When he was drafted to the pros, he should have been carrying a clipboard his first year, not trying to carry the entire team like a giant cumbersome metaphor.
There’s something about that plucky group of talented but ridiculous underdogs that people seem to love, and if you happen to be one of them, here’s what happened to the cast of "The Replacements." Keanu Reeves starred as quarterback Shane Falcoīeloved veteran actor Keanu Reeves brought the world’s most talented barnacle scraper, quarterback Shane Falco, to life in "The Replacements." Shane’s been down on his luck ever since the disastrous 1996 Sugar Bowl - and has the three concussions to prove it.
Reviewers didn’t exactly love "The Replacements" - it has a mediocre 41% critics score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes - but audiences clearly do to this and it’s a weekend movie mainstay on basic cable. "The Replacements" is one of those sports movies that gets something wrong with its respective sport and has some other holes like why a players strike that forced owners to use replacement players would require the head cheerleader, Annabelle, to hire new cheerleaders like how the striking players got off scot-free after the bar brawl despite the fact that police, like the other average fans, probably would had viewed them with utter contempt or like the fact that Shane Falco could have easily just served as backup quarterback to Eddie Martel for the final game and not had to drive through traffic to take his spot during halftime. But if it had, they probably would have been talking about 2000’s hilarious football movie "The Replacements." Two of the best decisions director Howard Deutch has ever made were to marry his wife, Lea Thompson, and to helm this film. In fact, it’s so rare that we’re pretty sure it’s never actually happened. It’s rare that film critics bust out a phrase like "the perfect movie." It’s even rarer that they use it for a sports comedy.
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