Scouted at 15 by a Paris agent, Maxime Belloc leaves his native village to become a great football star. A meteoric rise that drives him to deny his humble origins so he can enter the big leagues, and he soon becomes a self-centered, cynical celebrity hated by all. When yet another incident causes a public scandal that forces him to be hospitalized for a few months for rehabilitation, his agent devises the ideal PR stunt: Maxime shall return to his hometown to train the local team. A great way to bring Maxime back down to earth and reconnect with his father, Jacques…

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La Dream Team is an awful amalgamation of clichés, platitudes and mush. The first solo venture by Thomas Sorriaux, who previously co-directed La Beuze and Les 11 Commandements with François Desagnat, this politically correct soccer adventure is a painful example of what that French comedy industry regularly inflicts on the public. Both a low-end parody (the Parisian vs. the provincials) and a feel-good TV movie (homecoming, rediscovery of important values, cheap love story) La Dream Team is just dumb. The only positive note is offered by Medi Sadoun, who had a supporting role in Josephine s’arrondit and Serial (Bad) Weddings; he desperately needs someone to give him a good part in a real movie.