UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

hgeaton As a swimmer, I have to say this was an entertaining movie. First, the story of PDR is one that is well-known to swimmers in PA, and it's a story that should be shared with a larger audience. Second, as someone else mentioned, the swimming scenes were very realistic- the good swimmers actually swam well- which is probably a first in cinematic history! Finally, it is a movie of a group overcoming tremendous odds- and, I can tell you that PDR is truly a powerhouse of a team today. Thus, it's a movie that leaves you with a sense of optimism about humanity. So, although I know very little about scripts, cinematography, etc., I do know a lot about swimming and can say from that perspective that this is worth a watch!

Gordon-11 This film is about a disgraced swimmer coaching a bunch of deprived kids, helping them to achieve their potentials."Pride" is a formulaic film that you can tell the whole story right from the beginning to the end without watching it. Maybe that's the reason that I find it a little boring. Despite it being two hours long, there are still many plots that are poorly developed or explained. For example, they have not explained why the kids are forced to work for the mobsters, or where those mobs come from in the first place! Though the ending does raise my spirits up, I still think the film is a little boring. I think the film can be edited down to make it shorter and tighter.

dbborroughs Inspired by a true story tale is full of 1970's feeling but is disjointed in the telling. This is the tale of a black college swimmer who ends up in Phillie at a closing rec center in a bad neighborhood and somehow puts together a swim team. The film staggers around blindly for the first half hour until Terrence Howard, as our hero, gets the kids into the pool.It picks up at that point by becoming somewhat engaging, though it still staggers about. There is a good story in this and its clear why Howard and Bernie Mac took part in it, but the script is poor and most of the direction seems intent on making it feel like 197something instead of making us feel anything for the story.Not the disaster that some reviews made it out to be, it instead suffers by all of the recent sport true stories-Coach Carter, Invincible, Glory Road, etc, which at least knew that you have to at least work with the story to make a movie as opposed to just letting the audience suffer because "its true".

Roland E. Zwick "Pride" is the latest piece of sentimental uplift set in the movie-spun world of real-life sports.You know the drill. An idealistic coach takes a ragtag collection of recalcitrant youngsters, and through discipline, hard work, and a litany of inspirational speeches, turns them into a winning team overflowing with character and pride. When the youths have to battle racial prejudice on top of everything else - as in "Remember the Titans" and "Glory Road" - well, that's just additional icing on the feel-good cake.It would be easy to be cynical about a movie like "Pride." It clearly knows all the right buttons to push as it manipulates the emotions and stacks the decks in ways that could call into question the integrity of its makers. Yet, for all its slavish devotion to the formula, "Pride" works as a movie, thanks, primarily, to the actors who approach their roles with an earnestness and sincerity that bring the concept to life on screen.Terrence Howard portrays Jim Ellis, a former competitive swimmer, who in 1974 is sent to dismantle a failing rec center run by the Philadelphia Department of Recreation. Once there, he meets up with a group of inner city boys whom he teaches to swim, and who, as a team, make the transition from hopeless underdogs to state champions in the course of a single season. Of course, it goes without saying that Ellis has to contend with the initial cockiness and lack of discipline of his own swimmers, but he also has to battle the prejudice of the other all-white teams against whom they compete as well as a local street hoodlum bent on drawing the boys into a life of crime.Luckily, Howard receives strong support from Bernie Mac, Tom Arnold and a handful of fine young actors who acquit themselves well in the role of the swimmers.There are times when "Pride" lays it on a little thick, when it seems more interested in tugging at our heartstrings than in telling a completely believable story, but I suspect that most members of the audience will be as awash in goose bumps and tears by the end of the movie as the script itself is in clichés. But then, like it or not, that's the name of the game when it comes to inspirational sports stories these days.