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Balls Out
Football is American passion. But in this university, they take in a game to fight against their rivals. There are many actractive and unexpexted things. What will happen?
14 October 1987, Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
5 December 1982, Austin, Texas, USA
20 April 1959, Burbank, California, USA
6 January 1984, Sea Cliff, New York, USA
17 May 1988, West Los Angeles, California, USA
June 17, 2015
The film's greatest virtue is Disney's ability to poke fun at sports-flick tropes while simultaneously embracing them.
June 03, 2014
Everyone is clearly having a ball here.
June 20, 2014
A pure and modern example of slapstick comedy and where it can go, when placed in the right hands.
June 18, 2015
The glue that holds this madness together, however, is Lacy's performance as Caleb, the fifth-year college student uneasily about to embark on matrimony and attend law school, who sees intramural football as his last hurrah.
June 15, 2015
A sports movie actually attuned to the knowledge that victory in an inconsequential game bears no meaning.
July 07, 2015
In a world where spoof films have been getting an increasingly bad name, Balls Out is surprisingly one of the smarter sports movie commentaries in the last few years.
June 18, 2015
Snappy banter and one mildly filthy toilet joke are as close to the edge as this one-joke testicles comedy gets.
December 09, 2015
Though it's far less fratty than its bare-bones marketing suggests, it has a retrograde campus-comedy vibe, right down to the Orion Pictures logo that resurfaces in front of the movie.
June 25, 2015
There have been a few of these movies released during the last few decades, but few have managed to transcend pushover ideas with the degree of wit, lively dumb guy humor, and encouraging timing found in "Balls Out."
June 19, 2015
The humor is still very broad and lowbrow, but that can be forgiven. Too bad it has other, severe limitations.
June 18, 2015
There's some chuckleworthy meta-commentary about the absurdity of sports movies, but Balls Out feels more like a long sketch than a feature.
June 19, 2015
[A] modest, nimble and, um, winning comedy from Andrew Disney, which acknowledges sports-movie conventions even as it exploits them.
