Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

andrew-repko I think it should be mentioned that Roger's Dad gets a bad rap in this film. Maybe its the way the filmmaker wanted to tell the story, but we all know that this movie would have never had a happy ending for both the Angels and Rog (and JP!) if it wasn't for Roger's Dad. Some may look at it as if Roger's Dad was giving up on his son. I look at it quite the opposite. I believe he was giving his son the tools to be truly great and in doing so summoning the gods/angels to help lift a major league baseball team. Think about it, if Rog's dad never gives him the False Hope (Motivation) that he will take him back when the Angels win the pennant, the Angels would never had reach the success they did that season. With Rog wishing on upon a shooting star to help ensure that the Angels win the pennant, that wish sealed the fate of the Angels. With out the heavenly Angels, there is no way the baseball Angels win the pennant. There is no way Rog and JP get adopted by Danny Glover at the end. And maybe, just maybe the career of Matthew McConaughy never takes off the way it did when those Angels lifted him up to make an impossible catch. Thus catapulting him to an Oscar winning actor. wow an Oscar winning actor, all from the false hope he provided his son. Rogers Dad, True Hero!

moviecritichank-7 Angels in the Outfield is a 1994 baseball movie released by Walt Disney Pictures starring Danny Glover ("Lethal Weapon Series," "Operation Dumbo Drop") Tony Danza (T.V.'s "Who's the Boss,") and Christopher Lloyd ("Back to the Future Trilogy," "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"). This 90's remake of the 1951 classic is the story of a Southern California foster boy named Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt from T.V.'s "3rd Rock From the Sun") who is in search of a family and longs to be united with his dad. His only hope is to pray that the last place California Angels (now the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) win the pennant. When he prays for them, "real" angels actually help the team start winning and make an eventual believer out of cynical manager George Knox (Danny Glover), who becomes a mentor and friend to Roger and his best friend JP (Milton Davis, Jr.). Back in the summer of '94 around the time this movie was released, Major League Baseball went on a players strike, cancelling the second half of the season and the World Series, which was and still is the only time in baseball history that the World Series was cancelled. In fact, this movie was released the same week that the All-Star Game was played! The bad part of the strike is that Ken Griffey, Jr. was well on his way to breaking Maris's single-season home run record; he had 40 homers going into the break!!! Too bad that in '98 that McGwire and Sosa had to take "performance enhancing drugs" to break Maris's record!!! You can definitely tell I'm a die-hard baseball fan!!! Anyways, this movie captures the spirit of our national pastime almost as good as "Field of Dreams," "The Natural," and "A League of Their Own." Disney really did a good job of making you feel apart of the action, even though certain scenes weren't the most realistic in some cases!! This movie pretty much turned me into the baseball lover I am today!!! The story is good, the characters are funny (especially Al), the music adds to the intensity, and it has a great message in it! This is one movie that you don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy! If you haven't seen this movie yet, go out and buy it or rent it! This is one of many 90's kids movies that defined my childhood and I recommend it to every Disney and baseball fan! Rating: 10/10!!!

angelicseven I was in total disbelief when I saw Angels in the Outfield (1994) second to the last top movies of the year, whereas Forrest Gump (1994) was #1. I saw Forrest Gump and thought it was more like Forrest Junk; a movie I would not watch ever again and a total waste of my time. Angels in the Outfield was wrongly underrated. This movie was so good it wouldn't matter if you liked sports or not. Not only is it enjoyable for the whole family, but is good enough to watch over and over. The brightly glowing angels were depicted in a way everyone would expect them to look like, which is a plus compared to so many angel depictions that failed to accomplish such. There seem to be a Biblical take that is played in various ways, where good wins against all evil aspects eventually. There are also funny parts of which you just can't help but laugh about. Angels in the Endzone (1997) didn't do as good as this one, which was a surprising disappointment. Even the angels in it looked not convincingly real.

Jojevis McLain You know, this movie isn't that great, but, I mean, c'mon, it's about angels helping a baseball team. I find the plot line to be hilarious anyways, this kid's dad says he'll take him back if the angels win the pennant (because he knows they won't) Kid prays to his fake god to help the angels win, god helps the whole time (via the angel Christopher Lloyd, RIP) And in the end, his dad doesn't take him back and rides off on his motorcycle right in that kids face. it's hilarious until Danny Glover adopts it and it's friend.I guess the upside is that the old lady is left alone to die with her stitchin' projects and her stories. The real winner here, though, is god. Because later he got a job as a writer for numerous prank shows.As a kids movie, it gets a 7. As a movie about the mysteries of blind, stupid faith, and the nature of "god," it gets a 10.