Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forces of good from the Birthplace of American Liberty versus the forces of evil from New Yahk...
...that there's nothing new in it. The plot is that same old skeleton formula that was worn out long ago: unlikely coach picks up unwilling, unruly bunch of kids, whips them up with laughs and tears, and finally they all go on to victory over the undefeatable and evil enemy at the championship game. This movie has all that, and that's about it. While other movies using the same formula have succeeded however, because of either originality or inspiration, Wildcats offers little to redeem itself from mediocrity. Witty dialogue or impresssive football footage or maybe even a passionate...
...comes to a fitting, and obvious climax at the league championship when, after a losing half, she renegs on her decision not to fight her husband and the team bounds to a final victory over a very evil enemy team...
...evil Countess Interruptus (Klobucher), for example, not only mugs and sneers hilariously, but shows off the best legs in the production (and does some impressive things with them), earning the envy of any woman in her right mind...
...distracted, and the profit motive looms large in Abyssinia. At the end of the first act (which runs for a marathon 90 minutes), cliff-hanging questions remain: will capitalism turn the sandy Solong into an OPEC nightmare? Will the big-hearted Celia Lips be able to stop the evil Ahab and his mercenary fling, the Countess? Will the Sultan ever discover his own hormones? And will the overfed Ethel land a job with the Chicago defense...