Review – Summer Catch

The promo copy on the box insisted that this outing would prove reminiscent of Bull Durham. But honestly, the only two movies brought to mind by this cliché-fest are Dirty Dancing and Porky’s. There’s some minor league baseball stuff in here someplace (a stale tale of a poor boy shooting for a spot in the majors while falling in love with a rich girl), but for the most part the sports angle is just frosting on a cake made mostly of bad teen movie conventions. Perhaps this might have been a better work in the hands of a better screenwriter or at least some competent actors. As things turned out, however, the occasional jokes that work are too few and way too far between to justify sitting through the production as a whole. See if desperate