While Peter Farrelly was off winning Oscars for “Green Book,” younger brother Bobby has been largely absent from feature directing. It’s been nearly a decade since the siblings shared credit — the …
plays a minor-league basketball coach court-ordered to assist a Special Olympics team for 90 days — just long enough to take the team from bumbling incompetents to national finalists.
To his credit, Farrelly has been making room for characters with differences and disabilities his entire career, encouraging audiences to laugh everything from Cameron Diaz’s “sensitive to touch” brother in “There’s Something About Mary” to practically the entire cast of “The Ringer,” which he produced. For better or worse, Farrelly doesn’t operate by the “politically correct” playbook , but he is committed to reminding audiences that most of the population doesn’t look and act like movie stars.
Marlon wears a padded helmet and thick glasses, speaks several languages and quotes obscure trivia on command. Showtime knows just one shot, which involves lobbing the ball high over his head, but he rarely comes within 10 feet of the basket. Johnny has Down syndrome and a resistance to showering; he also has a hot older sister, Alex , whom Marcus hooks up with in the opening scene. With the exception of wild-gal Cosentino , they’re all dudes.
As punishment for crashing into a cop car while drunk, Marcus has been ordered to do community service, but he doesn’t have any intention of volunteering a day more than the obligatory 90. No prizes for predicting how his attitude changes over those three months. At first, Marcus sees the team as hopeless, and who can blame him, given all the slapstick shtick Farrelly puts them through? But then the games start, and the Friends start winning.
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