Ed

ED (PG)

D: Bill Couturie

Universal/Longview (Rosalie Swedlin)

USA 🇺🇸 1996

94 mins

Comedy/Sports

W: David Mickey Evans

DP: Alan Caso

Ed: Robert K. Lambert & Todd E. Miller

Mus: Stephen D. Endelman

Matt LeBlanc (Jack Cooper), Jayne Brook (Lydia), Jack Warden (Chubb), Jay Caputo / Denise Cheshire (Ed)

It may be a kids movie, but that doesn't change the fact that it's stupid. Mind-numbingly stupid.

Joey Tribbiani from the TV sitcom Friends (aka Matt LeBlanc) plays a farmboy who's in his rookie season with a minor league baseball team. Another player on the team is a chimp who absurdly becomes the player of their season.

The rest is the usual sports cliche rags-to-riches stuff with jokes which fall flat.

I can deal with the dumb story, juvenile acting and an annoying animatronic ape, but the direction is incredibly bad, even for a terrible movie. It may have enough to entertain youngsters, but for everyone else it may struggle to hold interest. Only watch this if you really want to see a talented comedy actor slumming for a quick buck.

3/10