The Game Plan (2007)
Director: Andy Fickman
Movie review
From Time Out Chicago
Some comic routines are guaranteed laughs: a lidless blender spraying goop all over the place, football players who cry, big macho guys doing ballet. Check with your friendly neighborhood eight-year-old, who will tell you that these are comic gold. And if that eight-year-old is your responsibility, feel free to take him or her to The Game Plan, which milks these and other broad gags in between bouts of sentiment. If you don’t have a rug rat, give this lame kiddie comedy a pass.
Johnson plays superstar quarterback Joe Kingman, whose bachelor lifestyle recalls Rock Hudson’s in Pillow Talk, complete with an apartment control system with a setting for “seduction.” Joe’s swinging days and big ego both get reined in by the arrival on his doorstep of adorable moppet Peyton (Pettis), who informs him that she’s the daughter he never knew he had. Mom, she explains, is in Africa for a month doing relief work, and has sent Peyton to stay with her unsuspecting daddy. Just to make things messier, Joe’s team is on its way to the championship game. Can a bachelor jock and an adorable ballet-loving tyke live together without driving each other crazy? More important, why is action-friendly Johnson making kiddie comedies?
Football players growl and cry, Johnson learns that being a parent is both hard and rewarding, and jokes are delivered with all the subtlety of a used-car dealer.
Author: Hank Sartin
Time Out Chicago Issue 135: September 27–October 3, 2007
User reviews of this film
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- alexandr said...
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Posted on May 15 2010 04:15
i want film from chicago.this is famous town.
welcome chicago.
i want recieve film about sports:tenis and bascetball.
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- Lisa'sMom said...
- Posted on Sep 28 2007 11:00 "More important, why is action-friendly Johnson making kiddie comedies?" Because he may realize that Disney is prolific about making kids' movies and that he might get future gigs from this? BTW, we parents of kids between 7 and 11 years of age appreciate having a movie to go to with our children that may be pablum, but is guaranteed not to give nightmares.
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Cast & crew
Director: Andy Fickman
Cast: Madison Mason, Kyra Sedgwick, Roselyn Sanchez, The Rock full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: PG
Duration: 110 mins
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