Safe at Home!

I've just finished reading the reviews... and people are actually panning this movie! It's a kids movie, for god's sake. Give it a rest already.

This movie was released at a time when Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were the best baseball players that nearly anyone at that time had ever seen.... especially kids. And that is what this movie is about... and is for... kids.

It's not a bad film. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and one can truly sense the inner-desire that this young boy has to get 'close' to his baseball heroes. I think the people who have deeply criticized this film were probably never a true baseball fan as a kid... and cannot grasp what goes through a child's mind when he/she gets the opportunity to meet their living idol in person. I remember as a boy getting the opportunity to meet my favorite baseball player, Kent Hrbek of the Minnesota Twins, and it was a day that I cherish in my childhood.

And in this film, for a little boy to have the adventure that he had with the real life New York Yankees.... the Bronx Bombers.... the dream of a g'zillion little boys across our great land in 1961.... this is not a film to be panned. No, it's not a masterpiece, but as children's movies go.... I'd take this one over the majority of so-called kids films we see today.

I think too many of us tend to forget what childhood and those little pre-teen dreams were like..... but this movie will certainly bring them to remembrance.