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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300216815 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300216810 Label: Paramount Languages: Manufacturer: Paramount MPN: 8863 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Release Date: January 01, 1998 Running Time: 102 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: April 07, 1976 Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: This likable 1976 comedy gently skewers the whole post- Rocky mania for movies about losers who find their mettle or salvation or purpose in life in competitive sport. Walter Matthau stars as a drunk who becomes manager of a pathetic little-league baseball team. When he brings in a talented girl pitcher (Tatum O'Neal), the crew have an actual chance at winning some games and maybe a championship. But director Michael Ritchie (Downhill Racer) undercuts the romance of it all with the team's foul-mouthed tendencies and Matthau's own decadent spin on mentor-coachdom. Similarly to Ritchie's wicked comedy Smile --which lampooned the fervor surrounding beauty pageants--The Bad News Bears pokes fun at another American institution. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Another classic 70's movieIm not going to tell you all about this film, or tell you who is in it, or what they did, etc. Everyone knows Walter Matthau plays an ex-ball player who drinks, smokes and swears to much thru the movie, and also that Tatum O'Neil plays his ex-girlfriend's daughter who he gets to pitch and all the other stuff, like Tanner swearing and saying the "N" word, and such. All this has been said and reviewed in earlier post. I saw this movie when it first came out in 1976. I was 9 turning 10 years old that ... Read More Rating:  - Bad News BearsIt's nice to purchase movies I watched as a child. This one is the best of all three. Rating: - hey Keogh, it's not avant gard - duhThe Amazon essential video review by Mr. Keogh seems to miss the mark on a review of this movie. Making any similarity or connection to Rocky is a fallacy at the least. Especially considering it's released in the same year. There were a few good movies to come out around the American bicentennial which includes "Bugsy Malone", "Deathrace 2000", and "Rollerball". Trying to classify this movie as "post Rocky" shows that this guy has no idea what he's talking about. The biggest mistake Mr. Keogh makes ... Read More Rating: - When Comedies, Kids, and Everything Was More Laid Back. "The Bad News Bears" inspired a franchise of movies and the entire kids' sports comedy genre when it was released in 1976. Now it's a trip back in time to an era when preteens smoking and swearing was PG-rated family entertainment. It's amazing how much attitudes have changed in 30 years. As we are now at the opposite extreme in what is considered normal behavior in middle-class youngsters, "The Bad News Bears" seems like a breath of fresh air. And its message to adults who compete through their children's' ... Read More Rating: - Greatest Movie Ever MadeI saw the Bad News Bears back in the 70s, when I was a kid. Just recently I've been watching it again, for what must be the first time in about 31 years(yikes). Well, apparently, back when I was a kid, all the things in the movie seemed perfectly normal and healthy. The 70s'll do that to a child. See, what people who object to the movie's profanity, crude innuendoes about the sex life of an eleven-year-old girl (Played by Tatum O'Neal, who casually informs the coach that she knows some eleven-year-olds who ... Read More |
