Uriah43 Having come from out of nowhere to win the Eastern Division last season, the Cleveland Indians have most of their main players back and plan to repeat their success this season. In addition, they have also acquired a veteran catcher by the name of "Jack Parkman" (David Keith) and a rookie at the same position named "Rube Baker" (Eric Bruskotter) to replace "Jake Taylor" (Tom Berenger) who has moved to a coaching spot. Not only that but their insufferable previous owner "Rachel Phelps" (Margaret Whitton) has sold the franchise to their aging third baseman "Roger Dorn" (Corbin Bernsen). That said, things are apparently looking good and all of the experts predict that they will go all the way to the World Series. However, things aren't necessarily as good as they seem as the players they counted on have all lost their spark and to make matters even worse Roger Dorn overestimated his investment and has had to resell the team to--of all people--Rachel Phelps. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film turned out to be a somewhat routine sequel in that it simply didn't quite have the same energy as its predecessor. I especially didn't care for two of the characters by the names of "Isuro Tanaka" (Takaaki Ishibashi) and the obnoxious fan named "Johnny" (Randy Quaid) who were quite annoying. Even so there were a couple of good moments here and there and having an attractive actress like Alison Doody (as "Rebecca Flannery") certainly didn't hurt. All things considered then, while it wasn't a great film by any means, I suppose it wasn't necessarily that bad and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

Mr-Fusion The original "Major League" had a distinct heart that's all but gone this lackluster sequel. Retreading the first movie in nearly every way, "Major League II" takes the lazy way out and turns these great characters into cartoons for cheap laughs. There's no way the Rick Vaughn we know would've gone full-on cleancut endorsement boy, and making all of these guys into complacent wimps after just six months is ridiculous. Where's Harris? Why is Hayes suddenly an actor? The best parts of this movie were all of Rube's scenes and Tanaka's intro, but they couldn't make up for Charlie Sheen's nodded-off performance. It's not a bad movie, but it does have "meh" written all over it.5/10

Michael_Elliott Major League II (1994) ** (out of 4) Lame sequel finds most of the original cast members back as the Cleveland Indians try to improve on their previous season. The only problem is that most of them now have "bigger" things in their lives, which puts baseball on the back burner and they find themselves back to being losers. To call MAJOR LEAGUE II a disappointment would be an understatement especially when you consider how great the original was. There was a five year difference between the two films so you can't really say that the first one made money so they just rushed this one into production without giving it a chance. I mean, they did have five years to come up with something better than what we got. There's been a lot of debate on how they took a R-rated, profanity full film and trimmed this one down to a kids movie. This here really bothered me the first time I saw this but after this second viewing I realized that it's not the clean-cut nature of this film that hurts it. It's the fact that it's pretty much nothing more than a remake of the first film only not nearly as funny. Each of the characters find themselves spoofing their characters in the first film. Wild Thing Vaughn goes from wild child to clean cut. Pedro Cerrrano goes from a crazed hitter to a peaceful sweetheart. You even have Willie Mays Hayes who goes from his fast self to a wannabe power hitter. None of this stuff is funny and neither are any of the supporting characters this time out. Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen and Corbin Bernsen all return but are just a shell of themselves. Dennis Haysbert, James Gammon, Omar Epps and Margaret Whitton just don't have the same magic and even Rene Russo's quick cameo does nothing. Randy Quaid is wasted in his role as an obsessed fan and even Bob Uecker isn't given anything good to do. David Keith is the most entertaining person in his villain role. MAJOR LEAGUE II isn't a complete disaster but it's certainly DOA.

MovieAddict2016 The first "Major League" was enjoyable (even if it wasn't great or anything) whereas this cash-in sequel is basically just to suck the money out of a film that made more cash at the box office than anyone expected.The first "Major League" came out in '87 and this one in '94; the seven-year gap surely didn't help much with profit. As far as I'm aware this didn't do nearly as well as the original in theaters and it's not hard to understand why.Most of the original cast returns - mainly Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen though - to once again spoof baseball. It's not as wacky a comedy as, say, "Hot Shots!", but it's close.The real problem with this film is that it's basically extending a story that doesn't need to be extended and recycling a lot of jokes we've already seen. It's worth seeing if you catch it on television, but don't go out of your way - especially if you didn't care much for the original.