Cool Runnings

Pros: hilarious, good plot, emotional, heart-warming
Cons: none

This is the beginning of what I plan on being a string of reviews on sports related movies. As I have seen just about every one of them to come down the pike, I feel that it is due time that I start writing about them! :) Cool Runnings is the ...

Pros: The 5 leads, the music, the ending
Cons: that the fine actors have not done more in the decade since this film

When I caught Jon Turteltaub's 1993 Disney movie "Cool Running" years ago on a motel tv, the only actor in it whom I recognized (and him barely) was John Candy. I thought it was a very entertaining movie about improbable triumph, in this instance, three...

Pros: Based on a great real life story. John Candy - one of his last.
Cons: None of the Jamaicans are from Jamaica. Stereotypes abound.

Have you heard anything so silly in all your life? Jamaica fielding a bobsled team. Talk about an outlandish notion. Really now, you need snow to bobsled, and just how much snow do they get in Jamaica? No. It does not snow on the island. It is a ...

Pros: Perfect family viewing, including for our family (ie - no kids!¬)
Cons: High price in shops

Cool Runnings was one of those films I wanted to watch when it was out at the flicks but never quite got around to. It is also the sort of film that looks as if it’s either going to be really good or really bad. The fact that it’s Disney also ...

Pros: true story of the Jamaican bobsled team, great actors and plot
Cons: some cussing

Cool Runnings is a wonderful movie, based on the true story of Jamaica's first Olympic bobsled team. Everyone thought how could four athletes from Jamaica, in the warm sunshine go to the cold air in Calgary and make it into the Olympics.

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Pros: Fun little comedy
Cons: Follows formulas

This week I am substituting a beginning ESL class. The end class with a movie and this week it's Cool Runnings. I've been impressed with how well the movie has been keeping their attention. They laugh at not only the physical humor but they are ...

Pros: Endearing, uplifting
Cons: Starts out slow

Having recently caught the movie Uncle Buck on cable it kind of got me in John Candy kind of a mood. John Candy was one of the best comedic actors of his time, and he died way too soon. So since I was in a John Candy mood I searched out some John Candy ...

Pros: entertaining, fun for the whole family, loosely based on actual events, good acting
Cons: can be a little hokey at times

You know, I think the people of Jamaica must see just about everything, it’s like a small town that comprises a whole country…that is, everything except snow. Derice Bannock (Leon) is a Jamaican sprinter, one of the fastest ever seen who can best even ...

Pros: Their determination.
Cons: The attitudes of their opponents and the world around them.

“I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known ...

Pros: John Candy as the coach
Cons: Nothing that I could see

We've all heard of the Jamaican bobsled team, right? It was the ultimate miracle story of the Olympics. COOL RUNNINGS tells the story of how the Jamaicans managed to mount a bobsled team, and John Candy plays the coach of that team, Irv Blitzer.
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Pros: very funny
Cons: none

At my house when the discussion turns to "What movie do we want to watch?", Cool Runnings is most often selected. Its a great comedy, a story of determination and hard work by young people and a story of an athlete who once cheated, but is...

Pros: Cast, lesson that winning, she ain't everyt'ing, mon.
Cons: One unnecessary swear word (apparently just to earn a PG rating)

The funkier-than-fiction true 1988 Olympics story of a
bobsledding team from sunny Jamaica comes to the screen courtesy of Disney. Expect hokey cliches, but a valid point is made about the spirit of sportsmanship.

A Jamaican runner...

Pros: Warm, feel-good, funny, great characters
Cons: nothing

Movie/Message: What a wonderful movie. It's one of the deepest, warmest, and most heart-felt movie that's been out in awhile. I love the points they hit about racism. I've dealt with racism my whole life, and this movie made the point that when...

Pros: Light hearted, funny, terrific family movie, uplifting, real tear jerker
Cons: Poor acting in first 30 minutes of movie

Cool Runnings is a story about the Jamaican bobsled team which competed in the Calgary Olympics back during the '80s. This is a great Disney movie for the entire family and that is why I purchased. I have watched this move at least 2 dozen times with my ...

Pros: Inspirational, funny, just plain good
Cons: older movie

I seldom go to the movies. I'm probably the only person in the USA that didn't see Star Wars until it had been out over 20 years. I'd just rather read a book.

That said, several years ago some friends drug my husband and me to the movies. I...