This is "Foul Ball", not "Foul Play", even though both 1978 films utilized part of Gilbert and Sullivan's score for "The Mikado" as a part of its background. Tony Curtis seems like he'd rather be looking camp in ancient Rome as "Antonious, singer of songs" or looking for "da castle of his fadda" in the middle east of the middle ages than in touristy Tokyo (complete with McDonald's) with these little bears, way more than three.
Scoody Thornton, as series regular Ahmad's kid brother, will have you in stitches from the start, and he's the reason why this gets an extra star above bomb for me. He reminds me of the type of youngster you'd see on "Kids are people too!" with his deadpan reactions to everything that Curtis does. In fact, I decided early on that this was going to be dreadful but stuck around only to see what he would do next.
Jackie Earle Haley gets little to do, his character obviously having outgrown the rebel without a cause stage of his life, so he stalks a Japanese lady in geisha clothes who keeps trying to tell him to get lost in her language but is secretly smiling at his attentions. In fact, this seems to be trying to cover pretty much every stereotype out there. The subject of baseball seems lost for most of the script and sumo wrestling takes over. You can call this the greatest disaster to hit Japanese soil since the Enola Gay flew over.
Scoody Thornton, as series regular Ahmad's kid brother, will have you in stitches from the start, and he's the reason why this gets an extra star above bomb for me. He reminds me of the type of youngster you'd see on "Kids are people too!" with his deadpan reactions to everything that Curtis does. In fact, I decided early on that this was going to be dreadful but stuck around only to see what he would do next.
Jackie Earle Haley gets little to do, his character obviously having outgrown the rebel without a cause stage of his life, so he stalks a Japanese lady in geisha clothes who keeps trying to tell him to get lost in her language but is secretly smiling at his attentions. In fact, this seems to be trying to cover pretty much every stereotype out there. The subject of baseball seems lost for most of the script and sumo wrestling takes over. You can call this the greatest disaster to hit Japanese soil since the Enola Gay flew over.