Sentences with phrase «ragtag team»

Well I am happy to now know that Thor is now leading some kind of ragtag team of heroes (yes, that is including Loki) to save Asgard.

Filling out Wardaddy's predictably ragtag team of soldiers are Boyd Swan (Shia LaBeouf, «Transformers»), Grady Travis (Jon Bernthal, «The Wolf Of Wall Street»), and Trini Garcia (Michael Pena, «End Of Watch»).

Still, «The Last Jedi» honors the franchise's chief values of idealism, loyalty and self - sacrifice that made the original «Star Wars» so beloved, with a similarly appealing ragtag team of hotheads and cockeyed optimists to root for as they try to save their galaxy from totalitarian domination.

Luckily, Scandinavian - sounding Maisie Williams defects (the bronze age team is male - only) and puts Dug's ragtag team through a few training montages, and it's game on: David v Goliath, or perhaps Accrington Stanley v Real Madrid.

Despite basing itself in a fairly straightforward reality, the film focuses primarily on the island's ragtag team of dogs who, more than anything, want to flee the island and reclaim their basic freedoms - but not before helping Atari on his canine rescue mission.

The film, which concerns a ragtag team's attempt to restore the spinning of the earth's core, could easily be relabeled «generic disaster movie.»

The Mighty Ducks does not hold up as a «good» movie, but if you are looking for the ultimate piece of early «90s sports nostalgia, there is no one better to deliver it than Emilio Estevez and his ragtag team of hockey cast - offs.

In search of a ship, Han is introduced to the Falcon's original owner Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), and before anyone can say 12 parsecs, this ragtag team are heading off to plunder.

Tim Story directs this sports drama based on real events, with Forest Whitaker starring as Al Collins, a high - school basketball coach who leads a ragtag team to the state finals just a year after the Katrina disaster in this Weinstein Co. production.

Not only does it give us an idea of the movie's story, scope, humor and impressive set pieces, it also confirmed that Wade's ragtag team, which we saw in the previous trailer, is X-Force.

Assembling a ragtag team of friends, the group of teenagers goes off on a quest for proof with the help of a birding expert (Academy Award winner Sir Ben Kingsley).

Battle Chasers: Nightwar introduces a new character to the ragtag team, the mysterious Alumon.

Thornton plays Billy McBride, who, after reluctantly agreeing to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit, uncovers a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting his ragtag team in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.

Joined by old friends, old enemies, and some new friends, it's now up to our ragtag team of survivors to save the world.

In a lot of sports films, the students who form a ragtag team for this sport or that are often from well - off families and have the time and the energy to join the local team.

When a tender boy by accident triggers their go back to Earth, just a ragtag team of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science instructor can save you the tip of the human race.

Dug feels it is his destiny to put a ragtag team together and play, despite plans otherwise for his clan from the snooty Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston), who wants to take over the land and have the current inhabitants become miners on his behalf.

There's a ragtag team of survivors including Kitty Pride (Ellen Page), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) and a number of familiar mutants who've devised a plan to stay ahead of the Sentinels hunting them: Kitty can send someone's consciousness back in time, so the team can be alerted when the Sentinels will find them before it happens.

Takashi Shimura gives a masterful performance as Kambei, the elder leader of a ragtag team of ronins, banded together to stave bandits off from a village of peasants and his final moments in the film are as effective and affecting as any Oscar - nominated performance this year.

Also in the mix are the bounty hunter who abducted and trained Quill (Michael Rooker); the police official who's on the hunt for this ragtag team (an underused John C. Reilly); and the military leader Nova Prime (an elegant Glenn Close).

With only a taser, flashlight, modified golf cart, and a ragtag team of helpers, Ronnie is vastly ill - equipped to serve the outsize ambitions of his ego.

And, of course, it's great to see an action movie with a female lead, and Felicity Jones plays a female character that we don't see often: a jaded, emotionally withdrawn soul who must be convinced to fight, and eventually, to lead her ragtag team to a bittersweet victory.

