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'Kicking & Screaming': Will Ferrell scores again
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

There's no crying in baseball, but apparently, there's a lot of kicking and screaming in kids' soccer. At least, that's the impression given by "Kicking & Screaming," a mid-level Will Ferrell comedy that, while not "Elf"-brilliant, is enjoyable and often quite funny. Just watching Ferrell pull faces (for lack of a better term) is hilarious. And while he's a less agile physical actor than Jim Carrey, he makes an endearing stumblebum as he trips, falls and throws over-caffeinated tantrums. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
When Phil decides to coach his 10-year-old son's soccer team, he goes head-to-head for the league championship against overly competitive father.

FILM FACTS ...

Universal Pictures

'Kicking & Screaming'

Directors: Jesse Dylan
Starring: Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Kate Walsh, Mike Ditka, Musetta Vander
Run time: 96 minutes
Release date: May 13, 2005
Rating: PG for thematic elements, language and some crude humor.
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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B-
"Ferrell generates oodles of good will, whether he's discovering that one salient feature of coffee is that it's usually hot or screaming 'Loser!!!' at an 11-year-old. "

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Austin American-Statesman: 2 of 5 stars
"This toothless trifle is harmless enough, but it doesn't belong in a movie theater. With its strenuously innocuous tenor and dunderheaded moralizing out of 'Air Bud,' its home is on the family shelf at Blockbuster, dusty and buried deep."