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[Oliver Parkes]

Ohthe underdog trope in children's sports films. It rears its David-and-Goliath metaphorical head every few years since "The Bad News Bears" established the prototype in 1976. Since then, most films that feature a rags-to-riches children's sports team have followed the same formula: an initially untalented and disparate group of ragtag kids desperate for leadership become, with encouragement and confidence by an adult who is typically forced to be there often due to a court mandate, the winning team in championship. Some have been innovative, like "Hoosiers" or"The Mighty Ducks," while others have come and gone without much fanfare.

But by and far, no film in this genre has slinked as low, run as slow, or failed to give it a real go as "The Underdoggs," as much a sports drama as an excuse to force child actors to curse and pretend to get drunk. I wish I could say it had good intentions, but nothing is redeeming about a film that isn't interested in giving the fictional sports team a reasonable shot at winning over audiences, let alone the low-stakes football game. It was a lost cause for the young actors who were handed a lazy, half-baked (though baked if you catch the double entendre) script.

Let's set the stage. Snoop Dogg stars as that proverbial atoning coach. In this case, his character Jaycen "Two Js" Jennings is a washed-up ex-professional football player whose ego and recklessness drive him straight into a bus and, consequentially, into community service. He's been frustrated that pundits like Chip Collins (Andrew Schulz) have been putting him down and that even his agent (Kal Penn) has been avoiding him and doesn't see his value. In a fit of rage, Jaycen drives recklessly and is hit by a city bus. He's sentenced to community service in the city that raised him, Long Beach, California.

As he's begrudgingly collecting trash in his designer 'fit, Jaycen runs into an old girlfriend, Cherise (Tika Sumpter), whose son Tre (Jonigan Booth) is on a coachless football team. Eager to impress his ex, Jaycen agrees to step in, ready to whip the kids into shape... except there isn't much football happening. There's plenty of smack-talking and a few sequences you'd expect from an underdog film. There's a party at Jaycen's mega-mansion where he goes down memory lane with Cherise while the children, unattended by the pool, help themselves to adult beverages until they are intoxicated and are found peeing into the pool. The film also spends a great amount of time showing Jaycen driving the kids home or lying around with former friend and assistant coach Kareem (Mike Epps).

George Lopez makes a completely useless cameo as Jaycen's former high school football coach with a storyline - reminding Jaycen about the love of the game and not the love of endorsement deals, which rings hollow and futile. The ending goes as one might expect. Jaycen, whose popularity returns when his good deed "Mighty Ducks" coaching gig goes viral, is offered a spot as a sports pundit alongside other football stars Michael Strahan and Terry Bradshaw. But his first day coincides with the pee-wee championships against Chip's team. What's a begrudging coach to do?!

The championship football game goes about as you expect, save the final moment, which has the Underdoggs losing. It's not a terrible disappointment, however, as the kids have learned confidence and swagger during the season with Jaycen, and they crow with pride in the face of second place. The child actors, given little to work with, do a great job of keeping the audience's heart with the team and its underdog story. Snoop Dogg, a dry personality to begin with, never goes over the top with emotion and his seeming disinterest in the team is what leads "The Underdoggs" to a loss.

The film opens with a warning to audiences of what is to come, namely inappropriate language and the use of drug paraphernalia. Viewers would be surprised to find Snoop Dogg in a film that didn't include such things, and maybe that's the most disappointing part of the film overall. Instead of moving outside his comfort zone and pushing himself to take acting seriously, Snoop Dogg signed onto a film that has him doing the least amount of work possible. Maybe this is what his fans want from him, but for the rest of us, we're rooting for a different Dogg movie.

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