Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

the audience applauded

Powerful

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

I would've rated higher but just because it's hilarious doesn't mean it's excellent. One of my gripes about this one is how Willie Hayes' ambition to go deep and the Skipper's disapproval was simply used all over again. Willie tried to be hot stuff in the first and Lou scolded him, explaining his job is to get on base, not hit homeruns, to which he responded, "Hey :), no problem :)!" For THIS one, he buffed up over the winter and is trying to be Babe Ruth again, and LOU, AGAIN, has the same talk with him as if they didn't go through that already in the FIRST movie. The climax is so totally ridiculous and unrealistic: no manager would ever allow the scenario at the end. If he did, regardless of whether it turns out successfully, he'd be fired and wouldn't be picked up by any other club.

Well, it's got some amusing parts. However, much of the movie is painfully reusing story points and gags from the first movie. Some interesting characters from the first movie are either missing (Russo, Snipes) or mailing it in (Bernsen, Whitton). Story lines involving the changes to major characters seem forced and generally don't work well. Add to that a general lack of character empathy, and you have a movie which shouldn't be enjoyable. That said, it's watchable, with the same general flavor as the original, but be prepared to roll your eyes occasionally (okay, more than occasionally) at the soulless, generally lazy rework this movie is.

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

Major League II is still a good movie but by no means is it in the same league as the original Major League.The first movie ends with the Indians finally making the playoffs for the first time in 40 years. They went onto being swept by the White Sox in the ALCS so the enemy team of this movie is now the W.Sox. The Indians big free agent pickup in the off season was a guy named Jack Parkman who while a great player ends up being a real prick and causing dissension in the clubhouse. Ricky Vaughn is also more concerned about his public image then being the bad boy he was previously. After Lou Brown has a heart attack that means Jake Taylor takes over as the teams manager. And yada yada.The movie isn't bad by any means but it doesn't seem to have the same magic and spark that the first movie had, I could watch the original ML a million times and never get tired of it.