Fake - The Longest Yard Reviews

It's surprising how much of the movie is flat and how predictable the gags are. Actually, the director is Peter Segal, who made Sandler's ''Anger Management" and ''50 First Dates," so maybe ''surprise" is too strong a word. But in those films, Segal got Jack Nicholson and Drew Barrymore, respectively, to enjoy themselves. Here, not even Cloris Leachman, as the warden's sexed up secretary, or the usually infallible Terry Crews, as the dealer of contraband cheeseburgers, made me laugh. Rock feels particularly gratuitous, employing his race-first stylings to mixed effect. Of Nelly's barefoot running back, he observes, ''That boy got slave feet!" His sidekick role is a lot like Wanda Sykes's in ''Monster-in-Law": a racialized accessory whose jokes are on the fritz