Leonard Goldberg's production has a made-for-tv look (it even seems already pre-cut for the tube), a fair Paul Brickman script and passable direction by Michael Pressman.' Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, finding the climactic game 'enjoyable' but that the film otherwise 'tries too hard' in its attempts at 'heart-tugging emotion.' Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called it 'a poorly plotted, indifferently directed, noisily overacted movie' that nevertheless 'will probably do well' on the strength of the original. Murphy of Variety called it 'a pale but adequately summer-commercial sequel to the extremely successful 'Bad News Bears' Paramount hit of last year. It's a formula that worked for Our Gang Comedy for many years, and works again here with a bright screenplay by Paul Brickman, based on Bill Lancaster's original characters, and direction of intelligent lightness by Michael Pressman.' Arthur D. Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it 'a manufactured comedy of a slick order, depending almost entirely for its effects on the sight and sound of a bunch of kids behaving as if they were small adults. Good friends with Tanner Boyle, who carries the mantra 'let's win one for the Looper' during the team's journey. Thus, he cannot join the team on their trip to Houston.
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