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Little Giants (1994)

Rate: 5
Viewed: 5/25

LittleGiants
5/25: The man...the myth...the legend: Al Bundy.

He once scored four touchdowns for Polk High in a city championship game against Andrew Johnson High. People who were there that day would never forget. Decades later, Al Bundy brings his extensive football acumen to Urbania, Ohio, to help a bunch of kids win a Pee-Wee championship.

Regardless, Little Giants is an all right movie that isn't on the same level as The Sandlot with several strange parts. The child stars try too hard to be the football version of The Bad News Bears and often come off looking cheesy. Ed O'Neill is perfect while Rick Moranis is passable. The former actually played college football and tried out for the Pittsburgh Steelers at the end of the 60's but failed to make the cut.

The girl who wasn't picked for the Cowboys wants to have a football team of her own. Along the way, she falls in love with a boy, thinks about makeup and sex without kissing, and decides not to play for the Giants anymore by becoming a cheerleader until the final two minutes of the important game. Talk about mixed-up priorities. By the way, these Cowboys uniforms sure got super dirty in no time.

Oh, how about these NFL guys showing up: John Madden, Emmitt Smith, Bruce Smith, Tim Brown, and Steve Emtman? When Emmitt Smith said, "I wasn't always the smartest," I thought, "Well...that's true." Steve Emtman getting run over by the small fat kid with a Darth Vader helmet should explain why he went from the number one pick overall to a total bust for the Indianapolis Colts. I wonder why Tim Brown didn't have something of his own compared to the others.

Ah, yes...Spike. There's always one in every community. He usually flames out midway high school, having accomplished little despite winning so many awards and state titles during elementary and middle schools. It's called "living vicariously through his daddy's eyes." On the NFL level, the best example of this is Todd Marinovich who became a drug addict and got arrested so frequently that it was a running joke for a long time.

All in all, it's simple to label what Little Giants is: a kid's movie.