So formulaic I could have written it: Champions reviewed

Champions is an underdog sports movie starring Woody Harrelson as a baseball coach forced to take on a team with intellectual disabilities. But the main thing you need to know is it is so formulaic I could have written it, you could have written it, it could have written itself. Heck, it’s so predictable it could have also directed itself – though, hopefully, it would never have been able to trash itself or I’d be out of a job.

This is so formulaic I could have written it, you could have written it, it could have written itself

Billed as a ‘hilarious and heart-warming comedy’, this is a remake of a Spanish film (Campeones, 2018). As it was Spain’s biggest box-office hit that year, I was hopeful it would offer something above and beyond, or at least something half-decent. Now I’ll never trust the Spanish again. The film is directed by Bobby Farrelly who, with his brother, Peter, has made several successful comedies – Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something about Mary.