Kicking and Screaming (2005)
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Reviews Counted:135
Fresh:56
Rotten:79
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: The script is mediocre and fails to give Ferrell a proper comedic showcase.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Childrens
US Box Office: $52,580,895
Synopsis: Funny man Will Farrell's humorous man-child antics meet actual kids on this soccer comedy. As vitamin salesman Phil Weston, Farrell's a sensitive man easily capable of both crying and sewing.... [More]
Starring: Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Mike Ditka, Kate Walsh
Director: Jesse Dylan
Reviews for Kicking and Screaming
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There are a few broad laughs and Ferrell is everything you would expect him to be – irritating, occasionally amusing and sometimes inspired Full Review |
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 1.5/4 |
Is this all there is to Ferrell’s career? Mediocre comedies, and wasted talent? Full Review |
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2/5 |
Director Jesse Dylan, desperate to avoid yawns, flails madly with staging, editing, slow motion -- any trick he can think of, whether it fits or works or not. Full Review |
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1/5 |
If this footy film was in a league it would be languishing at the bottom of the Vauxhall Conference. Full Review |
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Will Ferrell has become the most unlikely embodiment of wholesome family fun since Fred MacMurray gave up film noir for My Three Sons. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
The picture is a little about soccer, a little about parenting, and a lot about laughing. Mike Ditka shows up and delivers a kick-butt performance. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Kicking & Screaming succeeds because it understands its target audience, refraining from playing it too cute or crude. Though predictable, it's well executed. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Mostly useless Full Review |
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3/5 |
Will Ferrell cria um personagem carismático a partir de um roteiro burocrático e, no processo, consegue divertir e levar o espectador a se envolver com a história.
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1.5/5 |
... Kicking & Screaming is not very good. Full Review |
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Kicking and Screaming feels as if it were callously vomited out by a machine, along with a couple of spare parts and some putrid grease. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Robert Duvall is superb (his love of football is well-documented) and seems to really enjoy playing a comic variation of his sports-obsessed father in the classic The Great Santini. Full Review |
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C |
Gets the job done for its core audience of tots%u2014and for no one else. Full Review |
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This isn't the worst setup for a kiddie comedy, but it proves that Ferrell alone can't carry a film. Full Review |
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32/100 |
Ferrell's a funny guy, that much is true, and his frequent adlibbing is always preferable to the scripted humour he delivers, but he's just not right to lead a film like this. Full Review |
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Sounds bad, doesn't it? Full Review |
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2/5 |
... a rather schizophrenic movie; groaningly familiar around the edges but with a pair of frighteningly unpredictable monsters at the centre. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Iron Mike is phenomenal! Kicking and Screaming is not. Full Review |
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...a formulaic Bad News Bears rip-off that at least features some good-natured charm to compensate for its flat script and cartoonish tendencies. Full Review |
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