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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
When they were young, 25 October 2001
Author: Alex-372 from The Hague, The Netherlands

This is a great little (even, gosh, subtle) football comedy about grabbing life with both hands, featuring Goldie Hawn as a woman coach who wants to make a splash as a high school football coach. One of the joys of watching these movies is the retro experience of 80s 'big hair' hairdos and fashions, and seeing now famous actors. There's Wesley Snipes (as the ladies man with an eye for the 'older woman', Woody Harrelson, a thin LL Cool J, Mikelti Williamson (The Night Hawk), and Stan Foster (Tour Of Duty). And in fact, some of the jokes actually work (Hawn: "we're going beat those Cougars and spit them out like so many furballs". Snipes: "Let's eat some pussy".) Fun for all.

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One of the better sports comedies from the 1980's..., 4 December 2005

Author: ijonesiii from United States

WILDCATS was a funny and entertaining comedy with Goldie Hawn at the top of her form as a high school track coach, who wants more than anything to coach football (her late father was a football coach). She finally gets the opportunity to coach a high school football team at a tough inner city high school where the majority of the students are Africa American or Latino. Of course, Goldie's Molly McGrath meets the obvious resentments from high school boys that you would expect finding out their new coach is a woman, but she does eventually win them over, even at the risk of losing custody of her two daughters to her uptight ex-husband (James Keach). Nothing new or inventive here but Goldie lights up the screen presenting a smart yet flawed character trying to live her dream. Nipsey Russell has one of the best roles of his career as the principal of the school that hires her and there are some very funny moments provided by the members of the team, especially Woody Harrelson, Nick Corri, and in a star-making turn, a very young Wesley Snipes. Bruce McGill scores as a sexist coach from the opposing school, Prescott and Jan Hooks has some cute moments as GOldie's ex-husband's new girlfriend. I love the scene where Goldie outruns the boys on the team and calls them "pussies" and the rap song over the closing credits is hysterically funny. A terrific feel-good comedy starring a great actress at the zenith of her personal charm.

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Funny And Winning, 5 October 2000
Author: G-Man-25 from Iowa City, IA

It may not score many points for originality, but this comedy is still tremendously entertaining and one of my personal favorites from the 1980s. Plenty of memorably funny moments, some great one-liners and excellent performances by the entire cast, with Goldie doing a stand-out job and Nipsey Russell making the most of his relatively small role as the beleaguered high school principal who desperately wants gridiron glory for his school's team. Veteran director Michael Ritchie definitely knows how to perk up a formula story and make it seem lively and new again, even if we DO see the feel-good finale coming a mile away.

Stay tuned through the end credits for a funny rap song performed by Goldie and her team.

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Football yuks with jockstrap jokes..., 6 April 2007

Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Goldie Hawn is her usual fizzy, feisty self playing a football-crazy coach trying to whip a high school team into shape. The young men are made up of delinquents and goof-offs, but can Goldie work her magic on them before the big game? "The Bad News Bears"'s Michael Ritchie directed, and it's the kind of comedy knock-off you'd expect from any Hollywood hack but Ritchie (hopefully he was well paid). Supporting cast is unusually good, with Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes in early roles, Swoosie Kurtz doing her likable sisterly bit, Nipsey Russell nicely low-keyed as a school official, Jan Hooks wonderful as the new woman in Hawn's ex-husband's life, and handsome Bruce McGill as the enemy coach (although he gets the worst scenes, particularly at end when he's forced to shout "Search his jock!" and then roll around in the mud). Hawn herself has an embarrassing moment nude in the bathtub, and the sub-plot with her boring ex is just time wasted on the clock, but her forthright comic performance just about saves "Wildcats" from the cookie-cutter bargain-bin. ** from ****

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silly,fun 80's comedy, 10 February 2004
Author: brianh-9 from Mississippi, United States

The 80's brought a crop of funny comedies. I remember watching this one a lot as I grew up. Goldie Hawn was perfect as a female coach on a male football team. This is a film that is definately not for the family,but I watched it all the time as a child. There are many silly critically bashed comedies that I've thoroughly enjoyed over the years(such as the silly Rodney Dangerfield girl soccer comedy "Lady Bugs"). This is a raunchy comedy heavily laced with profanity,but there are times that I laughed ferociously. This is just a comedy that has a wonderfully appealing supporting cast and by-the-numbers,predictable story. This is a film for those who just want to laugh at nasty jokes. ****/*****

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Here kitty kitty, 8 March 2003

Author: JZvezda

The trailer for "Wildcats" showed 3 ghetto-riffic cheerleaders stomping around a pile of dirt and chanting, "U-G-L-Y, you ain't got no alibi, you UGLY! What-what! Yo' mama says you ugly!"

Okay, you got me. I'm there.

