The Turkey Bowl

It's worth watching if you're a fan of stoner type comedy. Not the best editing, no name cast outside of Matt Jones (Breaking Bad - the reason I found this film), and a cameo part from Harland Williams (Half Baked). The concept was very predictable at every turn, cheesy at times to the point of slapstick. The end football game was very exaggerated.. and the soundtrack made it feel like a cliche 90s movie.. Other than that, the acting wasn't terrible, the script was pretty "meh", with lots of obvious unexplained questions.. For what it was, the script could have been better. There's a few laughs in there if you don't get over critical while watching it. It is what it is.. a 5 out of 10 star movie at best. I'd probably give it a 3-4 without Matt Jones. Ever since I saw him in Breaking Bad as Badger, I've watched most everything else he's done - so there you go.

It's pretty good. There are some laughs. Barry Switzer steals the show.

The premise outline of this movie has been done before. In 1999 a school football team had a chance to break a 50 year old drought and win the Turkey Bowl. But it snowed and the game never got finished. Why it didn't get rescheduled is a reality point the movie ignores for the team's to reunite in 2019 (I guess) and finish what they started. Only thing is the star player has run off to be a big shot in Chicago and is about to be engaged to a presidential campaigners daughter. He is tricked into returning home to play the game he has no interest in, nor wants to return home. Once there, he rekindles with his buddies, teammates and old girlfriend.... you can probably fill in how it all ends.

The comedy tries to be a bit of Animal House and borrows a lot of the same story from The Waterboy and just about every other underdogs football movie. The plot has no originality, and the outcomes are foreseen a mile away.

However, there is a couple of laughs, has a good pace, and doesn't leave you bored. It's ok for one viewing, but it has no rewatch value.

Then of course there's these completely fake over the top 10/10 reviews. A 10 means it's among the best movies that exist. This doesn't even come close.

First 20 mins in, I barely laughed once. These reviews are fake. This movie comes up as an 8/10? Please. There's no chance in hell.

This is a 4 MAX. Tired formula, only like 2 actors I've even ever seen before, and I watch a lot of movies. Nothing new or unique and nothing that puts this over a 3 for me.

Corny, campy music accompanies stupid scenes or grade c acting and even worse writing.

Imdb needs to do something about these blatant upvotes from bots and the movie staff desperately trying to get you to watch this less than average movie.

This movie SUCKED. Bad acting. Poorly written jokes. This movie looks like it was shot in a high school film class.