This movie was bad even by the standards of direct to video sequels. This features none of the actors from the original movie except for James Earl Jones. Please review this, Nostalgia Critic! I'm reminded of his review of "A Christmas Story 2" where he kept saying, "First movie!". That's exactly what this was. This was a pathetic attempt to recreate the magic made by arguably the best sports movie of the 1990's with a new cast. The plot is so dumb as it features a model rocket that's apparently going to change the future of space travel being activated by a kid that goes into the yard with the monstrous dog.How did we go from a baseball signed by Babe Ruth to a partly functional rocket? Oh, and it loses points because there's one scene where they try to get a cat to retrieve the rocket and the monstrous dog rips all his fur off. I felt sorry for that poor cat. Even the ending is just a ripoff of the original giving us absolutely nothing new and insulting to the original. There are a bunch of girl characters who really serve no purpose and there's a kid who was bitten but that's never brought up. We went from an urban legend about a dog that ate dozens of people to one where a dog bit a kid. *1/2

What the shizzoid was I watching. I don't even know why I can still see or hear due to the temptation of stabbing my eyes and ears with steak knives throughout this movie. Really horrible movie, not worth watching the opening credits. I think that if you have the DVD version of this movie that instead of watching it, you should use it to reflect the sun into the writer, director, and producer of this movies eyes while they are operating a moving vehicle (preferably an airplane). If you, for some reason, have a VHS version of this movie, I suggest that you take out all of the film, wrap it around your eyes and ears and then light the end on fire. Hopefully this will impair your hearing and vision enough so that you do not have to go through the homicide trial that the DVD people will have to go through to end the pain of watching "The Sandlot 2".

There is nothing original in this movie. The key plot points are entirely recycled from the first Sandlot movie. And for that reason alone, it loses all emotional impact.I will give them credit for some good period pieces. The bikes and cars and some of the hairstyles look very 1972. But by the same token, "Hayley Goodfairer"???? I don't think parents were cursing their children with the name Hayley back in '72 yet. And Hayley Goodfairer's lips could only have been modeled after Angelina Jolie's. Weird.....It would have been nice if there had been something new and interesting in the movie. As it is, it's a total loss.Well, I take that back. On the DVD, there is a pretty good 10 minute retrospective on the Original Sandlot, with the child actors who are now young adults. THAT is worth watching.

My jaw actually dropped when I saw this movie sitting on the shelf. I only rented it for pure curiosity. I did not check movie ratings or critics comments because I was sure they would be bad anyway. I popped the movie in and immediately wanted to pop it out. I always finish a movie so I sat through this torment. The only time I caught myself laughing was at the terrible acting and how the script may as well have been copied and pasted from the original classic except to be twisted into a trash can they call a movie. There was no creativity or thought put into it, it seemed as if they rushed through they movie only hoping to not lose money by spending more time. I urge you to NOT see this movie unless you are just simple looking to waste a bit of time and money you can never have back.