Bad News Bears (2005) Reviews & Ratings

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Bad News Bears reviews

Bad News Bears holds a 5.8/10 average from 306 TMDB ratings.

Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can recommend. I'm not a fan of baseball on any level, but this is a surprisingly charming movie, and Billy Bob Thorton is great with inappropriate humor. After this watch, I'm thinking this is from where "Benchwarmers" might have been inspired. I think it's more of the "misfits working together" trope that gets me, and you see it in lots of kids sports movies: "Kicking…
— Kamurai (6/10)

Good movie. Billy Bob Thornton doing what he does best being an a-hole. More coaches need to be like this guy lol.
— Andre Gonzales (7/10)

Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.

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