- Sensibility: A few moments tend a bit towards farce, but even these moments have value in them that it's worth a bit of unreasonable behavior.
- Cinematography: Highlight of the film is lighting and color-grading. The lighting changes and natural scenery give the film a realism that makes the day-long story really
resonate. Production design and costuming are solid. A few moments where I think editing could have made the film a bit snappier, but the excellent visuals make up for this.
- Energy: The film is slow, intentionally, for parts of the film, quite like how baseball is. However, it's quick run-time and great characters keep things moving.
- Narrative: A fun, goofy story with a ton of personality. Strong characters, great dialogue, and a simple theme make for great appeal. The film is extremely quote-able, and I am a sucker for
using a good movie quote in conversation. The film captures great themes on change in people, places, and time that I think works with all ages, but particularly the adult crowd.
- T-Points: The film received four bonus points: one for a bit about hating this business and the sun not shining on the same dog every day, one for a catcher exclaiming that the pitcher will just ignore his signs, one for "facist" strikeouts and a walk-on pitcher character,
and one for sun glasses in the dark.
Fun, energetic, funny, and thematically strong. What's not to like? Really might be my favorite baseball movie of all time, and there is a lot of strong competition.
Number of Watches: 1
