Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Aspen Orson There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

dario_e I enjoy it a lot with my son, it has the exact combination to make us laugh together, I'd like to see more movies like this, full of mischiefs and many high quality baseball scenes, is one my favorites movies. And doesn't have the typical happy ending of all the movies, I like each of the characters and my son identify strongly with them. The director really know about baseball and was helped by baseball professionals who made the scenes was very real. I like the movie's message about stop pressing the kids on the field and start having fun of this beautiful sport, and giving the chance to play to all kids and let them have his part of the glory, i really love this movie

Syl I love Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa and the Bad News Bears remake to 2005 after a 29 years since the original film. The film has changed to modify today's world where computers rule the world which I said at 10 years old to an skeptical neighbor and where even a handicapped wheelchair-bound boy can play baseball. Thornton plays Buttermaker, the major league baseball player who turns coach rather than get a jail sentence. The mother of one his players is played by the divine Marcia Gay Harden. I think the kid from Bad Santa also has a role as does Greg Kinnear who plays a competitive coach. I love watching the kids learn the sport by killing insects since Buttermaker is an exterminator and they sponsored by a strip club. They start getting better in the beginning. They are lovable losers who face ridicule and humiliation every day at school. Suddenly, they get help with a girl pitcher and a guy who's a rebel.

RainDogJr First i want to say that i haven't watch the original "Bad News Bears" and i just watch this film for the director Richard Linklater and because i like "Bad Santa", so i can't compare both films.The film is about Butermaker (Billy Bob Thorton) who is an ex-professional Baseball player that now works as the coach of the Bears, a Baseball team of kids, and that is always drunk. The Baseball team is full of kids who doesn't know a thing about Baseball and most of them are social misfits. Now Butermaker must deal with this kids and try to make a "real" Baseball team.The main plot of this film is nothing special and in some way this is nothing but another Baseball light comedy but there are very good lines and a very cool character (Butermaker) that makes this a very entertaining film and with a good message to all the fathers that have their kids playing in a Baseball team. And well i really like the character of Butermaker is almost the same of "Bad Santa", both are always drunk, have ladies just for sex and most deal with kids that have some kind of admiration to them. And Billy Bob Thorton is perfect for this type of roles. The kids are just good, also with some great lines and the music is another terrific aspect of the film, specially when the song "Cocaine" ( the version of Eric Clapton) is playing and all the kids and Butermaker are singing.About Richard Linklater: the first film that i watch of this director was "School of Rock" and i enjoy it a lot. Later when i watch "A Scanner Darkly" i just want to look out for more films of Linklater because is great but and finally i get this film a couple of days ago. Is not his best work but i like it and i think he is a good director.Conclusion: this is a very entertaining film with enough good lines to make it a nice comedy. So make some popcorn and enjoy this light comedy about Baseball. 7.5 out of 10DVD: is really good but a lot of bonus material like commentaries, deleted scenes, making of the film and some more material.PS: the Mexican title for this film is very different, is "Los Osos De La Mala Suerte", that means "The Unlucky Bears".

MLDinTN make for great baseball comedies. Well, sort of. This movie was funny, but not as good as the original. Coach Buttermaker kills rats by morning and coaches misfit baseballers by afternoon. He loves to swear and drink around the kids while half-a**ing it as their coach. Roy Bullock gets under his skin and decides he wants his team to be good to beat Bullock's team. He recruits his daughter he never sees to be the pitcher and gets the bad boy to join the team who is a good athlete.The Bears fortunes change and they start winning. The kids go from whining about losing to gloating and just being very unsportsmanlike. For some reason during the last game, Buttermaker decides winning isn't the most important thing but fun is and lets all the kids play, including the one in a wheel chair. I don't think that went along with his character.FINAL VERDICT: It's funny in a sick sort of way. If you like raunchy humor, you will like this.