Product Details

• Actors: Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Antonio Inoki, Hatsune Ishihara
• Directors: John Berry
• Writers: Bill Lancaster
• Producers: Bill Lancaster, Hisashi Yabe, Michael Ritchie, Terry Carr
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: February 12, 2002
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005U5AF
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #35,658 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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• For more information about "The Bad News Bears Go To Japan" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Caught in a clash of cultures and ready to wreak more havoc on Japan than Godzilla, the Bad News Bears are back for their third outing, following the enormously successful The Bad New Bears and The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training. This time the Bears have been spirited off to Tokyo by Tony Curtis as Marvin Lazar, a slick and sleazy con artist who sees in the team a perfect peg for a get-rich-quick scheme. The strikeout-prone Bears are pitted against a murderously skillful Japanese junior baseball team, and the resulting comic chaos is hilarious.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do you smell something?, April 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bad News Bears Go to Japan [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Don't look on the bottom of your shoe, its this movie. If you liked the first 2 in this series, lets just pretend that it ended there. This garbage I think was supposed to be a vehicle for a Tony Curtis comeback or something. There's like 3 original Bears left and it's the 3rd string players, if you know what I mean. Not only that but they don't say much in this movie. Its all an aged Tony Curtis. If you haven't seen a BNB, go for either of their other two. BNB is a great real movie, and BNB in Breaking Training is not as solid a story but I liked better as a 10 year old because it has a great attitude.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cheap Seats with even cheaper CRAP!!, December 6, 2001

By	Jimmy James (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bad News Bears Go To Japan (DVD)

Oh CRUD! Is this a baseball movie or a Japan documentary? If this was supposed to be a baseball movie of little league kids, they should have put a little more baseball in it. I like the humor however. But without Tanner and Lupus, the humor is dry. It's just plain garbage! I wish that they would get the TV series out on video too!! It beats the crud out of this one!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars HUGE STRIKE OUT, August 19, 2005

By	Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)    (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Bad News Bears Go To Japan (DVD)

With this third entry in the heretofore entertaining series, THE BAD NEWS BEARS franchise really struck out. While the first had the blessing of Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal and the freshness of the little hellions trying to be champs, and the second at least had the Bears finally winning, this third entry is so bad that there's nary a chuckle in sight---and the ball players play very little baseball. One has to wonder why Tony Curtis signed on for this one. The writer also made the mistake of focusing too much on Curtis' role as the sleazy promoter/hustler and let the kids merely form a background ploy for Curtis' illwritten character. The boys make the mistake again of not having a coach; they play ball awful; and by now their once humorous hijinx are merely annoying. Trying to mature Jackie Earle Haley to an amorous love interest for a young Geisha girl also misses the mark. In all three movies, we've watched this near juvenile delinquent smoke, drive illegally, drink beer and act basically obnoxious...fortunately, he's not in this one too much, but his mere presence only serves as a reminder to the real fault of this franchise: bratty kids can only be funny for a short time and then they are merely brats. Fortunately, this third entry pretty much ended the series, even though a short-lived tv show followed and this year's remake with Billy Bob Thortnon. Let's hope the latest remake doesn't inspire any more insipid sequels.