“You'll never get anywhere treating your helmet like a lunchbox son.” We’re getting into our three-point stance on the mini gridiron for the 1994 family sports comedy Little Giants.
Local legend Kevin O’Shea (Ed O’Neill), a Heisman Trophy-winning football hero, is running tryouts for his Pee-Wee football team, where he mercilessly discards the ‘misfit’ kids. Among them, his own niece - Becky “Icebox” O’Shea (Shawna Waldron), one of the toughest players refused because she is a girl. She maneuvers her dad, mild-mannered garage owner and Kevin’s overshadowed little brother Danny (Rick Moranis), into coaching a rival team made up of those same misfits, with an inevitable big game collision looming in the third act.
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment produced this sporting underdog tale, coming in the wake of the likes of The Mighty Ducks and The Sandlot, which inspired a young Patrick to put on an American accent and toss the pigskin in his Leicestershire back garden. Will his affection for this somewhat-forgotten kids film similarly inspire the less-nostalgic Devlin, a lifelong NFL fan who can't remember whether he actually watched this as a kid, or just saw the trailer too often? Join us as we finally determine just how many fart jokes are too many fart jokes.
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