A good movie

Since this movie had a decent rep and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I have to admit that most of it worked really well. In my case, we didn't have baseball but we would play football/soccer for hours and this movie perfectly captured the awesome feeling to be part of such a group of kids and the joy of playing such a game with all your energy and passion. Some of the other episodes outside the field like when they went to the swimming pool for example were also pretty much pitch-perfect. Still, there were a couple of things that bothered me though. The first thing was Scotty Smalls's incapacity to throw a freaking baseball. Seriously, that was just so lame. Instead, they could have displayed him as being average or even weak but to show a 12 year kid not being able to throw a ball was borderline idiotic. To make things worse, how come he had never heard of Babe Ruth, especially since he really loves to play baseball?!? I mean, it would be like a kid who loves to play basketball but had never heard of Michael Jordan and it seemed rather unlikely. Finally, I think the makers spent too much on the dog AKA 'The Beast'. Sure, as kids, we were all terrified by some neighbourhood evil dog at some point but I wish they didn't spend so much running time on this topic. Anyway, to conclude, even it wasn't flawless, I still enjoyed the damned thing, it is in fact probably one of the best movies I have seen in this genre so it is definitely worth a look.

7/10