A League of Their Own Reviews

Though amusing enough to avoid absolutely drowning in schmaltz, it's sad to see a film with potential lose its way in the late innings.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Marshall's methods overwhelm the material, and what emerges is a movie utterly without personality. A unique chapter in American history becomes a movie as ordinary as they come.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

What does it say about today's Hollywood when the most interesting character in a movie about a women's baseball team turns out to be a man?

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It's a cinematic home run, certain to please filmgoers who don't know a catcher's mitt from an oven mitt.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Few of the other performers make an impression. A director who can lose Madonna in a crowd can't be said to appreciate charisma.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This movie aims for the tear ducts and the funny bone as ruthlessly as the big action-fantasy hits go after the viscera.

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Part history, part comedy, and part soap opera, A League of Their Own casts a pretty wide net. For the most part, it's a net that's good fun to get caught in.

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Marshall's finest hour as a filmmaker, capturing audience-pleasing moments with assurance, while also paying careful attention to the vulnerabilities of the characters.

Full Review | Original Score: A

The agenda here is clearly along the lines of good-natured vignettes, smart one-liners and a healthy dose of heartstring tugging.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Terrific tweens-and-up story of women's baseball.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It serves up good-natured entertainment, if you're in the mood, but be prepared to swallow a generous helping of sickly-sweet sentimentality along with the laughs.

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Hits about .250 with a few RBI, but more than its share of strikeouts.

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Energetic, full of goodwill and good feelings, it never quite attains the graceful nonchalance and self-confidence with which finely tuned athletes -- and comedies -- move and enchant us.

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As uneven as an amateur baseball game.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Deftly structured by director Penny Marshall and writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel to resemble a 40s musical (albeit, somewhat anachronistically, one in 'Scope); the rest is mainly streamlined and spirited teamwork.

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The idea of Penny Marshall's sentimental comedy--an all-American Girls Professional Baseball League in WWII--is so good that you wonder why no one has thought about it before; in the lead, Geena Davis is charming, and so is Tom Hanks.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

the film combines humor, historical trivia, and the thrill of baseball to create a fully entertaining, fictional tale

| Original Score: 4/5

Scriptwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel neglect the ensemble, emphasising a sense of historical occasion over character development.

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Enjoyable enough as a baseball comedy, even though Marshall overplays the drama.

| Original Score: 3/5

An engagingly old fashioned and family-friendly comedy.

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