56% on Rotten Tomatoes?
I recently watched The Sandlot for the first time a few weeks ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. So you can imagine my surprise when I went to check the RT score and it was only 56%.
What's up with that? I thought for sure that this would be a film the critics would appreciate.
The audience score, by contrast, is 89% which is a lot more in line with my expectations. It's interesting to see how much higher the audience score is than the critics' score.
All in all, I found The Sandlot to be a charming and nostalgic movie, even though the early 60s was not an era I lived through and baseball is not a game I particularly care about.