Billy and his ragtag team are believably flawed humans, but their rivals at Cooperman & McBride are painted with much broader brushes.

It's an origin story that lazily follows the most basic beats of a «ragtag team of scientists in space encounter disaster» movie.

As part of the film's triumphant celebration of giving a voice to outsiders, he joins forces with a ragtag team to help free the mysterious creature that his neighbor (Sally Hawkins) has unexpectedly fallen in love with.

They're the Mystery Men... a ragtag team of superhero wannabes featuring: Mr. Furious, whose power comes from his boundless rage; The Shoveler, a father who shovels «better than anyone»; The Blue Raja, a fork - flinging mama's boy; The Bowler, who fights crime with the help of her father's skull; The Spleen, whose power is pure flatulence; Invisible Boy, who's only invisible when no one's watching and The Sphinx, a cliche - spewing philosopher.

So he assembles a ragtag team of fellow killers to find and eliminate him.

Deadpool 2 (R for sexual references, graphic violence, brief drug use and pervasive profanity) 11th installment in Marvel Comics» X-Men franchise finds the wisecracking title character (Ryan Reynolds) forming a ragtag team of superheroes to protect a young mutant (Julian Dennison) being hunted by a time - traveling, cybernetic soldier (Josh Brolin).

The film oscillates between introducing Gadot and Pine's ragtag team of personable sidekicks — Lucy Davis, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner, David Thewlis — and showing Gadot all the horrors people inflict on other people.

Luckily, we've got a ragtag team of ex-soldiers and Olivia Munn as a gun - wielding science teacher to save the day.

However, when the ragtag team meet the ruthless Waller and her military team led by Rick Flag (Kinnaman), they are unprepared for the deadly scenario she is sending them into.

Stephen Strange is thrown through time and placed on a ragtag team of mages in Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme # 1.

The undisputed leader of a ragtag team of lost souls, Frank is more of a philosophical guru than a rock headliner.

But after Newt's creatures escape, the British magizoologist must recruit a ragtag team of helpers to aid in their recapture: Tina (Katherine Waterston), her sister Queenie (Alison Sudol) and Jacob (Dan Fogler), a war veteran and muggle, or no - maj as they're known in the States.

Both prove less entertaining than the potential comedy that would have come from following around the ragtag team (think «Major League»), and both have been done several times before.

You play as a commander who leads a ragtag team of specialists to defend these cities from oncoming attacks.

The Marvel Comics version of the Guardians will be heading there once again after the inciting incident of «Secret Wars» robs the ragtag team of a galaxy to guard.

That's where super fan Hana and a ragtag team of convention attendees come in to save the day.

This ragtag team of developers has banded together to create a space exploration game where players can touch down on 18 quintillion (that's an 18 followed by 18 zeros) planets in search of... something.

The narrative FPS thrives on the immersive power fantasy of being lone champion (or, in the case of co-op heavy games like Borderlands, part of a ragtag team of lone champions) on a finite, epic quest.

Much of VC's journey follows Welkin and his ragtag team as they face numerous, dangerous missions and circumstances throughout the war.

As the protagonist (who you craft with some schmick customisation options) and member of the Research Commission's Fifth Fleet, you and a ragtag team of hunters journey to «the new world» to seek out the Elder Dragons and better understand their impact on the world.

With a ragtag team of mercenaries, including a falcon, frog and rabbit, Star Fox 64 has players play as Fox McCloud, who is offered a contract to defend the galaxy while traveling to multiple planets in a spaceship, submarine and tank.

The game's story focuses on the efforts of a ragtag team of characters in the Crash Bandicoot series, who must race against the egomaniacal Nitros Oxide to save their planet from destruction.

That's why we're celebrating World Backup Day today, the annual holiday created by a ragtag team of Redditors who want to remind everyone on March 31st not to be an April fool.

However, as much as we would like to believe the outcomes in Legally Blonde, Braveheart and Rocky, real - world battles are rarely won by the ragtag team of underdogs.