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Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

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Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1

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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their 1949 baseball musical Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Set in 1906, the film concerns the adventures and misadventures of The Wolves, a champion ball club. The team's success is contingent upon the double-play combination of "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg." But while Goldberg (Jules Munshin) lives to play baseball, O'Brien (Gene Kelly) and Ryan (Frank Sinatra) would rather

Sep 19, 2000

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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (1) | DVD (5)

A lazy Technicolored cinemusical aimed squarely and accurately at the summer box office.

March 21, 2011 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
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There is no pretense that Ball Game is anything more than a romp for Kelly's virtuosity.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety
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It must be said, too, that Mr. Kelly and his side-kick do right nicely by a brisk thing called "Yes, Indeedy," as well as the title song.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times
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What matters is the stylish ebullience, and the excellent score by Roger Edens, Adolph Green and Betty Comden.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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The plot is typical fluff -- Kelly and Sinatra join Esther Williams's baseball team at the turn of the century -- but the production values are, as always, worth the price of admission.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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An enjoyable, snappy period baseball musical comedy.

April 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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It's brilliant music, and the comedy is a snap.

May 19, 2008 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com
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The American pastime was never more fun.

November 5, 2003
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

Light-as-air Technicolor comedy in which Kelly and Sinatra star as major league players who can hold their own on the dance floor as well as on the pitch.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4
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Audience Reviews for Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Oh my god Esther Williams is SO annoying, no wonder Gene Kelly was hard on her in rehearsal or whatever. Whenever she's off the screen I breathe a sigh of relief, but then she and Gene Kelly have to get together, and then I just want to die inside.
April 29, 2011
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Considering the talent both in front of and behind the camera this is a surprisingly bland albeit colorful musical. Everything is bandbox pretty but there is an uninspired air to the whole enterprise. They do manage to get Williams in the pool once even though the theme of the movie is baseball.
May 2, 2008
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