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The Longest Yard is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. The movie features inmates at a prison who play American football against their guards. Adam Sandler plays the hero, Paul Crewe, an ex pro-football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Burt Reynolds, the original Paul Crewe, plays a major role as Nate Scarborough, the head coach and a former Heisman Trophy winner from 1955. The rest of the cast includes Chris Rock, James Cromwell, Nelly, William Fichtner and a number of current and semi-retired football players and professional wrestlers including Michael Irvin, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bill Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Bob Sapp, Brandon Molale and Dalip Singh Rana.
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The Longest Yard is a real mixed bag in the casting department. Along with Sandler, you've got comedian Chris Rock, quality actors like James Cromwell and William Fichtner, annoying rapper Nelly, and former NFL star Brian Bosworth. Support ... comes from wrestlers Kevin Nash, Bill Goldberg, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Chris Rock gets most of the best lines, but he's underused, as is Fichtner, whose character drops off the screen entirely until it's time for the climactic football game. Burt Reynolds is in this, too, as a nod to his old film Mean Machine, of which this is a remake. Also remade here is Reynolds's face, apparently.
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The cast of The Longest Yard has many big names. Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, James Cromwell, and Nelly are the main characters of the movie. On both teams there are many NFL players such as Michael Irwin and Bill Romanowski. One of the best roles in the movie is Chris Berman's cameo as the ESPN announcer during the big game. Berman is the benchmark for football commentating, and for such an important game, it is fitting to have such a personality as Berman.
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For a movie with so many men in it, “The Longest Yard” has a hard time coming up with any that would be worth following. In the world of this film, it doesn’t matter if you’re on the side of the law or a criminal; you’re just as likely to lie, cheat, steal, hurt, and mock the weak or stupid. The only thing clearly wrong is abusing prisoners and throwing football games.
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In "The Longest Yard," the crummy remake of the 1974 film of the same title, Adam Sandler stars as the former N.F.L. quarterback Paul Crewe, who years earlier was booted out of the league for shaving points. In the original film, directed with seriocomic facility by the great Robert Aldrich, Crewe was played by Burt Reynolds with effortless charm, tufts of visible chest hair and the tightest pants this side of Tony Orlando. As in the earlier movie, Crewe has landed in jail after violating parole and resisting arrest, among other infractions. He has ... attracted the attention of Warden Hazen (James Cromwell), a cookie-cutter martinet who thinks he can use Crewe to improve his semi-pro team made up of guards. The first "Longest Yard" doesn't represent Aldrich and 1970's American moviemaking at their finest, but it certainly moves better and skews smarter than the remake.
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The real fun in The Longest Yard is watching the various non-actors act. Segal assembled a nice mix of people, and the results are nice. This is by no means a feat of good acting, but everything is serviceable. It is nice to see Sandler a little bit away from his typical persona. For anybody who doesn't know (probably nearly everybody watching), Lancaster played Crewe in the original. Chris Rock's (Paparazzi, Head of State) job is to provide sarcastic commentary for the duration of the film, although he's not as caustic as usual.
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