Major League 3 Is One Of The Worst Directed Studio Films Ever Made
The original Major League is fantastic. It's obviously very funny but it also feels like you're in actual major league clubhouse. It's a movie about camaraderie as much as anything. Because it feels so real and the performances are so good, the laughs come easy easily and naturally. Mix in great pacing and perfect Bob Uecker one liners and it feels timeless even 35 years later.
If you took the opposite of all of those strengths, you'd have Major League 3: Back To The Minors.
The only thing worse than the script is the direction. This was helmed by John Warren whose biggest movie before this was the Pauly Shore epic The Curse Of Inferno (which I have never head of). Major League 3 was so bad, Warren never directed again.
This also suffers from the same problem as Major League 2 which also had a PG rating. It takes out any of the reality of how these guys will talk. It's a slippery slope that easily turns these people into cartoon characters getting the cheapest laughs possible.
The worst offender is Ted McGinley. He was great at Jefferson D'arcy on Married…With Children but here, he's something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon. When he's not trying to pull his hair out, he's doing weird pratfalls or overacting so much, you'd expect smoke to come out of his ears.
This is a movie so bad, they managed to make Bob Uecker unfunny.
In this episode of DOUBLE PLAY, we do talk even more Major League 3 as well as the great original Major League. You can watch the whole episode below or click HERE to listen:
