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The Bad News Bears

2005

Richard Linklater

Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kane Kraft ...

4.7

1,623

Comedy Morris Buttermaker, a former pro baseball player, was ejected from the game for attacking an umpire and now works as an exterminator. More interested in boozing and broads than baseball, Buttermaker is lured back into the game by Liz Whitewood, an attorney whose class action suit has forced the Little League to accept all players, regardless of their abilities. As the new coach of the Bears, the most losing team in Little League ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"What I liked most about the movie, I think, is that it undermines the self-congratulatory myths we cultivate about sports in America. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Brian Lowry Variety	"The quality of the kid performers is at best uneven and drags the pic down in the middle innings (...) Though remakes are seldom hailed as good news creatively, they can at least be good company."
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The mischief Thornton does make adds up to wild, rowdy fun. (...) In this game, he's the undisputed MVP. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Filled with small, cute kids and large, goofy laughs (...) the director's latest effort won't rock your movie world, but the fact that he manages to keep the freak flag flying in the face of our culture of triumphalism is a thing of beauty."
		Cynthia Fuchs Common Sense Media	"This lackluster remake of the much-loved 1976 Walter Matthau movie doesn't bring much new to the table (...) Surprisingly unimaginative (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Jeff Otto IGN	"[It] is well done and can co-exist with the original. Both takes on the 'Bad News Bears' are fun, memorable films and have loads of laughs."

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