Product: A League of Their Own (Widescreen Edition) [VHS] (1992)
Rating: 3.0
THE AIR WENT OUT OF THE BALLOON
I wanted to really like A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. A refreshingly uplifting tale of professional women baseball players, Penny Marshall kept the film moving and interesting, until...that copout of an ending. Rooting for the team the whole movie, and then kaboom....they don't win!!! I found Geena Davis and Lori Petty's characters to be the epitome of self-effacing, selfish whiny losers. Davis allows Petty to blame her for all the things that have gone wrong in her life; the whiny little sister who is always in the shadow of her more accomplished bigger sister wore thin, particularly since Petty was so self-centered in it. Then take Davis...she selfishly leaves the team at the World Series, then comes back in game 7 and expects to play, despite the fact that stand in Alice has played the first six games. And then, in the film's climactic moment, she "drops" the ball, all to allow her whiny sister a chance to be "the star" of the moment. And then afterwards, the two act like they are the best of friends in a maudlin huggy poo scene. I liked 3/4 of this movie, but the ending was a soporific attempt to pull "a lifelike unpredictable ending," but was it fair to the team to allow this sibling rivalry to come out in favor of the whiny younger brat? Boo hiss!!!!