{"id":8293,"date":"2007-04-18T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T23:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2007-04-18T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T23:56:33","slug":"bad-news-bears-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/bad-news-bears-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News Bears (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bad_News_Bears_film\"<\/a>Well, I guess every director has to have one film that\u2019s commercial to grant them enough dough to get them through the rough times. Even one of my favorite directors of all time, Richard Linklater. It\u2019s not that Linklater can\u2019t do a commercial film, because \u201cSchool of Rock\u201d was great, but this is a remake. And Linklater is better than this. He\u2019s ten times better. And he can make all the excuses he wants, but I\u2019m still shocked the same man who created \u201cWaking Life\u201d was behind the camera of this remake. As usual, Linklater doesn\u2019t do what others do. In other words, he never makes a film as everyone assumes he is. Sure, this is a remake, but this is a kick in the balls remake, just like the original was a kick in the balls kid\u2019s film. There\u2019s profanity, crude humor, sexual innuendos, and Billy Bob Joe Bob Thorton channels \u201cBad Santa\u201d for his variation of Buttermaker. And I was pleased.<\/p>\n

Thorton can play asshole well, and I laughed at his utterly sharp one-liners, period. The problem with this remake is that the original film was a zeitgeist for children sports films. It paved the way for hundreds of similar titles on the shelves, and now this remake just doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s ever treading new ground. It\u2019s not innovative. And of course, there\u2019s the fact that there\u2019s no Tatum O\u2019Neil or Walter Matthau to keep the chuckles coming. Shit, I had such a crush on Tatum O\u2019Neil when I was a kid, and she\u2019s still pretty damn hot. I digress. Linklater\u2019s directorial prowess can not be argued, but \u201cBad News Bears\u201d just isn\u2019t good enough to watch again, even when you compare it to the original.<\/p>\n

Even when you don\u2019t compare it to the original, there\u2019s just not enough material here to warrant a re-watch. Hell, coming from a hardcore Linklater fan, take that with a great weight. I know my opinions matter to you, don\u2019t pretend. Worst of all, in spite of the profanity and crude humor, there\u2019s no surefire instance in which this stands out from the original. Shit, there\u2019s even a gag where Buttermaker tries to sneak a dwarf on the team as a kid, a joke that really failed to hit any definition of the word funny. For all intents and purposes, Sammi Kane Kraft pulls her part off well enough. You have to credit the production team for hiring an actual pitcher, but her performance is as stale as you can imagine.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s simply not Tatum O\u2019Neil. Tatum\u2019s character was a wise allecky little snot, a chip off the old block from Matthau\u2019s Buttermaker, where as Kraft has little to no charisma, and can never hold up her end with Thorton. She\u2019s simply not a worthy foil to Thorton. Otherwise, \u201cBad News Bears\u201d is just half cocked. It pussyfoots and grabs for edge, when it\u2019s really nothing worth remembering. Nowhere near as good as the original. It\u2019s not as funny, not as energetic, and hardly as edgy, but Linklater does a competent job of creating an almost watchable remake, thanks to the solid performances and dialogue that may inspire a giggle or two. It\u2019s a mediocre movie, and that\u2019s sad, considering this is Richard Linklater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I guess every director has to have one film that\u2019s commercial to grant them enough dough to get them through the rough times. Even one of my favorite directors of all time, Richard Linklater. It\u2019s not that Linklater can\u2019t do a commercial film, because \u201cSchool of Rock\u201d was great, but this is a remake. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71,120,219,340,580,835,846,974],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-b","tag-comedy","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-remake","tag-richard-linklater","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}