VarietySandler smartly balances the script's mix of cynicism and sentiment in his ingratiating lead performance. (And he's physical...
The New York Times Softer, louder and cleaner than the 1974 version, the new film sentimentalizes the prisoners and the game, filing down their...
Chicago Sun-TimesThe Longest Yard more or less achieves what most of the people attending it will expect.
San Francisco ChronicleAn odd mix of amusing nonsense and nastiness that chugs along, hit and miss, until the last section, which is the best part ...
SlateWhat was already a raucous put-on, a goof on Aldrich's brutal action movies, is now a hyperbolic, gross-out cartoon, with a ...
Film ThreatThere are occasional guffaws, but none of the jokes are more amusing (or farfetched) than the premise that Adam Sandler ever...
Box Office MagazineWhat was an utterly original blending of popular genres in 1974 has been refashioned as an utterly unoriginal retread of gen...
The Austin ChronicleSegal's version is no sports-film watershed, either, but it is consistently entertaining, athletically brutal, and, more oft...
EmpireHomophobia, sexism, racism, ageism and OJ-ism pound against genre clichà (C)s as weathered as Reynolds' skin, bludgeoning yo...
Washington PostWhether it's the sight of Reynolds squeezed painfully into a football uniform or the endless footballs-to-the-crotch and tir...
Salon ArtsPeople will go see The Longest Yard for all sorts of reasons -- its lively humor, the current of violence that's just under ...
Washington PostThe pleasure is entirely like eating cake made from cake mix. It's not like you don't know how it's going to turn out, or ho...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Peter Segal
Writer: Sheldon Turner
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds
Release: May 27, 2005
Writer: Sheldon Turner
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds
Release: May 27, 2005
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