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Summer Catch (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 83
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 77

Cliched and predictable, Summer Catch is a reminder of better films.

7

Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 25

Cliched and predictable, Summer Catch is a reminder of better films.

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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 48,890

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Movie Info

This blend of sports and youthful romantic comedy is from director Michael Tollin, who previously produced the sports drama Varsity Blues (1999). Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as Ryan Dunne, a ballplayer who's spending the summer as a pitcher for the famed, highly prestigious Cape Cod League, a non-professional farm team that has turned out numerous baseball legends. Ryan's under special pressure on a number of fronts. He's the first local boy to earn a slot in the league in years, and his

PG-13, 1 hr. 48 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Kevin Falls, John Gatins

Dec 4, 2001

$19.0M

Warner Bros. Pictures

Cast

All Critics (83) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (78) | DVD (11)

When it comes to funny business, Tollin's got game, and he makes the most of some talented supporting players on his bench.

April 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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[An] awful light drama.

March 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Don't catch it. Drop it.

June 19, 2002 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Comment
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Because I'm a baseball fan, I tend to be an easy mark for baseball-themed movies, but something as badly focused and feebly scripted as Summer Catch just makes me wish for the Fall.

August 30, 2001 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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Depending wholly upon the blinkered empathy of daydreamy teen viewers, a typical FPJ movie skims over character, plot, and dialogue.

August 28, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Stars Freddie Prinze Jr. (strike one), features more male virgins trying to lose it (strike two) and disses the legendary baseball league in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, by filming this mess in North Carolina (strike three).

August 27, 2001 Comment
Rolling Stone
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The film steps up a notch when the action is on the field. However, many directors before him have portrayed the beloved sport better.

November 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Hollywood.com

A baseball movie with no baseball, no movie, and absolutely no love involved.

January 11, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment (1)
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If this is what the boys of summer are offering, I say bring on football season -- now!

March 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Blunt Review | Comment
Blunt Review

Not that this is a particularly dispicable film, it just doesn't try to do anything new and delivers mostly wooden performances.

February 25, 2004 Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | Comment
Zap2it.com

Perhaps Freddie is simply a pawn in some sinister plan to destroy his career...

August 17, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Call this one foul.

May 14, 2003 Comment
Palo Alto Weekly

Yawn.

August 17, 2002 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

Freddie Prinze Jr. has become the opposite of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. His face on a movie poster guarantees a bad time.

June 20, 2002 Full Review | Comment
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

Whitman is right: Baseball is our poetic register, and so I've become whimsical for the days of tee-ball and George Brett and when baseball movies were beautiful.

June 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Snobs | Comment
Film Snobs

Primarily to blame for this mess is the leaden script by Kevin Falls and John Gatins, which absorbs a bushel of baseball clichs while demonstrating a singular inability to present love, sex or even bawdy jokes.

April 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Check it out if you're drunk and looking for a shoulder-shrugging time-waster...

February 6, 2002 Comment
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Notable only for the spectacle of watching both Prinze and Biel getting out-performed in the same motion picture by Matthew Lillard.

January 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

In the interest of maintaining the status quo running time of 80-some minutes, we are subjected to a painfully ugly series of subplots and side characters.

December 12, 2001 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Inoffensive, but utterly generic, the baseball-related romantic comedy does little more than kill time.

September 5, 2001 Full Review Source: NUVO Newsweekly | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Summer Catch

Cute film but not much really to it.

May 11, 2008
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

Freddy and Matthew Lillard two of the worst actors since the millennium. Brittany Murphy awful, Jessica Biel good lawd shawty, but movie is pretty bad. Terrible Boston accents only make this movie worse.

May 11, 2010
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Lenny Muggsy

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