In my opinon the actors play well. This film is well made because football is well represented. The racism is present but the player become friends over time to become a team weld. The direction is well done. the plot of the film is presented because we don't know when they become friends and win or lost the cup.I did not like when they kissed in the locker room.

What can be said about Remember The Titans? Honestly, this movie has just about everything. The movie takes place at a time when racism was still very much at large in the United States, especially in the state of Virginia at T.C. Williams High School. Through all of this, Coach Herman Boone, played by the iconic Denzel Washington, is tasked with the large order of getting white and African American football players to co-exist well together. The film deals with racism, stereotypes and obviously athletics. One thing that worked very well were the memorable characters in the film. If you've seen the film, there's no way you could ever forget Gerry Bertier, Julius Campbell, Petey Jones, The Rev, Big Louie and definitely Sunshine. Good directors and producers know that to put a film over the top you need good characters that you can connect with and producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Boaz Yakin do just that.Being a college student, Remember The Titans is definitely a movie I will want my children to see one day. The lessons they will learn from viewing this film are priceless, and they can't miss out on an all- time classic sports movie.

Remember the Titans (2000): Dir: Boaz Yakin / Cast: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Ryan Hurst, Kip Pardue, Ryan Hurst: True story set in 1971 that recycles a plot that has been done millions of times since The Bad News Bears. Title refers to reflection upon something great, which isn't this film. The theme is racism where two schools will blend the whites and the blacks and the community is hostile towards it. Denzel Washington moves into the community from North Carolina to coach football. Numerous players threaten to quit because their current coach may be leaving. Predictable elements occur such as fights over race as well as Washington winning everybody over and gaining respect. Directed by Boaz Yakin who, despite having the true story element, does not have a screenplay that inspires anything but sympathy. Washington is a tremendous actor but he is basically wading through clichés and story structure done a hundred times over. That means that he is merely reciting what others having done either better or worse than him. Flat supporting roles by Will Patton, Ryan Hurst and Kip Pardue, and a host of other actors who are led to believe that this sh*t is special because it is a sports film starring Denzel. Patton in particular plays that uptight coach uneasily impressed. Strong themes of sportsmanship, friendship, endurance, honor, exposing racism, and Xeroxed storytelling. Score: 3 / 10

This film is one terrible lie. As with a handful of other reviewers here, I was also a victim of the TC juggernaut, having attended Groveton High School during that period. It was a joke to play TC in any varsity team sport: football, basketball, soccer... it didn't matter. Everyone knew that a school three times their size was going to destroy us -- the only question was how badly. They were never, ever, an underdog in any sport — to suggest otherwise is absolute bunk.To add insult to injury, they changed the name of our team from the Tigers to the "Lions" (because they felt that Tigers was too close to Titans), and they depicted us as backwater hicks... which was laughable, since Groveton served Hollin Hills, the most intellectual and progressive community in the entire DC area, as well as other upper-middle class neighborhoods filled with career government professionals.The problem, of course, is that Hollywood dreck like this becomes gospel to those who have no knowledge of the actual events. Rather than accept moral responsibility to make a film based on real life events reflect the truth, they purposefully pervert it to satisfy their biased fantasy and obliterate the historical record.I wish I could give this grossly insulting film a negative rating, to help make up for those who have embraced it as heart-rending "truth", given that they know nothing about the events it claims to document.