Maidgethma
Wonderfully offbeat film!
Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
AshUnow
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
selmanalkan
A wife cheats on her husband. Husband finds out what she has been doing in his bed in his bedroom. Wife says l love you.I made a mistake (in the movies as all we know, adultery is called mistake). Husband forgives her and they live happily ever after. Ha ha ha ha......
Python Hyena
Mystery, Alaska (1999): Dir: Jay Roach / Cast: Russell Crowe, Burt Reynolds, Colm Meaney, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack: Yet another sports film about the succeeding smaller factor. Russell Crowe plays a Sheriff who also plays ice hockey but he never goals. Burt Reynolds plays a judge who is disappointed with his son's choices. Colm Meaney plays the Mayor whose wife is having an affair. Finally there is Hank Azaria who returns to town. Crowe dislike him because he dated his wife in high school. Directed by Jay Roach but still a recycled and predictable plot. This is a switch in gears for the director who previously gave us Austin Powers. Russell Crowe is inspiring casting as someone whose love for hockey never deteriorated despite never having the talent to pull it off professionally. Now he feels his marriage threatened with the return of an ex. Hank Azaria succeeds as someone whose presence is not welcome until he comes to full revelation as to what is important. Burt Reynolds and Colm Meaney play characters with the background but not the payoff so they merely become props to formula storytelling. Mary McCormack plays the romantic interest caught between Crowe and Azaria. Despite the hockey action the production features little innovation and can pass only on its small town atmosphere. Advertised as a comedy but plays as an ensemble dramatic Mighty Ducks. Score: 6 / 10
Nadstratosfer Gonczy
Caught this late night on TV and got interested by the presence of several well known actors in something that obviously looked like some made-for-TV soap. Checked the IMDb and it turned out to be actually a big theatrical movie, but this was the last surprise that happened to me that evening.Not sure with whom the NHL teams use to spar, but the movie makes quite a big deal of one friendly between NY Rangers and a team from a small town in Alaska. So big it's what actually the whole movie is about! Being a fan of a 1st division football club that plays multiple test-games against some 5th or 6th division amateurs every season, usually away from home and often televised, I find the whole fuss difficult to understand. But it does provide a mildly amusing atmosphere that I suppose counts for the "Comedy" tag the movie got, as there's barely anything else funny there. Certainly not the premature-ejaculation type of jokes or the played-out one-liners.Elaborathing further is not worthy of my time. The story is clichéd beyond belief, predictable and boring. The jokes are corny. The music sounds like produced by some one-click-soap-track-generator. The acting is way over the top. The whole movie is a sappy piece of cheese.Interesting only for die-hard Hollywood soap "connoisseurs" or for ones who might dig Russel Crowe sporting some strange mullet and a fur hat.
CKCSWHFFAN
I am NOT a sports fan.I saw this film in the theater.Saw it for Russell of course.LOVE THIS HAIR CUT IN THIS. A BIG SMILE HERE :) A good film.Cast pretty good. Too much on side stories on minor characters. Stevie & the girl. Who cares? Mayors wife following around. Yeah, and?Mike Myers cameo character had the best line in the film, I just love it."They're done like dinner." I always laugh at that one."The Partirdge Family" get mentioned. Good.Liked the Sarah character hitting the cheating guy in the head with the shovel. He deserved it!! Not the best film ever made, but enjoyable.Russell, as always, did a great job.
