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A cliched and predictable sports comedy that's mostly devoid of excitement or laughs, Summer Catch is strictly bush-league.
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It's a movie that should have been called on account of boredom. Aug 8, 2014 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
It's a movie that should have been called on account of boredom.
Jami Bernard
As the script works toward its big-game finale, it pauses now and then to rip off Bull Durham, to let Biel spout Successories-worthy words of encouragement, and to touch on subplots involving Prinze's familiar-faced teammates. Jun 14, 2013
As the script works toward its big-game finale, it pauses now and then to rip off Bull Durham, to let Biel spout Successories-worthy words of encouragement, and to touch on subplots involving Prinze's familiar-faced teammates.
Keith Phipps
Maybe the filmmakers figured that the audience for Summer Catch is too young to have seen Bull Durham. Jun 14, 2013 | Full Review…
Maybe the filmmakers figured that the audience for Summer Catch is too young to have seen Bull Durham.
Malcolm Ritter
When it comes to funny business, Tollin's got game, and he makes the most of some talented supporting players on his bench. Apr 16, 2008 | Full Review…
When it comes to funny business, Tollin's got game, and he makes the most of some talented supporting players on his bench.
Joe Leydon
[An] awful light drama. Mar 6, 2007 | Full Review…
[An] awful light drama.
Lisa Alspector
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. Aug 30, 2001 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
James Berardinelli
Big chunks of plot seem to be missing, as if left on the editing-room floor so that director Mike Tollin, in his feature debut, can get to yet another inspiring speech. Aug 8, 2014 | Rating: 1/4
Big chunks of plot seem to be missing, as if left on the editing-room floor so that director Mike Tollin, in his feature debut, can get to yet another inspiring speech.
Matt Soergel
It's a baseball romance with precious little baseball and only the most insipid, by-the-numbers kind of romance. Aug 8, 2014 | Full Review…
It's a baseball romance with precious little baseball and only the most insipid, by-the-numbers kind of romance.
Dennis King
This is the WB version of a baseball movie. Everyone is young, toned, sexually active and agonizes over their future. Aug 8, 2014 | Full Review…
This is the WB version of a baseball movie. Everyone is young, toned, sexually active and agonizes over their future.
Leah Rozen
The film is as predictable as the outcome of a New York Yankees-Tampa Bay Devil Rays game, but you can bet nobody will be standing up to do the wave. Aug 8, 2014 | Full Review…
The film is as predictable as the outcome of a New York Yankees-Tampa Bay Devil Rays game, but you can bet nobody will be standing up to do the wave.
Smriti Mundhra
Not even a cast of fresh-faced acting hotshots can give flavour to this bland and undistinguished teen sporting romance. Aug 8, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Not even a cast of fresh-faced acting hotshots can give flavour to this bland and undistinguished teen sporting romance.
Sloan Freer
Despite an enjoyable turn from Brittany Murphy, the clichéd plot (local poor boy pitches his way to the Major League) ensures that's the best this forgettable teen fodder can hope for. Jun 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Despite an enjoyable turn from Brittany Murphy, the clichéd plot (local poor boy pitches his way to the Major League) ensures that's the best this forgettable teen fodder can hope for.
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.
Super Reviewer
Cute film but not much really to it.
Class consciousness sustains the primary drama in this well-intentioned little tale. Freddie Prinze Jr. plays a blue-collar kid from Cape Cod who joins a roster of college hopefuls in an effort to get signed by a professional baseball team. That portion of the story plays out reasonably well; the hero's developing relationship with wealthy Vassar graduate Jessica Biel is less successful, because Biel can't act a lick. Everytime she utters a line, the film grinds to a dead stop. The script's smarmy sexuality also doesn't help; all concerned would have been better off concentrating on baseball and male bonding.
It was ok.
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