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(1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 12% Rotten Page   1   A- "Even when Yard occasionally becomes too hammy for words, or the “evil” performances cross into cartoon, the film remains an overwhelmingly infectious experience."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "The film spends too much time on the team's practice antics and growth-by-montages."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/5 "Hey, did you know there’s a new DVD edition of the 1974 original?"   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2/5 "After a handful of McThis and McThat jokes, it becomes blatantly clear that we have a movie unwilling to take a single risk."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 1.5/4 "Environmentalists will tell you that recycling is a good thing but the Adam Sandler vehicle The Longest Yard goes out of its way to prove otherwise. "   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 0/4 "Sexist, homophobic, pointless and overloaded with brain-crushing bigotry...has an evil and putrid secret agenda that couldn't have less to do with football if it tried."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman D+ "Seems like it was made by 14-year-old boys, for 14-year-old boys. If that's you, then go and have a good time. But if you're post-adolescent, there's nothing for you here."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2.5/4 "What you saw in 1974 is pretty much what you get here, an audience pleaser that isn’t a particular laugh-riot but will certainly keep you in the game."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C- "An utter blank, so weak, gutless, and unsurprising that it may as well not exist."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "Segal paces this updated version of Aldrich’s playful prison yarn with all the skill of an indecisive coach roaming the sidelines without a playbook to rely on for inspiration"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C- "A major summer movie fumble...it's mostly the audience that gets sacked."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/10 "If you’re looking for a predictable, unoriginal, mediocre offering from the good folks over at Happy Madison, rent this puppy..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo "...what you get when you cast comedians as actors instead of actors who can be funny."   Light Views   John Larsen "Most of it is pretty indefensible by any standards."   FilmFreak.be   Jonathan F. Richards 3/4 "Filme poco pretencioso que no busca otra cosa que no sea entretener. No pasará a la historia, pero por lo menos es mejor de lo que parece."   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 3.5/5 "The film doesn’t shy away from political incorrectness and bad taste."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C "Returning to the football field of The Waterboy, this time out Pop Warner quarterback Sandler just doesn't play to his strengths."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/5 "This is one dreary, formulaic slog through sports-movie cliches."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh C "The cartoonish way in which the characters are played drains the film of any grittiness the setting is supposed to provide."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[A] repulsive celebration of everything that’s sickening and ugly and hideous about America today.""   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/5 "With a movie like this, only laughter can distract you from the pedestrian plot, and I didn't laugh nearly enough."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 2.5/4 "This new version ignores the inherent edginess of the material. There’s a huge disconnect between the plot’s unassailable darkness and the lightness of the film’s tone."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "The movie is about Paul's journey to find some kind of honor and about seeing big men slam the heck out of each other. It wisely devotes most of its time to the latter."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "The film primarily replaces its predecessor's gritty swagger with WWE and MTV-esque posturing."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "There are occasional guffaws, but none of the jokes are more amusing (or farfetched) than the premise that Adam Sandler ever played in the National Football League."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/5 "The film looks fine, but [Segal] never even tries to make something out of this thin material."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "Yields the dispiriting insight that Hollywood can't even make credible rabble-rousing junk any more."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves F "Sad and ugly, the product of sadistic children devoid of moral compasses."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C "The lesser of two yards."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C "If you like Adam Sandler, goofy comedy and football, I suggest seeing The Waterboy instead."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 2/5 "Yeah, who needs talented actors like Burt Reynolds, Bill Fichtner, and James Cromwell when you can just hit someone in the crotch for 105 minutes?"   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg 2/5 "The product placement cluttering professional sports also taints ... an otherwise faithful remake."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 6/10 "Mucho macho miscasting grinds gridiron grit into flabby humor. It's sanitized and sentimentalized."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 1.5/4 "Easy, formula stuff fine-tuned with surefire gags."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw Read review   Pretentious Musings   Kevin Koehler  (1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 12% Rotten Page   1