donaldricco Just re-watched this, for like the hundredth time, with my little girl! So much fun to hear her laughing! I absolutely LOVE this film - until they try to get the ball back from the Beast. Then... well, it's silly. But that first hour alone earns 5 stars with it's endearing, and enduring, movie magic! The fireworks with Ray Charles and the crushed baseball? AWESOME!!!

kiddcarl-cornell My family and I have watched "The Sandlot" many times over the past 15 years and we still enjoy every moment of it immensely. As devout sports fans and period piece buffs, it's not only one of our favorite sports movies, but also a great period piece that we admire. To this very day, we still quote lines from the film on occasion. If you love baseball, period pieces, or both, I definitely recommend "The Sandlot"!!

Peaceful224 When I first saw this movie I had no idea what it was about. My dad just came home with a DVD one day and put the movie on. He wouldn't tell me what it was about so I to watch it and figure it out.When I first saw it I liked it and now watching it over the years I love it! It is such a simple plot but it has powerful meaning. It is very realistic and it doesn't try to hard to be funny, it just is naturally funny.Scottie Smalls is the new kid in town who is very smart but a bit awkward. A kid named Benny asks him to start playing baseball with him and his friends. The other kids don't like him at first since he is a little geeky, but he eventually is accepted by the group once he learns to play baseball. Benny tells him that it is not too hard. Scottie now has new friends and begins to have an action packed summer with them,like having camp outs, fearing the beast behind the fence, going to the pool, talking about Babe Ruth, and of course playing baseball. Scottie also gets them in "one of the biggest pickles ever."It's a great kids movie, very funny, and quotable. 9 out of 10

Hitchcoc I remember that for most of my childhood, all the way to graduation, I played baseball. I was never a varsity player, but my friends and I spent our whole summers doing pickup games. This movie captures a time that doesn't exist any more. Adults have organized so much of the fun out of sports that kids don't get to just play for fun any more. League. League. League. Here we have a ragtag bunch of kids who are all over the place talent- wise. One is fantastic. The rest just love the game. But there is more than the game. There is a mysterious place where balls disappear and a dog the size of a walrus holds forth. There are stories and bragging and all kinds of kid things. There's James Earl Jones, who is feared by the kids through most of the movie until..... See this. It will delight you.