Summer Catch
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: August 24, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
21
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
17
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Charlotte ObserverKevin Baxter
It's no surprise, and it's trite, but sometimes fun -- and not magic -- is more than enough. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Fuzzy, feel-good movie about baseball, babes and believing in yourself. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Under Michael Tollin's direction, Prinze does well in what is surely the most complex character he has played on the screen. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe Leydon
Haphazard mix of boisterously crude comedy, romantic entanglements, class-conscious clashes and intensely competitive hardball. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Freddie Prinze Jr. has a look in his eye that is equal parts self-infatuation and boyish flash of fear. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunStaff (Not credited)
A fuzzy, feel-good movie about baseball, babes and believing in yourself.
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
A lifelong baseball enthusiast, director and co-producer Mike Tollin -- persuaded many real-life baseball figures to make cameo appearances. Read full review
40
Mr. ShowbizCody Clark
Whenever we're not at the ballpark, the film falls back on teenage relationship clichés. That's most of what's wrong with it, actually.
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Too bad the movie didn't take its own advice and risk coming up with a fresh story. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The screenplay, with its relentlessly schematic characters saying relentlessly schematic things, is so moronic that it makes you long for a documentary on the real Cape League. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneRobert K. Elder
Neither drama nor comedy, Summer Catch is a long, slow lob of a movie that never crosses the plate. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Uninspired baseball romance. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Prinze, Lillard, and Biel are all pleasant enough to look at, but the film's Romeo and Juliet tropes are shopworn by now, and the movie gives us nothing else. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
To help Prinze sail past the eventually unbearable clichés of Kevin Falls and John Gatins' script, director Mike Tollin has assembled an impressive supporting cast. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
Tries mightily to have the charm of "Bull Durham," but instead fields raunchy sex jokes, predictable story line, dumb dialogue and a lackluster love affair. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It's a movie that should have been called on account of boredom. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Awful light drama. Read full review
20
Washington PostRita Kempley
A trite, bantamweight "Bull Durham," hasn't a single line, gibe, gesture or twist that hasn't already been chewed up and spat out in many a movie baseball dugout. Read full review
12
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Summer Catch is the sludge at the bottom of the barrel. Read full review
10
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Can only be enjoyed with a skullful of Old Bohemian and a faceful of high school crotch. Read full review
10
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Filming this mess in North Carolina (strike three). Read full review
10
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
A mound of standard-issue parent-child conflicts and enough self-help cliches to drive Polonius to the aquavit barrel at Elsinore. Read full review
10
New Times (L.A.)Andy Klein
Given how uninvolving Summer Catch is, the truly remarkable pitching here was not so much on the mound as in the executive office where someone convinced Warner Bros. to green-light this turkey, which should have been called Good Will Hitting. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The equivalent of a full-course meal with no calories. It is a mirage of a movie, 100 minutes of nothing. Read full review
0
Portland OregonianChris Hewitt
Apparently, you can lead a Prinze to a movie, but you can't make him act. Read full review
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