SummaryDue to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.
Directed By:Stan Dragoti
Written By:Rick Natkin, David Fuller
Necessary Roughness
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Mixed or Average
45
User score
Generally Favorable
7.0
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
22% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
57% Mixed
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22% Negative
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5 Reviews
75
The premise might sound gimmicky, but it's realized honestly and specifically. [27 Sept 1991, p.D6]
63
An amiable comedy about a patched-together football squad, tries to do just that, comes up short after half time, but hangs on well enough to beat the spread.
50
Necessary Roughness, a football comedy of unnecessary blandness, has the same problem as the Miami Dolphins: It dies in the second half. [3 Oct 1991, p.F4]
50
Essentially, the film's strategy is to fight predictability with bonehead amiability, and on this level it's a crowd-pleaser. [27 Dec 1991, p.28]
40
Essentially, this is a football version of the equally contrived and only slightly less hokey baseball comedy Major League.
30
I wish that movies, like scholastic football, could be judged on a "no pass, no play" basis.
20
The whole movie, in fact, is one big blooper.
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