When the Texas Southern Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
The shameless commercialism and hypocrisy of big-time college football is a target as inviting as a receiver wide open in the end zone. But the muddled huddle that is Necessary Roughness is one long fumble strewn with offensive lines.
– Desmond Ryan,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
24 Jan 2014
rotten:
As they say in football, pass.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Jan 2014
fresh:
The film itself is a genial, slight, entirely predictable football comedy, but it serves Bakula well.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan 2014
rotten:
For every sharp one-liner about a pampered college football team that's "so corrupt it could use its yearbook photos as mug shots," there's a brain-numbing plot development that's straight out of a desperate sitcom.