Then Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda has a cameo, as do Blake Clark and longtime Dangerfield friend Chuck McCann.

To impress his boss, he claims to have been a good soccer player in his youth and is badgered into coaching a girls' team called the Ladybugs.

Matthew has a crush on Kimberly from school, which partly inspires Chester to persuade him to dress like a girl and play for the team as "Martha".

With only Chester, Matthew and Julie knowing Martha's secret identity, the team rallies through the season to reach the championship game.

[6] Paramount struggled with how to market the film and considered changing the title, as it clashed with Dangerfield's image as a profane comic.

[1] The film grossed almost US$15 million in the US and Canada, while Warner Bros. and Morgan Creek International obtained the foreign distribution rights.

[9] Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film flip-flops on its themes and "has the stale, slick, worked-over look of standard studio product".