I'm not a liberal I swear I know that conservative media is few and far between. And when someone does manage to make a "conservative " movie or show usually it's lacking quality in cinematography and audio etc.. so I'm writing this review with the understanding that making a movie is hard. But that doesn't mean that any conservative movie is above criticism.
First of all the trailer shows WAAAY too many of the funniest movie beats. That is automatically a no go, since you've exhausted all your cards before your audience has even hit play on the movie itself. This is a major problem in mainstream media films as well.
Secondly this movie is entirely too long. This may be an editing problem as well but some jokes and scenes go on for way too long. It feels as though this movie is a series of "bits" strung together very awkwardly by extended scenes. Each bit is funny by itself, but it loses its momentum when dragged out.
Thirdly, this movie takes too much time getting to the main plot. The opening of the movie is good and well paced but after that it drags itself out and you find yourself asking your family members "how long is this movie?" And then finding out you're not even halfway through. This is something that your audience should never experience. You want someone to sit down and be satisfied with the timeline of your movie. It's fine if you drag some parts out for suspense or for shock but it shouldn't ever cause your viewer to feel as if they have to "get through" your movie.
Now another problem I had was the reporter lady and her character. She was used as a joking comment/criticism of the lack of honesty from journalists in our society. That's all fine and was definitely funny because it rang true to our current society, but her being the prime antagonist was a poor choice. Her character added nothing good to the plot. Honestly remove her and you miss out on nothing but a few bad sex jokes. She's supposed to be the driving force behind all this but the movie has already shown that the coach is willing to dress his team up in drag to win anyways, without her intervention. He signs his own kid up for the woman's race and intuitively the plot could've taken over for the reporters part and had the coach's character be the one to convince his team that they could dominate in all the categories. Clearly he was heading that way on his own, so why add another character? Unfortunately all she did was make the awkward scenes more awkward with her "romance" subplot with the coach.
The other two characters I had a problem with was the brothers. I don't remember anyone's name (which is also saying something about the movie) and I don't care enough to look them up. I can't tell you a single joke I laughed at when the brothers showed up. Again they were there for sex jokes, like the reporter lady. I'm not saying you can't have crude jokes in your movie, but you could tell that the movie wanted more shock from the audience rather than laughter. It also muddled the message this movie was trying to portray. It's mocking a real life belief that men can become woman and that they can dominate in women's sports fairly. This movie is a comedy, but at its core it's really a commentary, and when you dumb it down so much that it feels like your brain has turned to mush after you've watched it, you lose the message in the process. Who's to say that this movie isn't mocking those who think that women can't be men? It doesn't take itself seriously enough to make a point which is what they were trying to do originally.
This review is really long I know but I wanted to mention a few other critiques that I personally had
1: when will producers realize that showing kids o no phones texting and adding the texting and tweeting noises en mass is not funny. Literally no teenager has their phone off of silent mode. If you do you're a weirdo. The better way to portray obsessed phone kids is to keep them silent and ignoring the coach while looking at their phones, maybe light giggling, or scowling as they harshly type a message out. Personally it would've been funny if they added a teenager clearly taking pictures of himself on snap chat because that is more realistic that your average stock text sound.
2: The ok boomer thing has never been funny. Please let it die
3: Matt Walsh's little "bit?" At the end of the movie entirely ruined his character. He was literally the best part of the movie. The ending with him and Candace had absolutely NO reason to be there at all. I get they wanted cameos from all the talking heads at daily wire but they should've stuck Candace IN THE MOVIE like they did with Shapiro,Cooper,Knowles,Walsh etc...
And then revealing that Matt Walsh was actually not a vegan hippie high out of his mind was a stupid decision. I don't know if they were trying to tease a sequel or what but it was confusing and terrible execution.
Now I didn't give this movie zero stars for a reason, there were positives.
The video and sound were very good especially for a lower budget smaller studio.
There were funny jokes before being ruined by continuation.
Most of the actors did a good job. There was over a thing but not as much as one might think.
The main basketball players facial expressions are hilarious. He did a fantastic job. Him and Felix were the best guys in this movie.
The "cameos" by dailywire staff was for the most part funny and "natural"
All in all it was not super fun to watch, but the concept and a few of the jokes were hilarious, and you could tell there was some passion behind this film. Producing media is hard in an industry where literally everyone is against you. Hopefully we'll see some improvement in the future.