Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.
Billy Bob Thornton Greg Kinnear Marcia Gay Harden Sammi Kane Kraft Ridge Canipe Brandon Craggs Jeffrey Davies Timmy Deters Carlos Estrada Emmanuel Estrada Troy Gentile Kenneth 'K.C.' Harris Aman Johal Tyler Patrick Jones Jeffrey Tedmori Carter Jenkins Seth Adkins Chase Winton Arabella Holzbog Nectar Rose Lisa Arturo Lizz Carter Monique Cooper Candace Kita Kate Luyben Shamron Moore Jeffrey Hutchinson Sonya Eddy Karen-Eileen Gordon Show All…
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"Baseball's hard guys, it really is. You can love it but believe me it doesn't always love you back. It's kinda like dating a German chick, ya'know?"
Richard Linklater is one of cinema's greatest anthropologists and his area of expertise is America's youth. Whether he is following one kid for a dozen years or dozens of kids for a single day Linklater always displays an uncanny ability for showcasing the wonders and the hardships of growing up. He is able to empathize with his young with characters in a way few directors are able to without falling into the stickily sweet pit of over sentimentality. While not as staggeringly great as some of his other work, Bad News Bears is…
This would be a pretty standard family sports comedy, if it weren't for a couple unforced errors.
The inconsistent personality of Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) feels awful forced. I get it, he's a jerk who would theoretically have a character arc, but they make it a character squiggle, and it all seems done to manufacture some late drama.
It's not a great film, but I had a couple laughs.
As a kid having this on DVD and loving both baseball and movies, I probably have seen this 20-30 times by now. This is my first revisit in over 10 years and honestly, I never remembered Richard Linklater being the director of this.
A very unnecessary remake that brings nothing new to the story other than modernizing it. Has the typical Linklater flare for vibes and nostalgia, and seeing Billy Bob and Greg Kinnear go head to head is a grand time, but uneven child performances and an all too familiar story make this an aggressively average movie.
Still, this movie was my childhood and gets the bump as a result.
Not my thing at all. Why Richard Linklater why? (Tommy Wiseau voice). It seems like maybe Linklater’s success with School of Rock may have gotten to his head and he tried (and failed) to do another family movie. I haven’t seen the original but I already know it’s gotta be better than this crap, can’t go much lower than this. I’m trying to think of something redeeming but I can’t.
(To Remake or Not To Remake)
Billy Bob Thornton holds his own as coach Buttermaker, but as a whole there is more bad news than good for these modernized feisty little leaguers.
"I think a lot of it has to do with getting older and... you know, being more distinguished ... I was thinking more along the lines of the dangerous type. What you hear about the bad boy, the sexy scumbag, the serial killer who gets married in prison. I have never felt like that. Until I met you ... Well, thanks."
I remember thinking this was fine when I checked it out as a new release, but watching it back to back with the original really exposes how…
Another remake that did not really need to be made. The story is the same....a reluctant coach takes over a rag tag team of misfits....and with the help of a girl pitcher and motorcycle riding delinquent...they turn the team around. Billy Bob Thornton takes over the Walter Matthau role.....I'm not really sure if comedy is the best use of Billy Bob's talents. As for the movie....it follows your standard sports movie formula. Even if you have not seen the original...this movie will seem like many movies you have seen in the past. Not thinking these Bears are going to Japan anytime soon.
"You guys swing like Helen Keller at a piñata party and I gotta do something about it."
A ragtag group of underperforming kids on a little league baseball team are led by their alcoholic ex-baseball player of a manager in hopes of winning a championship.
Bad News Bears is the 2005 remake of the 1976 classic The Bad News Bears. The original film starred Walter Matthau as Coach Morris Buttermaker, but this time around Billy Bob Thornton fills the role. While the former worked as a pool cleaner, the latter is an exterminator but both are alcoholics. The field looks very similar to the original but everything else is worse this time around.
The Matthew Hooper character is annoying and…
Richard Linklater's remake of 1976's "The Bad News Bears" is a breezy, rough-around-the-edges sports comedy. The director's "Bad News Bears" drops the article but retains the punch of the original film, offering up a spry and enjoyable, mildly inspiring piece of work.
Starring Billy Bob Thornton as the hard-drinking but affable Morris Buttermaker, "Bad News Bears" follows the one-inning ballplayer as he stumbles into coaching a kids' baseball team. The team, quintessentially ragtag and unskilled, needs all the help it can get; and Buttermaker, though completely outmatched at the nurturing-youthful-humans game, does his best to turn them into something winning.
The story follows the recognizable beats, but it is elevated by its endearing characters. Those young characters fit into certain,…
Billy Bob Thornton is one of those guys that you cannot help but think isn't really acting at all. He's as cool as a polar bear's knob in a snowdrift and he's bedded some fine looking women away from the screen, but is he the hard-living, hard drinking, ladies man we think he is? A rock star, frequently typecast as a drunk (again here), six wives, one a Playboy model, one a certain Angelina Jolie, I think I may be on to something here. Regardless, he's a terrific actor and here he manages to outshine the legacy of Walter Matthau's original Morris Buttermaker in a very enjoyable remake of The Bad News Bears.
Kids Baseball? Another family orientated comedy that…
