I am a sucker for these kinds of films. It is the underdog student/team with the reluctant/enthusiastic teacher/coach battling adversity for the win. It is Stand and Deliver, Dangerous Minds, McFarland, etc. In this iteration, George Lopez plays an engineer down on his luck after a personal tragedy and settles for a long term sub job as a physics teacher/robotics team coach at a Phoenix area low income school. The club is non-existent, but gets started and joined by 4 undocumented students looking for focus. They build an underwater rover on a shoestring budget, travel to UCSB for the competition, excel and find resolution to many of their personal traumas. In reality, this is not a great film, and the telling of the story is predictable and the characters are pretty 1 dimensional. However, I am a sucker for these films. I like the underdog student/team with the reluctant/enthusiastic teacher/coach battling adversity for the win.
3 stars (out of 5)
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