CELTIC PRIDE
A film review by Michael John Legeros
Copyright 1996 Michael John Legeros
(Hollywood)
Directed by Tom DeCerchio
Written by Judd Apatow
Cast Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd, Gail O'Grady,
Christopher McDonald
MPAA Rating "PG-13"
Running Time 93 minutes
Reviewed at General Cinemas at Pleasant Valley, Raleigh, NC
(19APR96)
Dan Aykroyd and Daniel Stern are well-cast as a pair of rabid Celtics fans who kidnap the opposing team's star player (Damon Wayans) before the last game of a tied championship series. They make a good, goofy couple: Stern as the gym-teaching, distracted husband whose wife, once again, wants a divorce; Aykroyd as the never-dates plumber with a head full of stats and an apartment full of kitsch. The movie, unfortunately, doesn't give the pair nearly enough to do. Their gags are too often air balls and the verbal interplay-- between them and the sour-mouthed Wayans-- doesn't score the way it should. (To make matters worse, the distressingly underwritten film is distressingly overscored by composer Basil Poledouris.) Sports fans should find this funny, but lay people may want to lay off such a lame lay up. Now, if only someone would make a movie about rabid *ACC* fans...
Grade: C
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