Celtic Pride

1996

Action / Comedy / Sport

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 32% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 32% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 11143 11.1K

sports kidnapping boston, massachusetts irish-american basketball

Plot summary

Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.

Director

Tom DeCerchio Photo
Tom DeCerchio

Top cast

Scott Lawrence Photo
Scott Lawrence as Ted Hennison
Darrell Hammond Photo
Darrell Hammond as Chris McCarthy
Peter A. Hulne Photo
Peter A. Hulne as Pat 'Patty' Fitzsimmons
Will Lyman Photo
Will Lyman as Rich Man
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742.04 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 3
1.42 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by [email protected] 6 / 10

Pure funny in this witty comic movie.

Sometime we need to a movie where the only object is spend 90 minutes in totally unengagement and funny. This is the case of `Celtic Pride' a movie purely comic, where the laughter have a principal character in that. The story is that two friends Mike(Daniel Stern) and Jimmy(Dan Aykroyd) fans of the league Boston Celtic abduct a players of the against league for allow of them Boston the victory. All of that accompany a electric lyric `Play the Funky music' and a lot of laughter and hilarious also thanks to two great comedy actors : Stern and Aykroyd that succeeded to create a wonderful odd couple with a harmony truly surprising and funny, but two professional comic actors this is that who wait you, complete the cast a justly arrogant and disagreeable Damon Waynes in the character of the basketball players abducted. For all people that want laughter without thinks. My rate is 6.
Reviewed by caspian1978 4 / 10

A Good Idea but a Bad Movie

Celtic Pride is a good example of a movie that is doomed to go straight to video and cable. Although it did play in selected theaters, the public wasn't aware of the movie until it found itself on the shelves at the local video store. The idea about the Boston Celtics and the Garden is great. Then again, the idea alone is not going to carry a movie. Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern and Dan Aykroyd star in a movie that is only half funny. To say this is a great comedy is a mouthful. A nice movie with some laughs, sure, but overall, the movie falls short for anything timeless. Stern and Aykroyd are good actors but are not stars. They alone can not carry a film. While Wayans is one of the only funny things about the movie, the story fails to have him as a major part to the story. Stern and Aykroyd are good supporting actors when they team up with other actor like Billy Crystal and Chevy Chase. Alone, or even together, they do not have the chemistry that makes comedy teams. A nice little movie that can be found in the bargain bin and the video store or on cable television at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Reviewed by tylerkirks08 6 / 10

Nice little comfort watch.

This is something I could watch once a year, but I don't really know why. Stern/Aykroyd do a great job as Celtics fanatics and Wayans pulls off a somewhat believable NBA superstar (Kind of a Marbury or Gary Payton-esque player). Anyways, the plot is absurd and direction is weak. Some funny bits of conversation during the hostage holdover at Aykroyd's apartment. Stern is really funny at times with his courtside yelling and intensity. But what a lazy piece of plot this is. How they stretched this to 90 minutes is beyond me. The ending is ridiculously bad with the two mains despite their lifelong commitment to the Celtics, pull for Utah and celebrate with the Jazz as happy ending climactic music plays out! That is awful!!Overall i'll watch it again because it's a breezy comfort comedy, but it is objectively not a good movie and the ending was poorly conceived.
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