Next Goal Wins
Where: Disney+
What: Movie, 103 mins.
When: Now
Genre: Comedy
Rating: NNNN (out of 5)
Why you should watch: New Zealand superstar writer/director Taika Waititi brings a new look to the underdog-makes-good stories pioneered by Bad News Bears, Cool Runnings and, even more recently, Ted Lasso. Like Lasso, this is a soccer story, but Michael Fassbender as the down-on-his-luck American coach forced to try to help an inept team from American Samoa, plays it more like Walter Matthau (Bad News Bears) than Lasso. Refreshing to have a story told from an Indigenous perspective, with lots of marvelling at the habits of “white people.” Will Arnett is great as the dickish American rooting against the “good guys.”
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