Iconic sport movies ranked by how likely Aussie teachers were to play them at school
Every Australian remembers the feeling of seeing storm clouds roll in on a school day and knowing sport was going to be cancelled and replaced with a movie screening in the hall or a dimly-lit classroom.
Keep reading for the most iconic sport movies we watched there, ranked by how likely our PE teachers were to put them on.
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story - not a chance
As much as the 'cool boys' begged, there was no way any PE teacher would put this 2004 Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller flick on during school hours.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is rated M for sexual references and crude language, which probably wouldn't fly at most Aussie schools.
Just imagine the letters from parents that would turn up the next day.
The raunchy sports comedy was written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and features one of Stiller's most iconic villain performances as White Goodman.
He owns Globo Gym, which sits opposite Average Joe's, the small gym Vaughn's character Peter LaFleur runs.
When Globo Gym buys it up and announces plans to demolish it, LaFleur and his friends band together to enter the Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in the hopes of winning $50,000 to save Average Joe's.
Bring It On - it's possible, not probable
Bring It On is one of the most iconic teen sport films of all time, but that didn't always translate to classrooms around Australia.
The mostly female cast meant it was usually reserved for all-girl audiences, and some teachers didn't love some of the more provicative dance moves.
Not that it stopped Aussie teens from devouring the movie at home after the bell rang.
The 2000 teen comedy stars Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union as cheer captains from opposing teams as they gear up for a national competition.
Now a cult classic, the flick earned US$90 million (approx. $135 million AUD) worldwide when it released and sparked a series of sequels and spin-off films.
Blue Crush - maybe at a girls' school
Teenage girls were obsessed with Blue Crush when Kate Bosworth first surfed across our screens in 2002, but it didn't often screen in Aussie classrooms.
While some schools probably had it on VHS and it spotlighted surfing - an undeniably Aussie sport - it was a rare pick, especially in co-ed schools.
Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake co-starred with Bosworth as a trio of friends living and surfing together on Hawaii's North Shore.
After suffering a scary wipeout, Bosworth's character struggles with anxiety in the water but wants to compete in a surfing contest that could change her life forever.
Oh, and of course there's a hunky love interest involved.
Bend It Like Beckham - definitely an option
We're calling it now; Bend It Like Beckham is the best soccer movie of all time and was definitely the kind of movie that felt right at home in Aussie classrooms in the 2000s.
Not only is it super entertaining, the film has solid themes around acceptance, diversity and doing your best even in tough situations (duh, this is a sport movie of course).
Released in 2002, Bend It Like Beckham starred a young Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who acted alongside Parminder Nagra as protagonist Jesminder "Jess" Bhamra.
The flick grossed a mammoth US$76.6 million (approx. $115 million AUD) at the box office, making it the highest-grossing football sports film of all time - a title it still holds.
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Space Jam - now we're getting somewhere
It's got Michael Jordan, it's got Bugs Bunny, what more could anyone want?
Space Jam was definitely a popular pick to whack in the VHS when school sport was rained out on a Friday, though some PE teachers probably didn't understand the appeal of a movie starring an NBA player and a bunch of cartoons.
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