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Tornado of Laughter Nick Salyers

//Kicking and Screaming // August 26, 2008   //Kicking and Screaming// is one of the healthiest comedies out there this summer. It was a hilarious story of a substitute soccer coach who leads his team to the championship game against his father. Along the way Phil Weston (Will Ferrell) picks up two Italian (Francesco Liotti Alessandro Ruggiero) and former Chicago Bears Head Coach, Mike Ditka. This movie is intended for children to teens because the rating is PG. Jesse Dylan, the director, uses classic, but creative techniques to make this a very funny movie.   This movie starts out with the childhood of the main character Phil Weston; he was a child looming in his father’s successful academic career. Phil’s son Sam ( [|Dylan McLaughlin] ) is on his grandpa’s Buck Weston team. He is not getting much playing time and ends up being a bench warmer. So his dad asks his father about getting him more playing time and his grandpa trades him to another team. When Phil takes Sam to practice he finds out the coach quit and skipped town and volunteers to be the sub coach until they can get a new one. The first game the team does terrible and so Phil finds some new help in his father’s neighbor, Mike Ditka. Mike introduces the team to many new methods and Phil learns his own love of coffee. Ditka also finds two new “Eye-talians” to the team. The new teammates lead the team to the championship game. Along the way the team bonds and learns to play soccer and gets a few tips along the way, meanwhile coffee obsessed Phil begins to become a jerk who’s obnoxious and obsessed with winning. In the Championship game Phil goes absolutely crazy and eventually it all comes to his attention then he turns things around. Who win? You’ll have to go see it and find out. This was a great movie I give it three thumbs up!!!!!  328 Words 