SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

brooz I had an occasion to watch a scene of this flick, I had no sound. it ROTFLed me: a teenage boy in a cage. Outside, another teenager and mature woman in nightdress fight with kungfu. She wielded a quite large hammer, scraping large chunks of everything it touched. I caught the title for I had to watch this. Well. It was the only time I laughed for this flick.You can still have fun with Jigoku Koshien if: -you are less than 22.(geeks add 4, girls remove 5) -You gather friends who wish a heavy duty low-budget Japanese no-brainer. -You drink all available beer. -go buy more beer and repeat drink. -If your local laws permits smoking pot, you should consider doing so.I loved many of the films cited in comments: Bad Taste, Evil Dead, Shaolin Soccer, Army of Darkness, many Monty Python, Battle Royal.But did NOT enjoy Jigoku Koshien. (and feel that comparison with the latter is an insult to the formers)

Michael OK let me get this out of the way first. Before watching this movie I thought it was going to be something like Shoalin Soccer but then with baseball. It has some similarities yet it's a very different movie. It's less action oriented and much more goofy. Ridiculous songs, characters straight out of a manga and a story of a 5 year old. I was left disappointed because I totally dig the idea of baseball with kung-fu moves.It is very hard to describe this movie but I'll try and explain why it's so goofy. Everyone who dies in this movie comes back. One guy even comes back as a cyborg, because of "advanced technology" haha. There are like 2 or 3 songs in this movie and they have the most ridiculous lyrics. Then you have this guy who is something like a legend because he has the best pitch ever. A super tornado pitch or something like that. Now this is exactly why I was left disappointed because I was waiting for him to kill 1 or 2 bad guys with his super pitch but you never get to see it, only in his memories.It has it's funny moments but it's so damn goofy that you're sometimes scratching your head and wondering what the hell your watching.Don't expect shoalin soccer with baseball, but if your into Japanese goofiness then don't miss it.

FeverDog I love horror movies, foreign films and baseball. So when I came across BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL at my rental store, I was elated. A Japanese zombie baseball flick? Excellent! Or so I thought. For a horror movie, there's disappointingly little gore. For a foreign film, little insight into its land of origin. And why does a movie with "baseball" in its title have virtually no baseball action in it? (The "battle" mostly uses bats, while the "field" is in dire need of a grounds-keeper.) Is it wrong to complain about what a movie should have been, instead of what it is? I was curious to see the myriad ways one could defeat the undead on a baseball field generally within the games rules: Anticipating a line drive decapitating the pitcher, or a base-runner sliding into second with razors on his cleats, eviscerating a middle infielder while breaking up a double play.But there's nothing like that here. There's also little sense of the game how it's played and revered in Japan, and the tiny differences I did notice I'm not sure I believe. Do they really employ cheerleaders? (Outside of the Florida Marlins, who should be ashamed of themselves, that's unheard of here in the States.) Do their umps really use whistles? Do they really score points instead of runs? Apart from the lack of actual baseball and blood & guts, the movie offers little to recommend it otherwise. There are a few small, funny moments, but most of the movie is shot through a sickly pea-green filter, the characters substitute nuance for monotonous yelling (just like DAY OF THE DEAD, the most disappointing American zombie movie I've seen), the zombie makeup is embarrassingly bad (they've got more pancake than IHOP), and, for some reason, the lead ghoul is dressed in vaguely Old-West fashion, resembling the elderly zombie from HOUSE II (*not* a movie one should be reminded of).And the humans keep coming back to life. Why care about what happens if there's no doubt everyone will be around at the end?Oh well, burned again on another bad baseball flick. Hope BALL OF WAX, when I get around to buying it (my store doesn't have it to rent), is at least watchable - a low-expectation descriptive that certainly does not apply to BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL.

psychocrow I got this movie because i loved Battle Royale and was looking for similar stuff - but this movie is not the crazy japanese hack n' slay genre that i was expecting. I thought about zombies playing baseball, but they never really play baseball in this movie. In the "showdown game" (no, it isn't a showdown at all) they just start fighting and that's it. There are no "special effects" - everything looks like glue and ketchup. The bad guys are not ugly, funny or stupid at all, and neither are the heros. But the worst thing of the movie is the absolutely stupid story that keeps you waiting for something that never happens (Inculding absolutely awful singing parts - like in a Disney Movie - Oh my God) Don't waste your time with this movie - that's my conclusion. A real 1!