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Grrrrrrrrr 8
Go Tigers! is a wonderful, and wonderfully deceptive, movie. When viewed casually it flies by like an NFL highlights reel, slick, glossy, beautifully photographed, and expertly edited. These are universally familiar images, the great touchdown pass, the banks of lights, players banging into each other in testosterone-fueled euphoric celebration. Then you stop to remember. This is a documentary about high school football, and even more importantly, precisely what high school football means in Massillon, Ohio. (Turns out it determines the future of the school system!) <
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>Go Tigers! is the brainchild of Ken Carlson, he wrote, directed, and produced - and, as luck would have it, he's from Massillon. This makes his achievement even more remarkable because the one attribute that dominates this movie is how even-handed and fair it is. <
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>Movies in this genre fall into two groups, either they are love-struck anthems honoring the virtues of sportsmanship and its inspiring way of embodying all that is noble about life - or - they are supercilious indictments of the anti-intellectual hod-carriers and Neanderthals that brutalize each other instead of pursuing worthwhile activities - translating Proust into Sanskrit for example. <
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>Massillon, Ohio is football crazy by any standard, but Carlson never takes cheap shots, he doesn't laugh at his subject, nor does he idealize it, he simply presents it. This is the very hard work of a documentary, and Carlson succeeds. <
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>Where Friday Night Lights gave us a grotesque portrait of the psychological, and physical, damage done by football mania in Texas, Go Tigers! calmly introduces us to a funeral director presenting the "Obie Special," a deluxe coffin souped up to warm the cold dead heart of even the most rabid Tigers fan. The film counts on you to do the math for yourself.

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hometown
I grew up in massillon ohio. it was where i was born and raised. while i may not like football, and i may not have succumbed to the hysteria surrounding the massillon/mckinley games, i loved being there. and i would just like to say in defense of my hometown, this movie was hyped beyond belief. everything in it is rather exagerated. yes, some of those people are lunatics about thier football, to the point of insanity, but its not really how its portrayed. i gave it three stars because i wasn't actually sure what to do! i was proud of the recognition, but slightly upset that so many people, people who have never been to massillon, never even heard of it, have nothing but horrible things to say about it because of this movie. yes, teenagers get drunk. they get tattoos and piercings. that's happened since the beginning of time. kids are kids. these ones were just caught on tape!

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In depth look
I'm no fan of football, but I like Go Tigers! It's a look at football in small town America. It's both nice and scary to see how the town reacts to the local high school football. <
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>Go Tigers is a well made look at fanaticism at its best.