The Sandlot 2

ÁThe Sandlot 2 is a sequel to the original Sandlot, that has a setting ten years after the first one. New kids have moved into the neighborhood of San Fernando Valley of Southern California, and have started playing in the same sandlot of the first movie. The previous kids have all grown and moved away. A young, nine to ten year old boy named Johnnie Smalls(James Willson), the younger brother of the narrator of both movies, along with being the main character of the first movie, Scotty Smalls. He has heard the legend of "The Beast"/Hercules owned by Mr. Mertle, from Sandlot 1.

 This movie is exactly similar to the first.  A boy named David Durango(Max-Lloyd Jones), is the leader of the nine boys.  Then, three girls join the team, one of them named Hailey Goodfairer(Samantha Burton), who were recently young, professional softball players, and Hailey always pitches the ball underhand.  She starts to develop feelings for David, and it is revealed that he may have feelings for Hailey, which is shown in a scene when they challenge a little league team, and the lead player hurts Hailey by hitting her in the stomach.  David punches him, telling him that no boy should ever hit a girl.
    One day, when the kids' ball goes over the hugely built fence of Mr. Mertle, and they try to get it back, Johnnie makes them stop by showing them that there was something on the other side, descended from Hercules, the Beast, which is called "The Great Fear."
   That night, Johnnie tells them the story of the Great Fear, how it used to be a junkyard dog, eating or hurting others who trespassed the junk yard.  There was a boy who loved the comic book hero named Rapid Rocket, and would run around fast like him.  On his first day of school, he went passed Mr. Mertle's house, except he forgot to lock the back gate, and The Great Fear got out, and chased the boy.  It was unknown what happened to him, after he was cornered by the killer dog at the junkyard.  Soon afterward, a fence made of dryers, washing machines, ovens, etc. from the junk yard was built on Mr. Mertle's fence, and he was ordered by the officials to keep the dog locked up forever.  Ever since, just like Hercules, if anything went over the fence, it would not come out.  David had mentioned earlier that not one ball had gone over it of all the time that the boys had spent playing at the sandlot before the girls came.
 In the last movie, Scotty Smalls's stepfather's autographed baseball from Babe Ruth was thrown over the fence, and the boys tried many ideas to get it back.  In the sequel, the space rocket for the future of NASA and the United States built by Hailey's father was blown over the fence, because Johnnie accidentally set it off.  The kids try so many things to get it back, including hiring the one called The Retriever(Griffin Reilly Evans), but he fails, and retires from his job(even though he never really had one).
     Then, just like Benny Rodriguez, David is chased by the monsterous dog all over town, and it is shown that he was the young boy from so long ago who was chased by the dog, revealed by the Rapid Rocket cape that he brought with him.  When they got back to the sandlot, David fell onto the ground on the other side of the fence, and fell into a deep ditch.  The dog then dug him up, and saved him from suffocation.  David saw his tag, which read that his real name is Goliath.  The boys then meet the now-ten-year-older blind Mr. Mertle, telling them that the same situation with them happened in the summer of 1962, how the boys got something over the fence, and how he could have gotten it for them.  Johnnie was able to save the rocket, and, isn't it obvious, David and Hailey become boyfriend and girlfriend.  The movie, once again, ends with what happened to all the boys when they left the sandlot.  So basically, the movie began and ended the same way as the first, but each is more entertaining than the last.