Review – Mr. Baseball

You can divide this picture up into three parts: baseball, culture clash, and dumb romantic comedy. The baseball parts are as entertaining as any other baseball movie (which is to say that it’ll do in the off-season, but when they’re actually playing baseball there isn’t a whole lot of point to watching movies about it). The American-adapting-to-Japanese-culture stuff is interesting in an 80s sort of way. And of course the dumb romantic comedy is just dumb. Tom Selleck stars as a major league player whose career is on the down slope. He ends up playing in Japan, with hilarity ensuing as he tries to adapt his obnoxious American ways to his new environment. Mildly amusing