| The Replacements | 
 enlarge | Actors: Gene Hackman, Keanu Reeves, Keith David, Jon Favreau, Greg Goossen
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 970
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 118
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: TM2562
ISBN: 0790751542
UPC: 085391858522
EAN: 9780790751542
ASIN: B00003CXLV
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: November 28, 2000
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The Replacements manages to be both completely formulaic and yet immensely enjoyable. When a professional football players' strike happens, the owner of a fictitious team, the Washington Sentinels, commissions maverick coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to pull together a team. McGinty selects a collection of talented oddballs--a Welsh soccer player, a sumo wrestler, a couple of professional bodyguards--with athletic pasts, figuring that if it doesn't work out as a game, it might as well be a circus. To lead the team, he finds Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a once-promising player who had a disastrous championship game. Naturally, despite squabbling and bickering, a roguish camaraderie develops through a mixture of racial infighting, harassment from the striking professionals, and a big bar brawl--after which they're all thrown in jail and perform the most improbable impromptu dance number ever committed to film. The mixture of cheerfully cliche plot mechanics, an engaging collection of supporting actors (including Orlando Jones, Rhys Ifans from Notting Hill, and Jon Favreau from Swingers), and sheer ridiculousness somehow combines to make The Replacements completely entertaining. Reeves is somehow turning into a pleasant leading man; he even emotes convincingly in this movie. And let's face it, Gene Hackman is quite possibly the greatest actor alive, able to speak the trashiest dialogue with fierce conviction. Plus, just to prove that the tight pants and close huddles of football are heterosexual, there are many, many shots of cheerleaders going through stripper-inspired routines. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
A comedy based on the 1987 professional football players' strike. Gene Hackman plays the coach of the team, Jack Warden is the owner, Brett Cullen is the All-Pro quarterback that goes on strike and Keanu Reeves is the "scab" who replaces the star QB.
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 Coach from Hoosiers + Plot from Major League = Good sports movie? August 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
When Gene Hackman is in a sports movie, it's impossible to see him as anyone other than coach Norman Dale from Hoosiers. Unfortunately, Keanu Reeves is more Shooter than he is Jimmy Chitwood. Nonetheless, this travesty of a sports movie was given the nod, and the rest is history.
The setup for the movie is stolen straight from Major League. A pro team has no players, but this time it's a strike instead of an insane owner. A wily, unknown coach is hired to build a team. A motley crew of assorted cliches is soon picked up.
Once again Coach Hackman amazes with his complete lack of coaching ability, as he insists on picking up a former college QB with a rag-arm to lead his team. Surely there were countless other guys in the Arena league or in the CFL who would have loved the chance at the NFL, but Hackman goes with a guy who can't throw a fit, let alone a football. His QB of choice, Shane "Footsteps" Falco (Reeves), is a guy who had a horrible bowl game in his college finale, and was rightfully branded as a choke artist. (Side note: In this movie Keanu essentially plays the same Johnny Utah role he did in Point Break)
Aside from Falco, Hackman picks up some token athletes while several others fill in the movie gaps (with Major League counterparts in parenthesis):
1) A psycopathic, borderline idiot to play linebacker (Favreau) and serve as the Wild Thing, er, Card (Ricky Vaughn)
2) The wild, crazy foreigner, a chain-smoking British guy who used to be a soccer star, and can now do the field-goal kicking duties (Pedro Serrano)
3) The big, brooding, intimidating, scary ex-convict (Pedro Cerrano mixed with Ricky Vaughn)
4) The anonymous black guy with track star speed and an uncanny knack for witty, funny one-liners (Willie Mays Hayes)
5) The handicapped guy who overcomes his deafness (Jake Taylor)
6) The three obese offensive linemen who aren't really athletes (Eddie Harris)
7) Eventually one of the smarmy pros comes back to the team, QB Eddie Martell, and nobody likes him (Roger Dorn)
8) Annabelle (Brooke Langton), a cheerleader, and love-interest for Falco, does nothing except display the top half of her boobs during every scene on camera (Lynn Wells)
With the puzzle pieces in place, there is an awkward lack of sexual chemistry between Annabelle and Falco, meaningless coach-speak from Hackman (who mails it in by recycling his Coach Dale routine), the coming together as a team scene (an absolutely wretched scene where the team dances together in a jail to the song "I Will Survive"), and the inevitable match-up versus the superior opponent.
The absolute best part of the movie is at the beginning when Falco is throwing a metal football from a trophy while underwater. It's the best scene Keanu has ever been in because he couldn't speak.
A serviceable sports movie, The Replacements provides just enough sports action for the die-hard sports fan to enjoy, and just enough preposterousness for the cynic to ridicule. Much like Keanu, it's so bad it's good.
 Great Cast-Great Movie! August 5, 2008
The Replacements brings to the screen the story of a substitute squad called in to get the Washington Sentinels to the playoffs following a walkout by professional football players over pay. Things become rather complicated when the replacements turn out to be a mismatch of misfits, `have-beens,' and `never-was'...
The Replacements comes across as an action film but in fact it is all about human relations, hope, and second chances.
Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton (who is simply GORGEOUS!), Rhys Ifans, Jon Favreau, and the rest of this great cast, have outdone themselves with their performances. All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, the movie is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few laughs, not to mention a few tears. The film is simple enough, but does a great job of describing people's every day lives and the problems they face. It just goes to show that simplicity is often far better than complexity, when trying to present issues of a human nature.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, the humor, the girls (!), and the MUSIC (!!!) are all wonderful!
In short, The Replacements is a movie definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection (if not for the music alone)!
Great Movie June 13, 2008
Even though it's a sports movie, it is great. Received in quick time. Was pleased with the product, and delivery.
Don't Know Why I Like It, But I Do June 13, 2008
This movie is one of a rarity for me: a cliche that works. The plot is as old as time--a bunch of misfits recruited to pull off something incredible, in this case a playoff appearance for the hometown football team after all the regulars go on strike.
The characters are the same, the plot is the same, and the ending is so obvious even Stevie Wonder could see it coming. But for some reason I still like it. I know this isn't exactly a ringing endorsement, but check it out anyway--you might be pleasantly surprised.
Christmas Gift January 23, 2008
this product was great! The price was great (although I had to pay an arm and a leg for next day shipping to get it in time for christmas)
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