Celtic Pride (1996)

Sports fanaticism is rampant everywhere, as we see on TV riots at soccer games world wide as well as antics of fans at all the major sporting events in this country. It was very funny to see the diehard Boston Celtics fans, Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd, switch seats to bring some luck to the Celtics, get the other fans to leave their seats and stand in the aisle, kick a friend who came late out of the arena because he brought bad luck, etc. I suspect everyone does things like that, perhaps on a smaller scale, while rooting for a favorite team. I remember a ritual I had while rooting for the New York baseball Giants as a kid and I'm convinced I helped them win the 1954 pennant and World series. So the opening basketball sequence had me rolling in the aisles. But once they "accidentally" kidnap the best Utah Jazz player, Damon Wayans, in an effort to help the Celtics win the championship, the comedy loses its steam. It somehow reminded me of the horrendous scandals involving skater Tanya Harding as well as that of Monica Seles who was actually stabbed by a fan wanting her to lose. Nothing was funny in the second half of the film. It took the wrong direction and hit a dead end.

Fmovies: Sometime we need to a movie where the only object is spend 90 minutes in totally unengagement and funny. This is the case of `Celtic Pride' a movie purely comic, where the laughter have a principal character in that. The story is that two friends Mike(Daniel Stern) and Jimmy(Dan Aykroyd) fans of the league Boston Celtic abduct a players of the against league for allow of them Boston the victory. All of that accompany a electric lyric `Play the Funky music' and a lot of laughter and hilarious also thanks to two great comedy actors : Stern and Aykroyd that succeeded to create a wonderful odd couple with a harmony truly surprising and funny, but two professional comic actors this is that who wait you, complete the cast a justly arrogant and disagreeable Damon Waynes in the character of the basketball players abducted. For all people that want laughter without thinks. My rate is 6.

Celtic Pride is a good example of a movie that is doomed to go straight to video and cable. Although it did play in selected theaters, the public wasn't aware of the movie until it found itself on the shelves at the local video store. The idea about the Boston Celtics and the Garden is great. Then again, the idea alone is not going to carry a movie. Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd star in a movie that is only half funny. To say this is a great comedy is a mouthful. A nice movie with some laughs, sure, but overall, the movie falls short for anything timeless. Stern and Aykroyd are good actors but are not stars. They alone can not carry a film. While Wayans is one of the only funny things about the movie, the story fails to have him as a major part to the story. Stern and Aykroyd are good supporting actors when they team up with other actor like Billy Crystal and Chevy Chase. Alone, or even together, they do not have the chemistry that makes comedy teams. A nice little movie that can be found in the bargain bin and the video store or on cable television at 2 o'clock in the morning.

Celtic Pride fmovies. The stage curtains open ...

"Celtic Pride" may appeal to anyone who is passionate about their team. Just how far would you go to help your team win a championship? Well, for these two desperate fans, just about anything! Just like our two main characters, this comedy movie tries too hard to accomplish its goal, and with limited success.

The NBA Finals are in full swing with the Utah Jazz squaring off against the Boston Celtics - but when the Celtics lose Game 6 at home, forcing a deciding Game 7, fans Mike O'Hara (Daniel Stern) and Jimmy Flaherty (Dan Aykroyd), find themselves in a position where they can directly affect the outcome of the game when they decide to kidnap and hold hostage the Jazz's star player, Lewis Scott (Daman Wayans). However, when Scott manages to escape, the two botched kidnappers find themselves cheering on Scott and the Jazz - because if the Celtics win the Finals, they are off to prison.

With the NBA Playoffs happening right now, I decided to revisit this 1996 comedy film and found it to be rather plain and stale. I remember watching it once years ago and enjoying it - but now, over 20 years later, it just doesn't seem to have the same appeal and entertainment value as it did back then. Stern and Aykroyd seem to go all out and have fun with their roles, but Wayans (much like his character) really didn't seem to care and turned in a mail-in performance. The idea of the movie is better than the finished product here - it just doesn't resonate well.

This isn't a bad movie, and for the 90 minutes you invest into watching it, it's okay with some funny moments. But I wouldn't recommend it. Not even to the sports enthusiast, since the film is more about what is going on behind the scenes than the actual game itself. I've seen better, but I've seen worse.

Definitely underrated in the sport comedy genre. It's worth a watch if you're a fanatic for sport. I truly get this movie, especially when finals come around.

As a Celtic fan for a number of years, I was looking forward to this film, only to be a victim of the filmworld's incredible bias. This tape got slammed-dunked in the garbage pail, where it belongs.

I was totally offended at Dan Ackroyd making several out-and-out extremely bigoted anti-Christian statements, designed for cheap laughs that would never be permitted had he been denigrating any other religion or race or group. If that wasn't enough, we get a guy holding a sign with Scripture reference acting rude and then getting beat up....for laughs again. Incredible. This movie doesn't stop there. We also see a black guy yelling racist remarks that a white person would never get away with saying, and rightly so.....but in Hollywood, these double standards still exist.

It turns out the only funny thing in the movie was the parody of fans who take sports too seriously. That was the idea behind the story, so why all the religious cheap shots?