Waste of time

That was an excellent one.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I think of Major League: Back to the Minors is a pretty good spin off of the first two Major League movies. Writer-director John Warren has put together a film that has the same feel as the first two. He has also done a good job of having some familiar faces, as well as introducing us to some new ones.In the beginning, we are introduced to Gus Cantrell, played by Scott Bakula. Gus is a professional baseball pitcher who has spent a lot of time in the minor leagues. Gus knows that he is too old to be playing professional baseball. That is when Roger Dorn (played by Corbin Bernsen, reprising his role from the first two films) comes along with a job offer. Roger offers Gus the job to be the manager of his AAA team, the Buzz. It is up to Gus to turn this group of guys into a legitimate baseball team.With this Buzz baseball team, we have an interesting group of players. We have a bunch of new faces. One of them is Hog Ellis, a pitcher who only has a fastball in his repertoire. Carlton "Doc" Windgate is a starting pitcher who is good at locating and controlling his pitches, but has the slowest fastball in all of professional baseball. Frank "Pops" Morgan has been playing minor league ball for two decades and never made it to the majors. Twin brothers named Juan Lopez play second base and shortstop. Lance Pere is a third baseman who was once a ballet dancer. Finally, we have Billy "Downtown" Anderson as a young up-and-coming hitter who needs some fine tuning.Along with the new faces, we have some familiar ones. Rube Baker, who was an Indians catcher in the second Major League film, is back as the Buzz catcher. Voodoo man Pedro Cerrano is back to help Gus make the Buzz a good team. Along with Cerrano is his crazy Japanese buddy, Taka Tanaka.The story focuses on one season where at first the Buzz is the joke of all AAA teams. But under Gus's coaching, they become a team good enough to compete with its major affiliate, the Minnesota Twins.I think the story and film are fun and entertaining, especially if you are a fan of the first two Major League films or even just baseball at all. The only thing I still can't get my mind past is how is it possible for both the Buzz and the Twins to find time out of their seasons to play against each other.

I enjoyed this movie quite a bit and find myself watching it when it comes on TV. I'm not sure why several other 'reviewers' are getting so fired up about why Charlie Sheen or Wesley Snipes are not in the movie, or why the Indians have been replaced by the Twins: this is the Major League franchise, friends, not the Godfather trilogy. Just accept this as a nice little movie focused on minor league ball, jokes, and Ted McGinley's overacting. It's not going to save the world, or win an Oscar, but it's certainly enjoyable. If you have to compare the 3 movies, the first one is the best, then I'd put this one because it's not trying so hard to repeat the original, then the 2nd one, because, well, that one's just very bad: worse than drinking Jobu's rum. (Although the look on Berenger's face in the second one when he has to say "okay, Rick, let's get nasty" is priceless, I have to admit). Major League 3 doesn't try to do too much, so don't expect much out of it, and you'll be pleasantly surprised.

OK, I don't know how many people have noticed this, but in the scene when Gus and Maggie are in Dorn's office in the Metrodome there is a framed set of Twins home and road jerseys. the number on the jerseys is 4 and the name on the back of the road jersey is Collins. At the time, Minnesota only had player names on the backs of the roads jerseys. Anyway, Collins 4 is the name and number of Timothy Busfield's character in Little Big League. Also both movies were made by different studios, so Someone either placed the jerseys in there to see if anyone was paying attention, or it was just a fluke. Also, Little Big League also centers around the Minnesota Twins.

I've never seen the first two "Major League" movies, and I have no interest in seeing them. Also, I'm not the biggest fan of Scott Bakula. So why did I watch "Major League: Back to the Minors"? Why did I go so far as to BUY it?! Because of an actor named Walton Goggins, that's why. Familiar to most people as Shane on 'The Shield', Goggins appears here as an arrogant baseball player named Billy 'Downtown' Anderson who proves to be the true talent in his minor-league team (the Buzz). Bakula stars as the coach of said team (downgraded from the major leagues). Also appearing (although I wasn't familiar with him at the time I purchased this) is Kenny Johnson (Goggins's co-star on 'The Shield' and former real-life housemate). Johnson portrays, rather hilariously, a team member named Lance "The Dance", who uses his former ballet skills to help him play ball.Other team members include a pair of twins with the same first name, a guru-type guy who wears a black hood, a surfer dude, and a geek named Doc who looks quite a bit older than most of his teammates. They're misfits, to be sure, but they have heart and spirit and all that good stuff, and throughout the film it's up to Bakula's Gus Cantrell to put these things to good use. Will he? I'll just say "guess" (and something tells me your answer will be correct)."Major League: Back to the Minors" doesn't quite make it up to hilariously bad caliber; however, it does manage to pass the time. I was quite amused by Johnson, and snickered at silly aspects like subtitles when a foreign man was speaking perfectly understandable English. I would like to have seen more of Goggins, but his few scenes with Bakula are genuinely good for a movie such as this. (However, Bakula's character tended to annoy in his other scenes, particularly by making dumb statements like the one about his "large white buttox." I also didn't care for the scenes where his tertiary Love Interest tried -- and failed -- to have a personality.)All in all, worth a look if you're a Bakula fan, or a fan of 'The Shield', or just a "Major League" completist.