Kicking & Screaming

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kicking & Screaming is a fun, family-friendly comedy with lots of laughs and a great message about teamwork and confidence. Will Ferrell is hilarious, and it’s an easy, feel-good choice for family movie night. Would definitely watch again! 🎬⚽

This, along with the much maligned Bewitched, is one of my favorite Will Ferrell movies. Unlike his most recent Anchorman 2 (raunchy, rude and not worth watching; really, Will, do you not make enough money that you have to put rude sex jokes in?), Kicking and Bewitched are fun and entertaining. Don't understand at all why Bewitched didn't do better. I thought Ferrell's scene at the table (Kidman puts a spell on him) was one of the best he's ever done. Bewitched is ridiculously underrated and should be bought for its sweetness and because it was fabulously well done. Further, talk all you want about Kidman in Cold Mountain or ...whatever...this is my favorite performance she has done, along with the Tom Cruise movie Far and Away. By the way...and just saying...does Kidman send Cruise a thank you note every year for giving her a career? One she would not have if not for Cruise's generosity (Cruise may be one of the last truly great movie stars: applause applause). Kicking and Screaming is just flat out fun. Really enjoyed this and as I write this, I can't recall anything overly sexy rude about it so (unless I'm forgetting something?) it is a family friendly watch.

I cannot believe I am giving a Will Ferrell movie five stars but it was really laugh out loud great. My children loved it. Our pediatrician recommended it in her quarantine weekly letter and I had never seen it but my kids play soccer so I thought it may be good and decided to give it a shot. I am glad I did. Other than the joke of the father saying the mother is dead and the (adult) son correcting him that they are actually only divorced, the movie was fine for my kids. I had never heard of this movie but it is cute and the soccer games are really fun to watch too if you have a child who plays. The father is a tough competitor but not in a scary way and of course the end turns out to be heartwarming.

This is a fun sports movie as well as a look at relationships between parents and their (sometimes grown) children. Phil (Will Ferrell) is likable as a dad who inadvertently ends up coaching his son's soccer team with Mike Ditka, hysterical as the assistant coach. Phil's own father and rival coach (Robert Duvall) does a great job of lampooning the all-too-serious competitive nature that often accompanies the over-zealous parents of children on sports teams. Phil is determined to be a different dad than the one he had, but discovers a side to himself he didn't know existed as a caffeinated coach.

My kids absolutely loves this movie.

I'm not the worlds biggest Will Ferrell fan, but I find this movie absolutely hilarious. I have through dozens and dozens of sports movies and I hate them and find them totally formulaic. I can't figure out which aspect of this movie is funnier: the fact that it is an extremely clever spoof of the "under-dog" sports movie or Ferrell's performance of a man slowly driven to madness by his overbearing father and Mike Dicta. It' had plenty of off-beat quirky moments that caught me by surprise. Most people haven't seen it, and it might be because trying to walk an awkward line between being a kids movie and a grown up movie. However there isn't in raunchy stuff in it so it's fine for kids even though some of the subtler humor may go over their heads (i.e, the awkwardness of Will Ferrell's dad marrying a woman younger than his own wife). If your looking for a Not-to-heavy comedy to get a few laughs, I'd say go for it.

Kicking and Screaming is sort of a mixed bag. I think at points it will appeal to the Will Farrell fans, which I consider myself to be. There's enough of Ferrell's zaniness in the film to entertain you, but, as usual, he goes a bit over-the-top and this might grate on your nerves. I think Ferrell can really carry a film with his antics, though, so I guess I'm a little partial to his films. The plot of the film, while passable, is very formulaic in its underdog overcomes bully and main character learns his lesson in a rushed, trite, predictable way. Farrell plays a man who is second fiddle to his father, who is a perennial "winner." As you might guess, Ferrell becomes coach of a group of losers who he tries to turn into winners, all the while trying to be a good father figure to his son. As he tries to compete with his father (Robert Duvall), he seems to lose his mind over winning (and drinking copious amounts of caffeine). You will probably see his epiphany before he does. It's a film that is entertaining and funny mostly, but you will probably feel like you've seen it before. There are a few funny extras included in the disc that are worth watching, most notably the outtakes with some of kids. In total, Kicking and Screaming is a funny film, but don't expect too much.

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All ok

Ok family film but I find Will Ferrell a bit annoying.

What can I say. Will Ferrell is a hero to all men-children. Clean family fun.

I love will ferrell in movies think he is really funny, in things such as the other guys and the anchorman, Looked at this on amazon and was curious as to how this would be as its a PG.... however its just like the others, no really violent humour , or swearing, or sex, or drugs... but apart from that its the same. This would be suitable for all ages really. I will point out the obvious fact that this is not a serious film or clever. Its just an easy watch, but a great one at that.

great movie thank u so much