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Summary: OK so it wasn't the cream of the crop, but still...
Review: The movie was pretty tacky. We had more fun making up new names for the movie after my mom called it "Baseball Dreams" on accident then watching the movie itself, but hey, It's Freddie Prinze Jr. The sexual referances were very stupid, and the love theme was too classic (guy who mows the lawn and the rich girl), but it's worth watching just to see Freddie Prinze Jr. running through the sprinklers of a golf course in a thong.
Rating:
Summary: Good but not all there
Review: when i had first seen a preview for this movie i thought it had looked dumb...... but i wanted to see it for who else Jessi Biel..... i did not see it in the movies but i had rented the dvd when it came out. i gave it three stars beause it was missing some stuff that would have made it great, also because the whole part with freddie in a thong that lost a whole star there..... they did not need to have that in there it would have been A LOT btter if Jessi was the one in the thong also i think that the team they put freddie on? come on now i live in philly but why the hell would he even choose to go with the phillies? come on now last time they were in the playoffs was when they went to the world series and lost to the toronto blue jays. now the ending i can say is good (when the credits start to roll) i think that is good they do not make him strike out the best in baseball Ken Griffey Jr. and also it didnt look like much was really between Jessi and Freddie they didnt have much chemistry together in this movie so it did make it look crappy but i would watch this movie any time an i tink it is a good movie to watch..... and some other reviewer said that when the kid jumed over the fence to get the ball and it was called ou but it should not have been that is false because if you have controle of the ball before you go over the fence it is an out and he got it before it went over and he had controle of the ball so it is believable but with the in the park homerun i believe that he was tagged before he hit home plate because he did not hit home plate until after he was tagged with the ball but it is only a movie so oh well
Rating: 
Summary: Pretty Cheesy .....
Review: A decent cast in the supporting roles, which is necessary to overcome the lousy script and general nausea from a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie. Mathew Lillard's performance earned this movie half of the whole 1 star I gave it. Nevermind the idea that a 6'6" 160-pound catcher is ridiculous, I still think he's funny. The other half was simply because this is a baseball movie set in the New England area. Overall this is the typical Freddie Prinze Jr movie. What I like to call a "teenie-bopper" movie aimed at young adults with an attention span of about 15 seconds.
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Summary: Oh My God!
Review: I honestly cant think of a worse movie ever.
Rating:
Summary: A decent movie... if you've got nothing else to do
Review: A pinch of baseball. Three heaping tablespoons of a predictable teenage love story. One half teaspoon of For Love of the Game. Two teen heartthrobs. Shake well. Serve.
So goes the recipe for Summer Catch, Hollywood's latest love story disguised as a baseball movie, starring Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jessica Biel, Jason Gedrick, and Matthew Lillard. Drawing straight from the scripts of past baseball flicks, the love interest of a certain baseball player takes the foreground, while his ultimate success as a player coincides with his eventual realization of true love.
Summer Catch, directed by Michael Tollin, spans a summer in the Cape Cod League, an amateur league for top college baseball players, and follows the on and off-field tribulations of left-handed pitcher Ryan Dunne (Prinze), a local boy with a troubled past. When Dunne meets Tenley Parrish (Biel), a rich girl in town for the summer, a relationship slowly takes shape. But as problems with his temper and focus give him problems between the lines, his social status gives him trouble off the field, and the question becomes whether or not Dunne will be able to salvage either part of his life.
While Summer Catch was an entertaining way to spend a couple hours, it has its share of problems. As is common to nearly all baseball movies, hitters were swinging wildly at mediocre fastballs and hanging breaking balls, and diving catches in the field were commonplace. Casting was questionable at times as well; Billy Brubake (Lillard) is far too tall and skinny to make a believable catcher, and Prinze struggles in the role of "boy with troubled past." His flashes of temper were always short lived, and came across as more spoiled whining than bitter anger. Such scenes usually seemed to come out of nowhere, as he spent most of the movie playing his typical wide-eyed mama's boy character. John C. McGinley turns in a strong performance as a clean-cut scout for the Phillies, however, and is joined in one scene by former major league slugger Hank Aaron, who plays himself in a brief cameo. Lillard provides easy-going comic relief in his role as well, helping to give the team a realistic feel.
