The Scout

"The Scout" begins as an awesome comedy, continues as a pointless drama, and ends as a cliffhanger of cornball. A film rarely starts high and goes down so quickly. It's as if the filmmakers with each extra scene gradually lost their nerves

As someone who knows absolutely nothing about baseball, and therefore can view the movie without that particular bias, I'd have to say it was cute. Light humor interspersed with bizarre, bratlike antics on the part of all characters. It'd almost be a good kids movie if they could have left out the swearing.

"The Scout" is an underrated comedy, which though never quite hitting the heights gives good value in the funny-sentimental entertainment stakes and benefits from two excellent performances (Albert Brooks - in a role "Seinfeld"'s Jason Alexander would probably over-play on television - and Brendan Fraser). The hidden depths of the film - the young player's childhood "abuse" for instance - remain hidden (the movie seems shy about going there) but as old-style, far-fetched shtick the picture works very nicely.

Albert Brooks stars as a down on his luck desperate baseball scout who finds a golden arm (Brendan Fraser) while in Mexico. Unfortunately he is a little bit eccentric. Has some good bits dealing with the fish out of water plot but overall it doesnt build up any steam and just kind of fizzles itself away.. on a scale of one to ten.. 5

Albert Brooks and Brendan Fraser are pure excellence in this! Also Michael Rapaport in the beginning was adorable as the nervous baseball player, which is interesting because he hated going on the rollercoaster in True Romance; he had to be drugged to look happy so I think it's cool he ran away from baseball in this. Aside from that stuff though this is a heartwarming movie where Brendan Fraser is basically the best baseball player ever catching or hitting "He's got the touch" and the drama in this spot on.

I think sometimes people take some movies too seriously, and this is an example of one of them. This is a fantasy baseball movie, not something that would actually happen. Does anyone think that "The Natural" was realistic? Brendan Frasier is great in his role as a child trapped in an adult's body due to an abusive childhood, but who is one of the greatest baseball players ever. Albert Brooks is also great as the scout whose bad luck suddenly changes when he discovers him in the middle of Mexico, and is so excited about his talent that he ignores the mental problems that Frasier's character has. However, Im disappointed we never learned more of what was actually wrong with him.