Gus Cantrell (Scott Bakula) is an aging minor league baseball pitcher who knows all the tricks. Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen) hires him to manage his minor league team with a great prospect in over-confident Billy Anderson (Walton Goggins). Rube Baker (Eric Bruskotter) is back with the same problem as before. Pedro Cerrano (Dennis Haysbert) returns to baseball after spending time away searching for something. Taka Tanaka (Takaaki Ishibashi) has opened a putt-putt golf course but he's tired of the business. He also joins this ragtag AAA team. When faced with old nemesis Leonard Huff (Ted McGinley), he gets into a challenge between his minor league team and Huff's Minnesota Twins.I love Scott Bakula as an actor, but it's a mistake to put him in the lead. If Dennis Haysbert is willing to come back, then it would be much better to have Cerrano as a new coach. People love the franchise because of not just baseball but the characters as well. It just makes sense to have an original character as the lead. I also didn't find Walton Goggins that believable as the new young prospect. He's not that young looking, and he needs more muscle to be a big hitter. And losing the Cleveland Indians doesn't help although that may be beyond the filmmakers' control. That's not a rub against The Twins. It's just that the franchise started with the Indians and there's a history.

Not bad for the third in a series based on the same concept. Scott Bakula appears as the out of options old man manager for a minor league team. He has a great approach to managing his team. The roping of the two Juan's together to shorten their range so each covers the appropriate range for their respective positions is priceless. He turns "Downtown" in to a complete hitter after he returns from his shot at the majors where he couldn't hit any thing but a fastball. Pops Morgan is a pretty much washed up player who just can't let go of the "dream". I like it when they find Tanaka at a mini-putt putt golf course with his family. He is convinced to return to pro ball. Dennis Haysbert returns for the third time as Pedro Cerrano, the power hitting but superstitious player. Corbin Benson is back as the smarmy owner of a major league team that plays the minor one on a dare. I like the face down between Liston and the pitcher. This results from a little talk that Bakula had with him about the mechanics of pitching. Ted McGinley plays the manager of ther Twins and he just can't understand why they get beat. This is a decent follow up movie for the series.

It's not as good as Major League, but considerably better than Major League 2. It has good humor for some good laughs, and has it's own charm. Good for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon fair.Scott Bakula was a good choice and has that veteran smarts and laid back way that makes him likable."Tell him to throw his fastball" -"That WAS his fastball". Funny.Don't take it too seriously and you may find yourself enjoying it. It follows along similar fair like Necessary Roughness. Good humor that sometimes gets lost when people look for too much. Grab some pop-corn and a soda and just enjoy it for what it is.

Major League 3, in my opinion, far exceeded the first 2 Major League comedies with humor and a good story. I had a hard time staying awake while watching the first 2 but this one had me laughing almost the whole time. This is the kind of humor that fans of movies such as "UHF", "Bill and Ted's Exellent Adventure", and "Monty Python: The Search for The Holy Grail" should thoroughly enjoy. If you like watching a movie that has 'mostly' clean humor that you don't have to think about why or what happened, this is a good choice.