Movie Review

Everyone's Hero (2006)

Reviewed by Gregory Kirschling | Sep 13, 2006

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EW's GRADE

B-

Details Release Date: Sep 15, 2006; Rated: G; Length: 88 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy; With: Jake T. Austin

$BAT MASTER, SON The Bambino is reunited with his missing Louisville Slugger in Everyone\'s Hero$

Image credit: Everyone's Hero: IDT Entertainment

BAT MASTER, SON The Bambino is reunited with his missing Louisville Slugger in Everyone's Hero

In 1932, a kid grandly named Yankee Irving finds a talking baseball named Screwie (voiced by Rob Reiner) in a New York sandlot, and they set off to return a talking baseball bat (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg) to Babe Ruth. Co-directed by Christopher Reeve (who died during production), Everyone's Hero re-creates Depression-era America with surprisingly agreeable anachronistic panache, but a sassy ball and bat don't cut it as compelling cartoon characters, and the not-so-human humans never quite do either (Babe Ruth looks like Shrek).

Originally posted Sep 13, 2006 Published in issue #898 Sep 22, 2006 Order article reprints

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