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Redundant and unnecessary.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Main parts of the movie are not believable. If Matt Damon wasn't angry at Brendan Fraser for taking his girlfriend, would he tell classmates that David was Jewish? David helped them win. So, it's not clear at all. The headmaster, the coach, a few alumni knew that David was Jewish. They decided to enroll David. If kids don't like it, too bad. My favorite part is when David puts Magen David back on after kids find out he is Jewish. It's a great lesson. Don't try to blend in. Whenever Jews try to blend in, eventually they suffer. Obviously, it's hard for a high school senior to understand. Especially, when there are so many incentives to do so.

Changing demographics at a school produce problems not necessarily solved by prescribed tutoring for the newcomer plus sensitivity training for those long established in the milieu. During the American civil rights era when busing, parental input into curriculum and family social services on campus seemed the prescription for success they did little to accomplish the goal. In some cases families dependent on legal residency and food stamps, housing subsidies and child support on the student remaining on register insisted the student cannot be take off register even if primarily truant then totally disruptive when occasionally on campus. During the American civil rights era parental control often meant removing evidences of the continent of Europe from the curriculum hence students categorically refused to study European history and the plays of Shakespeare even when curriculum requirements. The movie features a brilliant cast of rising stars from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to Chris O'Donnel and Brendan Fraser who bring to life a New England boarding prep academy for boys whose football team needs an outsider quarterback on scholarship to win a pennant. Enter son of a working class boy from out of New England who of course is unfamiliar with the religious beliefs of the people in his new community and their ways of life in his new community and how boys used to be waited on by servants at home think of boy classmates who have to work as servants on campus to pay their tuition. The storyboard in itself is not too extraordinary for a generic fish out of water melodrama yet its depiction of this vital American phenomenon as it happened fifty years ago in American civil right and today in amnesty victims of besieged zones of other continents is brilliant, insightful and thought provoking.

This movie has its comical points like how in the beginning David, played by Brendan Fraser, makes a crack about a bikers sister. However the film takes too much time to get to the main problem and it seemed as though the director had to wrap it up really quick due to the extensive amount of time spent opening the story and building up the friendship of the main characters. Then at the end many people hate the character of Rip for not speaking up to defend David at the student hearing despite having seen Charles, played by Matt Damon, cheat and laying the blame on David. But despite these issues I still enjoyed the film and plot as a whole but the ending could have easily been done better.

One in ten thousand films concerning discrimination against Jewish people that did not end tragically. Unfortunately it is also about one in ten thousand films of the sort that is not based directly on actual events. The question then becomes is it better to have an unlikely story that ends happily or a truthful one that ends tragically, it is up to the individual viewer to decide. Personally I love a great victory story, the oppressed gaining ground over the regime which oppresses it, no matter how unlikely. It presents a sobering message cloaked in the guise a coming of age story filled with the up and coming actors of the time, making it all the more accessible to various audiences and thereby spreading the message of equality further than other related films due to the seriousness of the subject matter. There were plenty of great zingers and the spot on acting of the main cast makes many scenes of the film memorable.