Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. ****SPOILER**** Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback.
Just hilarious.
Richard Linklater's remake deconstructs the sports film by emphasizing those clichés that have become their stock in trade such as training montage sequences and carefully crafted motivational speeches then spinning them with added violence and drunkeness. Billy Bob Thornton's broken major league star doesn't solve any of his personal problems in the end and fails to make any of the kid's lives perfect in the end. He just continues to be himself - sometimes that helps, sometimes it doesn't. The film listlessly progresses through the expected set pieces, pleasingly allowing the kids rooms to do those things we all remember doing, cussing, fighting and sometimes w...
Bad News
I thought this was going to be a laugh a minute, but it was really disappointing to be honest. Not your typical underdogs movie but it had the potential to be so much better than it was.
Faithfully retelling the 1976 comedy about a team of misfits and their slovenly, beer-swilling coach, the new Bad News Bears has adopted a somewhat raunchier tone but delivers enough laughs to go the distance. Billy Bob Thornton hews toward Bad Santa territory as he neatly slides into Walter Matthau's shoes, while the rest of the cast, alas, doesn't measure up. Too crude for younger kids, pic's sweet spot should be among teens and young adults who weren't even born when the first tykes-behaving-badly exercise took the field.
Director Richard Linklater struggles a bit with pacing (pic is 10 minutes longer than its predecessor and feels it), but Thornton's woozy de...
With his hangdog demeanour, drooping jowls and air of dyspeptic irritation, Walter Matthau was one of 1970s cinema's unlikeliest stars. Few actors would dare try to imitate him, and Billy Bob Thornton wisely doesn't try in Richard Linklater's likeable if overlong remake of the great man's 1976 hit.
Thanks to Bad Santa, Thornton has his own reputation as a louche curmudgeon. And the actor draws on this to the hilt in his role as Morris Buttermaker, a failed baseball pro turned beer-swilling pest exterminator who reluctantly agrees to coach an inept youth baseball team filled with geeks, brats and fatsos.
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It was quite a few notches below on the emotional level. The scene with Greg Kenner and his son was downplayed as well as the one with Amanda and Buttermaker. What I did enjoy was the striking similiarity to the players and the original actors. Tanner, Kelly, Amanda, Olgolvie all did splidid job. All in all I liked this remake a lot more than others. ..and Bo Peepes..that's just so cool and 200s like
