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| Remember The Titans |
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  (6/10)
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Runtime: 113 |
| Public Rating: 8.42 (135 votes) |
Director: Boaz Yakin |
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| Genre: Family / Drama |
Year: 2000 |
| Writer(s): Gregory Allen Howard |
| Reviewed by: Azazel |
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Mix together Jerry Bruckheimer, Walt Disney, American Fotball and great casting and you get a predictable, clicheed but entertaining movie. Remember the Titans is supposed to be based on a true story. Though it might be more reality in this movie rather than Bruckheimer latest work: Pearl Harbour, the story seems pretty staged to me.
The year is 1971 and one of the first american co-racial schools are started. The school has a fotball team which has won the last 5 seasons. The team is coached by Bill Yost (Will Patton), until the board one day brings in a new black coach, Herman Boone (Denzel Washington). To the dislike of Bill and the rest of the fotball team he takes the position as head coach while he keeps Bill as assistant coach. Black and white people are now mixed together and have to play side by side. Herman starts to train the players tough and unmerciful. Emotions are provoked and internal conflicts are a fact. Despite all the feuds, the team win all their matched, but the championship final is closing in, and to win the championship they have to come together, either they like it or not.
Denzel Washington and Will Patton has the main roles in this movie, and gives good performances. Many of the younger actors are also quite impressive, so the acting in this movie is way above average. If you expect to see a movie that brings out important racial issues that needs to be raised, you are viewing the wrong movie. Go see American History X instead. This movie is pure entertainment in well known Bruckheimer style, only less violence and more drama because it’s a Disney picture.
As most Bruckheimer movies, there is always a good music score. Trevor Rabin has composed the music which is very american-hero-music. The movie is as american as you can possible get, so the score fits nicely. The movie is so flooded with clichees and has several stupid scenes that could easily have been changed or at least removed. The script provides us with no surprises, and the entire movie is predictable from the beginning to the end.
However, all in all it is a very entertaining feel good movie. It is a great family movie, and I recomend it especially for young male teenagers interrested in fotball.
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