Reynolds is supremely affable, even 'deep' (you dig?) at times; the American football aspect is central and yet feels like a distraction - far too much 'excusing' of the (by today's standards certainly) miserable overgrown 'boys being boys' behavior...the 'funny' in this comedy is no longer that but uncomfortable at best, downright frightening at it's worst (see the Brian Dennehy scene with the girl being hung by the foot off of a roof 'just because' she questioned whatever it was that he wanted her to do in the bedroom...does this scene end in the player being arrested? nah, simply laughed off as his at worst mildly oafish dealings with women - he is a thick-headed defensive line type after all etc. The scene is played as though it were uproariously funny, and I suppose maybe it was in the context of 1977, but it's hard to believe regardless).
Sum total? A 2/4 stars if only for the chemistry in the Kris Kristofferson/Jill Clayburgh/Burt Reynolds triad; fails as a comedy but mildly touching as a light romance.
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Reynolds is supremely affable, even 'deep' (you dig?) at times; the American football aspect is central and yet feels like a distraction - far too much 'excusing' of the (by today's standards certainly) miserable overgrown 'boys being boys' behavior...the 'funny' in this comedy is no longer that but uncomfortable at best, downright frightening at it's worst (see the Brian Dennehy scene with the girl being hung by the foot off of a roof 'just because' she questioned whatever it was that he wanted her to do in the bedroom...does this scene end in the player being arrested? nah, simply laughed off as his at worst mildly oafish dealings with women - he is a thick-headed defensive line type after all etc. The scene is played as though it were uproariously funny, and I suppose maybe it was in the context of 1977, but it's hard to believe regardless).Sum total? A 2/4 stars if only for the chemistry in the Kris Kristofferson/Jill Clayburgh/Burt Reynolds triad; fails as a comedy but mildly touching as a light romance.