What’s Aged the Worst?
The imbalance between coach and children, G baby’s death, weak supporting material, implausible baseball and the ending song are criticized.
In the discussion (8)
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- A contemporary version should focus more on the children’s dangerous world and less on the coach’s self-inflicted gambling problems.
- The star-financing requirement is offered as context for prioritizing the coach, with Coach Carter and available leading men discussed.
- Killing G baby and the thin online reference pages are criticized.
- D.B. Sweeney has an underdeveloped mean-coach role compared with earlier promise in Eight Men Out, The Cutting Edge and Memphis Belle.
- The Sosa cameo precedes his decline, and the death-then-championship-vote plot is compared with The White Shadow; the book basis is raised in response.
- The young players make implausibly spectacular defensive plays, compared with dunk-filled basketball movies and For Love of the Game.
- The teacher returning after an unpleasant date is implausible.
- The closing song is judged wrong for the moment, then criticized more strongly because it is R. Kelly in a children’s movie set in Chicago.