The Old Sucky Remake of a Classic Television Show Trick, That’s the Second Time I’ve Fallen for it This Year…

It’s Thursday and that can only mean one thing. It’s time for another edition of “Sure to Suck,” a sure fire guide to avoiding the movies that are sure to suck at a cineplex near you. Unless, of course, you want to watch something that sucks. Then it’s the just USA Today weekend movie guide, which has much better graphics than us and Larry King’s “News and Views” column.

The “Get Smart” remake directed by Peter Segel, the visionary who brought us films such as “Anger Management,” “My Fellow Americans” and “The Nutty Professor II,” is on the top of our “Sure to Suck” radar.

We have nothing against Steve Carell, but he’s no Don Adams and besides, it was inevitable that “Get Smart” would be remade into a big feature length film since it’s one of the few Hollywood hasn’t remade yet. Pretty soon they’ll run out of shows and we’ll be forced to watch big screen remakes of “Flavor of Love,” “The View” and “The 5 O’Clock News: The Movie.”

Mike Myers also returns to the screens this weekend with his latest catchphrase throwing, stereotype promoting, phallic symbol showing character in “The Love Guru.”

Myers plays Pitka, an American raised by gurus who tries to make his way into the self-help business by taking on a disgruntled hockey player whose been jilted by his wife just days before the start of the NHL Stanley Cup. Right there, the plot doesn’t make sense. If you coach a hockey team, don’t you want your players to be as angry as possible before they hit the ice? If I was coaching an NHL team, the night before the start of the Stanley Cup, I would get all of my players’ wives to have a huge affair with each other, have their cars repossessed for no reason and put a live ferret in their pants just before the first game. The ferrets would just make me laugh.

1 Comment »

  1. Chris Said,

    June 19, 2008 @ 3:20 am

    You can’t compare Steve Caroll in “Get Smart” to doing a remake of “The View”! :P Shame on you…. ;)

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