1/4

Most of the townspeople are archetypes. In fact, you get the feeling the town is populated by character actors and not real people.

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10/20/07

B

An exciting family picture, worthy of viewing, if only for the warm-fuzzy feeling.

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10/20/07

2/5

...strictly pro forma.

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10/19/07

2/4

It never hits a home run. But "Final Season," an adequate movie about an above-average baseball team, isn't a loser, either.

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10/17/07

N/A

Other than what happens on the playing field in 'The Final Season,' there's not much else going on.

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10/16/07

2/4

Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob.

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10/15/07

1/4

The tagline should be changed from How Do You Want To Be Remembered, to How Do You Want To Be Forgotten? You will find yourself forgetting too!

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10/14/07

C-

Stereotypes are meant to exalt small-town values, but The Final Season is proof that it's hard to paint masterpiece in broad strokes.

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10/12/07

2.5/4

It moves along at a brisk pace, the ball games are skillfully done and its point about the need for local decisions -- like the closing a school -- to be made at the local level is a point well made.

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10/12/07

1.5/4

Ever notice that sports movies that mean to inspire us with the message that winning isn't everything almost always end up with a victory?

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10/12/07

1.5/4

Perhaps if Disney had gotten their hands on it, The Final Season would have gotten the spitball polish it needs.

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10/12/07

2/4

Why is it enjoyable to watch sporting events depicted when we know how the games will end -- how they have to end? Where does the tension come from? Why do we care when we know already?

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10/12/07

1/4

So relentlessly earnest and maudlin it makes Hoosiers look like a Martin Scorsese film, The Final Season is the latest and worst sports-themed underdog story to get the big screen treatment.

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10/12/07

2.5/4

For once, here's a sports movie that doesn't feature players who are expected to lose.

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10/12/07

2/4

Belying the claim there's no longer any truth in advertising, The Final Season is exactly the formulaic, by-the-numbers movie it appears to be. These Tigers deserved better.

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10/12/07

N/A

Remarkably, the movie rights itself once the actual season begins, focusing on game strategy more than the usual heart-stopping pep talks.

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10/12/07

2/4

The US corn surplus is in no way eased by The Final Season, an Iowa high school baseball saga that goes heavy on the inspiration, sports-movie cliches, and high-fructose syrup.

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10/12/07

.5/5

Kind of Hoosiers: Part 2. But the storytelling is so backassward that it’s impossible to care about any of the characters or really engage in the movie whatsoever.

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10/12/07

3.5/5

How could you not give 3 cheers for the farm boys who make good... and how could we not give this movie a recommend, even if it does stray too much off the diamond.

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10/12/07