Bad News Bears (2005)
Genre: Comedy / Sport
Duration: 113 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear and Marcia Gay Harden
IMDb score:
5,8 (24.845)
Releasedate: 22 July 2005
Bad News Bears plot
"Baseball has rules. Meet the exceptions."
A former professional baseball player is hired to coach the youth team The Bears. He must lead the pitifully evil team to the championship at the expense of their arch-rivals, The Yankees.
Actors and actresses
Morris Buttermaker
Roy Bullock
Liz Whitewood
Amanda Whurlitzer
Toby Whitewood
Mike Engelberg
Kelly Leak
Tanner Boyle
Miguel Agilar
Jose Agilar
Reviews & comments
Leno
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- 5922 messages
- 4483 votes
Thornton plays on autopilot but even then he is good. Furthermore, the players of his team play nice roles and match well with the role of Thornton. It never gets very funny, but the light-hearted story is amusing and fine as a snack.
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Decec
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- 6874 messages
- 8774 votes
A mediocre comedy/family/sports movie...
Mediocre/bland story...
Poor acting...
Famous Actors Billy Bob Thornton and Greg Kinnear...
Nice HD quality widescreen...
Great background sound/music
(Dolby Digital)...
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Onderhond
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- 87737 messages
- 13162 votes
Link later anyway.
But aside from its lack of input, you do wonder why anyone would want to remake the original of this film. Horror franchises are also often guilty of this, but genre films like this are so entrenched in their genre clichés that there is little difference between a remake and a random other film within the genre.
Probably some names and characters that are the same, but there you have the type characters again. I've never seen the original, but I think I've seen this movie about 30 times. Old grunt who reluctantly has to coach a youth team full of losers. Everyone depressed, then a click after which everything gets better and better. Drama dip before the last game of course and then on to ... well, don't let me spoil it.
Linklater is completely unrecognizable. You might think that he has attempted a Rodriguezje, but he at least knows how to give his children's/youth films a face, no matter how hideous sometimes. This is just band work. Fortunately, Thornton is still in it, whose role is indeed a bit like Bad Santa, but a bit more brave.
It's all way too familiar territory, especially within a genre that I'm not that fond of anyway. That this is stretched to 110 minutes is actually too crazy for words.
2.0*
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1977
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