Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 66 | Rotten: 77
This too-faithful remake aims low for laughs, turning off the easily offendable; despite another lovably irascible contribution by Thornton, it lacks the ensemble strength and originality of the 1976 version.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 16
This too-faithful remake aims low for laughs, turning off the easily offendable; despite another lovably irascible contribution by Thornton, it lacks the ensemble strength and originality of the 1976 version.
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A washed-up ballplayer is put in charge of a pack of kids scarcely more mature than himself in this remake of the 1976 comedy hit. Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) is a former major league baseball player whose career and life has hit the skids thanks to his overwhelming fondness for booze and women. Needing a break, his lawyer (Marcia Gay Harden) arranges for Buttermaker to take on coaching responsibilities for the Bears, a Little League baseball team comprised of a handful of hapless
Jul 22, 2005 Wide
Dec 13, 2005
$32.8M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (152) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (79) | DVD (18)
There are many lingerings over communal feelings other directors might pass through more quickly to get to the next giggle or guffaw more efficiently.
Billy Bob Thornton is the best weapon against cute that a kid baseball movie ever had.
More irksome is the ordained focus on plot undulation and simplistic motivation, as if nobody remembered that the first film was a social satire.
At least Linklater isn't just picking the bones of his forebears; he honors them as they deserve.
Fortunately, in the process of pursuing a box office winner, Linklater has crafted an entertaining motion picture.
But you don't watch Bad News Bears for the action out on the diamond. You hang out with that hangdog coach so you can catch every slurry, sour-mouthed retort coming out of his mouth. Now that's color commentary.
Thornton is the real reason to watch. He plays most of his scenes with an understated unrepentant scumbaggishsness that makes him easy to simultaneously hate and like. It's a tricky balance to pull off, but he manages it well.
Linklater's "Bad News Bears" doesn't approach the giddy comedy of Ritchie's original, but it does inspire an attentive contemplation on the similarities and differences between adults and children in approaching the game of life.
Scatological remake of a not-so-innocent movie.
There are worse ways to spend an afternoon.
Bad News Bears is packed with laughs, but almost all of them are cheaply won
I'm not sure why filmmakers think we want to see kids put into dark situations and berated with profanities by Billy Bob Thornton.
...what should've been a fun and breezy comedy is ultimately transformed into an incredibly tedious ordeal...
Ainda que esquemático, gera boas risadas graças à dinâmica entre Thornton e o elenco infantil.
A potty-mouthed reconfiguration of a sports classic for our Bad Santa age. Funny stuff.
Too tame to attract now middle-aged viewers who remember the original and want to see Billy Bob Thornton play it like Bad Santa, it's still a little too raunchy to secure parental approval for pre-highschoolers.
I enjoyed this remake of Bad News Bears, although not as memorable as the original, this film still has plenty of enjoyable crazy moments. The cast do a pretty good job and the film is pretty funny I very much enjoyed this film and it was lots of fun to watch. Billy Bob Thornton delivers a good comedic performance, and
October 1, 2011
Super Reviewer
It was a good try and Thorton did a really great job as coach, but in the end its not as good as the original.
April 19, 2011
Super Reviewer
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