The Bad News Bears Go To Japan | 
| Director: John Berry
Actors: Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Antonio Inoki, Hatsune Ishihara
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 68519
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD011144D
ISBN: 0792178866
UPC: 097360111446
EAN: 9780792178866
ASIN: B00005U5AF
Theatrical Release Date: June 30, 1978
Release Date: February 12, 2002
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Product Description
In this third film version of the bad news bears series tony curtis plays a small time promotor who takes the pint-sized baseball team to japan for a match against the countrys best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/22/2005 Starring: Tony Curtis George Wyner Run time: 91 minutes Rating: Pg Director: John Berry
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 They shouldn't have played this extra inning. May 5, 2008
Barefoot Boy
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The original "Bad News Bears" was great. "BNB Breaking Training" was okay. But "BNB Go To Japan" was enough to justify the attack on Pearl Harbor!
The Bad News Bears go to Japan January 3, 2007
Janice E. Mckee (San Jose,, CA United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Was not impressed, in fact threw the dvd in the trash.
one and two were great, third one sucks June 18, 2006
Nicholas F. Dandrea (bellmore ny 11710, new york United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
this has got to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen. the first and second were great this one sucks.this one was soooo boring. my god they should of stopped after the second one.the second one was awsome.
HUGE STRIKE OUT August 20, 2005
Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
With this third entry in the heretofore entertaining series, THE BAD NEWS BEARS franchise really struck out. While the first had the blessing of Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal and the freshness of the little hellions trying to be champs, and the second at least had the Bears finally winning, this third entry is so bad that there's nary a chuckle in sight---and the ball players play very little baseball. One has to wonder why Tony Curtis signed on for this one. The writer also made the mistake of focusing too much on Curtis' role as the sleazy promoter/hustler and let the kids merely form a background ploy for Curtis' illwritten character. The boys make the mistake again of not having a coach; they play ball awful; and by now their once humorous hijinx are merely annoying. Trying to mature Jackie Earle Haley to an amorous love interest for a young Geisha girl also misses the mark. In all three movies, we've watched this near juvenile delinquent smoke, drive illegally, drink beer and act basically obnoxious...fortunately, he's not in this one too much, but his mere presence only serves as a reminder to the real fault of this franchise: bratty kids can only be funny for a short time and then they are merely brats. Fortunately, this third entry pretty much ended the series, even though a short-lived tv show followed and this year's remake with Billy Bob Thortnon. Let's hope the latest remake doesn't inspire any more insipid sequels.
THE BAD NEWS BEARS VS. FATHER TIME. July 29, 2005
Esteemed Protector
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There is an entity all child actors fear. A malignent, evil force that will hunt them down, destroy them, leave them desolate. It is (gasp of gasps!) PUBERTY!!!
Yes, puberty! That irreverible right of passage that will turn their voices squeaky, their general appearance awkward looking - in short, it destroys them! The smart movie producers realize this, they do not try passing, say, a sixteen year old off as a ten year old, it just does not work.
Unfortunately, though, some try. The end result is usually disastrous, silly looking, mediocre at best. With this in mind, I give you a classic casualty of puberty - The Bad News Bears Go To Japan.
The movie is based on a true story. During the seventies, the little league players from Japan were so good the United States little league decided to pull out of the competition. Based on this, you have the Bears, determined to play anyways, who go to Japan. There are the usual hijinks, promoters want to make money at their expense, and so on. It is meant to be funny, and has some amusing moments, but it just doesn't work out - the kids are too old! The cutness is gone, the whole thing is stale, the movie degenerate into a farce.
There was some talk of still another Bears movie being made, in which they go to Cuba. Fortunately, common sense (and the desire not to make what would have been a Bad News Turkey) prevailed, and the Bad News Bears were laid to rest.
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