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Based on a true story, this is the comedic saga of four Jamaican athletes going to extremes to compete as bobsled racers at the Winter Olympics. With few resources and virtually no clue about winter sports, it’s an uphill course for this troupe from the tropics who are sliding on thin ice as they go for the gold in Calgary, Canada. Refusing to let anything stand in their way, these four Jamaicans enlist the help of a down-and-out ex-champion American slider named Irv. Unavoidably drawn back to a sport he had come to loathe, Irv is faced with coaching a team of complete novices. But once committed, he is determined to turn them around and to somehow right the wrongs of his own failed career. It’s a bumpy ride but with pride, determination, and dignity, the bobsledders make their impossible dreams come true.Based on an improbable but true story, Cool Runnings concerns the Jamaican bobsled team that competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics. Director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenon) does a fine job with both the absurdity of the situation (the athletes had never even seen snow) and the passion behind it (their desire to compete and win). John Candy, in one of his last roles, is touching as a disgraced coach who seizes the opportunity to work with the Jamaicans as a chance for redemption. The bobsled scenes look good, and the races are exciting. The climax, which is entirely unexpected, takes the film to a wholly different level, even if events in the story don’t quite match the facts. –Tom Keogh
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January 6, 2006
#1
The previews seem to indicate that this move is about a Jamaican bobsled team. Just seems a bit far fetched to me. THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE ICE OR SNOW IN JAMAICA!
January 6, 2006
#2
This is the story of the Jamaican bobsled team that made it to the Olympics. It is based on a true story.
Unfortunately, true or not, there are scenes you just don’t want children to see, and we were prettty shocked that it was rated only PG.
We could maybe have lived with one character calling another “*ssh*le”, but there is an extended scene in a bar, involving a bar fight, during which the drinking, name-calling and fighting in that scene bracket another scene in the mens room of the bar, where one of the characters looks into a mirror and says, over and over, ” I’m a bad-*ss mother who don’t take no cr*p off of nobody!”
If these don’t bother you – or if your child is of an age where you feel it’s ok for them to see these scenes – then “Cool Runnings” is an otherwise ok movie. But these scenes were of a magnitude that for us this movie was definitely not ok.
Anne
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January 7, 2006
#3
I ordered Cool Runnings for my brother as a birthday gift. When I gave it to him, he was thrilled because it’s impossible to find at the store. We went to watch the DVD as our family movie that night, and the DVD wouldn’t read. The message on the TV kept coming up “Please Insert Disk” and then “Blank Disk in Drive.” When I called Amazon to find out what I could do, they informed me that I couldn’t return the DVD because it had been opened. How else was I supposed to know if it worked or not UNLESS I opened it?
The movie itself is wonderful. The company that provided it, however, could use some work.
January 7, 2006
#4
Cool runnings is enjoying, funny and most of all, it niques its mother !!
January 7, 2006
#5
i liked the spin of the film.it was very spirited&good intention film.The Warmth of Jamaica meets the Winter Olympics.a good story.i really liked this film.