DVD : Bad News Bears (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition)

Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0097363445722
Format: Collector's Edition, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: July 22, 2005
Sales Rank: 37960
MPN: 344572

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
In a fitting follow-up to Bad Santa and Friday Night Lights, Billy Bob Thornton makes the most of the remake trend in Bad News Bears. He's just the right guy to inherit Walter Matthau's role from the original 1976 version about a lousy Little League team baseball team coached by a curmudgeonly drunk, and the original team of misfits has been updated (but not upgraded) to an ethnic mix that includes an Indian math whiz, a pair of Latino twins, and a paraplegic kid who doesn't play until the final championship game. It's a little sad to see a talented director like Richard Linklater doing an unnecessary remake, but his experience on School of Rock made him the obvious choice to mine comedy gold from the collision of Thornton and a batch of unruly, prepubescent kids (including Sammi Kraft, an all-star Little Leaguer in the role originated by Tatum O'Neal). With Marcia Gay Harden and Greg Kinnear in supporting roles, this isn't family fare (the potty-mouthed kids deservedly earned a PG-13 rating), but Thornton's easygoing presence makes it worthwhile for anyone who's not too attached to the original version. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Poor language & equally poor message
This movie is a far cry from the original.

I lost track of how many times the kids and adults in this film swore gratuitiously. Worse yet, when the winning team acknowledges the Bears hard work and achievements, instead of viewers being rewarded with a scene exhibiting good sportsmanship, the film makers decide to have the losing team learn nothing, except how to deliver the film's seemingly trademark message of "Kiss my ***".

Rating:

- Nice film
I bought this film for my cousin who watched this movie on HBO. I am not very intrested in films but my cousin tells me that this is one of the best american films he has seen till now. It appears that kids will enjoy this film but elders may not.

Rating:

- Funny if uninspired
I didn't think this was as awful as many reviews claim, in fact I think it is "good old days" hindsight that has many claim the original was so much better. In fact, this is almost a carbon copy of the original from the musical score right down to the disturbing clone who plays Tanner. There are updates to be sure and I thought there were some unnecessary moments and changes made (why the switch from Chico's Bail Bonds to a strip club?) but it is every bit as "offensive" as it was in 1976 and it ... Read More

Rating:

- zero stars
There was nothing on so I decided to watch this piece of crap movie. No wonder kids nowadays are so stupid and bratty, their parents let them watch and act like the ones on this movie...and celebrating at a certain 'adult'/desperate mens restaurant with kids? Come on! I cant believe how many people thought this movie was good, or even OK. Its garbage and shows how low society is falling.

Rating:

- Funny move
I love this movie. I had it already on DVD. Now I have it for Psp to take along on trips.

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