Articles tagged with remake

This review is rather late in coming, so I feel it's fair to discuss the critical reception of Get Smart. Most reviewers have dismissed this film, basing much of their arguments on its dissimilarity with the old Don Adams TV show. (By the way, for you kids my age who didn't stay up for "Get Smart" on Nick at Nite, you'll remember Don Adams as the voice of Inspector Gadget.) And true, Get Smart the film lands somewhere between True Lies and Spy...

Somewhere I read that the monarch/aristocrat with democratic values was a peculiarly American invention, that is an invention of Hollywood, and that thought was running through my mind when I watched this movie last night at the Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign. Though I wish I could remember who said it, and about what.

However, Mutiny on the Bounty, at least this version (1935, the second of at least five movies), gives you a fairly good example of that American...