Bad News for Bears Remake: The Bad News Bears Movie Flops

The Bad News Bears is a film that is a remake of the original Bad News Bears. In this film Billy bob Thorton stars as the baseball coach put in charge of young children who are simply awful. Thorton plays the role of a coach who really doesn't give a damn about his players. This film I found to be unoriginal and not at all funny. See the original for a good film, instead of this one.

Anyway, the film starts off showing Thorton as a drunk and a mess of a coach. His players can't field, can't catch and can't hit. One players is in a wheelchair and doesn't even play. The team loses its game by the mercy rule which is when another team kills another team in the game. Things change when a rival coach insults Thorton and Thorton finally decides to clean up his act. He gets his daughter to play who is a great softball pitcher and naturally a great baseball pitcher. They also get this boy to play center field and shortstop who hit also hit very well. To win games Thorton tells his two stars to take over the game by grabbing balls in the field that normally other fielders would get to make sure that they don't commit an error.

The team makes it all the way to the championship game where Thorton sees the rival coach yelling at a player. Thorton realizes that baseball is only a game and not something that kids should be yelled at. He pulls his two star players from the game and puts in the boy with the wheelchair and the players who don't get a lot of playing time. In valiant effort, the players give it their all but come up short. Still the team celebrates for working hard and they party at the end.

The whole premise of the film isn't that bad. If the original hadn't come out I might even recommend this film to other people. But I still think the original was a lot better and while Billy bob Thorton's acting is above average, he doesn't bring enough star power to make this film worth watching.