An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, become a national media sensation, and gain a new lease on life.
In critical ways, the movie is a mess. The basketball scenes are so sloppy and haphazard that the would-be slapstick registers as confusion. But away from the court, the actors bring their caricatures to folksy comic life.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
12 Jul 2013
rotten:
A Lifetime movie, minus the commercials, but with every predictable twist and turn and treacly message intact. She shoots. It bores.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
12 Jul 2013
rotten:
Lifetime movies have their pleasures, and so does this film.
– Farran Smith Nehme,
New York Post,
11 Jul 2013
rotten:
[A] strained and soapy empowerment comedy ...
– Justin Chang,
Variety,
11 Jul 2013
rotten:
Even though it earns an R rating for profanity and some risque material, it's too meek and mild-mannered to qualify as brave, or even slyly subversive.