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Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: Goal! is right up there with the terrific Akeelah and the Bee (another underdog now in theaters) in the way it draws you in and keeps you rooting for its lower class but highly talented hero. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Goal! The Dream Begins is an inspirational sports movie, but I liked it anyway. Read more
Judy Chia Hui Hsu, Seattle Times: No matter where the film carries you, it always gets back to the love of the game. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Goal! is filled with cringe-inducing scenes we've seen before many, many times. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Still works reasonably well in spite of itself, mostly due to the damnable reliability of these cliches when they're put across with enough skill and conviction. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Goal! is dippy and predictable, and it never once surprises. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Handsomely shot and with a likable lead in Kuno Becker, it also suffers from a script so outrageously generic you could buy it at Costco. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: For all its familiar ticks -- of which there are many -- Goal! works some underdog magic in taking aspiring footballer Santiago Munez from Mexico to Los Angeles and then across the big pond to Newcastle, England. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: Sometimes the first movie in a trilogy isn't that good, but it fails just nobly enough to still make you curious enough to maybe see the sequels. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Everything here is beyond predictable. Read more
Bill Gallo, L.A. Weekly: Aside from a flirtation with the hot-button immigration issue, this inspirational movie about an underdog soccer player from tough East Los Angeles is pretty standard stuff. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Hard to ignore the cliches and the in-your-face uplift. But the details, gritty and otherwise, feel right. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's hard to make Bend It Like Beckham look like high drama, but this movie almost manages. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Danny Cannon's Goal! The Dream Begins is a sports movie for people who may not care about sports but can't resist a heart-tugging underdog story. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Disney goes to the sports-movie-formula well once too often with Goal! The Dream Begins, which is essentially The Rookie or The Greatest Game Ever Played on a soccer pitch. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: ... it is good and caring work, with more human detail than we expect. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: The best American-made sports film since Miracle. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It is constructed of sports movie cliches but built on an unshakable foundation of earnestness. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: The combination of button-pushing uplift, sundry sweeping helicopter shots and a bombastic score that sounds like it came on a free transfer from a Tony Scott movie proves as resistibly synthetic as the CGI-enhanced heroics on the pitch. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Predictable Goal! The Dream Begins may not be the stuff of everyone's reveries, but the film is capably acted and somewhat inspiring. Read more
Derek Elley, Variety: A slickly mounted slice of can-do nonsense set in the world of British soccer. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: In the end, I can't think of a movie that matters less than Just My Luck. It's just negligible. Read more