Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Tony Curtis | ... | Marvin Lazar | |
Jackie Earle Haley | ... | Kelly Leak | |
Tomisaburô Wakayama | ... | Coach Shimizu | |
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Antonio Inoki | ... | Self |
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Hatsune Ishihara | ... | Arika |
George Wyner | ... | Network Director | |
Lonny Chapman | ... | Louis the Gambler | |
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Matthew Anton | ... | E.R.W. Tillyard III (as Matthew Douglas Anton) |
Erin Blunt | ... | Ahmad Rahim | |
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George Gonzales | ... | Miguel Agilar |
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Brett Marx | ... | Jimmy Feldman |
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David Pollock | ... | Rudy Stein |
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David Stambaugh | ... | Toby Whitewood |
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Jeffrey Louis Starr | ... | Mike Engleberg |
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Scoody Thornton | ... | Mustapha Rahim |
With all eyes on Japan after defeating the Houston Toros in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977), California's champions, The Bears, embark on a fascinating adventure in the far-off Land of the Rising Sun. Under the wing of the small-time Hollywood promoter, Marvin Lazar, the Bears face the country's all-star baseball team; however, nothing seems to work as planned. Now, against the backdrop of an insurmountable language barrier and an unforeseen romance, the Bears will have to prove their worth. Do they stand a chance against Japan's best little-league team? Written by Nick Riganas
Well, I explained before my love of the first Bad News Bears and how I wanted to see the sequels thinking maybe they were not given a fair chance. But I was so sad to see that there was no Buttermaker in either films since technically he made the story what it was and the second one took on more to the team's story, which wasn't so bad, but it wasn't needed. The Bears now are more annoying and it wasn't appreciated what the writers did to the story or the characters, because the story became desperate.
The Bears apparently didn't win any trip to Japan despite that's what they said in the second sequel that they'd win a trip to Japan if they won the game like they did in the astrodome, but Japan is upset with the fact that no teams have come to America or they decline because Japan has beaten the American teams 9 to 11 games. The Bears get a sponsor who takes them to Japan anyways to help them win a game against the Japenese team, but apparently that's nothing written in the script about the Bears being talented in Baseball.
The third installment of The Bad News Bears is pretty bad and I was disappointed with how the sequels were made, I mean, were they absolutely necessary? I don't think so, I think honestly the die hard fans of the first Bad News Bears would agree that this was insulting to the original story, and I'm sorry that I rented the sequels, maybe I could say it was an accident and I was out of it when I picked them out.
2/10