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Summer Catch

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 25 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 11 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Kevin Falls (also story)
John Gatins
Directed by: Michael Tollin
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 24, 2001
DVD: December 4, 2001
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, language and some drinking
Starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard, Fred Ward, Jason Gedrick, Bruce Davison, Brian Dennehy, and Brittany Murphy
While pursuing his dream of becoming a major league baseball player, a working class boy (Prinze) falls for a wealthy girl (Biel) vacationing with her parents on Cape Cod.
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What The Critics Said
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Charlotte Observer Kevin Baxter
It's no surprise, and it's trite, but sometimes fun -- and not magic -- is more than enough.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Staff (Not credited)
A fuzzy, feel-good movie about baseball, babes and believing in yourself.
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Fuzzy, feel-good movie about baseball, babes and believing in yourself.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin 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 >Variety Joe Leydon
Haphazard mix of boisterously crude comedy, romantic entanglements, class-conscious clashes and intensely competitive hardball.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Freddie Prinze Jr. has a look in his eye that is equal parts self-infatuation and boyish flash of fear.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
A lifelong baseball enthusiast, director and co-producer Mike Tollin -- persuaded many real-life baseball figures to make cameo appearances.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Cody 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.
USA Today Claudia Puig
Too bad the movie didn't take its own advice and risk coming up with a fresh story.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay 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 >Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
Neither drama nor comedy, Summer Catch is a long, slow lob of a movie that never crosses the plate.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck 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 >Austin Chronicle Marc 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 >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula 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 >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
It's a movie that should have been called on account of boredom.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita 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 >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Summer Catch is the sludge at the bottom of the barrel.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Can only be enjoyed with a skullful of Old Bohemian and a faceful of high school crotch.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Lawrence 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 >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 >Portland Oregonian Chris Hewitt
Apparently, you can lead a Prinze to a movie, but you can't make him act.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick 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 >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
HaChaCha 2 gave it a5:
I give it a 4 because of Biel's trunk. Whats the deal with the 5 rating you say? The extra one is reserved for the finger I gave the director during the closing credits for wasting money, the actors time, and ultimately a hour and a half of my life. The climax only lasted for 5 seconds then there was no point in watching the rest.
Aaron T. gave it a10:
I love this movie and how it is about baseball on the cap everyone should see this movie.
Dr. Steve gave it a 7:
I found this soldily entertaining. The characters were interesting and the baseball scenes--both on and off the field--were more realistic that what movies usually portray. The writing and acting made me care about the characters and their relationships. Plus, I have to say that Jessica Biel looks great in a bikini.
Marc W. gave it a 10:
A great mix of romance for the girls and sport for the guys.
Tiina K. gave it a 10:
A Very good movie!!! Absolutely worth 10!!!
Matt M. gave it a 0:
"Summer Catch" is garbage. But what did you really expect from a Freddie Prinze, Jr. movie? Plus it's a teen romance! That should've set off an alarm right away. Though not beating out "Freddy Got Fingered" for the worst film of the year, "Summer Catch" comes pretty darn close.
