Review: Major League 2 on TBS
Major League 2 on TBS
First off, I have to say that I kind of liked Major League. It isn't a good movie by any means, but I saw it in that brief childhood period where movies sort of burn themselves into your brain and don't let go. It had a fairly elegant simplicity to it and the characters were mostly endearing.
However, I had never seen Major League 2. I heard it was fairly bad, so I didn't go out of my way to watch it. When it came on TBS last night I decided "what the hell" and continued watching it. Holy shit did I waste my time.
Now as I said before, Major League isn't the greatest movie ever, but god damn if it isn't Oscar award worthy compared to its sequel. ML2 is like a sick pantomime of the first movie, with each actor struggling to remember exactly how they played their character in ML, only doing it hollowly and without heart. In fact the major conflict in the film (other than all the stuff that is an exact copy of the first film) is the Charlie Sheen character trying to clean himself up and grow as a person, but ultimately being forced to shape himself into exactly the same person he was in the first movie.
In fact, a overarching plot element in the film is the recurring motif of things that were different at the beginning of the film changing back to the way they were in the first film for no logical or causal reason whatsoever. A perfect example of this is the purchase of the team by the "evil owner" of club (who owned it in the first movie). There is no reason for her to buy the team, and her character limply stands at the sidelines and doesn't interact with any of the other characters. She is merely filling her role because she needs to be put in the same plot position she was in in the first movie.
Add on top of this that I was seeing this on TBS where the time given to commercials was, by the end of the film, actually LONGER than the time given to the movie (I checked it), the experience was dishearteningly negative. It's a good thing The Frighteners was on Space or I think I would have gone batty.
Really, watching movies on TBS isn't so much watching a movie as it is watching a boring, chopped up, and sanitized reel of clips which remind you of a movie you saw earlier. Here I was watching a boring, chopped up, sanitized version of a movie which was in itself a boring, sanitized version of another movie I only really liked because of nostalgic reasons.
So why didn't I change the channel? Well for one, it was a bit like rubber necking at a car crash and seeing someone's brains sprayed out across a windshield like canned cheeze, I couldn't look away.
And secondly, I'm a bit retarded.
First off, I have to say that I kind of liked Major League. It isn't a good movie by any means, but I saw it in that brief childhood period where movies sort of burn themselves into your brain and don't let go. It had a fairly elegant simplicity to it and the characters were mostly endearing.However, I had never seen Major League 2. I heard it was fairly bad, so I didn't go out of my way to watch it. When it came on TBS last night I decided "what the hell" and continued watching it. Holy shit did I waste my time.
Now as I said before, Major League isn't the greatest movie ever, but god damn if it isn't Oscar award worthy compared to its sequel. ML2 is like a sick pantomime of the first movie, with each actor struggling to remember exactly how they played their character in ML, only doing it hollowly and without heart. In fact the major conflict in the film (other than all the stuff that is an exact copy of the first film) is the Charlie Sheen character trying to clean himself up and grow as a person, but ultimately being forced to shape himself into exactly the same person he was in the first movie.
In fact, a overarching plot element in the film is the recurring motif of things that were different at the beginning of the film changing back to the way they were in the first film for no logical or causal reason whatsoever. A perfect example of this is the purchase of the team by the "evil owner" of club (who owned it in the first movie). There is no reason for her to buy the team, and her character limply stands at the sidelines and doesn't interact with any of the other characters. She is merely filling her role because she needs to be put in the same plot position she was in in the first movie.
Add on top of this that I was seeing this on TBS where the time given to commercials was, by the end of the film, actually LONGER than the time given to the movie (I checked it), the experience was dishearteningly negative. It's a good thing The Frighteners was on Space or I think I would have gone batty.
Really, watching movies on TBS isn't so much watching a movie as it is watching a boring, chopped up, and sanitized reel of clips which remind you of a movie you saw earlier. Here I was watching a boring, chopped up, sanitized version of a movie which was in itself a boring, sanitized version of another movie I only really liked because of nostalgic reasons.
So why didn't I change the channel? Well for one, it was a bit like rubber necking at a car crash and seeing someone's brains sprayed out across a windshield like canned cheeze, I couldn't look away.
And secondly, I'm a bit retarded.
