John Seal I love zombie movies, and I love baseball (and baseball movies, too). So the stars seemed to have aligned when I learned of Battlefield Baseball. Sadly, the film leaves much to be desired.There's little in the way of zombie mayhem--most of the action, incredibly, happens off screen--and even less baseball. The screenplay commits a serious error by declaring, via the field umpire, that the rules of Battlefield Baseball are "there are no rules". As a result, this 'baseball' game consists of little more than a few fist fights with some poor special effects thrown in for good measure.There are a few amusing moments: Jubei's flashback to his father's death, for example, involves the most obscenely large catcher's mitt ever seen, but by and large, this is a poor tribute to the films of Takashi Miike.

AwesomeWolf Ever wanted to see an action / comedy / musical about baseball playing zombies? Don't lie, you know you do.Jubei Yakyû (Tak Sakaguchi) is a poor student, transferred from school to school. He is a great baseball player, but he won't allow himself to play, that is until his new school, Seido High has to face the Gedo High School team, a team of baseball-playing zombies, whose stadium is apparently not to subject to any laws. Awesome.'Battlefield Baseball' is nothing but 90 minutes of insanity: packed with fights, deadly baseball matches, all sorts of strange characters, musical numbers, crazy dialog, the most convenient and bizarre plot twists, and all-round awesomeness, 'Battlefield Baseball' is one bizarre, but very funny movie.Don't watch 'Battlefield Baseball' with any expectations, and don't take it seriously at all, and you should enjoy it. Especially if you like awesomeness - 8/10

generac I had such high hopes for this movie, as I first heard of it recently after seeing some great movies that this one tried to emulate, like shaolin soccer and god of cookery. However as much as I wanted to enjoy viewing this movie, I ended up hating every single minute of it. It uses every stupid hackneyed plot device and character type in the history of stupid movies, and doesn't pull off a single element convincingly, and was completely devoid of entertainment. The producers probably wanted to do a movie like shaolin soccer, except they refused to pay a single yen more than the cost of the materials this abomination was shot on. There is absolutely nothing good I can say about this movie. Not a single, solitary gag hit it's mark. I have never seen such a thoroughly unfunny movie attempt so many bad gags. If there ever was a movie deserving of the score of 0, this would be it.

macgruder I watched this movie not knowing much about it, but after watching it, I can truly say this is one of the most absurd movies I have ever seen. The Japanese love to mix genres, and with this one it is comedy, action, zombie film and musical all rolled into one big laugh fest. The wackiness starts off with a baseball team trying to make it to the finals but facing their first opponents the Gedo team, which consists of zombie/demons kills almost the entire team.A rogue ex-player joins the high school and is recruited to the failed team in hopes that they can defeat them. The recruitment leads to the films first of 3 (that I can remember) comedic musical numbers giving background information on the characters.The wide array of characters blends well for the film, and lends to the ridiculous scenes with the team facing off against the Gedo zombie team, who have their own rules for baseball, which doesnt even contain the actual game of baseball, but just attacking the other team attempting to kill them all. A movie that has to be seen to be believed. Theres no way this strange humor would work in America, so if you like off the wall comedies, try to get a copy of this movie and see for yourself.