Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi, November 21, 2023) Movie

Story of the American Samoa soccer team, who suffered the worst loss in World Cup history, losing to Australia 31-0 in 2001. With the 2014 World Cup approaching, the team recruits a down on his luck, maverick coach (Fassbender) to help turn their fate around

 

Feels like this movie has been in limbo forever! Glad to see a sign of life, finally.

 

win me back taika

 

Looks great

 

we'll see

 

Looks fun.

 

Looks great, if this has half the heart and charm of Jojo Rabbit I already love it.

 

welp

 

Can it be worse than Jojo Rabbit?

 

The movie itself would need to be directly responsible (provable in court) for war crimes to be worse than Jojo Rabbit so I doubt it

 

Just saw this as part of the AMC Unseen sneak preview thing. It was average at best. The trans stuff wasn't handled very well at all and the story was just kind of paint by numbers.

 

Isnt it just 'Bad News Bears playing soccer' ?

 

I laughed quite a bit through this.

 

it would appear you are the only one

 

I would disagree, my theater was collectively laughing throughout.

 

Yeah this wasn't really my thing but my theater seemed to be eating it up.

 

nope!

 

I knew I’d hate this shit as soon as it started. What was he thinking? Might be the worst film I’ve seen this year; terrible script, painfully unfunny, nothing earned and awful handling of a trans actor/story/issues. Bleh.