Welcome to the Power Rankings, and happy Thanksgiving Week.
If the Power Rankings were a class and I were a teacher, this would have just been a written summary of the movie Sandlot, which I felt was always a teacher’s answer to the pre-Holiday malaise (sub-observation: I probably watched Sandlot in a classroom a combined 400 times between 5th grade and 12th grade, and I just recently discovered that the movie was rated PG; have the standards for PG risen significantly? Is there a rating between PG and PG-13? Could Pixar have Woody and Bo Peep say s— four times during a movie, depict chewing tobacco, coming-of-age sexuality and some mild chauvinism and still maintain a PG rating now? I’m not personally bothered—I love Sandlot—but when I look back on it, it’s fairly wild how unquestioned that movie’s status was as a pacifier for a classroom full of children no one planned to educate that day) (sub-sub observation: teachers are the best and deserve movie days).
