Length: 101 minutes Screen Formats: 1.85:1, 16x9 Languages: English Subtitles: English Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Sides: 1

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Length: 99 minutes Screen Formats: 1.85:1, 16x9 Languages: English Subtitles: English Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Sides: 1

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Length: 92 minutes Screen Formats: 1.85:1, 16x9 Languages: English Subtitles: English Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Sides: 1

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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training: In this 1977 sequel, the story picks up the Bears' career a year after their infamous second-place finish in the North Valley League. Faced with a chance to play the Houston Toros for a shot at the Japanese champs, they devise a way to get to Texas to play at the famed Astrodome. With Coach Buttermaker unavailable, Kelly spearheads the team effort to go to the game without a coach or chaperone. When plans go awry, Kelly reaches out to his estranged father, Michael (William Devane), who coaches the team into the world's favorite Little League outfit.

The Bad News Bears Go To Japan: This 1978 follow-up has the Bears traveling to Japan to take on the best Little League team. This time coached by Marvin Lazar (Tony Curtis), a slick con artist who sees the team as a perfect peg for his get-rich-quick scheme, the Bears find themselves pitted against a skillful Japanese junior baseball team and must win the game and get back home without starting WWIII.

Somewhat playing off the combination of young, trouble-prone kids and gruff older characters played by the likes of W.C. Fields and embodied by the cartoon world character of Dennis the Menace's Mr. Wilson (later played by Matthau some 17 years after appearing in the first film of this series), the original picture works because of just that "adversarial" chemistry.

Of course, it gained public attention and/or notoriety for the shocking - for the time - portrayal of young kids cussing up a storm, and thus managed to go on to be one of 1976's top grossing films. Not surprisingly, it spawned an immediate sequel, but without Matthau's presence or as much of the dirty talk, it only managed some occasional laughs and/or entertaining moments.

For the last film in the series, star William Devane followed Matthau's decision not to return in the follow-up, thus resulting in the odd and seemingly desperate casting of former star Tony Curtis ("Some Like It Hot," "Operation Petticoat") as the adult figure who must deal with the kids. Lame and decidedly unfunny, the film wrapped up the series that later went on to inspire - in one way or another - films such as "The Mighty Ducks" and "Hardball."