SANDLOT OR SANDNOT?
A movie set during the early 1960’s in California , The Sandlot is a light hearted family baseball comedy tweens and kids would love. The movie is based on a new kid moving into town who makes friends with the boys in his neighborhood by being picked up on their little neighborhood baseball team. At first the young boy was rejected by the other boys because he didn’t know how to play baseball like all the other ones and didn’t know all the facts and famous ball players like Babe Ruth. All the boys on the team have grown up together playing on the sandlot other than the new boy (Thomas Guiry) soon he will learn the sport like the back of his hand with the help from his friends and step-dad. Together, they get themselves into many adventures involving rival teams, …show more content…
Their tone and the voice-over narration remind me of Jean Shepherd's memories of growing up in northern Indiana. These days too many children's movies are infected by the virus of Winning, as if kids are nothing more than young pro athletes, and the values of Vince Lombardi prevail: It's not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose. This is a movie that breaks with that tradition that allows its kids to be kids, that shows them in the in world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult values. There was a moment in the film when Rodriguez hit a line drive directly at the pitcher's mound, and I ducked and held up my mitt, and then I realized I didn't have a mitt, and it was then I also realized how completely this movie had seduced me with its memories of what really matters when you are 12.
The movie isn't about winning and losing, it's about growing up and facing your fears, and as the kids try one goofy plan after another to get the ball back, the story gently leaves the idea of the possible and ventures into the exaggerations common to all childhood
A movie set during the early 1960’s in California , The Sandlot is a light hearted family baseball comedy tweens and kids would love. The movie is based on a new kid moving into town who makes friends with the boys in his neighborhood by being picked up on their little neighborhood baseball team. At first the young boy was rejected by the other boys because he didn’t know how to play baseball like all the other ones and didn’t know all the facts and famous ball players like Babe Ruth. All the boys on the team have grown up together playing on the sandlot other than the new boy (Thomas Guiry) soon he will learn the sport like the back of his hand with the help from his friends and step-dad. Together, they get themselves into many adventures involving rival teams, …show more content…
Their tone and the voice-over narration remind me of Jean Shepherd's memories of growing up in northern Indiana. These days too many children's movies are infected by the virus of Winning, as if kids are nothing more than young pro athletes, and the values of Vince Lombardi prevail: It's not how you play the game, but whether you win or lose. This is a movie that breaks with that tradition that allows its kids to be kids, that shows them in the in world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult values. There was a moment in the film when Rodriguez hit a line drive directly at the pitcher's mound, and I ducked and held up my mitt, and then I realized I didn't have a mitt, and it was then I also realized how completely this movie had seduced me with its memories of what really matters when you are 12.
The movie isn't about winning and losing, it's about growing up and facing your fears, and as the kids try one goofy plan after another to get the ball back, the story gently leaves the idea of the possible and ventures into the exaggerations common to all childhood