234

Did you enjoy it? Loved it 
Story Outstanding 
Characters / Performances Outstanding 
Special Effects Good 
Soundtrack Outstanding 

Advantages: Everything, funny, Adam Sandler
Disadvantages: None

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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The longest yard is possibly the funniest film I have watched in a long time. Adam Sandler stars in this film as an ex professional american football player who gets arrested for dangerous driving. While serving time in jail he forms a prison american football team to play against the guards. When the 'mean machines' coach is killed by one of the guard cronies, after he went into Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) and switched the light bulb on and it exploded it just geared the team up more. As Paul continues to recruit many players, the guards leave them with many obstacles such as flooding there training pitch. But they get around this and even get there own back. And now we reach the climax of the game but for those who want to read this and haven't seen the film I will not spoil it for you by telling you what happens during the game. I highly recommend this film if you want something to belly laugh about and some of the scenes are just PURE CLASS. 
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