Packed with everything you'd want from an inspiring sports story. The pieces aren't put together as neatly as one would hope, but the film easily achieves the intended effect.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2010

Notable only for being a catalog of just about every kid-pic cliche' ever committed to film.

| Original Score: D+ | May 7, 2010

Director William Dear is not one to miss a sentimental beat.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2010

[From] the second minute of the movie I knew every single thing that was going to happen and there was not a single surprise.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2010

It's an unabashedly corny but occasionally stirring dramedy based on the true-life story of scrappy young baseball players from Mexico.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2010

So overwhelmed by its own based-on-actual-events tale that it can't find the tone to tell it effectively.

| Apr 16, 2010

There has been only one perfect game in the history of the Little League World Series, and the story is as unlikely and as perfect as any underdog sports-movie fairy tale.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 16, 2010

Anyone much older than, say, 10, will likely find the underdog saga sappy and manipulative, not to mention filled with sports movie cliches, including the following statement: "It will take a miracle to make them into a real team."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 16, 2010

This inspirational film, written by first-timer (and producer) W. William Winokur, is not for cynics or those resistant to cute kids (and child actors sometimes given to mugging).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2010

Think of it as the "Good News Bears."

| Original Score: B- | Apr 15, 2010

A very sweet, very slight family movie that scores smiles and tears of joy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2010

The heart of both the story and its telling do help in smoothing over other deficiencies, sweet and disarming in its belief that something like a baseball game can make a bigger difference.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2010

The climactic drama of the championship game owes largely to the fact that, despite their unprecedented success as a foreign team in the tournament, young Angel Macias and his teammates somehow didn't go down in history, at least not stateside.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2010

A paper-thin telling of a genuinely remarkable story that lifts the bullet points of a Mexican team's unprecedented run through the Little League World Series, and fills out the rest with stereotypes and rank sentimentality.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 15, 2010

Well-meaning but thick with cliches.

| Apr 15, 2010

The film is perfectly mediocre, which is heartbreaking, not heartwarming.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2010

You sort of know how these underdog sports movies turn out. Doesn't matter. The Perfect Game so expertly uses the charisma and personalities of the actors, especially the young ones, that it's thrilling anyway.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2010

Although based on the real-life tale of nine underage underdogs from Monterrey, Mexico who swept the 1957 Little League World Series, this Cinderella sports story rings false from first pitch to last.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 14, 2010

Baseball movies generally lean toward the mawkishly uplifting, an inclination wholly embraced by The Perfect Game, which resorts to such corniness that one can practically hear the screen crunching.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 12, 2010