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Instead we have the rather straight-forward tale of Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn), divorcee and mother, who aspires to coach football in memory of her great father, The Football Coach. Of course, the only position available to her is at the nastiest school in a Chicago slum where armed guards patrol the hallways and the principal strolls with two dobermen pinchers at his side...
WHAT DOES GOLDIE Hawn, a high-school football team, an uptight ex-husband (with legal battle over custody of the kids), a bunch of slapstick locker room gags, and an adolescent version of the Chicago Bears' "Refrigerator" get you? Not much, really...
...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 love angle involving Hawn and one of her players--just about anything might have done...
...characters and, perhaps, even social commentary. But, instead of making any kind of statement or even really using these ingredients to create unusual characters, the makers of this movie invoke over-used stereotypes and slapstick humor. The slum high-school is just a convenient if colorful backdrop for Goldie Hawn's dizzy smile and the players simply big, nondescript things to root...
...even funny when he did it in his early movies like Foul Play and Seems Like Old Times. But it may have been only because Goldie Hawn was there to hold...