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The Bears are BAD., 17 July 2001
Author:
jrs-8 from Chicago
It had to happen. After the success of "The Bad News Bears" and "Breaking
Training" the film execs at Paramount knew they had a goldmine on their
hands and couldn't leave well enough alone. They started on the right
track
by enlisting Bill Lancaster to write the script. He also authored the
original. Sadly that is where the similarities end.
"The Bad News Bears Go To Japan" is one of the worst films of the 70's.
It's
so bad the many of the kids from the first two don't even appear in this
one. The ones that do are given little to do save for team leader Kelly
Leak
who gets to romance a young japanese girl. The love story is laughably
bad.
The coach this time around is Tony Curtis playing a con man looking for
his
next score. Curtis looks as if he is in a trance as he sleepwalks thru the
film.
And the worst part? There is very little baseball in a movie about little
leaguers!!! We get more scenes of sumo wrestling. The one baseball game we
DO get is badly directed and comes so late in the film you may have either
fallen asleep or turned it off.
And why send the kids all the way to Japan? A bit far fetched don't you
think? Apparently the first film was a smash hit in Japan, playing in one
theater for over a year. That says it all. The filmmakers knew that no
matter how badly it bombed here (and it did) that they would have a hit in
Japan (and it was). Too bad they didn't care that the product they were
presenting was no better than a student film on a tiny budget. No. Take
that
back. A student film on a tiny budget would have to be ten times better
than
this pathetic "comedy."
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