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| American Broadcasting Company (ABC) | Release Date: June 30, 1978 |
Starring:
Antonio Inoki, Erin Blunt, George Gonzales, George Wyner, Hatsune Ishihara, Jackie Earle Haley, Lonny Chapman, Matthew Anton, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tony Curtis
Summary:
In this third film of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
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Although director John Berry equips him with a bottle at every opportunity in an effort to recreate the bumbling but lovable charm of Matthau's performance, Curtis is never a sympathetic character. Curtis is by nature far too slick and suave a character ever to be a lovable curmudgeon. [04 July 1978]
By and large the film seems humorless, the reflection of exhausted or snide entertainers. [21 June 1978, p.B13]
There is almost a total absence of action in the picture - not even any baseball, until a few minutes at the end - and a certain faithfulness to showing the worst of Western-originated Japanese culture has resulted in long scenes of variety and game shows played entirely in Japanese. [23 June 1978, p.19]
It's somewhat more energetic than the previous year's Breaking Training, and the Japanese locations are a plus, but so much silliness has been substituted for the solid situations and characterizations of the original that it's hard to believe the same people had anything to do with both pictures.
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