There is really nothing special about this movie.It really has only the thinnest veneer of a story. Team gets on probation - coach finds 34-year-old quarterback to bring them back - team is a bunch of losers - they win the big game. You know, the usual stuff these sports films are made of, but unlike Hoosiers, there is not much going on outside the lockeroom or off the field.I only watched it because one of the minor stars is coming to town to give a speech and I wanted to see his part. It was about 10 seconds long.Kathy Ireland was there with a small part and Fred Dalton Thompson was there too, again with a small part. The rest of the cast is forgettable. Well, I hate to admit it, but Rob Schneider was a little funny.

I enjoyed this movie for what it is, a Hollywood underdog, sports movie. Lots of clichés, but it worked for me.I recently saw it on cable, and then on DVD, because something was bothering me. I could swear that a few scenes were different than when I saw it originally. First, I could have sworn that there was a scene where the Suzanne Carter character pulled out her old scrapbook that had Bakula's high school sports clippings. Also, at the Gatorade shower scene, I thought that Coach Gennero was going to get drenched but he scooted away. It's weird, neither of those scenes were in the DVD or the current cable version. Geez, maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.Anyhow, if you liked Major League, and football, you should enjoy this movie.

This movie really shows how the college football teams get away with this. "Necessary Roughness" is like the sister movie to "Major League". Only it's dealing with college football. Times do change for sports. The old members of the teams are gone not because they have moved on to bigger projects. Scandal is the cause of the team's folly. A shady dean, two coaches who are trying to get the team back to their winning ways. There comes a 34 year-old farm hand , and former high school football hero named Paul Blake(Scott Bakula, aka Sam Beckett on "Quantum Leap") gives the college a hand. He does a mighty good throw, and along with the other misfits. The big guy Manumana is the most menacing character of the team. However, they bring in the kicker Lucy(Kathy Ireland) and Manumana is smitten. I liked it when Samorai(Michael Dolan) got really rough with one of the players and the ref was good at naming the moves he was doing. I liked the part where Lucy reduced that blow-hard player into a "little boy" when she gave him a three point kick to his "friends". HAHAHA! It all ended well when the dean got his "just desserts" and Manumana went down "hard and fast" when Lucy gave him a victory kiss. I would feel the same after I do some back-flips. It was funny and it was fast, see this movie, the fun always lasts. RATING 3 OUT OF 5 STARS!

No doubts about it. Come on you got to love this movie. Sinbad? More like Sin Awsome!!!!! This movie will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you happy, it will make you sad, and most importantly it will make you rewind the tape so that you can watch it again cause it rocks so hard!!! GO NHL 94 CLUB!!!!! WOOO! 10 out of 10