The Game Plan is a family comedy staged around an NFL quarterback whose plans to remain a bachelor is thwarted when he discovers he has a daughter before now.
It's what I like to call an amnesia movie. Six months from now, if someone asks me about The Game Plan, I'll be hard-pressed to remember what it's about or who's in it.
BBC.com
March 07, 2008
Despite its cheesy story, The Game Plan has one major trump card: The Rock is actually quite good.
Johnson's amiable performance makes this watchable for the target audience; namely sporty daddies and spoiled little girls primed to assimilate their lives into the Disney brand.