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4 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
It is very unwise to steal joeboo's rum., 22 October 2002
Author: Andrew Blackburn (andrew@acblackburn.com) from Whitesboro, NY

I saw this movie when it was originally released in 1989. As a not-so-strapping boy of 15, I wasn't particularly familiar with baseball, and didn't have any particular interest in it. But hey, it was a movie, and I got to see it for free. And it was funny. (I think that this movie was made for 15-year-old boys!)

But I also couldn't believe for a moment that the Indians were a real baseball team. I mean, what baseball team would allow themselves to be made fun of this way?

Imagine my surprise the next morning when I discovered that the Indians were, in fact, a real ball club, and they really were as bad as they were portrayed as being in the film! I immediately bought a Chief Wahoo hat and declared myself an Indians fan.

Watching this film today is like a nostalgia session. Cleveland's Municipal Stadium (the "mistake by the lake", built as part of Cleveland's bid for the Olympic games) has long since been torn down, as was the Brewers' stadium in Milwaukee used for the scenes "inside" the ballpark. The Indians, though faltering in the 2002 season, are still a far better team than they were in 1989. (An odd side note - the San Francisco Giants' last trip to the World Series was in 1954 - when they played the Indians! That was the last time the Tribe won the AL pennant until 1997, when they lost the World Series to the Marlins.) Cleveland has actually been cleaned up pretty substantially since the film was released, and a few buildings have been added to the skyline. The Browns even have their own stadium nowadays!

There are certainly movies that have better baseball ("Bull Durham" comes to mind), but not many that have as much fun with the sport.

0 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Funny but not a masterpiece., 21 August 2003
Author: MovieAddict2013 from UK

Funny baseball parody that feels very much like a typical ZAZ comedy (though it isn't one). A team of baseball players (Sheen, Berenger, etc.) all have to play a season of pro baseball, even though they have no talent. Corbin "Made-for-TV-King" Bernsen co-stars.

3.5/5 stars -

John Ulmer

0 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Why do I love this film?, 28 March 2001

Author: Chinook-3 from CA

Beats me! All I know is that virtually EVERY time this flick hits cable...I watch it. There is something about the way this simple, very funny movie fits together that just compels me. Sheen is great as "Wild Thing" Ricky Vaughn. And the same can be said for every other actor (and character) in the film. They all just seem to click. Bob Uecker is priceless. I don't know, maybe I'm losing my taste, but this is a film that will ALWAYS pick me up and makes life just a bit better!

0 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Clichés galore and no real substance but it is amusing in an undemanding and distracting sort of way, 11 December 2005
Author: bob the moo

When her husband dies of a heart attack, former exotic dancer Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians – a baseball team that has "enjoyed" a 34 year slump. She immediately makes her plan clear – to make the team lose so badly that she will be able to move the team to Miami. Her first move is to bring in a whole raft of new players – deadbeats, former stars, no-hopers and such and then bring them under the management of Lou Brown, now working in an auto-repair garage. With all the players in place the team is naturally a mess and start the year as such. But can the misfits pull together as a team to make a hit in the league?

With a plot that is pretty much just one long cliché this film was never going to be anything special but it isn't terrible and it does actually manage to be amiable enough to entertain. A couple of times the narrative tries to do something interesting with the characters but it never gets to the point where you could compare it to the much better Bull Durham and really it shouldn't have bothered. Outside from this there isn't really anything that provides consistent laughs but it does manage to have a vaguely humorous air to it for most of the running time. I suppose it depends how demanding you feel when you watch it but if you accept the clichés then you'll probably buy into the relaxed air it has. This isn't to suggest it is any good (because it isn't) but sometimes it is comforting to be somewhere familiar and you can't get much more familiar than the clichés on display here.

The cast are quite impressive on paper and their collective charisma is part of the reason that the clichéd material actually is amusing. Berenger plays grizzled better than many an actor and is solid in the clichés despite not being able to do anything of value with his subplot with Rene Russo. Sheen and Snipes are both very young looking and play their roles well enough. Bernsen isn't the most convincing but he does alright (again not able to do anything with his more serious subplot though). Russo is totally wasted but Ross, Haysbert and others in the team are reasonably enjoyable while Whitton delivers her character well.

Overall then, hardly the greatest film ever made, or even that good a film but one that just about does enough to be enjoyable if you are in the mood for it. Trading almost totally on clichés the film was never going to be anything special (and it isn't) but the sequels indicate that there must be a market for even stuff this derivative and I suppose that it pretty much delivered all I wanted on a very lazy Sunday evening where I didn't want to think.

10 out of 29 people found the following review useful:
'Major League' Anti-Christian Bias, 13 October 2006

Author: ccthemovieman-1 from United States

Being a big baseball fan, I was anxious to see this movie. I did enjoy parts of it and got laughs out of Charlie "Wild Thing" Sheen's character as well as a few others. It was nice to see the poor Cleveland Indians wind up winners, too.

But, in addition to being a fan of the game, I am a Christian, too, and the bias against my faith in this movie was disgusting. Had they done this to any other group, I suspect you would have heard an uproar over it.....but Christians are fair game in the film world. Here, the dumbest and most annoying player on the team, of course, is the "religious" guy, "Eddie Harris," played cartoon-ishly by Chelcie Ross. He is pictured as a "nutcase" and a guy nobody likes. On the other hand we have the very likable voodoo-believing Latin American player. His superstitions are given great credence, naturally, with the voodoo actually being something that has real spiritual power. In the end, even Harris starts believing in them! Puh-leeze.

This film is one of the worst examples of Hollywood's prejudice you'll ever see. It's also sad comment that no one else here points this out.

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