STEPH CURRY: UNDERRATED-Doc. Overly Repetitive & Self-Congratulatory

The recently released doc. on Steph Curry screening on Apple TV focuses on the young, underweight and under the radar basketball player whose grown into one of the undisputed, best players in the NBA.  Don't believe me, just ask Steph who will tell you just how amazing he is.  He's had a meteoric rise since playing college Division 1 basketball with a major dream of playing in the big league.  This doc. is meant as an inspirational and uplifting film about working hard to pursue your dreams and hone your craft despite what the riffraff have to say.   Basketball is a game but playing with the creme de la creme entails working one's tale off.  Curry is a pointed example of reaping what you sow.  Today, he goes toe to toe with the best basketball players in the world despite being a head shorter and a good 40 pounds lighter than most players.  Curry is a four-time NBA champion, two-time NBA MVP, an NBA Finals MVP, a nine-time All-Star and mega super star.  The doc. tends to enforce how far he's come from a scrawny build adolescent with a peach fuzz mustache to the breakout college athlete and NBA impresario.  Regrettably, the film doth trumpet one's horn too loud and too often to cull appropriate appreciation for Curry's prowess.  The entire family can all watch the film together and enjoy its warmth and its heralded star until it hits you over the head one too many times.  Curry's mom get's a lot of praise and adulation from her son only the viewer doesn't receive enough playing time with Steph's adorable kids and talented wife, Ayesha.  Some of the best scenes in the film are shot at home while dad's doing his due diligence on school work alongside his kids doing their homework.  Curry's return to get his college degree after leaving school before graduating in order to play in the NBA is laudable.  So too, are the relationships Curry had with his teammates (many of whom he's still close with).  There's also plenty to be said for the encouraging, coaching style of Davidson's Bruce Fraser.  Fraser's reassuring touch tends to make Ted Lasso's look harsh.  (I have to wonder why Fraser hasn't gone on to coach in the NBA).   I felt more suspense and fun watching Curry's college team earn a bracket and advance it in the NCAA tournament made than viewing footage of Curry's professional games where they're a well known fait accompli.  UNDERRATED is created with a positive missive in mind, but to call this doc. great is way too kind and overrated.