The Game Plan tells the story of rugged superstar quarterback Joe Kingman (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), whose Boston-based team is chasing a championship. Kingman is living the ultimate fantasy: he's rich, famous and the life of the party. But this dream is suddenly sacked for a loss when he discovers the 7-year-old daughter (Madison Pettis) he never knew he had – the product of a last fling before parting years ago with his young wife. Now, during the most important time in his career, he must figure out how to juggle his parties, practices and dates with the newfound ballet classes, bedtime stories and dolls that come with his daughter. Despite the often hilarious misadventures that come with being a new father, Joe discovers that's there's more to life than money, endorsements and thousands of adoring fans: the love and care of one very special small fan is the only thing that matters.
This is one of those textbook action movie actor tries to do a cutesy family movie type deals. Its like Arnold with Kindergarden Cop or Vin Diesel with The Pacifier. It is by no means a well done movie. It's totally corny, predictable and goes way over the top pulling heart strings. All that being said, these are always my favorite movies to take the steppies to. Stinka loves these kinds of movies and therefore, so do I. As silly and formula as these movies are - I would trade a thousand best picture viewings for one of these movies where the family walks out feeling glad that they saw this together.
I would recommend this movie to families or those going with kids. Its not a good movie in terms of quality but its a great movie to leave feeling good about enjoying time with the kids.
