Rookie of the Year

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I just watched Rookie of the Year on the Disney Channel and let me tell you. It's a great kids baseball movie about a boy named Henry who gets on the Chicago Cubs Baseball Team! Thomas Ian Nicholas did a good job playing the boy Henry. Daniel Stern couldn't of cast a better child actor to play that role. The rest of the cast gave good performances such as Gary Busey playing the player Rockie and Eddie Bracken did a good job playing the Cubs owner. I also liked John Candy's hilarious performance as the announcer for the games. And Daniel Stern also gave a good performance as the goofy player Phil Berquist. In my opinion that's one of his greatest and funniest roles next to Marv in the Home Alone movie series. Filled with hilarious scenes and a great story and great characters Rookie of the Year is a Great Baseball Movie that any Baseball fan could love. Young or Old. I give it a 10 out of 10.

Nice movie with a quite good plot, but the acting ain't worth mentioning. It is quite easy to see that the film has been filmed in a very short time, cause the directing of the cast is terrible. A little more time to direct the cast would have been nice, because the cast has a lot more to offer than they show in this movie.

See Thomas Ian Nicholas in a film before forever becoming known as a pervert in American Pie. As a kids movie, this movie hits a homerun. Consider many of the aspects: a goofy central character, a bad to good storyline, and supporting members who seem rather believable in their traits and actions (except for Daniel Stern of course). Sure, younger kids will get a hoot out of this film, but older folks might as well keep away.

I was never much into sports. I never fantasized about becoming a huge sports star. However, I realize many adults did dream of such things when they were children, and that is why "Rookie of the Year" may surprise some adults. The plot is childish, of course, and the acting -- apart from Daniel Stern and an unbilled cameo from John Candy -- is not Oscar-worthy. Still, it's worth a few bucks, and may transport adults back to their memories and make them fantasize more than children. I don't like this film a whole lot, but it's just one of those films that when you see it on TV, you just...watch it! Hard to explain. It's like some cosmic force draws you to it. I think it could be the worst film in the world and I'd still have to watch it every time it's on. I give "Rookie of the Year" 3/5 stars. Not great, and not even that good, but there's just something about it...

It's clear that whoever wrote this movie did not like baseball. I'd say Sam Harper loathes baseball because that's what you do when you don't like something---you smear it. A kid named Henry Rowengartner (Thomas Ian Nicholas) couldn't play baseball to save his life. It's a wonder he was even on his little league team. He wasn't just bad, he was clueless. He was also shameless, because he was bad and not the least bit concerned about it. I suppose that's a good quality: to be that confident even when being that clumsy would be massively humiliating for most. After an improbable accident where he steps on a baseball, flies twenty feet in the air, and lands on his right arm, he becomes Aroldis Chapman (take a minute to look him up if you don't know him). His tendons in his arm healed so tightly that he was able to throw 103 mph. Naturally, the Chicago Cubs signed him as they were in the middle of their 108-year World Series drought and they couldn't put butts in the seats. Henry went on to be the baseball equivalent of an idiot savant. He didn't know the first thing about baseball even though he loved the game; which is quite improbable. Among the examples of his sheer ignorance was that he didn't know four balls meant he could go to first base on a walk. Then, just to make a mockery of baseball and dumb baseball players, once he got to first base he taunted the pitcher into a throwing error with childish behavior; because baseball players are nothing but overgrown kids anyway right? He was able to get his game on track with the help of his pitching hero and mentor, Chet "Rocket" Steadman. Steadman would teach him how to pitch as well as move in on his mom thereby bumping the bad boyfriend out of the way. Win win. The move continued on its steady descent into the Chicago sewers ending with its final degradation of the sport I love. Henry came into an all-important game against the Mets to determine the winner of the NL East division (this was just before they went to three divisions putting the Cubs in the NL Central). Child star Henry was pitching immaculately just like before until he did one of the following: A.) abruptly quit to begin his broadcasting career. B.) gave up the winning homerun. C.) slipped on a baseball, flew twenty feet in the air, fell on his arm which then became a normal 12-year-old arm. If you answered C then you win the prize. Not only does his arm return to normal, but in the biggest insult to baseball managers everywhere, the manager, Martinella (Albert Hall), leaves him in the game!! Furthermore, boy wonder stays in the game and comes up with the most hair-brained scheme to get the next three outs. And it works!!! We're talking a ball fake for a put out on first. Another ball fake where he's getting into some schoolyard "are you chicken" game with the runner on first. And finally, an underhand softball pitch to a professional hitter for strike three. Aaaaagh! it was exasperating. I couldn't watch without wanting to pick up a bat and do physical harm. To make matters worse, the whole movie Henry had this dumbass grin on his face the whole movie. It was a mix between blithe, confusion, and too dumb to know what's going on. Here it is I thought this movie would be a fun tribute to baseball and it was anything but. I'm sure Ernie Banks and Andre Dawson were somewhere weeping when this movie came out. I'm sorry fellas, I know the Cubs were mired in postseason purgatory, but you deserved better.

I saw this movie in the theaters when I was 11. I begged my father to take me to see the movie... Awww man, do I regret ever wasting my time and my fathers time watching this garbage of a movie. You would think that as an 11 year-old this movie would be entertaining, but it was far from that. I kept yawning throughout the movie. Not even worth renting it. By far the worst baseball movie I have ever seen. Just a stupid, pointless movie.

Just another nearly unwatchable kids fantasy film where they are the best. This one is about a kid who is not the best player in the world and he has an accident. This accident causes his arm to mess up and the tendons to tighten and now he can throw a 100 mph fastball. Well he displays this super ability at a Cubs game where he proceeds to throw a home run ball back into the field of play and before long he is signed with the Cubs giving inspirational speeches, striking out great players and guiding the Cubs to the post season. The Cubs were absolutely not a playoff team when this film was made and to make it out like one kid could turn around the team is completely insane even for movie standards. For one thing he is just a reliever, and a reliever has to have the lead going into the 8th or 9th inning to have any impact on the game and quite frankly I think the Cubs actually had a decent reliever back then. The comedy does not work for me neither did Daniel Stern (who actually directed this movie) as a pitching coach. John Candy is in the film as a play by play guy, but he is not even credited in the cast. Granted I guess if your him you do not need your name to be recognized. On an interesting note you get to see Barry Bonds as a Pirate and before he gained one of those white orbs from Altered Beast and became super big. In fact I think he had actually gotten two of those orbs by the end of his playing days, one more and he would have actually become a wolf man hybrid. Sorry, went off track there, and I am doubting there are a lot of people that will get the reference. In the end, this film might be okay for children. To me though it was just idiotic and just about a complete waste of time.