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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 14795
Released: September 30, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Sometimes, to follow your dreams?you've go to bend the rules! Audiences and critics alike are cheering wildly for this "exhilarating?terrific comedy" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young girl who is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field. Hailed as the year's must-see crowd pleaser that "makes you feel good and laugh out loud" (Chicago Sun-Times), "Bend It Like Beckham" scores! (Time Magazine)
Description of Bend It Like Beckham (Full Screen Edition):
Bend It Like Beckham is true girl power. This glorious comedy centers on Jess (Parminder Nagra), an Indian girl born in England whose only desire is to become a football--or, as we say on this side of the Atlantic, soccer--star like her idol, David Beckham; but her traditional family refuses to even consider it. With the help of her new friend Juliet (Keira Knightley), Jess secretly joins a girls' team under the guidance of a male coach (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). As the team starts to gain some attention, Jess's secret can't be kept forever. The story of Bend It Like Beckham is so genuine and detailed that it transcends all the sports-movie formulas that it also fulfills with cheeky exuberance. Wonderfully acted, and written and directed with loving care by Gurinder Chadha (Bhaji on the Beach, What's Cooking?), this movie is pure delight from start to finish. --Bret Fetzer
Bend It Like Beckham (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
A Nice Soccer Story! 
2009-12-11 - Missed this in the theaters but BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM works two ways. First as
a good family movie and second as a good soccer movie. Recommended!
Soccer Coaching:Schupak's Soccer 6 Pack DVD Set Soccer coaches and leagues will love this DVD set by Marty Schupak.
Bend It Like Beckham 
2009-09-12 - Good story I always enjoy watching it. Kara Knightley's career took off after this movie.
runs well
2009-08-15 - the disc has slight defects but when watching on laptop it didnt bother the viewing time
Those silly brits. 
2008-10-12 - Bend It Like Backham is a cute and harmless family film. Keira Knightley proudly shows off her rock-hard abs while Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a nice piece of eye candy, hubba hubba! Good sports film but some of the dialogue is pretty laughable, a mixed bag for me so decide for yourself.
Good and bad
2008-09-15 - I can understand the good and bad reviews for this movie. It's high-energy fun, a teen flick without too much stupid silliness or any of those contrived "misunderstandings" that are so common in comedies. The teen characters are irresistibly cute, the culture clashes are funny and not overdone, and the soccer scenes are exciting (I wish there were more of them).
But if the messages in this movie about "girl power" and following your dreams are going to be taken half seriously, then there's much to criticize. Most of the Indian girls and boys seem obsessed with sex, shopping, and early marriage. The girls lie to their parents time and time again. And what does it really say about girl power when the main character, Jess, as a beautiful, extremely talented soccer player, can win a sport scholarship to an American university? Are beautiful, extremely talented girls the only ones then who can hope to exercise "girl power"? Jess doesn't have to work hard to acquire her soccer skills. She didn't even play on her high school team! And yet she is better than all the other talented girls who have worked hard for years, been coached, and played on teams. Everything comes so easy for Jess that it's easier to attribute her success to pure luck than to hard work or girl power.
On the other hand, besides being blessed and lucky Jess is sweet and level-headed. The movie is fun; the lessons are questionable.
