The Sandlot 2 is a direct-to-DVD 2005 sequel to The Sandlot.
Plot
The movie is set in 1972, 10 years after the events of The Sandlot. New kids have moved into the neighborhood of San Fernando Valley in Southern California. They have started playing baseball in the sandlot. The previous kids have all grown up and moved away. A young boy named Johnny Smalls, the little brother of Scott Smalls (the first film's protagonist), has heard the legend of "The Great Fear," (a beastly mutated dog, as he puts it when he later on tells the group about the beast) owned by Mr. Mertle, who lives behind the crater. David Durango (Max-Lloyd Jones) is the leader of the boys. Behind the crater; next to Mr. Mertle's home lives the Goodfairer family. Hayley, the daughter and her two friends befriend the other boys at first in a census to share the Sandlot, but their relationship burgeons potently into a friendship when they find themselves in a big problem with the beast next door, despite Hayley calling David a little baby, and David calling Hayley a spoiled brat.
One day, when Mac gets an aluminum baseball bat, it smacks their ball over the junk wall of Mr. Mertle's house and afterward they try to retrieve it. But just when they were about to cross over through a passage in the fence, Johnny stops them and tells them the story of "The Great Fear": how it used to be a junkyard dog, eating or killing others who trespassed into the junkyard. There was a boy who loved the comic book hero named Rapid Rocket, and would run fast like him. On his first day of school, he went past Mr. Mertle's house (who 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 Great Fear". Soon afterward, a wall made of assorted junk was built, and Mr. Mertle was ordered by the officials to keep the dog locked up forever. Ever since, if anything went over the fence, it would never come out.
The main conflict comes when the space rocket (the Space Shuttle) for the future of NASA and the United States built by Hayley's father is accidentally launched by Johnny, who initially thought he'd be test launching it with Mr. Goodfarier, is perplexed by the delay of Haley's father and launches it on his own by total misfortune. The rocket goes over Mr. Mertles junk wall and Haley along with everyone else frantically try many things to get it back, including hiring the boy called "The Retriever" (Griffin Reilly Evans), but he fails, and decides to retire. Then, just like Benny Rodriguez from the first movie, David must go over the wall to retrieve the rocket. Here it is revealed that the little boy from the story who was bitten by "The Great Fear" is David. He retrieves it and the dog chases him all over town. When David defeats the dog, they find out its real name is Goliath. After that the kids can be seen running to the sandlot because Goliath got away and realize that he only wanted to get out to see his girlfriend dog, who was also behind a fence. As all the kids are leaving Hayley and David share their first kiss and Mr. Mertle decides to not build a new fence because he's tired of kids thinking he is a mean old man.
In the final moments of the movie the narrator tells what happened to all the sandlot kids. Mac joined the army after high school, was wounded in the Gulf War, won a Purple Heart and joined the Peace Corps. Saul and Sammy started a record company for hip-hop music and called it Def Jam Records. Sammy used the money he made from Def Jam to start a gum company known as Kissing Booth Bubblegum. Penny and Jenny raised three kids with their families. Tarquell was abducted by aliens in 1986 and was never seen again. Hayley became a super model and a pitcher for a women's softball team; she won two gold medals. David and Hayley went all the way through High School together then went their separate ways. Ten years after college they met again. David, being as if he'd first met her again in middle school, is too nervous to speak. Hayley, like before, spoke for him by saying, "You're supposed to say, 'Will you marry me?'" and they had kids together and lived happily ever after. Johnny Smalls started working for NASA doing something for rockets. Rockets were his life and always will be.
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