Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Srakumsatic A-maz-ing

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

MartynGryphon The one lesson Hollywood has never learnt, is to give up on something when it's been done to death. For instance, the 1st 3 Police Academy movies were good, the remaining 3000 of them weren't.The same thing happened to the Major League movies, the 1st was brilliant, the 2nd was mediocre with some excellently funny moments dotted about here and there and the 3rd was terrible.This is not because Major League 3 - Back to The Minors is rubbish, far from it. I found it to be a very entertaining movie. What killed it dead, was the decision to make it part of the Major League franchise.This movie could have easily stood on its own two feet as just another great baseball movie. Instead, in a bid to tie it in with the two movies that came before, we have a movie that just tries too hard to live up to a reputation that had already been destroyed by Major League 2.With the exception of 3 or 4 cast members, most of the original actors did not return for this outing and what we're left with is a contrived plot for the actors that did just to tie this in with the franchise.Roger Dorn, (Corbin Bernsen), now completely retired from playing, is now the owner of the Minnesota Twins and all the affiliated feeder clubs associated with them. He hires his old teammate and washed up pitcher Gus Cantrell, (Scott Bakula), to manage his AAA team The South Carolina Buzz, who like in the 1st movie, are a bunch of no talent misfits until Cantrell licks them in to shape. Already with the Buzz are Rube Baker, (Eric Bruskotter), who is later joined by old Indian's Teammate Pedro Cerrano, (Dennis Haysbert). Just to give that very much unneeded link to the past.On a visit to see Roger, Gus is reunited with another old team mate of his, the vain and extremely arrogant Leonard Huff , (Ted McGinley). It is evident that these two men detest one another and have done for years. Huff is always ready to belittle Gus regarding what he perceives as his failed career and his minor league status, and Gus despising Huff's brutal and arrogant style of baseball management.More out of rivalry than for entertainment, an Exhibition match is set up for the Buzz to play the Twins at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, (Sadly now demolished). Realising the Buzz are on the verge of winning, Huff fakes a power cut to try to save some face.However, the press have latched on to the rivalry and tension between Gus and Huff and require a definitive winner to the grudge match and both sets of players are merely pawns in a private war between the two managers. Only this time, Gus insists that the Twins play at their ballpark.ML3 is a really entertaining movie, ruined by a desire to shape it in to something it didn't need to be. Whilst I won't begrudge any actor their pay cheque, The Roger Dorn character didn't need to be Roger Dorn, Cerrano didn't need to be Cerrano and no character from the previous 2 movies needed to be revived for this to be a good film. In fact, it would have been better had they not done this at all.However, one character that did return that I was genuinely glad to see, was the brilliant Bob Uecker reprising his role of wisecracking sportscaster Harry Doyle. Most of the movie's belly laughs come from his droll commentary and his rivalry with his stuffed shirt Minnesota counterpart.One annoying aspect of the movie is the annoying Guitar riff that's played every time a cast member utters the name of the Twin's star player and resident psychopath Carlos Liston, played well by Lobo Sebastian.Bakula is really good here and so is McGinley. McGinley is often given a lot of stick by some for overplaying his characters. His character here is worthy of some overplay as he should be a figure of dislike and ridicule and McGinley made the character of Leonard Huff exactly as he should be.For the guys, Jensen Daggett plays Bakula's love interest and very pleasing on the eye she is too and it's a shame she hasn't done a great deal since.A great little movie, but sadly, one only created to sit in the shadow of it's big brothers. However, sometimes even the runt of the litter can stand up for itself.Enjoy!!!

cuzsis I can't speak for the franchise it's based off of. I saw "Major League", the original movie, once and to be honest, was rather disappointed that it wasn't as good as "Back to the Minors", which I had seen several times at that point.Since other reviews have done a good job describing it, but may contain spoilers, I'll try to give the flavor in this one without the spoilers. BTTM is a great baseball movie for sitting back with some popcorn and having a laugh. It's a bit like "The Sandlot" except geared more towards adults in terms of story-line and humor. That's not to say kids can't watch it. There isn't a ton of swearing (one or two words) and nothing over the top sexually (unless you count a woman wearing a nice bathrobe.) I'm perfectly fine with letting my 9yr old baseball playing son see it, but some of the story might be a bit over his head.The movie has lots of unique/memorable characters, a solid underdog story-line, and lots of humor sprinkled through-out. The humor is largely visual gags and some verbal word play. It's light on mean-spirited and crass humor. This was something that I found less than appealing about the original (from what I recall, it was over a decade ago at this point), it seemed to rely more on that sort of humor, which I'm not a huge fan of in those kinds of doses and would certainly not let my son watch at this age. Good movie for former baseball and fastpitch softball players who may be reminded of former coaches (both good and bad) and crazy teammates. Might even be a good family movie for parents with slightly older children, but you'd want to view it first to make certain it's a good fit for you.

