Beer, broads and baseball combine with hilarious results in Artie Lange's Beer League, an over-the-top comedy about a group of misfits whose weekly softball games seem to have a lot more to do with getting into fights for macho dominance than hitting home runs. Artie is an unemployed and unmotivated drunk that is predictably still living with his mother. He is on a losing softball team, and he and his teammates are facing the end of softball as they know it if they can't pull it together. When love enters his life, it unexpectedly alters Artie's low self-esteem, and the odds for winning, not only the league trophy, but a new life, are certainly looking up. He and his teammates will have to go for the win, and survive all the comedy and chaos along the way.
Not quite sure why the movie is entitled Beer League because it didn't really combine beer and softball like I thought it would. Regardless, it was a very funny movie that didn't get a lot of exposure in theaters or on DVD (the Blockbuster I rented it from only had 3 copies). However, it was nice to see and hear a movie that looks like it was shot around my area of New York, so I could kind of relate to it on that level. It was also great to see Ralph Macchio & Seymour Cassel working again.
