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Rowan and Martin's TV Laugh-In domesticated chaos into snippets. It flashed absurdities, like vaudeville on amphetamines -- Goldie Hawn dancing in body paint, Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. Laugh-In gave the nation "You bet your sweet bippy!" and "Sock it to me!" a line that Republican Candidate Richard Nixon, among other celebrities, recited in three seconds of network time in September. (In deference to his dignity, Nixon was spared the customary dousing with a bucket of water.) The Rolling Stones snarled about the Street Fighting Man. Never before had an annus mirabilis transpired before the television cameras...
...cleansing meanness of spirit they cannot honorably sustain. In movie terms, they wear the mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage of Danny DeVito, in Throw Momma from the Train...
...conceit of Wildcats is much simpler and clean lined, dramatically speaking. Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn) is the daughter of a football coach who has always wanted to follow in her father's footsteps. Sexism being what it is, the only shot she has is at an inner-city high school whose team has the juvenile authorities beaten by no more than half a step. Can she weld them into a fighting unit? Can their victories create a new school spirit at Central? Can she at the same time provide a role model for struggling feminists everywhere...
...have to ask, you are probably still wondering if Jack finally found a way to redeem himself in The Best of Times. But her team is full of genuinely funny fellows, Hawn herself is full of spunky charm, and Director Ritchie has a light and wayward comic touch, so even a hopeless male chauvinist can have a good, instructive time at Wildcats. If there are such things as necessary fairy tales, these movies cheerfully provide them...
...Hawn herself plays out a stereotype in the movie, her self-stereotype. She plays a woman entering a field that is male dominated, not unlike her character in Private Benjamin, but her Molly does very little besides playing off of all the various flat and stereotypical characters in the movie. Her role requires little acting, just reacting; to her husband demanding she quit her job, to her team when they haze her, to her kid when she dyes her hair. Even her final, climactic decision to fight her husband only comes after the football team pressures her. By being...