The Reviews Are In: "The Honeymooners" Film Is Junk

Internet Movie Database Report ^ | 6-9-05

[escapefromboston]

I like Roger Ebert (Ya I know he is a liberal but the guy knows his movies and I generally agree with him on his reviews) but he always seems to go "easy" on movies that feature a predominately Black cast.

PS. Who couldn't have guessed that this film was going suck?? I mean come on.

[james500]

Roger Ebert just wants to see his name on movie posters next to mr. Jeffery Lyons.

[jdm]

"The 'Honeymooners' Film Is Junk"

No way!

"A glass eye in a duck's ass could see that."

- David Bowie

[lainie]

Who couldn't have guessed that this film was going suck??

That was going to be my post.

[fatnotlazy]

Our local critics also panned this film.

This business of recycling old movies and tv shows -- sorry, but I liked the originals (maybe) -- have no interest in seeing something like this rehashed again. And some of the originals weren't that good either to begin with.

[Tribune7]

Ebert is an almost infallible reviewer. If he says it's good it's almost certainly not and vice-versa.

[fatnotlazy]

I think that's true of most critics. :)

[Bullish]

However, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times calls it a "surprise and a delight

Ebert would stoop over and kiss his own bee-hind if he thought it was the "politically correct" thing to do.

Ebert's one of the biggest phonies the liberals have ever produced.

I'm not surprised at all that this movie is a stinker.

One of my favorite movie review sites.

Rotten tomatoes.com

[My Favorite Headache]

Ebert's liberalism is the worst thing he could have ever come out of the closet with.It taints every single review he does.

[Bommer]

Believe it or not, Michael Medved liked it.

[Petronski]

The idea had potential, but it seems they got too far from the original. It would only work as a self-aware hommage to the Gleason classic.


I was hoping it would be good.

[Petronski]

When Siskel was living, I knew I could bank on any film siskel liked and Ebert hated.

[catbertz]

IIRC, Ebert is married to a black woman. Perhaps he feels the need to support black films

[jiggyboy]

Bang zoom straight to the dollar theater, Alice!

[Highest Authority]

Then I guess that he will LOVE the new version of KOJAK!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Ebert and wife.

[jos65]

Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe got it right:
"There is no reason for it to exist other than cashing in on a brand name."
Far too much of this happening these days. Doesn't anyone possess the ability to have an original thought?

[xp38]

Some things should never be remade and the Honeymooners is one of them. I will go out of my way to avoid this.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Even the cast of "The Original 39" prolly couldn't pull off a 90 minute episode. Sitcoms are meant to be 22 minutes of rapid fire humor. Completely different genre from feature films.

If, as it appears, Hollywood is out of ideas, they can reach me via FreepMail! ;)