Why did the studio feel the need to make this movie? What would the reaction be if there was a "Goodtimes" or "The Cosby Show" movie made with all white characters? It's not the fact so much that this is an all black "Honeymooners" so much as the fact that an all black cast changes the genre from "comedy" to "black comedy" which is a seperate genre not to be confused with "dark comedy".
It seems a bit insulting to the original cast.
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
I don't know anything about this movie--this is the first I've heard of it--, but I suspect the impulse to remake the Honeymooners with a black cast (as if there were some necessary correspondence between the experience of the white working class in the 1950s and the black working class in 2005) emerges from the same source that thought it was a good idea to remake Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? with Bernie Mac replacing the Spencer Tracy character and Ashton Kutcher replacing Sidney Poitier's character--Hollywood's ceaseless need to replace ice cream with horsecrap.Originally Posted by savafan
Last edited by Falls City Beer; 06-11-2005 at 06:07 PM.
“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373908/
Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Kramden
Mike Epps as Ed Norton
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
cedric is a very funny guy, but i don't see this movie making much money...i'm sure it will be in the video store in a couple months collecting dust on the shelves...horrible idea for a remake :thumbdown
Almost as bad as the Bad News Bears remake.
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