Upon taking the mission of training a soccer team of kids, Phil Wetson, an ordinary sports trainer, who throughout his childhood suffers from the competitive and hard life he has with his father's personality, finds himself act like his father in everything, the thing that makes his son struggles.
Kicking & Screaming succeeds because it understands its target audience, refraining from playing it too cute or crude. Though predictable, it's well executed.
Cinema Crazed
April 29, 2009
Is this all there is to Ferrell's career? Mediocre comedies, and wasted talent?
A zero, but the title describes how the audience is likely to react, perfectly.
Washington Post
May 13, 2005
Ferrell is one of the film's few bright lights. It's a shame to hide that subversive beacon under a bushel of dully inspirational sports movie cliches.
Director Jesse Dylan, desperate to avoid yawns, flails madly with staging, editing, slow motion -- any trick he can think of, whether it fits or works or not.
