The Bad News Bears Go To Japan

Starring:Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Antonio Inoki, Hatsune Ishihara, George Wyner, Lonny Chapman, Matthew Anton, Erin Blunt, George Gonzales, Brett Marx, David Pollock, Jeffrey Louis Starr, Scoody Thornton, Abraham Unger, Dick Button, Regis Philbin, Kinichi Hagimoto, Hugh Gillin, Robert Sorrells
Director: John Berry
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD

Description

Caught in a clash of cultures and ready to wreak more havoc on Japan than Godzilla, the Bad News Bears are back for their third outing, following the enormously successful The Bad New Bears and The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training. This time the Bears have been spirited off to Tokyo by Tony Curtis as Marvin Lazar, a slick and sleazy con artist who sees in the team a perfect peg for a get-rich-quick scheme. The strikeout-prone Bears are pitted against a murderously skillful Japanese junior baseball team, and the resulting comic chaos is hilarious.

Customer Reviews:

The Bad News Bears go to Japan.......2007-01-04

Was not impressed, in fact threw the dvd in the trash.

one and two were great, third one sucks.......2006-06-18

this has got to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen. the first and second were great this one sucks.this one was soooo boring. my god they should of stopped after the second one.the second one was awsome.

HUGE STRIKE OUT.......2005-08-20

With this third entry in the heretofore entertaining series, THE BAD NEWS BEARS franchise really struck out. While the first had the blessing of Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal and the freshness of the little hellions trying to be champs, and the second at least had the Bears finally winning, this third entry is so bad that there's nary a chuckle in sight---and the ball players play very little baseball. One has to wonder why Tony Curtis signed on for this one. The writer also made the mistake of focusing too much on Curtis' role as the sleazy promoter/hustler and let the kids merely form a background ploy for Curtis' illwritten character. The boys make the mistake again of not having a coach; they play ball awful; and by now their once humorous hijinx are merely annoying. Trying to mature Jackie Earle Haley to an amorous love interest for a young Geisha girl also misses the mark. In all three movies, we've watched this near juvenile delinquent smoke, drive illegally, drink beer and act basically obnoxious...fortunately, he's not in this one too much, but his mere presence only serves as a reminder to the real fault of this franchise: bratty kids can only be funny for a short time and then they are merely brats. Fortunately, this third entry pretty much ended the series, even though a short-lived tv show followed and this year's remake with Billy Bob Thortnon. Let's hope the latest remake doesn't inspire any more insipid sequels.

THE BAD NEWS BEARS VS. FATHER TIME........2005-07-29

There is an entity all child actors fear. A malignent, evil force that will hunt them down, destroy them, leave them desolate. It is (gasp of gasps!) PUBERTY!!!

Yes, puberty! That irreverible right of passage that will turn their voices squeaky, their general appearance awkward looking - in short, it destroys them! The smart movie producers realize this, they do not try passing, say, a sixteen year old off as a ten year old, it just does not work.

Unfortunately, though, some try. The end result is usually disastrous, silly looking, mediocre at best. With this in mind, I give you a classic casualty of puberty - The Bad News Bears Go To Japan.

The movie is based on a true story. During the seventies, the little league players from Japan were so good the United States little league decided to pull out of the competition. Based on this, you have the Bears, determined to play anyways, who go to Japan. There are the usual hijinks, promoters want to make money at their expense, and so on. It is meant to be funny, and has some amusing moments, but it just doesn't work out - the kids are too old! The cutness is gone, the whole thing is stale, the movie degenerate into a farce.

There was some talk of still another Bears movie being made, in which they go to Cuba. Fortunately, common sense (and the desire not to make what would have been a Bad News Turkey) prevailed, and the Bad News Bears were laid to rest.

Well - it is the third.......2002-08-08

This movie rounds out the three Bears movies and helped pave the way to the short lived tv series of the same name. While there is very little baseball in this film (the filmmakers get to caught up with the idea of being in Japan and forget who the film is about) and Tony Curtis is not Walter Matthau (but who is?) the film still has its moments and isn't without the smallest of pleasures. A perfect film for kids around 7 years old who like baseball. All others need not bother.

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