Mini-Review: Leaving the theater, I was pretty sure this was one of the worst movies I'd seen in quite some time, but I gave it a night and a day to seep its way into my good graces, and I decided that taken seriously, this movie just sucks. I wondered if taken tongue-in-cheek, this film could work, like a film made to be played on Joe Bob Briggs's Drive-In Theater. But there just isn't enough there, 'though some of the dialogue would certainly be entertaining at 2:00 A.M. if enough Bagel Bites were present.

Mini-Review: Where most films' scripted dialogue cuts out awkward pauses or the verbal punctuation that's usually marked with "um" and "like," this film leaves that stuff in, so that we see the real-life spaces between the thoughts and sentences we're meant to hear. In fact, that describes other aspects of the film-making, too. We don't go from a conversation in a diner to Charlie's apartment without also seeing the characters walk from one to the other. We see the action or non-action in between the action.

Mini-Review: 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.