A League of Their Own

A League of Their Own — 8

I really don’t know how many times i have seen this movie. I used to watch it all the time as a kid, and i remember loving the hell out of it. It has been some time since i last saw it though. I want to say its been somewhere between 7 and 10 years since the last time i have actually seen it. So I decided to watch it again.

Now I am not big on sports. In fact you can call me a sports hater, sport movies doubly so. This one however focuses more on the people behind the sport more than the sport itself, which is probably why I love it so much.

There are a ton of things to love about this movie. The fact that every character is completely different. From the under looked sibling, to the ex-stripper/hooker, to the mother, to the shy one, to the tomboy. Pretty much everything is covered, so this movie in a way proves that anyone can come together.

Now, this movie isn’t cameo heavy, its more like its high-end actor heavy. But one of my favorites (who i think is not used enough at all anymore, Jon Lovitz. Hes the one who recruits the girls, but is full of one liners, and is a total dick. I love his character through and through.

Tom Hanks. Almost enough said. This time he plays a dick through the whole thing. He is the girls manager but he is a total dick throughout the whole movie. Seeing Tom Hanks this way just proves that he can act anything he sets his mind to. Either that or this was his role where just had fun with it, because its not his regular type.

Really there is too much in this movie to cover, but its a great flick from start to end, and its also really hard to stop watching it once you have started it.

All in all, i do recommend this movie to anyone. Even those of you who hate sports. Its a comedy, drama, story of the small guy making it big, and the hero story (you know, starts off with nothing, then gets everything at the end). I Love it, truly fantastic.

Base Score = 7
-2 for being a sports movie
+1 for Tom Hanks being a dick
+1 for Jon Lovitz
-1 for being a little slow in the second quarter of the movie
+1 for making me cry (very few movies have had this effect on me)
+1 for a fantastic ending
= 8/10

Last updated: 2010-01-12 01:39:14 by Tolll