reminds me of when steve martin decided to piss on seller's pink panther legacy
that zucker/abrahams schtick has been on an increasing tired downhill slide for decades, after the days of Airplane! Top Secret and Naked Gun.
My guess is that there'll be a few mediocre pastiches of modern cop/crime shows, but it'll mostly be callbacks to the previous movies relying on sentimentally to mask the lack of coming up with new jokes.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 5 May 2025, 4:17,
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Exception for me was Steve Carell in Nu Get Smart.
Done very well IMO.
On the non-comedy front, The Man From UNCLE remake/prequel was also great, and superbly cast.
Very few are good though, you're right.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Mon 5 May 2025, 10:17,
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yeah, it wasn't terrible
I think it's because Carrell made it more his own. The don adams smart was cocky but knew when he was always stuffing up and the humour was him carrying on anyway. Carrel was more an oblivious mr bean like take on smart.
Martin was just doing a bad sellers impression, and it looks like Neeson is just doing a Nielson. All it does is make you wish for the original, instead it's like an SNL sketch. I don't know, the preview isn't much to go on. maybe it wont be predictably disappointing
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 5 May 2025, 11:43,
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Only part of the trailer that got a laugh from me was the sons all lined up with photos of their Dads...
Gets to OJ and "Nope".
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Mon 5 May 2025, 13:36,
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