Not even close to the original!
Added 10/29/2009
I have to say that this movie was really disappointing to watch. I saw the sketch of it and was hoping it would be funny. WRONG! When I went to watch it, it was so boring and WASN'T really that funny. I feel like now I wasted my money on this! The movie didn't stay true to the original as it should be...instead they turn it into this ghetto version. The Diary of A Mad Black Woman was much more interesting and funnier than this movie. Especially Madea...hee hee. :( And Ralph didn't even say his famous line "One of these days, Alice....POW!". I was looking so forward for him to say that but he didn't. The only famous line he said was "Baby, you're the greatest". And the movie seem pretty stupid. I don't really recommend it others to watch it. I should have watched another movie. Maybe Madagascar would be more funnier.
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It Captures the Spirit
Added 4/13/2009
Like many people, I am an aficionado of the classic TV series. Since most remakes or "tribute" films of venerable television shows are not successful and because this movie received such poor reviews, I did not see it until recently. The poor reviews are not justified. This film captures the essence and spirit of the immortal show and does so with its overall theme of working class people trying, usually unsuccessfully, to "make it". The references and insertion of scenes and dialogue evocative of the classic are well done and very well placed in the script. This cast studied the original and got it right. This film is a rarity - one worthy of the classic it emulates. Perhaps you had to be there at the time the original was made to know how well this film works.
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Why? The Original Show Was Bad Enough!
Added 1/5/2009
I'm finally catching a glimpse of this movie on network cable TV, as it's not something I would have seen at the theater or bought on DVD. All I can say is "Why?" I thought the original, black and white, fifties version of the show sucked, and even my favorite actors can't redeem it in a movie version. The original show was horrible then; this movie is horrible now. Why Ced and Mike Epps and Gabby didn't try and put their immense good looks and talent into another vehicle I'll never know. But oh well, at least we have two of the three in "Cadillac Records" and two out of three ain't bad.
By the way--I can agree with the reviewers who said that maybe the color lines shouldn't have been crossed. If white actors showed up in a big screen remake of "Good Times" or "Martin" or "Amos n Andy" or "What's Happening" I'd be UP IN ARMS and protesting the studio!
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Dreadful!
Added 12/3/2008
This was dreadful. What a slap to the face to the Classic. Almost worse than the Bush Administration over the last 8 years.
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black and white
Added 6/1/2008
i know everyone says "i'm not racist". to say it or not to say it has nothing to do with this review. if you are going to remake something, be historically correct. don't remake sanford and son with an all white cast. don't make the honeymooners with an all black cast. we will all be happier, black and white. and by the way i loved sanford and son, saw every episode, and i am white. :-)
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