Good Movie - Damn Yankee's is Better

Rating: 6/10 (4 January 2008)

I liked the film. Robert Redford, Wilford Brimley, Robert Duval, Kim Basinger, and Gelnn Close - what could be wrong with that? But if you have never seen the Musical "Damn Yankees" then you have never seen this same story done EXTREMELY well.
The 1958 musical "Damn Yankee's" stars Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston. It is musical, comedy, social commentary, and whimsy, all in one.
Robert Redford's effort is quite good, and gives us all the same issues, without the fun music, dancing, and cartoon characters. But you cannot watch the pitchers in "The Natural" and not hear the grunts from the pitchers in "Damn Yankee's".
I am not denigrating "The Natural", I am extolling "Damn Yankee's".
Watch it and see.