Five of the nine movies feature preteen kids who help teams win championships.
Seven of the nine movies feature come-from-behind wins during the final game.The movies all have a PG or PG-13 rating.All the teams also win whatever ultimate goal they’re aiming for. Based on best-guess estimates, the squads or individuals in these nine movies win 127 games (or races) and lose only 20 while on their hot streaks (that’s an 86.4 percent winning rate).Six of the nine movies end when a team is forced to win the championship without the use of its ghosts or magic arms.In seven of the nine films, underdog teams are led to victory by forces bordering on the supernatural: angels, ghosts, magic shoes, a werewolf, a golden retriever, and a 12-year-old who throws high stinky Limburgers (fast pitches).In all nine movies, the lead characters have lost a parent or otherwise have deadbeat parents who either left town or put them into a foster home.It’s fun knowing that there are at least three common threads between each of the films. Here are some other facts that connect the films in this subgenre. Actually, if Jean-Claude Van Damme had starred in Teen Wolf, at least a third of the film’s running time would’ve been dedicated to training montages of JCVD as he learns how to fully optimize his wolf form. These movies feature zero valuable lessons about hard work and zero Kickboxer-esque moments in which a character’s legs are pulled apart by a pulley system designed to make people’s splits legendary. This subgenre hit its peak between 19 thanks to movies like Teen Wolf (1985), Ladybugs (1992), Rookie of the Year (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994), The 6th Man (1997), Air Bud (1997), Like Mike (2002), and Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005). Teen Wolf belongs to a very specific subgenre of sports movies about underdog squads that receive some form of unexplainable help and immediately become championship-caliber teams. There’s a lot of TV out there. We want to help: Every week, we’ll tell you the best and most urgent shows to stream so you can stay on top of the ever-expanding heap of Peak TV.
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