Prinze and Biel also lack a basic chemistry, making many of their scenes together seem forced and unnatural. The relationship is made even harder to swallow as Tenley Parrish originally comes across as relentlessly interested in Dunne, despite their first meeting consisting of Dunne being publicly humiliated. Subsequent dates depict Dunne as largely indifferent toward Parrish, until, on one rainy night, they abruptly fall in love.
Summer Catch does do a few things right. The players' mechanics are generally sound, and the film manages to capture at least a hint of the basic camaraderie, vulgarity, and sexual depravity of a typical baseball locker room. And the opening scene, in which Dunne arrives late to the team's first meeting wearing only a woman's thong, makes for an amusing start.
And amusing is truly what Summer Catch is, and even what it is going for. It is not going to win any awards, but that is clearly not the intention of this easy-going flick. It should not even go down as one of the better baseball movies of our time, but nobody really expected it to be on a level with Field of Dreams or Bull Durham. But if you are a baseball fan or a romantic with low expectations, a thick slice of Summer Catch will make for a pleasant dessert on a slow evening.
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Summary: Good Movie! Jessica Biel is SO HOT!!! See Her (and movie)
Review: Well, it goes without saying this is NOT an intellectual film. Still, I enjoyed it. What I easily enjoyed the most about it was watching the Gorgeous Jessica! What a Babe! P-L-E-A-S-E, don't tell me I wasn't the only one to rewind the scene when she comes out of her swimming pool in a bikini! Okay, for the non-straight male viewers: it is a lightweight, "feelgood" movie with good character actors (Fred Ward was my favorite). The story is interesting enough to keep you entertained with funny moments thrown in. It is mostly a comedy but not on the ridiculously simplistic level of such movies as MAJOR LEAGUE. This certainly has more charm than other "sports films." I watched TAXI DRIVER before seeing this film, and I needed something to enlighten me. This did the trick!
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Summary: Terrible!
Review: This is possibly the leading candidate for worst movie of this decade. For a real minor league baseball movie buy Bull Durham!
Rating:
Summary: Awful!
Review: Where do I start. Let me first try to figure out what this movie was even about. I hated this movie. The acting was horrible, the story was predictible and it was not funny at all. I was looking more forward to it returning it to the movie store then to find out how things would work out in the end. Who told Jessica Biel (or whatever her name is) that she could act? Maybe I'm wrong about her. This is the first movie I've seen her in. But I'm not so sure I would give her a second chance. Most of the actors were annoying and not funny at all. Not even the one-liners!Baseball fans don't count on this to be a good movie. It's not. Don't waste your time.So don't count on this to be a humorous movie.I will not see this movie again. I'd rather watch "Roots" straight through then this horrible movie again.
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Summary: Not The Best...
Review: It's not the best "teen movie" I've seen. It's not that bad either. I guess it was just totally predictable. The part where it showed Freddie Prinze's butt wasn't even that cute. I don't know, I liked the commercials when I saw it on TV, but I have the DVD (given by a friend) and it wasn't all that great. There are a lot of beautiful people in it...but the story was just too typical. I think you should just save your money and just rent this movie.
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Summary: Worn plot, tepid romance
Review: "Summer Catch" gets points for trying hard, but it is saddled with so many liabilities that it crashes and burns without getting much altitude. The script is a mish mash of tired themes. Small town boy makes good meets boy from the wrong side of the tracks meets baseball underdog gets big break. The film tries to bill itself as another "Bull Durham" but it has none of the subtlety, comedy or insider perspective of that film. Mostly this is just another lightweight Freddie Prinze, Jr. romantic comedy where Jessica Biel is the catch of the day. Prinze plays his standard romantic hero role and tries to throw in some baseball. He is fair at both but keeps getting outshined by his supporting cast. I've never really understood the big sensation over Jessica Biel. She shows in this film that her acting is far inferior to her looks. Biel and Prinze interact like marble statues, nice to look at but no chemistry whatever. The best performances were given by supporting cast members. Fred Ward does a terrific job as Ryan's dad. Brian Dennehy is always fabulous in supporting roles and does not disappoint as the coach of the A's. Brittany Murphy does a fantastic wild thing, with a provocative earthiness that is simultaneously seductive and cute. There is not much substance here. The baseball scenes are weak and the romance is tepid. The film has some endearing moments but fails to distinguish itself except that it gets goofy far too often. I rated it a 5/10. Fans of Prinze and Biel will enjoy seeing them look sexy for an hour and three quarters. Others might want to miss it.
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