No sex. Despite an astoundingly good looking Selma Hayek as a school nurse, the movie culminates with a mere kiss separated by the "cage" of the fight.
2) No homosexuality, not even slightly implied. This had to drive the Hollywood "community" nuts.
3) Kevin James's team starts every fight with . . . a prayer? In the name of Jesus???? Wow.
4) Music is held up, not as a force for radical social change, but as a means to uphold those things we traditionally cherish.
5) The sub plot of the immigrants seeking to become Americans weaves American civics throughout, and at the end, the immigrants all go nuts as they become AMERICAN citizens. Wonderful scene.
6) Kind of subtle, but despite the a-hole administrator, he stuck to his guns about the budget and allowed a free-market solution to appear. He didn't say, "we've got to go get a new levy," or "raise taxes."
I give it five stars. I also give "Flight" five stars.
I liked it a lot. Bas rutten was great too.