THE BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN

Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley

Paramount; Directed by John Berry

Rated PG; 102 minutes; 1978

Caught in a clash of cultures and ready to wreak more havoc on Japan than Godzilla, the Bad News Bears are back for their third outing, following the enormously successful "THE BAD NEWS BEARS" and "THE BAD NEWS BEARS IN BREAKING TRAINING." This time the Bears have been spirited off to Tokyo by Tony Curtis as Marvin Lazar, a slick and sleazy con artist who sees in the team a perfect peg for a get-rich-quick scheme. The strikeout-prone Bears are pitted against a murderously skillful Japanese junior baseball team, and the resulting comic chaos is hilarious.