Ladybugs

1992

Action / Comedy / Sport

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43% · 22 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 11241 11.2K

sports corporate stepson cross dressing football (soccer) kids’ sports team

Plot summary

To climb the corporate ladder to success, a businessman agrees to coach his company's all-girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.

Director

Sidney J. Furie Photo
Sidney J. Furie

Top cast

Jackée Harry Photo
Jackée Harry as Julie Benson
Blake Clark Photo
Blake Clark as Coach Bull
Johna Stewart-Bowden Photo
Johna Stewart-Bowden as Sally Anne Welfelt
Liz Jury Photo
Liz Jury as Secretary
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
823.25 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 2
1.65 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by JakeRfilmfreak 7 / 10

Coach Bull huh? I know your full name!

Ladybugs, is a 1992 sports comedy that centers around a businessman trying to get a promotion who agrees to coach his companies all girl soccer team.Starring Rodney Dangerfield, Jonathan Brandis and Jackée Harry, Ladybugs is a great film and classic comedy from my childhood that I still love to this day.Dangerfield stars as Chester Lee, a corporate worker attempting to get up the courage to ask for a promotion so he can afford to marry his sweetheart. But when he's assigned to coach the companies all girl soccer team, he gets in over his head and recruits his sweethearts son for help.It's a terrific movie with a good cast, and Dangerfield is as hilarious as he always is. It's a film that has a simple straight to the point story that seems to be overlooked by many, but is just completely entertaining. If you've never seen this early '90s gem before, I would recommend giving it a watch.
Reviewed by IonicBreezeMachine 5 / 10

Rodney Dangerfield attempts a more family oriented film with mixed results

Chester Lee (Rodney Dangerfield) is a successful salesman at Mullen Industries who's looking to get a promotion so he and his girlfriend Bess (Ilene Graff) can finally get married. Chester attempts to get on his boss Dave Mullen's good side when asking for a raise by praising the collection of trophies Mullen has acquired from the girls soccer team the Ladybugs which Mullen sponsors. When Chester lies about having once played soccer himself he finds himself offered the position of team coach which he thinks he could use to parlay his promotion but soon finds that the team mostly consists of uncoordinated misfits who have not played soccer before. With few options, Chester seeks help from his girlfriend's son Matthew (Johnathan Brandis) who's adept at soccer with Matthew reluctantly adopting the alias of Martha to give their team some help.Ladybugs is a 1992 sports comedy starring notable comedian Rodney Dangerfield. The film came about from producers Andre Morgan and Albert S. Ruddy who sought to make an update on the formula established by The Bad News Bears falling in line with audience tastes of the 90s that had been shaped by the success of films such as Uncle Buck and Home Alone. Dangerfield hadn't headlined a film (at least live-action) since 1986's Back to School allegedly due to Dangerfield's prima donna behavior with a notable instance being his high profile rejection of Caddyshack II for Warner Bros. Despite his initial desire for it being the reason for its existence. Due to the nature of Dangerfield's comedic persona Paramount struggled with how exactly to market the film as while it was a broad comedy with prominent child characters, it still carried much of the raunchy material that Dangerfield was known for hence why the film was awarded a PG-13 rating. Made for $20 million, Ladybugs proved a financial failure opening in only fifth place and earning only $15 million before disappearing from theaters. Critics also panned the film and Ladybugs would mark the final mainstream vehicle for Dangerfield (aside from some direct-to-video films and supporting work in films such as Natural Born Killers and Little Nicky). Ladybugs is a strange movie not so much for what it is, but rather it's a strange mixture of Dangerfield's persona and a 90s formula family comedy that feels at odds with each other.While critics did pan the film, some did admit to a degree that Dangerfield was able to be funny in the film and I'm inclined to agree. While Dangerfield is seldom that far from playing himself, nobody delivers one-liners as effectively and efficiently as he does as seen from the opening exchange between him and a truck driver that gave me a good laugh. The gone too soon Johanthan Brandis also gives a good performance as Matthew/Martha and he shows not only solid screen presence but also capable comic timing as a co-lead in the film. I also rather liked Jackée Harry's performance as Chester's assistant Julie who has great comedic back and forth with Dangerfield. Ladybugs seems like it has all the ingredients for a good comedy, but at the same time it also has a really uneasy mixture of edgy material mixed in with more conventional kids movie material. Curtis Burch is credited with screenwriting duties for Ladybugs and his most prominent credit outside of this one is the 1983 arcade sex comedy Joysticks and some jokes/sequences often feel like they're playing to that level including several jokes where characters mistake out of context dialogue for unseemly situations involving children. Because of this very uneasy mixture of family comedy setup paired with material that feels leftover from edgier examples of 1980s comedies, the movie has funny individual moments that are often balanced out by ones that are more cringey and uncomfortable.Ladybugs is a movie that came out the wrong way at the right time because it's something of a timecapsule in how 80s comedy stalwarts struggled to adapt to the 90s (SNL alums such as Eddie Murphy, Dan Akyroyd, and Chevy Chase included). While the film is sporadically funny, it also feels like there's a misguided notion in transitioning Dangerfield into a role where he doesn't quite fit with material that seems confused about who it's exactly catering to.
Reviewed by dworldeater 7 / 10

Fun for the whole family with Rodney

Ladybugs is a bit of a change of pace for Rodney Dangerfield in this fairly wholesome family friendly film. However, in these times if the same movie was made today, it might get an R, or would be considered too controversial to be released. Ladybugs is a very warm, lighthearted, but at the same time has a lot of innuendo and raunchy humor that one would expect from a Rodney Dangerfield movie. Rodney Dangerfield plays a hard working family oriented man that has to coach a girls soccer team to appease his boss and get a promotion. There still are the one liners that are the price of admission for a Dangerfield movie, but the story flows well and the characters are well drawn out and easily likeable. This is in a lot of ways similar in quality to Meet Wally Sparks, but a bit more wholesome and in my opinion a better movie. Having said that, Ladybugs is still really funny and holds up pretty well.
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