Angels in the Outfield

Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: July 15, 1994

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44	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews

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Trevor Johnston

Fans should enjoy it; parents won't suffer too much. Read full review

Louis Alter Mark

At Angels‘ end, Al tells Roger, ”We’re always watching.” That’s more than audiences will say about this disappointing movie. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The baseball action isn't very interesting because the angels (led by Christopher Lloyd) manipulate the outcomes. And the human interest stuff is canned and unconvincing. Read full review

TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)

This remake of the 1951 family fantasy is strictly minor league, struggling mightily to balance heartwarming sentiment with sporty sight gags, yet never getting beyond second base. Read full review

Brian Lowry

The term “crowd-pleasing” is frequently overused, but it applies to this — the latest in a line of so-so baseball movies, which serves up its corn so unabashedly it’s hard to take offense at its sappiness. Read full review

Peter Stack

Angels in the Outfield may not be a great baseball movie, but it is a cheerful line drive as a story about having faith when the world seems stacked against you. Read full review

Jay Carr

There's nothing really awful about Angels in the Outfield." But it never becomes more than an efficient, by-the-numbers reworking of the 1951 baseball fantasy about cellar-dwellers turned pennant-winners with a little supernatural help. [15 July 1994, p.41]

Jeff Shannon

Perfectly harmless fluff. [15 July 1994, p.D28]

Mike Clark

Tepidly tolerable to under-8s. [15 July 1994, p.5D]

Rick Groen

For this Disney remake of a saccharine 1951 baseball comedy, the targeted age group has been lowered to around nine. That means plenty of mustard-squirting slapstick and not very much of the beauty and drama of the actual game [15 July 1994]

Stephen Holden

A big dripping scoop of marshmallow sentiment topped with whipped-cream spirituality. [15 July 1994, p.C10]