Squeeze Play - Its a pickle

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 12:11 a.m.

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A town of MAGA boys get a parade each time they win a baseball game and the ladies have had enough of their bull. Sadly, their anger lasts about 24 hours. This is why we can\'t get anything done in this country.

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According to Lloyd Kaufman, this is a women\'s liberation movie. I think he might have decided that way after the fact and the ties to women\'s lib are behind  boobie movie king, Andy Sidaris saying the same thing. Sure, its got women in leads who want to be treated equally to men, but these are straight up bimbos. Where Andy\'s ladies were strong and smarter than their male counterparts (also usually topless), Lloyd\'s lady baseball team are mostly only in it so they can either get their boyfriends back or make the boys fall in love with them.

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Sadly, the movie never asks the ladies, "Why in the hell would you even want anything to do with these tools?" If it had, the answer would likely be, "Because we also suck."

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Now, there are little flights of fun here - the over hammering the ridiculousness of their softball league - mattress workers vs appliance manufacturers. The Howard Cosell imitating announcer/narrator. But outside of these little bits, the film suffers from massive tedium, groan inducing jokes, garbled dialogue and people needing to be punted into the ditch.

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I want to like this movie, but just can\'t. You can skip it.

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