Summer Catch
Metascore
21 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 25
  3. Negative: 17 out of 25
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert K. Elder
    38
    Neither drama nor comedy, Summer Catch is a long, slow lob of a movie that never crosses the plate.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    Too bad the movie didn't take its own advice and risk coming up with a fresh story.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    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.
  4. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    30
    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.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    30
    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.
  6. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    30
    Uninspired baseball romance.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    25
    It's a movie that should have been called on account of boredom.
  8. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    25
    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.
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    20
    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.
  10. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    20
    Awful light drama.
  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    12
    Summer Catch is the sludge at the bottom of the barrel.
  12. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    10
    Filming this mess in North Carolina (strike three).
  13. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    10
    Can only be enjoyed with a skullful of Old Bohemian and a faceful of high school crotch.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    10
    A mound of standard-issue parent-child conflicts and enough self-help cliches to drive Polonius to the aquavit barrel at Elsinore.
  15. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    10
    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.
  16. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    0
    The equivalent of a full-course meal with no calories. It is a mirage of a movie, 100 minutes of nothing.
  17. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Chris Hewitt
    0
    Apparently, you can lead a Prinze to a movie, but you can't make him act.

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User Score
5.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. HaChaCha2
    5
    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.… Full Review »
  2. AaronT.
    10
    I love this movie and how it is about baseball on the cap everyone should see this movie.
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