So, I Watched Here Come The Tigers (1978, Dir. by Sean S. Cunningham)


All I did was ask Tubi for a good baseball movie and it recommended this.

Here Come The Tigers is about Eddie Burke (Richard Lincoln), a small-town cop who reluctantly agrees to coach a Little League team that no one expects to do well.  Eddie takes the Tigers to the championship, despite the fact that all the kids are weirdos who don’t look like they’ve ever held a bat before.  One kid suffers from terrible flatulence.  One kid is always picking his nose.  Another kid is all about Star Wars, which makes him the least offensive of them all.  There’s a lot of humor but none of it is funny.  There’s a lot of characters but none of them stand out.  I didn’t know anyone’s name until they were all introduced before the championship game.

Here Come The Tigers was obviously inspired by The Bad News Bears.  By inspired, I mean that it basically is The Bad News Bears, just without the charm or the important message about adults need to back off and just let their little leaguers enjoy the game.  I can also tell that this was meant to be a family film but it seems like any parents who watched it would probably become nostalgic for a time before they had children.  The kids in this movie are so disgusting that they’re sometimes impossible to watch.

The kids who made up the bad news Bears won you over.  The Tigers just make you want to leave the ballpark.