I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Lack of good storyline.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

best movie i've ever seen.

It seemed like most of the kids I met in school or out on the playground were like the Bears, or various shades of gray. A lot of kids with Anglo genes mouthing off to whoever wherever they pleased, smoking, drinking beer, drawing pornographic graffiti wherever they pleased, and swearing up a storm. That's the Bad News Bears, and that was how most of the American youth in the 1970s and 1980s behaved. How I avoided it I'll never know.It's fine film for what it is. It's a bit on the low budget side with lots of hand held shots, but it has a good story and a certain integrity to it. This is how kids behave when their parents aren't around, and when this film was released it was a smash hit among kids because this showed my peers to adult America how they were "in the raw", so to speak. The geeky uncoordinated kid, the feisty short blonde kid, the gentle or effete kid (colloquially referred to as "the wussy" in pre-teen speak), the athletically talented black kid, the proverbial fat kid, and the "bad boy" along with a host of others. If you lived in California anywhere south of Shasta, then this film and the scenes it portrays are all too familiar.It's a rags to riches and almost bag to rags story with a lot of scrappy attitude. We see these kids behave as a lot of boys behaved when things didn't go right. Whether it was fate, bad luck, or lack of preparation, when all those factors met, or just one reared its ugly head, mayhem ensued, and we usually threw our gear on the ground and cursed the world and fell into a minor kid like depression.I remember the hype more than the actual film. I remember everyone talking about this movie. I remember everyone saying how great it was. I remember how both kids and parents (and even some teachers) alike would mention the name of the movie, and then the kids who had seen it would say what a great film it was.Well, as a middle aged man seeing this for the first time in over forty years, I think I can rightfully say that it's a decent film, but that I had the same misgivings about it then as I do now, and that is it's essentially a window on un-parented boy behavior.There's a parable here about talent and good parenting verse being an abusive coach, but I'm not sure the message hits home with the not-so-ironic poetic ending. There's also a message about how girls can play boys' sports, but this film was made in an era of supposed psychological discovery, and how boys and girls are the same (well, we weren't then, and still aren't now) and do all the things that boys can. Eh, sure, if so inclined, and that's the ultra important point that the arrogant social psychologist of a screenwriter missed. But never mind.All in all The Bad News Bears is an okay film. It was worth seeing once for a nostalgia blast, but man do I remember those days, and seeing this film reminds of just how much I wanted to forget them. Kids with attitude problems may make for an interesting film, and it certainly is a reminder of an era past, but, like I say, I'd just assume forget it.If you grew up in California, then see again one time. If you're looking for a good film about little league, well, I'm thinking there's a better film out there somewhere.

As a lifelong baseball fan, I had kind of been embarrassed that I had never seen this movie all the way through. Whenever a Little League-er lets a ball through the legs or stumbles around under a pop-up, someone will usually bring up a "Bad News Bears" comment. When I finally did sit down and watch it in entirety, however, what I found was that it is a film where the subject matter and stereotypes transcend how good the movie actually is.For a basic plot summary, "Bad News Bears" sees former baseball player Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) basically get suckered/bribed into coaching a community Little League baseball team (the Bears). In typical fashion, the team can't hit, catch, or throw, and Buttermaker doesn't care…sipping his beer and puffing his smokes in the dugout. When the boys are embarrassed by the rival Yankees in their first game and the opposing manager gets under Buttermaker's skin, however, he begins to start trying/caring (albeit in only the way he knows how). When motorcycle-riding "hooligan" Kelly (Jackie Earle Haley) and step-daughter Amanda (Tatum O'Neal) are recruited to help the team out, things actually begin to click and the Bears start moving up in the standings.There are themes/clichés in this movie that truly are universal. I mean, any baseball/sports fan can relate to the bumbling little league team, right?! Then, you also have the "rebel kid who also has the best baseball skills", the "girl who can outpitch the boys", and the "manager who waffles between caring, winning, and having fun". Heck, the rival team in the film is even called the Yankees for crying out loud! I think this is why "Bad News Bears" will always have a niche in sports film culture, as it shines a brief light on so many of those youth sports touchstones.Taken just as a film (and not a cliché), however, "Bad News Bears" really isn't all that great (I even found it rather dull in spots). Most of the beats are completely and utter predictable and characters like Buttermaker and Kelly Leak (while potentially iconic in image) don't really provide a coherent narrative. The only portion of the movie that really, really works is Tatum O'Neal's character, as Amanda actually receives a character arc and is given interesting things to do rather than just following a formulaic script.Thus, I think the biggest problem with "Bad News Bears" is that it tries to stuff too many clichés and sports genre tropes into its one hour and forty minute runtime, to the point of not really nailing any of them. Those clichés, combined with a few funny sight gags ("Chico's Bail Bonds"), will allow this film to live on into the annals of history, but I'd recommended using it as those stereotypes instead of sitting down and watching it front-to-back, as you may be disappointed by the full cinematic experience.