Ha-ha low-brow highlights include--

* Goldie Hawn's purple-headed teenage daughter gets sloshed at a team party. Wesley Snipes comes to the rescue: "We're taking you home. If your mother sees you like this she's gonna' turn your ass the same color as your hair" Funny, rite?

* Goldie's team kidnaps the rival school's mascot, a goat. When principal Nipsey Russell invades the locker room and asks, "You all wouldn't happen to know what happen to the Cougar's goat, would you?" The goat, hidden in a locker, starts to baaaaah, which prompts Goldie to simultaneously reply "Naaaaah!" See? Hysterical!

Fans of Jan Hooks (like me) will love her turn here as the uppitty stick-up-the-butt wife of Goldie's ex. Fans of Woody Harrelson should note that a brief cameo is made here by his bare butt. Fans of Swoosie Kurtz should contemplate bathing with downed powerlines. Just kiddin', she's good too.

TEN! 1 point for the fat guy, 1 point for flatulence, 1 point for LL Cool J's lamest rap ever. The rest of the points go to Goldie. Goldie rocks.

Love, your pussies

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All love Goldie Hawn, 9 November 2007

Author: standardbearer from Hungary

This film is an all time classic. Everyone's seen it, so I wont bother with the plot. (If you haven't, you lack the very basics!!!) It's light as a feather, yet professionally crafted. The cast is excellent: Woody Harelson and Wesley Snipes are always a winner duo, but the star of the movie is doubtlessly no other than Goldie Hawn. I don't know any other actresses, who could be this funny, lovely and sweet through a whole movie. And It's the young Goldie Hawn you'll watch during the playtime, so she has an additional amount of cuteness enforcing her personal sexual charisma. AND there is a scene where she's totally naked. It has nothing to do with the plot, it only meant for our pleasure. This move represents the happiest segment of the 80's:)

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
very good movie, 28 March 2006

Author: dirtydee-1 (dirtydee@titchmarsh.zzn.com) from United States

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this movie brings back so many memories goldie hawn was excellent the soundtrack rocks if only i could turn back the clock the year was 1986 Wesley snipes was good so was woody i did not know that those two were acting in the 1980s the rest of the cast was excellent i like the part when they jump in the dumpster and the little boy slams the door on goldies feet i love this movie why cant we still make movies like these anymore r.i.p.nippsey Russel he was the principal of the school and also when Marva and Jerome get caught on the sofa and when the girls dye their red i like when all of the team goes to court with molly and they act like clowns.

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before there were The Replacements, there were the Wildcats, 1 May 2005

Author: hcalderon1 from United States

One of my 80's sport's comedy ever. Goldie Hawn is at her best as Molly McGrath, a woman who feels that she can coach a winning football team. But feels she is taken seriously because she is a woman. Molly has other problems, she is divorced with two daughters, and has a nagging ex husband. And her job has a track coach is wearing thin. But with luck she finally gets the chance to coach a football team. When she finally gets there, she soon realizes that many other people would not dare coach there, and the team is a bunch of goof balls who don't seem to respect her and care about winning any more. Can Molly earn their respect, and show them they can be winners? I've always been a football fan, but this movie was great with Goldie Hawn starring in it.

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A Very Uninspired 'Feel Good' Sports Movie that can't be Saved Even With Hawn's Presence, 1 June 2008

Author: rwint1611 from Indianapolis, Indiana

THE PLOT: A divorced mother of two (Hawn), who coaches a high school girl's track team, decides she wants to live out her dreams by coaching football instead. Unfortunately the only football job she can find is with a losing boys team in a tough inner city high school.

THE NEGATIVE: This is a very uninspired, by the numbers 'feel good' sports movie. There actually seems to be more drama here than comedy and what little comedy you get really isn't very funny. Having a woman coach a boy's football team would be enough of a challenge, but forcing her to do it in a tough inner city school seems extreme and unnecessary. The player's are all one dimensional and uninteresting. Even Hawn's character is dull although Hawn herself is still fun to watch. The climactic game sequence is so predictable and full of clichés that it becomes almost excruciating. The film is also plagued by having that very annoying 80's music sound.

THE POSITIVE: It is fun to watch Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson in their film debuts. It is also fun to see Nipsey Russell although they don't give him enough to do. He looks like he was only 38 even though, at the time, he was actually 68! Incredibly large actor Thad Thacker is also fun and the only interesting player on the whole team. His acting is nothing exceptional, but his 'con-man' routine is still amusing. Actor James Keach, who plays the stereotypical 'jerky' ex-husband, ends up giving a surprisingly sturdy performance.

OVERALL: This film is extremely dull and predictable and is hardly good for even a few cheap laughs. Why some people think this is so funny is beyond me because everything that is done here has been done better somewhere else.

THE RATING: 3 out of 10.

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