Picking Nits
Towering Little League pop fly; Martin playing 35; baseball positioning; uninjured car-crash couple; sexual content; Moranis’s classroom song; developed sex photos
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- Moved up from picking nits: the first baseman explodes into the outfield impossibly fast under a pop fly that hangs for about fifteen seconds.
- A 32-mile-per-hour pitch and a weak batter could not produce that pop fly, and the first baseman is a slow slugger type rather than a quick first baseman like John Olerud.
- The biggest nitpick is that Martin, 44 and looking older, plays a 35-year-old; he is called miscast despite being great.
- If Gil is 35 with a nine-year-old, he would be about fifty at the college graduation yet appears elderly with a cane.
- A generational talent gap is suggested between the Hanks-Keaton group and Martin; Dan Aykroyd or Bill Murray might have fit, but the character should have been written older, which would also sharpen the late pregnancy.
- The team’s best player would pitch or play shortstop rather than first base; Lou’s grievance comes from Gil’s positioning of Kevin, and a manager could simply move the left fielder to second.
- Gil or his wife should have been hurt in the car accident, although the nature of the crash is unclear.
- The film pushes the limits of its rating with a vibrator, pornography, oral sex and sex photographs.
- Rick Moranis singing in the classroom is called a least-favorite, overly long scene.
- Developing sex photographs at a local shop seems implausible; developers reportedly refused to print some photos.