Dogwatcher
Premiership Player
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2002
- Posts
- 4,289
- Reaction score
- 7
- Location
- Loxton, SA
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Central District, Moorook
With the school holidays coming up, Summer Catch will be the ideal flick to keep the kids occupied.
Based around the United States’ national past-time, baseball, Summer Catch is a predictable tale about a young up and comer Ryan Dunne, played by Freddie Prinz Jr., wanting to take his chance and head to the big time.
Dunne is a star pitcher with a past (sounds like Charlie Sheen’s character in Major League) who is wracked with self doubt, mostly caused by his fiery temper.
Adding to Dunne’s ‘issues’ is his relationship with beautiful Tenley Parish (Jessica Biel), a rich girl whose dad doesn’t want her involved with a boy from the wrong side of tracks (anyone remember Karate Kid?).
Scooby Doo’s Matthew Lillard also features in Summer Catch as a fellow baseballer in the middle of hitting crisis.
Veteran actors Brian Dennehy and Frank Ward round out the cast.
The baseball action plays second fiddle to Dunne’s emotional issues and this is to the detriment of the film.
Another problem is the wide variety of sub plots that side-track the movie.
Prinz has limited acting skills, Biel (who?) just plays the pretty face, while Lillard, who can be a good comic actor, becomes overbearing due to the lack of balance in the rest of the cast.
Summer Catch is directed at the same audience that enjoyed Road Trip and the American Pie movies, but has little of the same great humour that made those films successful.
Not a total waste of a film but definitely one for a slow day during the school holidays.
Weekly recommended rental: Karate Kid (1984) starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elizabeth Shue. Similar story to Summer Catch, but different sport and better acting.
Based around the United States’ national past-time, baseball, Summer Catch is a predictable tale about a young up and comer Ryan Dunne, played by Freddie Prinz Jr., wanting to take his chance and head to the big time.
Dunne is a star pitcher with a past (sounds like Charlie Sheen’s character in Major League) who is wracked with self doubt, mostly caused by his fiery temper.
Adding to Dunne’s ‘issues’ is his relationship with beautiful Tenley Parish (Jessica Biel), a rich girl whose dad doesn’t want her involved with a boy from the wrong side of tracks (anyone remember Karate Kid?).
Scooby Doo’s Matthew Lillard also features in Summer Catch as a fellow baseballer in the middle of hitting crisis.
Veteran actors Brian Dennehy and Frank Ward round out the cast.
The baseball action plays second fiddle to Dunne’s emotional issues and this is to the detriment of the film.
Another problem is the wide variety of sub plots that side-track the movie.
Prinz has limited acting skills, Biel (who?) just plays the pretty face, while Lillard, who can be a good comic actor, becomes overbearing due to the lack of balance in the rest of the cast.
Summer Catch is directed at the same audience that enjoyed Road Trip and the American Pie movies, but has little of the same great humour that made those films successful.
Not a total waste of a film but definitely one for a slow day during the school holidays.
Weekly recommended rental: Karate Kid (1984) starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elizabeth Shue. Similar story to Summer Catch, but different sport and better acting.