the whole movie is about making the Newcastle team
3. SOCCER CINEMA: "Goal!" reviews
"Goal! The Dream Begins," about a Mexican-American boy from Los Angeles seeking soccer stardom in England, debuts in American theaters this weekend. Here’s what critics are saying:
"... it is good and caring work, with more human detail than we expect. Specifically, it is more about Santiago's life as a young man than it is about who wins the big match. There's a subtext about immigrants in America that is timely right now, and a certain sadness in his father's conviction that some people are intended to be rich and others poor, and that the Munez family should be content and grateful to be poor. Santiago is not content, but he is driven not so much by ambition as by pure and absolute love of soccer, and that gives the movie a purity that shines through."
-- Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
" ... the best American-made sports film since "Miracle."
-- G. Allen Johnson (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Predictable 'Goal! The Dream Begins' may not be the stuff of everyone's reveries, but the film is capably acted and somewhat inspiring. ...The rough-and-tumble sports scenes -especially the climactic goals in a couple of key games - are artfully shot and exciting. And the film's eclectic score is a nice counterpoint to the action. (Real soccer stars like David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane make cameo appearances.) But the plot is formulaic and its conclusion rather abrupt, reinforcing the idea, as the title indicates, that sequels are in the offing. Let's hope that as the dream continues, some originality surfaces in this reliable underdog tale."
-- Claudia Puig, (USA TODAY)
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