The funniest thing about this film was watching it in a room with a couple of fat football fans. They spoke about the incident in hushed revered tones as if the zombies of Marshall U. would pop out of the ground if one were to utter a word of disdain about the film itself. This is a disaster movie whose target demographic is middle aged white male sports fans. Even though it's based on a real life incident it's formulaic in presentation and more or less a Hollywood tearjerker for men.

They say that it takes a village to raise a child. This philosophy can also be used in this movie to express that it takes a community to raise a school back up from a disaster. This film is is truley as inspirational film. This film is about a high school and devoted community that looses its' beloved football team in a deadly plane crash. Only a few left behind players and a new coach remain. Through watchin this film one learns that giving up is not the ansewer.

In the theater, the techniques actors use to ensure applause at the end of a play is called "a claptrap". This film builds a mighty claptrap, from the death of the home team, to the hiring of a charismatic new coach, to the recruiting of new players, to the building of team spirit, to the BIG GAME. In the end, I couldn't resist. I followed the director's subliminal commands, jumped up from my couch, stood in front of my TV screen and applauded wildly. YAY MARSHALL!

""Grief is messy," says McShane's anguished dad. We Are Marshall's disingenuously tidy portrait of it, alas, is not." - Nick Schager

If you tend to enjoy tear-jerkers or football films, I think you'll like this one. Honestly, though, I wish there was a little more football. Since I enjoy football, I really want to see the football plays unfold the way you see them when you watch them on TV, but what you get is basically a lot of close-ups, the noise of contact, and jump-cuts to blurry action. It is exciting enough, but it isn't FOOTBALL. Of course, it doesn't want to be a football movie, so I sorta get that.

some interestingly filmed football scenes other than that... meh

Matthew McConaughey puts in a decent performance in this sports film. Overall, the film was OK, although not as powerful as Remember the Titans.

overhead dialogue on first day of principal photography, "Whoa whoa whoa, compadres! Looks like we got us TWO Matthews on this set. How 'bout we call me Mattie, and we call this guy 'Foxie'"? (McCaunehey tussles Fox's hair) fun drinking game: everytime McCaunehey points, drink

loved it

Not bad. Not great, but not bad. I think it was different than I'd expected. It wasn't a typical "sports hero" film like Rudy or the like. It focused more on the sadness and loss and how the characters were trying to cope and move on. So, for that it was a good movie, but I was expecting a sad beginning with an uplifting ending, and while it did get there, the movie was focused more on the loss than the getting back on one's feet.

A little too much of McConaughey talking out of the side of his mouth. Maybe too much of Dr. Jack Shephard fighting back tears. Also, maybe I'm a pitiless jerk.

Very good.