Pretty solid. Even for non-baseball fans.

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2011)

Three words: Moneyball was pleasant. More-so though if you know anything about or care at all about baseball. I do not. So there were several looooong moments where I felt suspended in stat and technicality limbo. I can't decide if I felt satisfied with how it ended. In particular, the song playing as the ending narratives were displayed made me feel sad for our antagonist instead of proud, as I should have. However, the overall movie was good. And it's based on a true story so it just is what it is. Kinda your typical underdog-athletic-team-triumphs-against- the-odds type movie. Though it was clearly more of a tale of Billy Beane, the team GM, than of one about the Oakland As. Which was the point. It's not necessarily about winning it all (though that would be nice). It's about challenging the status quo.
Where the movie loses many people in baseball tedium, it more than substantially makes up for in comedy. Clever comedy though. There's just no way the movie would have been the same without Jonah Hill. He was such a smart casting choice and if you're a fan of his, you won't be disappointed. It's really cool to see that he can still be hilarious outside of the Superbad/Forgetting Sarah Marshall type stuff we're used to seeing him in. So go see it, at your leisure.
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