The nicest thing about this movie, isn’t just its PG rating or a theatre full of families, but its opening credits, which feature the old Disney logo reminiscent of the Sunday nights in the 1960s, when we gathered round the television to watch their movie-of-the-week. And that’s exactly what the newly re-vamped Disney company – determined to bring back old-fashioned quality – has succeeded at doing on the big screen. “Invincible’ about a football player, is from the same producers who brought us “The Rookie” about a baseball player that starred Denis Quaid. This time, it’s Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg) living in South Philly, 1975, down on his luck, out of a teaching job and suddenly without a wife. So he takes a shot at open calls for the Philadephia Eagles, recently taken over by Coach Dick Vermeil (Greg Kinnear) who takes a lot of slack for his UCLA surfer-dude approach to Football. And so Coach Vermiel sees in Vince an underdog, reflective of himself. What makes this movie mostly magic, is that it’s based on a true story of a local yokel who suddenly found himself a major football star. The story is sappy-sweet and formulaic in its plot, but that is what the audience wants – something predictable and feel-good with a “Rocky” feeling of nothing to lose to everything to win – and it is that. A winner. Three tiaras. .
