5 July 2010. While this is close to THE BLINDSIDE (2009), Goldie Hawn is given a decent script that allows her to portray a gritty female football coach in a rough high school using her comic talents as well as allowing for some nice dramatic scenes, extending her performance from the usual stereotypical, two-dimensional character. WILDCATS includes the predictable storyline, but also adds an extra dimension which happens when the star happens to be female. There is the additional screen time that includes the personal family conflict as a mother and there is additional screen time for actual football plays as well as a more developed focus on the number of games presented in this movie. While some of the usual football players are not given the screen time nor development sometimes seen in most sport movies of this genre, they may have been sacrificed for the director's personal decision to balance the movie with Goldie Hawn's character's own personal turmoils often given little attention in most movies like this. The ending of this movie is perhaps too typical, predictable, and over-simplified, but it does resonate in a more humanistic and rounded ending that usual.
