Remember the Goal

I love sports movies with a Christian message (Chariots of Fire, Facing the Giants) and my daughter and I especially liked this one. It has a good message about remembering to focus on the long-term goals, which is important to remember in sports and other areas of life.

It was promoting Christianity and the blind faith you need to have in religion as if they get commission. I get that you are Christian and believe in it a lot but do you really have to talk about it every 10 minutes and explain away everything by "Oh, you know there's a story in the Bible", "Jesus was perfect and ...", "Let me tell you what happened to Jesus when..", etc. And the plot moved too conveniently. The coach was a total Mary Sue. Urgh!

It didn't have anything to see actually, I got bored and the father of that blond girl was soo annoying like YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT SPORTS SO STOP TALKING ! But thats it.

Just loved the key messages in this film. Highlights the need to constantly shake up our beliefs and way of doing things and to be open to new ideas. The sky's the limit if we are simply open and teachable. The patience of this young teacher deserved an award. What painful and ambitious individuals are created out of closing your mind and heart - and this movie portrayed them well

Took our daughter to watch this with her friends for her 16th Birthday. Not only did all the girls love it, we got to meet the writer of the film and 2 of the girls whom he coached and had inspired him to write the film. We got to talk with them and take pictures together after the film. What a great bonus to a great movie!