Show Celtic Pride Theatric Crime By Sara Staff Writer In Celtic Ce Pride Dan Akroyd and Daniel Stern Stem are Jimmy Flaherty and Mike OHara O'Hara two Boston Celtic fans who love basketball so much they're willing to go to j jail ail for their team Its It's the Playoffs and the Utah Jazz and the Boston Celtics are tied after six games In an effort to guarantee the outcome of the seventh game and the championship these two Celtics fans kidnap hotshot Lewis Scott Damon the star player forthe for forthe forthe the Jazz t Sounds like a plot with potential Sports action sweat plenty of con con- Men doing man things Shortly thinking If nothing else the basketball basketball basketball basket basket- ball footage should be good Sadly the few clips of actual basketball playing are lame The camera always seems to be at the wrong angle showing the same shot again and again I wish Id I'd been watching Cant Can't Hoosiers or even White Men Jump Gail OGrady the films film's token woman plays the wife who is supposedly supposedly supposedly sup sup- fed up with the behavior of her husband Stem but secretly loves his idiotic capers OGrady was wonderful as Donna on Blue but with Celtic Prides Pride's asinine script and equally bad directing directing directing direct direct- ing she is forced to use her big green eyes to do all the acting that came close to toi The only scene i 1 laugh l M was th the e vision of Celtics fans trying to think up good insults to hurl at the Utah players OHara O'Hara shouted tauntingly go back to Utah and get some more join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Other monotone attempts at humor included snide remarks which the characters aimed at each others other's genitals Same old Damon Throughout the movie as my seat became increasingly uncomfortable and the glowing green exit sign beckoned beckoned beckoned beck beck- I kept wondering Is this supposed supposed supposed sup sup- dark posed to be an ingeniously spoof of sports fanaticism or a glorification glorification glorification glori glori- of the hearty and dedicated dedicated dedicated ded ded- fans More importantly why did I pay full price for this tripe evoking a a 0 ly into the movie I was reduced to evoKing mug 1 If l h w c k V r t- t Ti L- L iJ Kr Jimmy Akroyd left and Mike Stem rams kidnap their motivated innocently Comedy and chaos collide when the effort to impact the outcome of the big g in an center beloved teams team's nemesis Lewis Scott |