Bad News Bears
THE BAD NEWS BEARS Review
- This movie turned out to be pretty funny, though I was surprised to find that it was a nearly scene by scene remake of the original version. Billy Bob Thornton was great, and the cast of kids was top notch as well. However I did feel like the movie had some pacing problems, and the climactic championship game seemed to go on and on forever. While the simplistic structure and plot worked in the original, it felt dated and slow here. On the other hand, there were plenty of good laughs and a lot of the one liners delivered by the kids and Billy Bob were gold, and Greg Kinnear was also in top form as the rival coach. I'd say this is one that's better suited for kids, but the language and adult humor might put off parents from bringing younger children to see this. Odd how this version is actually toned down from the 1980's orginal, yet still seems pretty shocking in an age when most kids' sports movies follow the clean-cut mold of The Mighty Ducks and other such Disney-ified fare. This is definitely a movie about dirty, foul mouthed, punk kids, and for that you've gotta appreciate it, even if the concept is nothing new, just one that's been gone for a while. Still, I would definitely rank this below School of Rock on the Linklater-directed kids comedy scale, as that movie was just bursting with energy and freshness while this one really felt like a remake of a concept that has since been done to death. Very funny at times, but slow at others, Bad News Bears is definitely worth checking out to see a kids' sports movie that for once is as rebellious in its nature as the badly behaved kids whose stories it tells.
My grade: B
- This movie turned out to be pretty funny, though I was surprised to find that it was a nearly scene by scene remake of the original version. Billy Bob Thornton was great, and the cast of kids was top notch as well. However I did feel like the movie had some pacing problems, and the climactic championship game seemed to go on and on forever. While the simplistic structure and plot worked in the original, it felt dated and slow here. On the other hand, there were plenty of good laughs and a lot of the one liners delivered by the kids and Billy Bob were gold, and Greg Kinnear was also in top form as the rival coach. I'd say this is one that's better suited for kids, but the language and adult humor might put off parents from bringing younger children to see this. Odd how this version is actually toned down from the 1980's orginal, yet still seems pretty shocking in an age when most kids' sports movies follow the clean-cut mold of The Mighty Ducks and other such Disney-ified fare. This is definitely a movie about dirty, foul mouthed, punk kids, and for that you've gotta appreciate it, even if the concept is nothing new, just one that's been gone for a while. Still, I would definitely rank this below School of Rock on the Linklater-directed kids comedy scale, as that movie was just bursting with energy and freshness while this one really felt like a remake of a concept that has since been done to death. Very funny at times, but slow at others, Bad News Bears is definitely worth checking out to see a kids' sports movie that for once is as rebellious in its nature as the badly behaved kids whose stories it tells.
My grade: B
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