When you're tired of having fun on a Cruise ship and want to relax with the movie and the only thing on is The Sandlot 2, you take the opportunity. Hey, the movie is free, and I can sleep when the sun goes down (though that rarely happens in Alaska during the summer days).
At first, The Sandlot 2 looked like it could turn out to be a decent kid movie. Sure it was evident they had rehashed the first one based on characters (the smart-ass fat kid, the look-a-like brothers, the leader of the pack, and the nerd who doesn't fit in). And I don't remember what it was, but at first, the movie tricked me into thinking it was going to be good.
I have fond memories of the first Sandlot movie. I first saw it when I was nine and was instantly wrapped up in its story of one summer for kids in 1962. That movie also had some very un-clichéd elements, including the fact that it was a baseball movie that didn't end with the big game, but rather, a kid running from a "killer dog." What is so sad about this film is that it is a reconstruction of the first one scene for scene. The only new addition are female players, who are so annoying that you want the boys to win, especially when David (Max Lloyd-Jones) and Hayley (Samantha Burton) face off in a pitching-hitting match.
The movie also includes a character that is supposedly the younger stepbrother of the original film's narrator (the narrator in both films is director David Mickey Evans). His role is to get something (a spaceship model) lost in the "Great Fear's" backyard (this movie's The Beast). Why the model is so important is not something I will divulge, as it will take too long.
This sets up the movie to spend the next twenty minutes showing the kids coming up with improbably difficult ways to retrieve the item with no success, until finally the hero steps up and gets the item back, and ends up running (or in this case the wuss bikes) for his life (we even get a scene where he is running through an alley knocking over trash cans). Then the kids find out they just could've asked a blind James Earl Jones to retrieve the item, instead of putting us through all that pain.
Why did I endure the movie when I was on a cruise ship and had the option of turning the movie off and doing something cooler, like sit in a hot tub? I don't really know. I was drawn in to see how much of the movie was copied, and if you've seen the first movie, you no doubt already know everything was stolen. They even have a rivalry team that wants the Sandlot, and whom they have a verbal contest with (the insult "Plays like a girl," is even thrown in, though this time from the other side).
Overall, The Sandlot 2 is a terrible movie. Terrible. Awful. Dreadful. Appalling. Dire. Bad. And poor.
At first, The Sandlot 2 looked like it could turn out to be a decent kid movie. Sure it was evident they had rehashed the first one based on characters (the smart-ass fat kid, the look-a-like brothers, the leader of the pack, and the nerd who doesn't fit in). And I don't remember what it was, but at first, the movie tricked me into thinking it was going to be good.
I have fond memories of the first Sandlot movie. I first saw it when I was nine and was instantly wrapped up in its story of one summer for kids in 1962. That movie also had some very un-clichéd elements, including the fact that it was a baseball movie that didn't end with the big game, but rather, a kid running from a "killer dog." What is so sad about this film is that it is a reconstruction of the first one scene for scene. The only new addition are female players, who are so annoying that you want the boys to win, especially when David (Max Lloyd-Jones) and Hayley (Samantha Burton) face off in a pitching-hitting match.
The movie also includes a character that is supposedly the younger stepbrother of the original film's narrator (the narrator in both films is director David Mickey Evans). His role is to get something (a spaceship model) lost in the "Great Fear's" backyard (this movie's The Beast). Why the model is so important is not something I will divulge, as it will take too long.
This sets up the movie to spend the next twenty minutes showing the kids coming up with improbably difficult ways to retrieve the item with no success, until finally the hero steps up and gets the item back, and ends up running (or in this case the wuss bikes) for his life (we even get a scene where he is running through an alley knocking over trash cans). Then the kids find out they just could've asked a blind James Earl Jones to retrieve the item, instead of putting us through all that pain.
Why did I endure the movie when I was on a cruise ship and had the option of turning the movie off and doing something cooler, like sit in a hot tub? I don't really know. I was drawn in to see how much of the movie was copied, and if you've seen the first movie, you no doubt already know everything was stolen. They even have a rivalry team that wants the Sandlot, and whom they have a verbal contest with (the insult "Plays like a girl," is even thrown in, though this time from the other side).
Overall, The Sandlot 2 is a terrible movie. Terrible. Awful. Dreadful. Appalling. Dire. Bad. And poor.