WHY WAS THIS MESS REDLIGHTED?

there is no flow, direction, or purpose to any of the scenes in this movie. i thought jackie earle haley was really ugly while i looked at his face in this movie.

nothing and i mean nothing interesting or entertaining ever happens. there's no fun scenes, there's no point to any of the scenes, no scene makes you feel good because every scene is so bad, the characters never seem like real people, they never connect in a good way which makes you care about them or what they are doing. you never care about anything that happens in this movie because every scene is so poorly planned out and directed.

oh, and this movie has no direction. scenes are so out of place in the story. random scenes with no purpose to the story happen. they spend so much time showing pointless japanese game show? singing show scenes and martial arts scenes? what? i thought this is a bad news bears movie? those two scenes make no sense in this movie about a baseball team.

I think whoever made this movie had to be on acid. I am rewatching it right now and I can't even decipher what this movie's even supposed to be about...

It started out about baseball, then it turned into a wrestling movie, and then a musical, and then some interracial love story. And Tony Curtis is a douchebag throughout all of it. It's like one big fever dream put on film. I hope I never have watch it again.

Don't worry about it: this movie flopped SO hard and disappeared out of theaters SO fast that my friends and I had no idea it even really existed until many years later, even though we liked the first two movies of the series.

I’m honestly not sure. I had never seen
This movie up until last week. I loved the first two so I thought the third couldn’t be that bad.. well it definitely was - it was just dull and painfully unfunny

Part 1 made 42 million USD at a 9 million budget, thats around 220 million USD today. Part 2 made a solid 19 million dollar with likely a fairly cheaper budget, especially without Walter Matthau. Wouldn't be surprised if they paid the cast for part 3 with an extended Japan family trip.
The idea behind Part 3 was likely to extend the audience outside the US. But Baseball is just a minor sport in other countries, so Japan was the most likely choice. I doubt they had much of a script and just hoped to get something done which still prints money. FYI: the movie still made at least 7m USD, I doubt it was a loss, just not worth anymore to pursuit sequels.
Tony Curtis was at that time already demoted to a TV actor, he wouldn't add much to the budget.