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Release Date: July 22nd, 2005

Running Time: 111 minutes

U.S. Box Office: $32,865,161

Rating: PG-13 for rude behavior, language throughout, some sexuality & thematic elements.

Directed By: Richard Linklater

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Timmy Deters, Seth Adkins

Critics Reviews: 7 out of 10

Reelviews Bad News Bears may be the most entertaining remake of the year (thus far), but that's less a statement of praise than it is a condemnation of this class of movies. With a script co-credited to Bill Lancaster, who penned the original 1976 screenplay, Bad News Bears is true to its source, rarely diverging from the earlier film's storyline, and occasionally re-creating entire scenes. James Berardinelli

The Boston Globe Back in 1976, there were critics who panned the original ''Bad News Bears" because it relied on kids swearing to get laughs. Well, duh. Pitched with the right spin, a tyke letting fly with a juicy cuss can seem an honest admission of all the things we're not supposed to say -- shock value as truth telling. Ty Burr

Chicago Sun-Times Billy Bob Thornton stages a head-on collision between two previous roles in "The Bad News Bears," a movie in which he plays, and I quote, "a drunk who makes a living killing rats to live in a trailer." The movie is like a merger of his ugly drunk in "Bad Santa" and his football coach in "Friday Night Lights..." Roger Ebert

San Francisco Chronicle With such people involved, "Bad News Bears" would certainly have to be special, or so one might think. In fact, all those folks are just slumming. Maybe they like kids, or baseball; maybe they just wanted to be outdoors. Mick LaSalle

USA Today Real baseball fans say every game offers something you haven't seen before, but once we note that this is Bad News Bears and the original added a "The" to the title, what's to say about this movie? Not much, other than to ask just how much the execs who make these titular decisions rake in. Mike Clark

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