Million Dollar Arm

     Most people love an underdog story, business, who pursues a last chance, long shot idea to find MLB players in rural India.  And Million-Dollar Arm is no exception.  The story starts with JB, a sports agent in the failing. JB goes to India and conducts numerous tryouts with thousands of young men.  Eventually, he finds two boys, Rinku and Dinesh, and brings them back with him to America for a shot at fame and a chance to make their families proud. The boys struggle with adjusting to the American language and culture, as well as to baseball. JB pushes the boys to make their debut in front of multiple talent scouts after only nine months.  They fail miserably under the pressure. However, thanks to the help of his female neighbor, who befriends and understands Rinku and Dinesh, JB comes to the realization that he has been selfish and unsupportive of the two young boys. But when JB takes the job of helping the boys seriously and gives them support, they get a second chance at MLB. Meanwhile, JB learns that life is not about making money, but about caring for the people in his life.

     My opinion of this movie was that it was decent. Although the film was not on my top ten movies of all time, it was a cool movie. I didn’t really like that it had crass humor where it wasn’t needed. It has several mentions of beer and sex, which was very disappointing for a PG-rated movie. The overall story was decent enough that I enjoyed certain scenes of the movie.

     I’m not sure if I would recommend this movie to any of my friends. I’m my opinion this movie's flow and production were pretty awful, and I wouldn’t watch it more than one time. It hardly had any funny parts and when it did it was some inappropriate joke. But if you like slow moving inspirational sports movies, this movie would most likely sit well with you.