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Sweet and sincere, the film is also a remarkably shallow wade, rife with incident and slim on substance.
Nothing about his modest coming-of-age comedy demands anything like this awestruck approach.
Predictable as the movie is, the Field of Dreams quality is not the only thing to like about The Sandlot.
This is a movie... that allows its kids to be kids, that shows them in the insular world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult domains and values.
The Sandlot isn't well made but it's alive with dopey, summertime spirit.
Older kids and overgrown ones too probably will notice that nothing much ever happens in this belabored suburban variation on The Little Rascals.
This is a movie for anyone who has ever loved baseball and for anyone who enjoys the American Graffiti/Stand by Me style of narrative. Highly recommended.
The comedy is broad, cartoonish, and quite funny in a faux Little Rascals manner. The movie is almost completely derivative, but that's part of the fun.
For every Field of Dreams there are a dozen lesser, completely incomprehensible baseball movies. This is one of them.
Good, with flashes of very good, overlaid with a particularly thick wash of nostalgia that stubbornly refuses to go obnoxiously cloying. It's a nice film, that's what it is.
Field of Dreams for tweens.
The Sandlot is a kids flick that will always stand the test of the time and be a movie that you can watch over and over as you grow older. It never loses its touch.
Ever since Stand by Me, it seems that every Boy's Own yarn is deemed incomplete without a nostalgic, pseudo-ironic voice-over waxing lyrical about the mythology of short pants and acne.
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