I watched this film in confusion as the film seemed to switch main characters in the middle of the thing, had subplots that kind of disappeared and featured a bizarre defection plot that kind of came out of nowhere. Welcome to Spikers! A volleyball film that at times seems to forget it is about volleyball and instead focuses on defections, salad bars and divorces! It also features a tough coach who horribly asks that players show up on time, don't miss their plans and don't stumble into dinners drunk with two prostitutes...what a hard case!
The story starts with Sonny and Catch making the Olympics! Sonny gets on the coach's bad side right away so you know this film is going to be about the coach whipping him into shape! There is also a guy who is in med school or something and he ditches that to play volleyball! He is also not focused on again until the end when he is cut from the team. Also, Sonny quits too leaving Chase the main guy, but he too wants to quit after helping a woman defect from Poland and there is volleyball, but no Olympic volleyball to be seen.
So the film has no one I really recognize in it and it has a lot of sorry subplots going on as what kind of woman divorces a guy for trying to compete in the Olympics? I mean, I can see the story now on television about how he now lives in a YMCA with his precious coffee pot crying himself to sleepy as one of those specials they have before they broadcast the games. I felt the strange shift from Sonny to Catch being the main character totally threw off the film too and the whole defection thing came out of nowhere and went really nowhere.
So, this is not a very good film or endorsement for volleyball as the writers could not make anything interesting happen other than the volleyball which was not interesting. Also, to have a movie with the focus on a sport and not really have a payoff of said sport is totally insane! It's like making a film about the Super Bowl without actually featuring the big game, but rather the preseason with people getting cut and helping people escape Poland!
The story starts with Sonny and Catch making the Olympics! Sonny gets on the coach's bad side right away so you know this film is going to be about the coach whipping him into shape! There is also a guy who is in med school or something and he ditches that to play volleyball! He is also not focused on again until the end when he is cut from the team. Also, Sonny quits too leaving Chase the main guy, but he too wants to quit after helping a woman defect from Poland and there is volleyball, but no Olympic volleyball to be seen.
So the film has no one I really recognize in it and it has a lot of sorry subplots going on as what kind of woman divorces a guy for trying to compete in the Olympics? I mean, I can see the story now on television about how he now lives in a YMCA with his precious coffee pot crying himself to sleepy as one of those specials they have before they broadcast the games. I felt the strange shift from Sonny to Catch being the main character totally threw off the film too and the whole defection thing came out of nowhere and went really nowhere.
So, this is not a very good film or endorsement for volleyball as the writers could not make anything interesting happen other than the volleyball which was not interesting. Also, to have a movie with the focus on a sport and not really have a payoff of said sport is totally insane! It's like making a film about the Super Bowl without actually featuring the big game, but rather the preseason with people getting cut and helping people escape Poland!