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Summer Catch

Summer Catch

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Too Much Sexual Content for a PG-13 Comedy!
Review: I watch a lot of movies, and I have seen only one or two PG-13 comedies with as much sexual content as this. I managed to "bite the bullet" and stick it out to the end, but I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.

Hey, I'm extremely easy to please when it comes to comedy, but it really disappoints me to see SO much sex in a movie that's supposed to be funny. Bottom line: AVOID THIS MOVIE!

Rent or go see something that's truly funny like "Pure Luck" or "Johnny English" or... I could go on forever-but I'd run out of room.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: See This Movie
Review: I am a teenage boy who thinks that Jessica Biel is hot. Also see this movie to see Freddie Prinze Jr. and Matthew Lillard shirtless and in thongs. They are so hot. Matthew is packin' something really big...

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It did redeem itself
Review: Well, I sat down with nothing else to watch and started watching Summer Catch. After the first 10 minutes, I almost changed the cahnnel. The first 10 mninutes were definitely the worst of the movie. Watching a young baseball player camp out in a sleeping bag with a girl so he would not miss the early (8:00) morning practice. Have you ever tried to sleep in broad daylight? You had to see it coming that he would be late, and that he would have her underwear. That being said, after that, it turned out to be a nice movie.

The supporting actors did a good job, and it was a nice fun movie, it did not get too vulgar, and was fun to watch.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Another Teen Movie
Review: Well, if you enjoyed She's All That then your gonna enjoy this. It's a typical teenage movie that combines baseball with love. It did impress me when Freddie Prinze Jr. wore something he shouldn't have! That was pretty brave. All in all it was a simple movie about a man choosing between to things he loves. I'd say rent it if you got a girls night in coming up! And guys, simply don't because usually guys aren't into teenage lovey dovey movies.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A baseball comedy and drama don't mix.
Review: Summer Catch is a pretty good movie but when the writer's through in drama it just totally ruins the movie.
This movie is about a teen (Freddy Prince Jr.) that's in college and is trying to make it to the pros but when he get's a girlfriend (Jessica Biel) things start going wronglike he starts choking when scouts are at the game and he just start's playing bad. The love comes in when he starts fighting with his girlfriend and the drama comes in when Freddy must face vhis fears like pitching against a team he can't win against.If you are going to see this movie because it is a baseball movie, don't be suprised if you are dissapointed with it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Prinze and Lillard, together?!?
Review: Most people watch this fine film for the two leads, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jessica Biel. That's fine--it's not like you'll be disappointed.

However, the REAL reason this movie deserves to be a classic is that it's another entry in the filmography of Mr. Bruce Davison.

Probably most recognizable for his portrayal of Senator Robert Kelley in "X-Men," I've been a fan of this awesome supporting actor since "Spies Like Us." He plays a terrific everyman, with all the strengths and flaws of any regular guy. Usually, he plays a jerk.

In this instance, he plays a snooty father who's unhappy that Freddie Prinze Jr. is hooking up with his hottie-pants daughter. Anyone else would play this character as a blustering buffoon, but Mr. Davison chooses a different path: a sniffy, calculating weenie.

Any movie with Bruce Davison's talents gets a "home run" in my scorecard.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: summer love!
Review: This is a cute one! Here you have Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr), a guy who enjoys playing baseball and is looking to play for the big leagues. Tenley Parrish (Jessica Biel) is rich and has a humongous house and a lawn, that Ryan cuts everyday. One day, both of them met by chance at a bar. Tenley and another girl were introduced to Ryan by their friend (Matthew Lillard)....

If Ryan and Tenley didn't end up together at the end of the movie, and Tenley ended up going to San Francisco, I would have been so disappointed. That would have ruined in for me.

This DVD includes: 10 deleted scenes and filmography on the cast. There is also a feature you can turn on where you can hear commentary by Biel and this other dude throughout the movie.

Freddie Prinze Jr and Jessica Biel make a pretty good couple, but I think him and Sarah Michelle Gellar make a better one.

Highly recommended!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Nobody saw this
Review: ...In the theatres, that is. But I'm not sure if anyone even knew this movie existed because the commercials just featured quick clips with barely any real dialogue. When the movie went to cable, there were most likely two types of people who watched it: teenage girls, because the movie featured heart-throbs (they're all there: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Christian Kane, Matthew Lillard); and ANY-age guys, because the commercial showed Jessica Biel in a bikini (by the way, that scene's not even in the movie).

Basically the movie is about a rich girl named Tenley Parrish (Biel) who ends up falling in love with a "poor" boy named Ryan Dunne (Prinze), who has ambitions to become a professional baseball pitcher. His life seems to be jaded due to his dull older brother Mike (Jason Gedrick), his father (Fred Ward), who seems to be pleased with failure, and the memories of his dead mother, who apparently was the only other person in the family that was normal. Tenley is afraid to tell her father about going after a boy who isn't rich, and that makes Ryan feel rather insecure and cheated.

The storyline isn't all that bad, but there were some things that needed heavy-duty work. Several of the characters seemed just plain useless. Ryan's sometimes-crazy best friend Billy Brubaker (Matthew Lillard) is featured in several scenes that don't seem to have a point, and it feels like the scenes are there only because Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Matthew Lillard are real-life best friends, and there are few movies they don't do together nowadays. Also, the scenes with Mickey Dominguez (Wilmer Valderrama) seem like they're there just to get him in the movie. His scenes basically revolve around him being a virgin and getting close to actually losing his virginity but chickening out (doesn't that remind you of another, more POPULAR character Valderrama plays?), and it is a very big diversion from the focus of the movie, if you can even tell what that is any more. If you actually see a scene with Prinze or Biel in it, it'll be about ten to fifteen minutes before you see another one.

Another problem is something that Freddie Prinze, Jr. does in many of his movies. Just when you start to wonder why the movie is rated PG-13, Prinze starts yelling the F word. The problem with that is that he doesn't make it sound believable. Instead, it sounds more like a sixth-grader who says it just to get attention.

This movie would have been better if the plot was more focused. Also, someone should tell the director (and the writer) that the supporting cast should be there because they're actually supporting the main cast and not just because they want paychecks.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: horrible
Review: this movie was disgusting! i hated it. the way they treat people who are overweight is shallow, and cruel. when the "hot guys" in the movie sit around and make fun of an overweight girl, thinking it is hillarious, are we really supposed to laugh? i watched this movie with a friend of mine, who is, overweight, and there was no mistaking the pain in her eyes when her favorite actor, Matthew Lillard made cruel and heartless fat jokes. it is not funny at all. i know the people in the movie are all actors, but why they would agree to do a movie
in which overweight women are sought out, targeted, made fun of and ridiculed is beyond me. this movie is a disgrace. and it wasn't even good even if you could look beyond the prejudice of it. the plot was old, reused, recycled and tired, and unfortunatley the characters in the movie are horrendous.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Summer Flop
Review: I would rather catch a cold than watch Summer Catch a second time. Another movie about a guy who wants a girl who is out of his league....can you guess what happens at the end. Movie makers should be embarrassed by the lack of quality their products have these days. When we pay to see a movie, we are wanting something new that we haven't seen before. This movie just falls to the bottom of a list that includes a 1000 other movies just like it. Same story, just different characters. I highly do NOT recommend this to anyone who is not in love with Freddie Jr.


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