The Longest Yards (2005) - Adam Sandler movie

[Theseus]

I recently watched this movie once again. I don't think before this I ever caught the whole movie and frequently confused this title with Bruce Willis's movie The Whole None Yards.

 

Some of the cast includes Burt Reynolds (A 1974 trophy winner) and a townie played by Rob Schneider. Others include Chris Rock, Nelly, Cloris Leachman, Tracy Morgan,

 

A synopsis, without giving too much away,  is that a washed up professional football quarterback takes a joyride in his girlfriend's car causing damage. She reports him for stealing her car and Sandler gets arrested. He is sentenced to a Texas prison where the guards have a football team. The warden requests Sandler's character so that the warden can gain political points when he runs for governor of Texas. The movie culminates with Sandler quarterbacking for the prisoner's team and  William Fichtner playing the Captain of the Guards and Quarterback for the guards. The cast is interesting and the chemistry between them is excellent.  

 

While this movie was one of his last funnier movies of the 90s leading into the early part next century before having a five year drought until Grown Ups in 2010, this movie did not rank up there but ranked in the top 15 by Sandler. That being said, what drew me to this was that there is a line in the movie by Rob Schneider (what Sandler movie is not complete without Buscemi and/or Schneider) and my desire to figure out which movie came out first The Water Boy or The Longest Yard. In the movie the Water Boy, Rob Schneider, playing a townie, says the line "You can do it" and then five years later, Schneider, he says it again as an inmate in The Longest Yard. The line is used by Schneider in a third Sandler movie, 50 First Dates with Drew Barrymore, where Schneider plays a one-eyed Hawaiian and Sandler's sidekick.  

 

The Longest Yard is not as funny as The Water Boy or Happy Gilmore but does rank within the top 15 of Sandler's movies and worth the watch, again, but like Ryan Reynolds, does use a lot of what worked in previous movies in newer ones.

Edited February 26, 2022 by Theseus

[nstoolman1]

It is a remake of a Burt Reynolds (convict) and Eddie Albert (warden) movie. 

[Theseus]

8 hours ago, nstoolman1 said:

It is a remake of a Burt Reynolds (convict) and Eddie Albert (warden) movie. 

Yes The Longest Yard was first put out in 1974.