The Game Plan (2007)

The Game Plan is formulaic, predictable, amiable and and only succeeds with Dwayne Johnson's charm and charisma. Without it that film would be a messy Disney Original movie.Joe Kingman (Johnson) is a star quarterback who has fame and fortune. However a long lost 7 years old daughter, Peyton enters his life, a product from a brief marriage some years ago.Now the the fun loving and partying Kingman has to adjust to life going to plays, ballet classes and kids tea parties.Its an undoubtedly feel good family film as even his teammates who are seemingly unmarried or without children enjoy Peyton's company and like to poke fun at Kingman wrestling with fatherhood.There are enough stunts in the film such as The Rock doing ballet, having water fights, singing Elvis songs which does enough to raise it from immense cheesiness.

I has seen a few films starring the former wrestler turned movie star, apart from The Mummy Returns and Welcome to the Jungle, most had been terrible, but I gave this one a chance, from director Andy Fickman (She's the Man). Basically NFL football quarterback Joe Kingman (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) is a star on the pitch, a single bachelor, and a little self centred with love for Elvis Presley, but more for himself. His life is about to change when little eight year old Peyton Kelly (Madison Pettis) comes knocking on his door, and tells him that she is his daughter from a marriage to Sara (Kathryn Fiore) that ended years ago, and has a birth certificate to prove it. As he tries to get used to the concept of having a long lost daughter, he reveals her to the press and public, but his agent Stella Peck (Kyra Sedgwick) thinks this revelation is going to be a distraction for both his image and game play. After clearing his image, Andy goes along with Peyton to a ballet class run by the gorgeous Monique Vasquez (Rush Hour 2's Roselyn Sanchez), and practising some moves for a stage performance, which he originally refuses, they really bond. After a disagreement and forgiveness, Andy gets to hang out more with Monique and they bond well too, while his team, The Boston Rebels, have made it to the championship game, and if they win he will get a $25 million restaurant endorsement. However, after a successful stage performance, things between Peyton and her father change when she reveals she ran away, she has an allergic reaction to some nuts, and at the hospital Andy's former sister-in-law and Peyton's legal guardian Karen (Paige Turco) shows up to take his daughter back. She tells him Peyton's mother Sara died in a car crash six months ago, and Andy is all alone again, and at the start of the championship game he can only think of his daughter. His mood is changed however when Peyton arrives with Karen to encouragement him, and he bucks himself up, and in the end Andy and the team win the championship, and he refuses an endorsement, sticking with his daughter instead. Also starring Boyz n the Hood's Morris Chestnut as Travis Sanders, Hayes MacArthur as Kyle Cooper, Brian J. White as Jamal Webber, Jamal Duff as Clarence Monroe, Gordon Clapp as Coach Mark Maddox and Tubbs as Spike the dog. Johnson is both funny and admirable as the originally up himself but nicer father figure, Pettris is adorable as the daughter he never knew about before, the film does have the smallest predictable moments, but the light hearted laughs and sentiment does work, a likable family sports comedy. Worth watching!

This was on TV today and I decided to check it out. The movie is about a quarter backer who is so self-centered and selfish all he cares about is himself. One day his daughter that he never even knew about shows up and at first he is shocked and stunned but eventually as he spends some time with the daughter he never knew he had he begins to realize that being a parent is hard work and that family is important. I think Disney is so obsessed with movies about single dads I mean enchanted had a daughter/father relationship,ah The Parent Trap same thing and also The Little mermaid I mean seriously can Disney not do a mother son relationship instead of a father/daughter relationship its really starting to annoy me now oh and Hannah Montana same thing its like the mother dies and the father has to be in charge 24/7. Seriously I think Disney hates mother/boy/girl relationships anyway back to the film and what Joe Kingman(aka Dwanye the rock Johnason) doesn't realize is that the child's mother apparently died in a car crash 6 months ago and he never knew about his ex wife as they separated 8 years ago.Dwanye Johanson I think was hot in this he kinda reminds me of Billy Crystal in a way dunno why but they are kinda similar. The film itself is funny in some places and kinda flat but having said that its a nice film all about father/daughter relationships and that you should spend some time with your kids.I'll give this a 7/10. Check it out but like I said Disney has an awful habit of doing father/daughter relationships.

Very boring film. I usually like Disney animated films, but most of live action Disney films are boring and dumb. (Not all, but most of them are terrible) This movie is very boring and annoying.The characters are flat and don't have personality at all, are just clichés stolen from other movies. The only character that had personality was the little girl, and her character was annoying.Dwayne Johnson is a terrible actor, and his character was awful.This movie is awful and filled with boring and unlikeable characters. The humor and the characterization is bland at best. I don't recommend this to anyone.0/10