The longest ... - The Longest Yard Reviews

Adam Sandler has become a hit at the box office but his movies seem to be Hit or Miss and this is definitley a miss. Adam really seems out of his element throughout this movie. He can't be too serious and he can't be too comical. He never seems comfortable in his roll. And honestly, who can really see him as a professional football player? I think this movie would have done better had it kept a plot that went along with the beginning of the movie in which Courntey Cox-Arquette plays his girlfriend who seems to try and make the relationship work even though she gets nothing from Sandler's character. (I must add that Courtney either has implants or just big boob I never noticed!) The story is about a Football player (Sandler) who was kicked out of Professional football for throwing a game on purpose and he doesn't like his demanding girlfriend and so he steals her car and goes on a high-speed chase while drunk and gets arrested and put in prison for 3 years. The prison is know for its football team that is made up of the guards who work at the prison. The prison warden wants Sandler's character to create a team for the guards to practice against before their season starts. He creates this team and before the big game there is an event that happens and this creates a sort of black-mail situation for the warden to keep the inmates from winning the game. The story is a fun idea but the characters don't deliver. The humor is quite dry and forced. There are harsh undertones to racial and gay issues. I would wait for rental. C