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Synopsis[edit]

Could we get a plot summary or something for this movie? Its severely lacking one. Also, is it just me, or is there a lot of similarities between this film and "Holes", which came out the same year? M173627 (talk) 02:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I agree. How come the soundtrack is 75% of the article, but there is not even a brief summary? Someone who has seen this recently should add one, or at least the outline from the first movie. BioYu-Gi! (talk) 21:49, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

could we also have a mention about how similar this film is to the 2001 British film; Mean Machine? They are virtually identical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.125.228 (talk) 03:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

that is because they were both following the Original 1974 version of The Longest Yard as all 3 articles state it Prince Bee (talk) 09:28, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone explain to me how the reporter on screen says in one sentence (paraphrasing here) "...indicted for shaving points in a big game, although it was never proven." and then "...his actions tonight will break his probation". If he was only indicted but not convicted then why would he be on probation? To quote Johnnie Cochran..."It doesn't make sense"

5 Star Inmates[edit]

Brucie was not one of them 74.178.227.161 (talk) 22:45, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Soundtrack[edit]

Hate to remove work that was added in good faith but the Soundtrack section was (and probably still is excessively detailed and a bit of a mess. Got to the revision for 2009-11-02 if you want to see how much detail was there. Given that this is a film from MTV I can understand the desire for extra information. If the Soundtrack was split into a separate article it may be easier to justify a greater level of details, perhaps even the songs sampled by the songs on the soundtrack but the details about company licensing is just tedious legal boilerplate that needed to be trimmed. There are several things that could be done to improve the section: showing which songs are available on the album to buy and which songs are merely featured in the film; format the Soundtrack using Template:Tracklist; adding a *small* bit of context information about where how the songs are used in the film. -- Horkana (talk) 22:00, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did he die[edit]

Did Paul Crewe die? Triggered acorn (talk) 06:49, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Everyone dies eventually. (SPOILER ALERT) Paul is a fictional character and did not die in this movie, but one could only hope that he dies in one of the sequels.