The Longest Yard (2005)
Directed by Peter Segal
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.
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Ray has his client surrender and go to jail, which turns out to look at lot like Adam Sandler’s remake of “The Longest Yard.”
Heck, I was an apologist for the remake of "The Longest Yard," which features many of these thespians and isn't great, but still looks like a 90-minute laugh-riot compared to "Grown Ups."
It’s a good thing the Sand-man made that remake of The Longest Yard a few years ago, because otherwise Grown Ups would stand out as the comedic mastermind’s worst effort by far.
The downside to these films is that they have largely been rejected by Sandler’s core audience of teenage boys, miscreants and fart joke fanatics and after doing one of them, he has always felt obligated to throw a bone to his fans by following them up with an extra-stupid version of one of his standard vehicles; “Punch Drunk Love” was followed by the grotesque cartoon “8 Crazy Nights,” “Spanglish” led to his appalling remake of “The Longest Yard” and his response to “Reign Over Me” was the borderline offensive “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.”
The duo's football tryout notices attract the likes of Brucie (Nicholas Turturro, 2004's "The Hillside Stranglers"), an enthusiastic player with no talent and a taste for the cheerleading tranny Ms. Tucker (Tracy Morgan, "Are We There Yet?"), Switowski (kickboxer Bob 'The Beast' Sapp, "Elektra"), a simple minded big guy and Big Tony (Joey Diaz, "Taxi," "Analyze That"), a former Kansas State player who has gone to pot keeping Mickey D black marketeer Cheeseburger Eddy (Terry Crews, "White Chicks") in business.
Screenwriter/director Paul W.S. Anderson's version of the tale swipes as much from "The Longest Yard" and "Escape From New York" as it does the original film.