I did not want to watch Bad News Bears. I had a strong sense I would not enjoy this film. But people kept requesting it and requesting it until I felt I would not be doing my job properly if I didn’t review it. Also, there was always the chance I could be pleasantly surprised. And I live by Joe Posnanski’s expected rating system which basically posits that the worse you expect a movie to be the more even an average movie will entertain you and vice versa.
This movie did not even entertain me based on the meager expectations I had set for it.