I know, let’s make a sequel to The Bad News Bears, without Tatum, without Matthau … heck, let’s take out most of the baseball for good measure too! lol. Okay, cynical alert. And of course the major emptiness on the girl front is my primary reason for disliking this sequel. But overall, they’ve gotta be given kudos for having the balls to try exactly what I just described. The fact is, this movie just doesn’t work – it simply lacks the spark of the original – but it’s not through lack of trying, and more a case of pure rotten luck. The kids still ring unbelievably true; the father-son story is nothing compared to Tatum and Matthau but it is surprisingly touching in its own way; And, I’ve gotta say: for a sports movie, it’s still pretty shockingly stirring for me, certainly still among the most watchable of sports movies anyway. I think we should probably just be thankful they didn’t wait till the Eighties and video to make these.

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