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The Game Plan (Widescreen Edition)
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Item Description...
Product Description
In this hilarious and heartwarming family comedy one of the sport's toughest players ever takes on his biggest challenge yet -- fatherhood! A superstar with an ego bigger than a football field Joe Kingman (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is getting ready for a run at the big championship game when the 8-year-old daughter he never knew existed shows up at his not-so-family-friendly bachelor pad. As the big game gets closer he begins to realize the most meaningful win he can achieve is the heart of the one little fan who counts the most.System Requirements:Running Time: 110 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: PG UPC: 786936747317 Manufacturer No: 05568600
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"When you look at me, what do you see?" pontificates football star Joe Kingman, then provides the answer: "Greatness." Well, clearly an ego like that needs to be brought down to size--pint-size. The winning family comedy The Game Plan has a whole lot going for it, including star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who's a natural comedic actor (and the camera loves him), and the young actress (Madison Pettis) who plays the daughter he didn't know he had, Peyton. The plot doesn't break much new ground, since many films have mined the territory of the self-indulgent child-adult who suddenly "inherits" a child (from Three Men and a Baby to Baby Boom to Big Daddy to Raising Helen). But thanks to the charismatic performance of Johnson, the film is winsome and uplifting. Johnson's comic timing and straight-man face are spot-on, as is his warm chemistry with the sweet-faced Pettis. Also giving notable performances are the lovely Roselyn Sanchez as Peyton's ballet teacher, and Kyra Sedgwick as Kingman's hard-nosed agent who's aghast at the appearance of an out-of-wedlock child. Children and adults both can enjoy the movie's warm-and-fuzzy moral of making family where you find it--or where it finds you. --A.T. Hurley
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Item Specifications...
Record Label WALT DISNEY VIDEO
Format Color / Dolby / DVD / NTSC / Widescre
Dimensions: Length: 7.47" Width: 5.4" Height: 0.57"
Weight: 0.2 lbs.
Binding DVD Video
Release Date Feb 1, 2008
Publisher CHORDANT ACNT# 3707
ISBN 0012466565
EAN 0786936747317
UPC 786936747317
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Availability 14 units.
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 | funny movie Feb 23, 2008 |
| A funny family movie. A little corney,and predictable but, it's entertaining. Got to love the Rock! The little girl in the movie is cute. My preteen son loves the movie. | | |  | terrific movie for all ages Feb 22, 2008 |
| This was a great movie for our entire family, even the grandparents! The Rock is so endearing! and Madison Pettis is soooooo adorable! You know what's going to happen, but it is such a good movie. The scenes with the football team really warm you heart! You will love this movie. Even my husband loved it! :) | | |  | Good "kid" movie Feb 22, 2008 |
| A little "cheesy" for adults, but good kid movie. Humorous side of a very serious situation that happens way too often in real life. Good, but predictable ending. This movie could probably help kids relate that are in situations where they do not know one of their parents. It shows that things can work out for a happy ending. | | | | Great movie Feb 19, 2008 |
| Fun for the whole family. One of the best movies The Rock has ever made. | | |  | so-so family comedy Feb 18, 2008 |
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For even the most pumped-up action movie superstar, there's nothing like appearing in a family-friendly vehicle opposite a scene-stealing tyke to bring a touch of humanity to one`s image. Indeed, such a career choice has become a virtual right-of-passage for these bodybuilder-turned-actor-types as they endeavor to diversify their portfolios and pad their resumes. We've already had Arnold Schwarzenegger and Vin Diesel doing the daddy-day-care bit - in "Kindergarten Cop" and "The Pacifier," respectively - and now we have Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson making like a wet-nurse in "The Game Plan," a warm-and-fuzzy piece of generic fluff designed to be enjoyed and disposed of in roughly equal measure.
Joe Kingman is a professional quarterback with an ego and a paycheck as massive as his ginormous biceps. His free-swinging bachelor lifestyle consists of a swanky penthouse pad, endless parties, a stable of gorgeous women, and a Mercedes SLR McLaren worth a cool half a mill or so, give or take a few thou. The problem is that Joe doesn't seem to realize just how lonely and empty his life really is until one fine day when an 8-year-old bundle-of-joy named Peyton shows up quite literally on his doorstep to inform him that she is the long-lost daughter he never knew he had. Suddenly, this international playboy is thrust into the wholly alien world of ballet recitals, bubble baths and parental responsibility.
Like the aforementioned movies that preceded it, "The Game Plan" is based on the premise that there is nothing quite so hilarious and aww-evoking as the sight of a steroid-pumped behemoth getting in touch with his nurturing nature. Indeed, it's the incongruity between the macho façade and the tenderhearted actions that provides the comic tension necessary to make such stories work. And "The Game Plan" certainly milks the formula for all it's worth. The predictable storyline is made up of equal parts lowbrow slapstick and push-button sentimentality, as Joe ultimately sees the errors of his ways and becomes a much better man for his experience.
Though no great shakes as an actor, Johnson has always displayed a certain self-deprecating charm on screen and he uses it to good effect here. As the precocious moppet, Madison Pettis manages to keep the bathos and saccharine down to an acceptable minimum - which is more than can be said for the movie itself, actually, which ladles the syrup on pretty darn thick in the closing stretches.
Nevertheless, this is, I suppose, a tolerable time-waster - provided you`re part of the right audience demographic for this kind of thing, that is. | | | Write your own review about The Game Plan (Widescreen Edition)
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