Sports comedy 'Champions' follows formula to the letter, but it’s an absolute delight

Review: In Bobby Farrelly's solo directorial debut, Woody Harrelson plays an ex-NBA coach who gets a DUI and ends up coaching a basketball team of adults with intellectual disabilities. While formulaic, SeanMBurns calls the film 'buoyant and breezy.'

Kevin Iannucci as Johnathan, Kaitlin Olson as Alex, James Day Keith as Benny, and Woody Harrelson as Marcus in director Bobby Farrelly's"CHAMPIONS."

Bobby Farrelly’s “Champions” probably should have been dreadful. A remake of the 2018 comedy “Campeones,” which won Spain’s Goya Award for Best Picture, it stars Woody Harrelson as a recently fired NBA minor league assistant coach who gets a DUI in Des Moines and is sentenced to 90 days of community service.

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