‘The Underdoggs’ Review: It’s Snoop Dogg Meets ‘Bad News Bears’ In Very R-Rated, Foul-Mouthed And Funny Kid-Centric Football Movie

If you have any doubt about exactly what you are in for with Snoop Dogg‘s first-ever starring role in a mainstream movie, The Underdoggs, you won’t after seeing the disclaimer that pops up on screen at the start of the film.

THE FOLLOWING MOVIE IS RATED-R FOR STRONG LANGUAGE THAT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.

BUT F**K ALL THAT.

YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THAT THE KIDS WHO AREN’T SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING THIS SH*T CURSE MORE THAN THE REST OF US MOTHERF**KERS.

SO STOP WORRYING, KICK BACK, RELAX AND ENJOY THE MOTHERF**KING SHOW…

Any questions? The Underdoggs is a descendant of foul-mouthed R-rated comedies like Bad Santa merged with kid-driven sports movies like The Mighty Ducks (which it references in one scene) and especially The Bad News Bears, which was about a ragtag Little League team who cussed a lot and were coached by a cranky Walter Matthau. That 1976 movie was clearly the inspiration for this one, which finds its own rhythm and reason for existing thanks to Snoop Dogg, who finally gets a leading role on screen and runs with it as the at-first reluctant coach of a group of Long Beach kids on a hopeless pee-wee football team that keeps losing its coaches.

Snoop is not playing himself here but rather a one-time high school and college football star, Jaycen “2 Js” Jennings, who gets drafted into the pros and becomes a sensational wide receiver. But his assholiness and miserable personality doom his career, making him a laughing stock of the ESPN-style sports shows, particularly one hosted by Chip Collins (Andrew Schultz), who constantly takes him down. When a doozy of an accident lands him in front of a judge (Kandi Burruss), he is sentenced to 300 hours of community service picking up dog poop at the local