Kicking and Screaming
As a child, Phil Weston was never able to live up to the demands of his overbearing father who wanted Phil to be an athlete. Now as a father, Phil takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating...
29 October 1992, California, USA
25 September 1994, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
10 June 1977, The Bronx, New York, USA
20 June 1976, Miami, Florida, USA
20 February 1967, New York City, New York, USA
4 January 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 February 1970
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
1992, USA
19 July 1990, Fresno, California, USA
19 November 1957, Sherman, Texas, USA
21 September 1970, Columbia, Missouri, USA
12 March 1962, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
13 June 1964, Jamestown, New York, USA
September 26, 2006
The picture is a little about soccer, a little about parenting, and a lot about laughing. Mike Ditka shows up and delivers a kick-butt performance.
September 25, 2006
Kicking & Screaming succeeds because it understands its target audience, refraining from playing it too cute or crude. Though predictable, it's well executed.
February 01, 2006
Mostly useless
August 07, 2008
Director Jesse Dylan, desperate to avoid yawns, flails madly with staging, editing, slow motion -- any trick he can think of, whether it fits or works or not.
May 19, 2005
A zero, but the title describes how the audience is likely to react, perfectly.
April 29, 2009
Is this all there is to Ferrell's career? Mediocre comedies, and wasted talent?
May 13, 2005
Ferrell is one of the film's few bright lights. It's a shame to hide that subversive beacon under a bushel of dully inspirational sports movie cliches.
September 26, 2005
This isn't the worst setup for a kiddie comedy, but it proves that Ferrell alone can't carry a film.
December 07, 2007
If this footy film was in a league it would be languishing at the bottom of the Vauxhall Conference.
May 21, 2005
... barely watchable.
May 13, 2005
As lazy, bloated and TV-screen- friendly as shameless promos come.
August 16, 2007
Will Ferrell has become the most unlikely embodiment of wholesome family fun since Fred MacMurray gave up film noir for My Three Sons.
