The Bad News Bears Go to Japan | | Cast : | Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley | | Director : | John Berry | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 30, 1978 | | DVD Released Date : | June 24, 2003 | | Language : | English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 29, 2005 | | Summary | THE BAD NEWS BEARS VS. FATHER TIME. | Content
 | 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.
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| Rating | | | Date | August 07, 2002 | | Summary | Well - it is the third | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 21, 2002 | | Summary | ... | Content
| ...All the Bad News Bears movies are good. I have all 3 on DVD at home and I watch them all the time and never get sick of it. This third one is good also. It does show the team from the first two of the Bad News Bears through the whole movie. They don't play till the end though. I think my favorite one is the second one where they play at the Astrodome that's my favorite one. It's still a classic and fun to watch. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 06, 2001 | | Summary | Cheap Seats with even cheaper CRAP!! | Content
| Oh CRUD! Is this a baseball movie or a Japan documentary? If this was supposed to be a baseball movie of little league kids, they should have put a little more baseball in it. I like the humor however. But without Tanner and Lupus, the humor is dry. It's just plain garbage! I wish that they would get the TV series out on video too!! It beats the crud out of this one!! |
| Rating | | | Date | September 05, 2001 | | Summary | What's wrong with it! | Content
| I think that ALL of the bad news bears including the TV series were exceptionally done! They are MUCH MUCH better than the baseball comidies of today! And I wish they would bring the bears back to the BIG SCREEN! |
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