It's official. Absolutely
NOTHING is sacred or indeed safe from reinterpretation... an "urban" version of perhaps the greatest sitcom of all time. Couldn't they at least have called it The Homeynooners? The trailer does not inspire confidence but maybe some of our US readers could expand upon the subject. What the hell is next?
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If H-wood's gone and done a "black" HONEYMOONERS, maybe the next logical step would be a "white" AMOS 'N' ANDY!
Yeah. The "urban" Steptoe and Son was Sanford and Son. Next up... Ice Cube as Archie Bunker??
Good point, leader! But then again, I was hoping that the "updating" of classic fifties/sixties sitcoms as big-budget feature films would have deep-sixed about ten years back when some pretty big box office turds (bog office???) temporarily halted these usually cringe-inducing remakes. Remember the "new" BILKO and CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?, not to mention that LEAVE IT TO BEAVER "remake" that had me running for the nearest vomitorium? (And don't forget, besides the "new" HONEYMOONERS we also have a BEWITCHED feature to contend with...probably chock fulla gay innuendo that would make even Paul Lynde choke, no less!) Pretty soon we'll be seeing feature versions of THE HATHAWAYS, I'M DICKENS, HE'S FENSTER and SING ALONG WITH MITCH for all we'll know. And hey, even a new feature version of a really good program like NAKED CITY would go flat faster'n a souffle in today's sterile film world, dontcha think??? It's just that great cheap early-sixties entertainment filtered through a mid oh-ohs mindset is bound to lose a lotta the original charm, humor, mid-Ameriganism and even intensity along the way.(Personally I think it's all a plot by the current "decadent" Hollywood forces to damn their own past and make the boffo late-fifties/early-to-mid-sixties TV scene look revolting next to their patented decadence, a ploy I hope falls flat on their faces!)
I typically have been wary of remakes, but even more wary of TV shows turned into films. From what I've read about the film, however, seems it isn't necessarily your typical soulless remake. Sounded as if they treated the original with respect and tried to do it justice without mocking the source material and tried to keep some characteristics of Ralph, Norton, ect, without simply imitating them. I don't think I'll spend the $8 to see it, but I'd probably watch it on tv. That, and my coworker tells me it turned out to be really good movie. Go figure. Now we wait on Land Of The Dead...
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