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Roger Ebert reviews The Longest Yard. The review is really not about the movie, but about the fact that Ebert gave the film a lukewarm thumbs up on his video program, and is now regretting it. He has some bon mots. Here are three of his comments.

• There is a sense in which attacking this movie is like kicking a dog for not being better at calculus.
• Once you accept Sandler as a quarterback, you've opened up the backfield to the entire membership of the Screen Actors' Guild.
• If you can get to "Crash," that is the movie you must see, and you should immediately drop any thought of seeing anything else instead.