I got this as part of a three DVD set, the entire Bad News Bears series. (The set was a disappointment by the way. Yes, it was only $23, but there were no frills. It was in mono, no extras.) So, like I said, this movie was unbelievably bad. I put this in, dozed off for a few minutes, then woke up thinking I was watching some bad Japanese movie. Then I remembered, no, it's the Bad News Bears. I didn't even recognize it as a BAB movie. It looked like Godzilla on his day off. There was this really terrible sequence where those kids were on some Japanese variety show, and then something about a karate champion. I thought I was dreaming this damn movie. Then there was this sequence that looked to me like one of these kids pounded Godzilla into submission with a baseball bat. Maybe it was just as well they ended the series with this movie. Those kids were getting too old anyway. As it was, they just played secondary rolls here and you felt removed from them. And Kelly's love interest? How contrived can you get? He falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl, one he will probably never see again once he gets home? Get real, people!!! And they couldn't understand each other at all when they first met each other. How is it that by the end of the movie either she's able to understand English or he's able to understand Japanese? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that was ever explained.
The baseball game was a joke. How do you suppose they could have had a fight on the field without causing an international incident? And this business with the coach and the little kid was a little too incredible as well. Hard-hearted hustler is won over by a sad little kid? How corny can you get? I loved the Bad News Bears series. At least I did the first two movies. This one is a real turkey turd. 2 out of 10.
The baseball game was a joke. How do you suppose they could have had a fight on the field without causing an international incident? And this business with the coach and the little kid was a little too incredible as well. Hard-hearted hustler is won over by a sad little kid? How corny can you get? I loved the Bad News Bears series. At least I did the first two movies. This one is a real turkey turd. 2 out of 10.