...manages to overcome the entirely underwhelming nature of its first act.
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10/03/08
The Final Season (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 48
Fresh: 12
Rotten:36
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Consensus: The Final Season recycles clichés we've seen in countless other sports movies, making for an unoriginal and uninspiring addition to the genre.
Theatrical Release:Oct 12, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $988,964
Synopsis: Directed by David Mickey Evans (THE SANDLOT) THE FINAL SEASON is based on the true the story of a small town baseball team facing insurmountable odds. Tradition in Norway, Iowa (pop. 586) can be... [More]
Starring: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Michael Angarano
Director: David Mickey Evans
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04/03/08
Most of the townspeople are archetypes. In fact, you get the feeling the town is populated by character actors and not real people.
10/20/07
An exciting family picture, worthy of viewing, if only for the warm-fuzzy feeling.
10/20/07
Top Critic...strictly pro forma.
10/19/07
It never hits a home run. But "Final Season," an adequate movie about an above-average baseball team, isn't a loser, either.
10/17/07
Other than what happens on the playing field in 'The Final Season,' there's not much else going on.
10/16/07
Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob.
10/15/07
The tagline should be changed from How Do You Want To Be Remembered, to How Do You Want To Be Forgotten? You will find yourself forgetting too!
10/14/07
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10/13/07
Stereotypes are meant to exalt small-town values, but The Final Season is proof that it's hard to paint masterpiece in broad strokes.
10/12/07
It moves along at a brisk pace, the ball games are skillfully done and its point about the need for local decisions -- like the closing a school -- to be made at the local level is a point well made.
10/12/07
Ever notice that sports movies that mean to inspire us with the message that winning isn't everything almost always end up with a victory?
10/12/07
Perhaps if Disney had gotten their hands on it, The Final Season would have gotten the spitball polish it needs.
10/12/07
Why is it enjoyable to watch sporting events depicted when we know how the games will end -- how they have to end? Where does the tension come from? Why do we care when we know already?
10/12/07
Top CriticSo relentlessly earnest and maudlin it makes Hoosiers look like a Martin Scorsese film, The Final Season is the latest and worst sports-themed underdog story to get the big screen treatment.
10/12/07
For once, here's a sports movie that doesn't feature players who are expected to lose.
10/12/07
Top CriticBelying the claim there's no longer any truth in advertising, The Final Season is exactly the formulaic, by-the-numbers movie it appears to be. These Tigers deserved better.
10/12/07
Remarkably, the movie rights itself once the actual season begins, focusing on game strategy more than the usual heart-stopping pep talks.
10/12/07
Top CriticThe US corn surplus is in no way eased by The Final Season, an Iowa high school baseball saga that goes heavy on the inspiration, sports-movie cliches, and high-fructose syrup.
10/12/07
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