Well, this sounds familiar: An Aussie sporting movie
designed for general audiences that not only focuses on a particularly niche
sport, but is also drenched in classic sports movie clichés. Okay, it only
sound familiar to me, as I covered a film like this years ago with Paper Planes
(which, fittingly enough, has the same writer working on this one), and that
film I wound up liking a lot more than I had any reason to on pure kitsch
value. I’d like to say the same for this one, but for reasons both good and
bad, this is a different beast than trying to make paper aeroplanes seem
exciting.
