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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Deleted Scenes, Audio Commentary, Music Video,Documentary, English Subtitled
Are you ready for a different kind of football? Comic superstar Adam Sandler teams up with the always-outrageous Chris Rock, rap-sensation Nelly and a gang of real pro football players and wrestling superstars in the hardest-hitting action-packed comedy of the year! After former NFL quarterback Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Sandler) gets thrown into a maximum security prison, the warden orders him to put together a team of hard-core inmates to play a fixed warm-up game against the brutal prison guards. But little does he know that the "Mean Machine," led by a tough-as-nails coach (Burt Reynolds), have plans to settle their own score in this rib-busting, unforgettable laugh-out-loud riot directed by Peter Segal (Anger Management).
"Adam Sandlers best, funniest movie..." Jeffrey Lyons, NBC
"Sandler impressively assumes the Reynolds role here, with strong support by Reynolds himself..." Joe Leydon, Variety
"...each scene with Sandler a reaffirmation of the old friendship between the two successful SNL alums." Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"...a ripsnorter that is irresistibly entertaining." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Director Peter Segal (50 FIRST DATES, ANGER MANAGEMENT) and comedian Adam Sandler are at it again in a fun remake of the 1974 classic, THE LONGEST YARD. In the role of Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, first immortalized by Burt Reynolds (who appears here as Nate Scarborough), Sandler plays an ex-football star whose career ended amidst allegations of point shaving. Fed up, he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wife's (an uncredited Courtney Cox) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup. This lands Crewe in a cruel Texas state penitentiary. His only respite comes from Warden Hazen (James Cromwell) who wants Crewe to help lead his well-equipped prison-guard football team to the league championship. Crewe timorously agrees, suggesting the creation of an opposing team of convicts to the give the guards an easy tune-up before the season. To the ragtag inmates, this is the chance they've been waiting for, and they hustle to get their team together so they can exact some revenge on the harassing guards.In THE LONGEST YARD, Sandler steps out of the spotlight he enjoyed in films like BILLY MADISON and HAPPY GILMORE and is instead content to let his sizable cast of costars shine in the comedic light. Both the guard and the convict teams are infused with solid contributions from a swath of entertaining personalities: ex-football stars Michael Irvin, Bill Romanowski and Brian Bosworth; pro wrestlers Bill Goldberg and "Stone-Cold" Steve Austin; ESPN anchors Chris Berman and Dan Patrick; and famed rapper Nelly. However, it is Chris Rock, as Crewe's friend Caretaker, whose scenes never fail to steal the show, providing some of the movie's most memorable laughs.
| Features | Extra Points: Visual Effects | | Lights, Camera, Touchdown! | | First Down and Twenty-Five to Life -- Making of | | The Care and Feeding of Pro Atheletes | | Here Comes the Boom | | Fumbles & Stumbles | | Widescreen Version Enhanced for 16:9 TVs | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1; English, French 2.0 Surround | | Subtitles: English & Spanish | | Commentary by Director Peter Segal | | Deleted/Extended/Alternate Scenes with Audio Commentary | | Music Video Errtime by Nelly | | 9 Featurettes | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Deleted Scenes | | Fumbles & Stumbles: Blooper/Outtakes | | Music Video By Nelly | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Music Video "Errtime" by Nelly |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 1/16/2007 |
| Running Time: 113 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 343494 | | UPC: 00097363434948 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"[M]ore smoothly crafted than the 1974 slapstick version....The new version has the zip of a 96-yard punt return..." 05/27/2005 p.8ELA Weekly 7 of 10
Peter Segal's film, a predictable, choppy affair at best, boasts an understated, likable performance by Sandler, but here we never feel, as we did with the original, invested in the outcome of the final game, or convinced of the redeemability of the movie's sordid protagonist. - Kim Morgan
San Francisco Chronicle 7 of 10
It's an honest remake of the original "The Longest Yard" (1974), in contrast with all the disguised remakes that have popped up in the intervening decades. Before "The Longest Yard," there had been other sports movies, but "LY" was the first to show that the depiction of a game could serve, not just as a movie's climax, but as a lengthy act in itself -- that audiences would gladly sit and watch a fictional game just as they'd watch a real game on television, with the same focus and concentration. Sports movies have capitalized on that discovery ever since. - Mick LaSalle
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
This afternoon I attended a press conference of the Cannes jury. Its president, Emir Kusturica, said at one point that Cannes "kills uniformity." Its films are made one at a time. "To be global," he said, "to make a film that plays everywhere, you have to be slightly stupid." How do you like that; the bastard went and spoiled "The Longest Yard" for me. - Roger Ebert
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