Kicking And Screaming, is about Phil Weston, who works at a vitamin store and lives with his wife Barbara, and his son Sam. Phil's dad Buck Weston, is very competitive and owns a sporting goods store. Buck coaches one of the little league soccer teams and Phil finds out that Buck, traded Sam to another team. Phil discovers that the new team Sam, is on doesn't have a coach so Phil volunteers. Phil meets Buck's neighbour former football coach Mike Ditka, and finds out that he really doesn't like his father so he agrees to help Phil coach the team. The team also gets two new players who help the team win. Phil, gets really caught up in winning and really wants to beat his dad and along the way he becomes a totally different person obsessed with winning and addicted to coffee. Kicking And Screaming, isn't a terrible movie but it isn't a good one either. Actor, Will Ferrell tries his best here and he doesn't do a bad job and neither do the other actors but the main problem is the script and they aren't really given a chance to do much. The film is a comedy and it didn't make me laugh once. The script was actually pretty bland. It just never really took off. A lot of the humour and jokes feel forced and it just didn't work. The kids in the audience seemed to find it pretty funny and I think that is generally who the movie is aimed at. I wasn't bored at Kicking And Screaming, but I didn't laugh and didn't leave the theater thinking it was a great movie. It felt more like something you'd watch on video. For kids this is probably an entertaining movie but there isn't much there for the adults.
Review of Kicking & Screaming
