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Bad News Bears (2005)
When Billy Bob Thornton was Santa, he was bad. Now, as he becomes the coach of 12 bungling ballplayers, he's even worse. In "Bad News Bears," grizzled former professional baseball player Morris Buttermaker is bribed by a straitlaced lawyer to coach the Bears, a woefully inept youth baseball team. Buttermaker's got to find a way to drive this gang of 12 misfits to a championship against their hated rivals: the Yankees and their overbearing coach. From the director that brought you "The School of Rock" with the writing team behind "Bad Santa" comes a hilarious 2005 homage to an irreverent 1976 comedy. (read more)
| Release Date: | July 22nd, 2005 |
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This remake of the 1976 original starring Walter Matthau doesn't work quite as well in a modern setting, but still gets a few laughs off. Billy Bob Thornton is perfectly cast the pathetic exterminator with a drinking problem who played for 3/4 of an inning in the Major Leagues and is now being paid to coach a local...
(complete Bad News Bears review by Jessica Film Junkie)
| Bad News Bears Movie Review by Neal (8/3/2005) |
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This movie started off as a fairly funny movie, but then the humor was recycled and everything just became not-so-funny. Example: the little kid who always gets pissed and throws his glove. Two time = funny. Every time after that = I wanted to beat him because he was annoying the piss out of me. Anyway, see it if you want...
(complete Bad News Bears review by Neal)
| Bad News Bears Movie Review by Peter (7/22/2005) |
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My question would be "why": why was this necessary? In this, The Summer of Remakes, we've seen Batman Begins reveal a darker, more realistic territory for the Dark Knight to patrol, and War of the Worlds, which, as you've certainly had pounded into your head by every critic in the land, updated the classic novel and movie...
(complete Bad News Bears review by Peter)
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