"Because the commodity society can only function on the basis of disembodiment, its members are consumed by a hunger for images of the body, including one's own body image." - Peter Sloterdijk "The Longest Yard" (1974) with kids, Michael Ritchie's "Bad News Bears" (1976) revolves around a group of young, seemingly incompetent baseball players and the foul mouthed coach (Walter Matthau) who leads them.The majority of Ritchie's early films focused on the competitiveness and ruthlessness of a then contemporary United States. Consider "Smile", a satire which focused on interstate beauty pageants and which contained the line "Boys get money for making touchdowns, why shouldn't girls get money for being cute?" That question's answer is, in a way, present in "Bad News Bears", which focuses on the way in which sports, and human relations in general, suffer when commodified.Significantly, all the baseball players on Matthau's team are deemed rejects or incompetents. They're discarded, branded useless by a goal and profit oriented culture. Matthau attempts to build his team into a suitable product, but meets resistance. The kids literally can't play. What Ritchie then goes on to suggest is that this is okay. His multiracial cocktail of kids, like a band of turn-of-the-century immigrants fresh off the boat, reject a world based on gain and push. They make their own American dream, their own community, and then reject the game outright. For the kids, sports is, or should be, a vehicle for creativity, self-expression, affirmation and cultural growth, be its players black or white, male or female (the film's star pitcher is a young girl). This is a one-sided view sports – sport and competition can be viewed as an art, a performance, drama, something aesthetic and refined – but such a stance is necessary for Ritchie's allegory, and was common in sporting movies of the era (see "Slap Shot").Odd for a "children's film", Ritchie's kids are jaded, foul mouthed, world-weary and lost in a wasteland of Jack-in-the-Boxes, Pizza Huts and McDonalds. They're coarse, obscene, some are on the pill, others are already seeing shrinks and most find themselves surrendering their identities to forces far greater than they are. The adults, meanwhile, remain proudly oblivious to the problems of the kids. Competition triumphs. Let the twerps shape up or ship out.Ritchie's "Downhill Racer" featured a battle between an egotistical racer who refused to give up his personal values for the larger values of a team and community. "Bears" does something similar. But though it bashes the contradictions between the logic and values of capitalism and the values which the United States as a nation professes to represent (honesty, fair-play, truth, unity, freedom, equality etc), it also celebrates the possibility of personal accomplishment and achievement. The way the film pulls in opposite directions leads to its confused ending, the contradictions of US life far too complex for Ritchie's simple narrative.Released in 2005, Richard Linklater's "Bad News Bears" is a remake of Ritchie's film. Linklater makes a few changes, and casts Billy Bob Thornton as our foul mouthed coach, but for the most part his film is a shot-for-shot remake of Ritchie's. In both films the "coach" character initially sees his own daughter as but a utensil, his relationship with her a tool used toward a very specific end. Likewise, both films find their kids becoming a kind of "microcosm of the disenfranchised" (minorities, third worlders, girls, women, working class kids, alienated geeks etc), the children working together to reject American-bred success-at-all-costs competitiveness on behalf of their own little half-baked revolution. Like Ritchie, Linklater then sells anarchy and community under the ironic gaze of a patriotic American flag. Such middle fingers clash uneasily with the needs of a mainstream movie, though, as both versions of the "Bad News Bears" see the kids simultaneously losing AND winning, our heroes jointly losing their baseball match and celebrated for thumbing their nose at traditional sportsmanship and WASP manners. This kind of "have it both ways" ending was also typical in the 1970s.While Linklater is a gentle soul who clearly identifies with his material, his remake is nevertheless much too similar to its predecessor. Linklater's also stuck in a world of Little Leagues and suburban misfits, when today the situation he delineates is far more amplified. Today, it's not just a national pastime which has become a showcase for corporate ownership and corporate values. No, contemporary human beings are so colonised that everything - from our conceptions of time to even the simplest human actions - is now conceptualised in terms of the logic of capitalism. Our very language and thought processes reinforce a tendency to view and treat all objects, relationships, and conditions as presumptively subject to exchange. This mania is treated well by directors like Olivier Assayas. Linklater, meanwhile, remains stuck in the 1970s.7.9/10 - Worth one viewing.

Michael Ritchie's "The Bad News Bears" is a classic American comedy film starring Walter Matthau as Morris Buttermaker, a former minor league ball player is recruited to coach a gang of misfit kids into winning the local sandlot baseball tournament. To start off, I had actually seen like the last 10 minutes of the 2000-whatever remake of the film on "TBS" or something. I wasn't really impressed. However, after sitting through all 100-some minutes of the original I can say that it is entertaining and at least worth checking out some time. Walter Matthau is. . .well, he's Walter Matthau. He's great in this and he's a great actor altogether. A young Jackie Earle Haley was in this and it was pretty interesting to see the movie where he first planted his feet into Hollywood. The script is alright from what I've seen - it had quite a few hilarious one-liners in it. The movie in general was fairly funny, but It also featured a lot of really touching moments between its characters that I honestly did not expect to see. Overall I felt the movie was pretty good and worth checking out if you have nothing else to watch on TV.