THREE AND 1/2 STARS
While two documentaries they celebrate the world Cupit’s not bad to see a movie about the worst football team of the known cosmos, one who never scored a goal. Based (more or less, let’s say) on a true story, there’s an alcoholic coach who gets sent to American Samoa, where the local team has a record of losing 31-0. The guy is the Yankee know-it-all, contemptuous and bitter, and The locals are good, naive and traditional people.
But this familiar scheme is subverted with outcast humor taken to the limit, and with moments that are much more reminiscent of an animated cartoon than a realistic drama. It’s a bit of Taika Waititi’s style (we already saw it in Thor-Ragnarok, we already saw it in Jojo Rabbit, and above all we saw it in What we do in the Shadows, the movie – and series – about vampires filmed in The Office style ) and that good-natured and exaggerated humor, which does not seek to have respect for the cinema canon, at this point is totally healthy.
Fassbender satirizes his own insufferability (he always acts on the verge of self-parody: here he has the chance) and many of the situations are truly comical. Given the current state of cinema, what more can we ask for than leaving a movie theater happy.
