Movie Review: The Longest Yard

The movie opens with former NFL MVP Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) getting arrested for drunk driving and sent to a prison in Texas for three years. The warden of the prison has pulled some strings to get him to the prison to help his semi-pro team of guards win their league championship. After Crewe suggests a tune-up game, the warden puts him in charge of putting together a team of convicts for the Big Game.

The performances are generally good. Adam Sandler doesn't play Adam Sandler in this movie and is actually pretty good about portraying Paul Crewe. The cons as a whole are pretty good including performances by Michael Irvin and Nelly. There were some pretty funny moments and the whole movie holds together pretty well. The only distracting thing was that I spent most of the movie playing Spot the Cameo (Dan Patrick, Rob Schneider, ...) and Who's That Guy (Brian Bosworth, ...).