Necessary Roughness

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Stephen C Funny sports parody movie in 01 hour, 48 minutes, and 15 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $23,600,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/21/25 Full Review Ola G The Texas State University Fighting Armadillos were once one of the most powerful teams in college football. After winning consecutive conference and national championships, massive NCAA violations resulted in the program having to forfeit years' worth of victories. All of the coaches were fired and all of the players are banned from returning and expelled from college except Charlie Banks, the only "clean" player, who never got to play despite having "heart". This move forces new head coach Ed "Straight Arrow" Gennero (Héctor Elizondo) to build an almost entirely new team with little assistance. No athletic scholarships are available, forcing them to hold tryouts. Along with this, they must worry about Phillip Elias, the dean of the university, who wants the team to fail so he can scrap it due to the corruption the football program has caused over the years, and funnel the funding into his own pocket. The coaches soon have a makeshift team in place. Due to Dean Elias declaring many prospective players ineligible because of poor grades, only 17 players are allowed on the team—not enough for separate offensive and defensive squads. The Armadillos are thus forced to play ironman football. The team lacks experience and talent in all areas, especially at quarterback, placekicker, and the defensive line. Assistant coach Wally "Rig" Riggendorf (Robert Loggia) finds Paul Blake (Scott Bakula), a 34-year-old high school star who never attended college due to his father's death. Rig convinces him to enroll and become the Armadillos' quarterback... Rotten Tomatoes The consensus states: "This likable, goofy football comedy has its moments, but it ultimately adheres too closely to the sports movie playbook to overcome the cliches in the script." The Los Angeles Times called it "a genial, slight, entirely predictable football comedy". Roger Ebert wrote a more positive review, giving the film three out of four stars. Ebert stated that the film is predictable but does not pretend to be anything more than entertainment. (Via Wikipedia) This 1991 goofy sports comedy is predictable, quite stupid and has a storyline that is hardly unique. It has a lot of 90s "names" in the ensemble cast, but non of them adds anything extra to the film. The idea of having Kathy Ireland, the fashion model, coming in as the kicker in the team is not working at all as she ends up as eye candy and the character is not taken seriously in the script. And why cast Kathy Ireland if they wanted to mix it up with a woman in the team. Then they should've taken someone that could carry the character and be believable. The football scenes are reasonably ok, but the weight of simply being a stupid movie drags everything down. "Necessary Roughness" hardly belongs to the good sports comedies. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 11/09/25 Full Review Carlos I Well, I spent over 30 years wanting to check this out. I finally did, and I can say it was NOT worth the wait... It's the most bland attempt to copy something like Major League, but comes across more like a failed pilot for a sitcom. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/17/24 Full Review tbewin1 z Everyone calling this a Major League ripoff has no idea what they are talking about. The team wins a single game all season and ties one. They lose all the other games. That is nothing like Major League. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/14/24 Full Review Gnr E Scott bakula is perfect in the role. He killed it man🤛🤛🤛 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/17/24 Full Review Aaron L Perhaps the worst movie ever made. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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