Monday DVD Pick-The Sandlot
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Okay, so this past weekend the movie was…..The Sandlot. I remember having a conversation with a friend the other day and getting berated because I had never seen this movie before. Even my kids yelled at me and so it showed up in the Netflix rotation on Friday and it was our choice of movie to watch on Saturday afternoon as we waited for the non-existent tropical storm from Hurricane Ike to hit Dallas-Fort Worth.
SHORT PLOT SYNOPSIS: The film is a flashback to 1962 when Scotty Smalls moves with his mother and stepfather to a new city. Hey guess what? His mom is Indiana Jones’ girlfriend/wife Karen Allen. And his dad is a very restrained non-cigarette smoking Denis Leary. The move gave Scotty very little time to make friends before summer and he’s somewhat of a “nerd”.
Scotty doesn’t know how to throw or catch (which I find really kind of hard to believe cuz I mean what kid doesn’t take a ball outside and throw it up in the air and catch it by himself ?) Anyway, he makes friends with the local kids, learns how to play baseball but accidentally hits an important souvenir into the domain of the beast- a very scary looking dog owned by the great James Earl Jones.
OVERALL: This IS a fun movie. If you have kids 8 or above, sit down and watch it with them. It reminds me of the awesome A Christmas Story
And as I sit here and think about it, I am wondering why they didn’t just build some sort of wall or net to keep any stray balls from going over the dreaded fence and into the beast’s lair. Maybe they would have if James Earl Jones had told them if “they build it, he will come.”
RENT IT?: If you loved A Christmas Story, you will like The Sandlot. Not fantastic (as I was led to believe) but it’s cute.
UPDATE: Would you believe there have already been 2 sequels to this movie? And a Sandlot 4 is supposed to be released this year. That sounds like a lot of balls getting lost to me.
EDITED: How many spelling errors can a guy have in 1 entry? Damn! Somebody remind me to run spell check on this thing before I post next time.
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