Synopsis: The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training is the comic and poignant second-in-the-series of adventures with the pint-sized sandlot ballplayers initiated with the smash success, The Bad News Bears. The picture 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 a the famed Astrodome. On their pilgrimage to Houston, the Bears gain a new coach; dump that coach; add a new pitcher who can’t get his fastball over the plate; find another coach who shows him how it’s done, and go on to a come-back victory with all eyes on Japan.
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The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training 6.0

Not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I had fun during that last act – it made up for a lot of dull moments. Admittedly, had I seen this movie back in the day, though, aged 8-12, I’m sure I would have found this one heck of an awesome ride through and through

Oh, and thank goodness for Jackie Earle Haley – at least someone has some screen presence here. In the first movie, he had competition from Tatum O”Neil and Walter Matthau. Sadly, they didn’t return to the franchise for whatever reason and left him carrying the darned thing by himself…

Anyway, I’d be curious to see what else he’s been up to.