The Big Green

I was waiting to have kids to watch those type of movies again in almost 20 years! Never Forgot about this one.... I'm sure i would have been more critical about it without kids but why so... it is what it is... a feel good family movie. My 3 years old little daughter loved it and watched it like i did back then... with innocence, without overthinking about other stuff. Just looking at a bunch of friends enjoying being together and having fun outside... no need of technology or to be perfect to be appreciated or $$$ of CGI.... i will be asked in a near future to rewatch it with my 2 years old son and his sister that she will remembering it like a good movie because his dad and brother laugh at it ... and as a guilty family movie that gathering us for a too short moment in our life.

The picture concerns about an English teacher named Anna Montgomery(Olivia DÁbo) who comes a Texas little town for teaching at a very young school. She must educate a kiddies with down self-esteem. Anna organizes a soccer team and is helped by the town sheriff(Steve Guttenberg). Abundant difficulties throw out when the contender team with a nasty coach(Jay O. Sanders) is formed with the best in the league ,besides the principal player disappears for problems of immigration. At the beginning the team shaped by underdog and geeky members lose the match but they recuperate the position later.

The film has lots of amusement and fun. It's agreeable movie for kids who they will enjoy enormously.The movie is a soccer version of ¨Mighty Ducks¨and ¨Bad new bears ¨(Michael Ritchie) and recently adapted by Richard Linklater with Billy Bob Thorton as the coacher . However the film didn't obtain success as anterior version and barely attained hit smash at the box office.The picture has its amusing moments here and there, specially when the goalkeeper imagines the attacker players disguised as various characters. The motion picture will appeal to children and soccer buffs . Rating : Average but bemusing.

Certainly not a masterpiece but in an era where as a kid watching endless movies aimed at kids with sports that aren't necessarily globally recognised, it was refreshing to see soccer as the focal point. It remained a child hood memory as the one soccer movie I could relate to as I loved soccer. My kids also relate to this more than mighty ducks and sandlot or rookie of the year as it is a sport they are familiar with day to day in Australia.

The plot being cliche, or overused gags or cashing in on a genre does not matter when watching it or sharing the movie with your children, to them it's just a fun movie they can laugh and enjoy with a sport they understand.

Before this movie was released, The Sandlot and The Mighty Ducks had already been released. Two good Disney movies dealing with kids and sports. The way I saw it, The Big Green was just another attempt to cash in on that trend. Sadly it failed.

The movie isn't exactly bad. But if you have a choice to watch it, it be best to skip it. If anyone would find it the least bit enjoyable, it would be children which was the original target audience to begin with.

But if you must watch a kids soccer movie, instead watch Rodney Dangerfield's "Ladybugs." Alot more enjoyable plus the kids should like that one. I did when I was kid.

The students in a small Texan town have a new teacher from England (Olivia D'Abo). She is trying hard to motivate and communicate with her pupils, with only limited success. Limited, that is, until she gets her students excited about soccer. She assembles a ragtime team, with no uniforms, and teaches them about the fundamentals of soccer. The team, with a mixture of girls and boys, begins playing matches. They lose. The teacher enlists the help of the local sheriff (Steve Guttenberg) and, together, they help the team improve. But, will they succeed in winning soccer games? This is another stroll down Mighty Ducks lane but it is still a good film for children. It's themes of hard work and teamwork are undeniable and very worthwhile. The actors, the script, and the Texas setting form a touching and funny film. If you want to find a good family film for a night at home, try this one. Big grins will pop up over The Big Green.