rsre4-1 It's not as good as Major League, but considerably better than Major League 2. It has good humor for some good laughs, and has it's own charm. Good for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon fair.Scott Bakula was a good choice and has that veteran smarts and laid back way that makes him likable."Tell him to throw his fastball" -"That WAS his fastball". Funny.Don't take it too seriously and you may find yourself enjoying it. It follows along similar fair like Necessary Roughness. Good humor that sometimes gets lost when people look for too much. Grab some pop-corn and a soda and just enjoy it for what it is.

michael_murphy76 Some have wondered why the Cleveland Indians are not even mentioned in the third installment of the "Major League" series. Here's why, plus my notes on this movie: 1) Between 1994 and 1998, when this movie was released, the real Cleveland Indians made the playoffs every year and went to the World Series twice. There's no fun, and really no point, in making a movie about underdogs when the real-life team is one of the best in baseball. This is why the producers did not focus on the Tribe, but partially on the then-hapless Minnesota Twins. The only scene where you even see a reference to the Indians is in a Sporting News article Gus is reading while riding the bus, describing the Tribe as contenders.(a side note: I've been a die-hard Indians fan for 30 years, so I may sound a bit prejudiced here) 2) I wish we would have known whether the Tribe won the World Series after Major League 2 ended. My guess is no, because I think it would have been mentioned if the Tribe had come out on top. None of the principals (Pedro, Rube, or even Dorn) sport rings in this movie, but even the pennant winners get smaller rings (I've seen the ones the Tribe received for winning the AL pennant in 1995 and 1997...they are very nice indeed).3) We know that Pedro left baseball and came back, now seeking Christianity, apparently with some voodoo mixed in, since a ragged looking Jobu makes a cameo here. Dennis Haysbert, who played Pedro Cerrano in all three movies, could win five Oscars and be hailed as the greatest actor ever, and to me he will ALWAYS be Pedro Cerrano.4) It is mentioned that Rube Baker (Eric Bruskotter, who to me will also be one of Ronald's friends from "Can't Buy Me Love"), who had a home run and an important double in the ALCS in MLII, had been playing with the San Diego Padres before being released. This indicates that the Indians finally got fed up with his throwing problems and invested in a real catcher.5) Wild Thing and Jake Taylor are nowhere to be seen. My guess is that Ricky Vaughn would have still been with the Tribe, with Jake Taylor as the Indians' manager. They did win a pennant, after all.6) Gus Cantrell (Scott Bakula) must have played with some of these players in the Tribe's minor league system at one time. That's how Pedro, Rube, and Dorn know who he is.7) Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen) recovered from having to sell the Tribe in MLII, resurfacing as the owner of the sad-sack Twins. His character is much more mature and likable here. I couldn't stand Dorn in the first two movies.8) Harry Doyle's (Bob Uecker) drinking problem finally caught up with him and forced him out of the Indians' broadcast booth, probably after cursing the Tribe out for losing the World Series. He tells Gus on the bus, after they pull up to the Metrodome, that it had "been a while" and "what a year to quit drinking". It seems that Doyle had finally licked his alcoholism.9) Tanaka apparently took his World Series share and opened that mini golf course you see in the movie. Don't forget, he was a veteran of Japanese baseball when the second one came out, and his part was mostly played for laughs. In 1994, the only player of Japanese origin in the bigs was Hideo Nomo. Now, with Ichiro and others becoming stars, it's almost commonplace. Even the Tribe has Kaz Tadano, a pretty fair relief pitcher, in their system.10) Finally, this movie is better than the second one. It's not as good as the first one, but MLI oozes so many curses and obscenities that I wouldn't let my kids watch it, if I had any. The second one is much cleaner, but halfway through seeing it the first time, I knew it was a bad movie (even though seeing my beloved Cleveland Indians win the pennant on celluloid covers a multitude of sins). This one is a good Sunday afternoon time waster. It's not that bad.