Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Frederick Smith So why review a 21 year old movie? Easy. Good movies have no expiration date, and this is certainly one of them. At the time, the NCAA was going through all sorts of problems with player bribes, payoffs, faked grades, violations from steroids to hookers to cars for the players. This movie was brave enough to face these problems and gives an accurate picture of trying to build a football team from a bunch of wanna be's and never were's. Scott Bakula is perfect in the role, neither attempting to affect a fake Texas drawl nor over playing the role. Hector Elizondo and Robert Loggia, two veteran actors who could easily dominate the film, instead add their considerable talents to make the film believable. Several great touches are added, including Rob Schneider as the announcer for the games, and the appearance of a prison team arranged by Dean Elias (Larry Miller, the schmuck you love to hate) adds an extreme and interesting comic scene. Dick Butkus, Earl Campbell, Roger Craig, Ben Davidson, Tony Dorsett, Evander Holyfield, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Jim Kelly, Jerry Rice, Hershel Walker, and Randy White are the prison football players, and if you have to ask who they are, you need to head over to the NFL Hall of Fame (Except for Evander Holyfield, former Heavyweight Champion of the World). The film is cohesive, the language is minimal, and the violence is limited to the football field, practice, and a slight altercation between two teams at Billy Bob's. Collectible if you are a fan of good sports movies, and definitely a great film for the family on a Saturday night.

wes-connors Likable "Quantum Leap" TV star Scott Bakula (as Paul Blake) touches down in a leading feature film role. He's a 34-year-old high school star football hero who decided to tend the family farm after his father died. When the college Mr. Bakula failed to attend loses its football squad to scandal, honest coaches Hector Elizondo (as Ed Gennero) and Robert Loggia (as Wally "Rig" Riggendorf) recruit Bakula for the Texas State "Armadillos". Also making the cut is smarty-pants Sinbad (as Andre Krimm), rich kid Jason Bateman (as Jarvis Edison), and female kicker Kathy Ireland (as Lucy Draper). No points for guessing which team wins the climactic big game. Bakula smokes cigarettes, but seems to have kept himself in excellent shape. This is noticed by journalism teacher Harley Jane Kozak (as Suzanne Carter), who gets her backfield in motion for Bakula. Maybe she will give her old crush and his team good grades. The story barely passes. **** Necessary Roughness (9/27/91) Stan Dragoti ~ Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak

Collegekid2008 This is a very good flick, and Scott Bakula has always been one of my favorite actors.I first saw this film on TV as a child and recently picked up the DVD in a bargain bin and just re-watched it. It has only gotten better with age.I love the concept of this movie, and having been a college athlete myself, understand the NCAA sanctions and the rampant cheating that does go one within the sports world, which made this movie all the more enjoyable for me.Within the course of this movie we see the Texas State University football team (the two time defending national champions) suffer through a plethora of NCAA violations and lose all of the scholarship players, coaches and broadcast rights to their games. The new coach recruits a 35-year old freshman with a what-if I had gone to college attitude, and he quickly meets and falls for his journalism teacher, before she realised that he was not faculty but one of her students. It's fun to watch this film and wonder 'what if' like if this really did happen to this extent how would a team prevail.

wally7 First of all, I'm going to say that this is definitely not American Cinema at its finest. Better movies have been made, better comedies have been made, better football movies have been made. With all that said...I just can't help liking this movie. The acting is decent, with assistant coach Riggendorf (Robert Loggia) being the funniest character. The halftime speech at the climactic "big game" makes me laugh out loud every time. If you're the "hoity-toity" movie critic type who appreciates nothing outside of Oscar-worthy pictures, why are you watching a football movie anyway? If you know how to have a good time watching a movie, and laugh at the eccentricities and vulnerabilities of realistic characters, "Necessary Roughness" is more than worth a look! 7/10