Go Tigers!
by Kenneth A. Carlson
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Actor: Adam Michael Gayheart, Danny Studer, Dave Irwin, Ellery Moore, Joe PaternoDirector: Kenneth A. Carlson
Brand: Team Marketing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Video Group
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- Officially Licensed
- Highest Quality Recording
DVD Reviews of Go Tigers!
DVD Review: Two thumbs up for "Go Tigers"
Summary: 4 Stars
The documentary film maker, Kenneth Carlson, succeeds in building his comedy of manners toward a dramatic conclusion. This documentary is a comedy in the sense "Go Tigers" has a happy ending, the main characters' situations in life improve throughout the film and the film is generally sunny though there are dark undercurrents to life in the city of Massillon, Ohio.
"Go Tigers" is not about the game of football, it is about the effect of the game on a small town. Massillon is barely a city and its ~30,000 people maintain a high school football stadium for 15,000+ people with a professional quality field and sports plant. The Massillon High School is a football factory and the film follows three players and selected family members through an undefeated season.
There are some fantastic sequences of football that overshadow current U of A play because these boys are so consistently good. The game sequences gloss over the details of play, showing over the top fans, the band, parents of the central characters, cutting in and out to fantastic plays. That is why I say it is not "about" football because, while the score board and play boards are shown there is minimal coverage of rules, technique, field position or strategy.
Locker room half time pep talks are given center stage. The locker room scenes feature pointless rants and strings of obscenity by the players interspersed by level headed coaching and inspirational sermons by all Massillon's denominations. The team always comes out energized by this motivation.
Massillon is NOT a wealthy city, so a theme is "where does the money come from"? The choices made by citizens are a plot thread that runs through the lives of three players and their families. You'll need to see the film if you want to know more.
I will say, the strength and conditioning coach is an awesome, professional caliber athlete. There is an all too brief walk on part by an opposing team's mascots who are fall down laughing funny.
The film covers town darkness, but not with a great deal of emphasis. For example, the live tiger cub mascot mauls a small child in front of his mother. The film maker is not blatant about the subtle points that are made about Massillon.
My one criticism of "Go Tigers" is that this film is 20 minutes too long. It lingers over several football games in way too much detail, but at the same time not enough. The games are covered in a superficial way without enough reference to play to make the games interesting. Excited fans don't move the plot forward and you see them over and over and over and....
Description of Go Tigers!
Welcome to Massillon, Ohio, where high school football is nothing short of religion. For the 33,000 people who live there, football is life--a veritable "cradle to the grave" experience that begins in the maternity ward where coaches make visits to scoutHigh school football rules in Massillon, Ohio. In this blue-collar community, dubbed "Touchdown Town" in a 1951 newsreel, the Washington High Tigers are a cradle-to-grave passion. Team boosters visit maternity wards and bestow footballs to newborn "little Tigers." A mortician offers customers Tiger theme caskets. This winning documentary, ranked by ESPN.com as among the six best sports documentaries of all time, chronicles the Tigers' pivotal 1999 season--its 106th!--in which the team's success or failure on the field could impact an upcoming tax levy to save the town's beleaguered schools. Filmmaker and Massillon native Kenneth Carlson is no mere cheerleader. He tackles the touchy issue of priorities (some parents hold promising eighth graders back so they will be bigger and stronger) and the town's Stepfordian devotion to the team that put it on the map ("Conform or be destroyed," states one disaffected youth). More inspiring are the profiles of the team's three captains, in whom one can see the positive role football plays in their lives. --Donald Liebenson
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