[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[jiggyboy]

Bang zoom straight to the dollar theater, Alice!

[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.

[driftless]

Ebert is the perfect reverse barometer. Anything he likes, I hate and vice versa.

[Nowhere Man]

Has Hollywood run out of original ideas? What's next, remakes of "Mannix," "Night Stalker," and "Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo?" They better not touch "Emergency" though.

[Bear_Slayer]

However, Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times calls it a "surprise and a delight, a movie that escapes the fate of weary TV retreads and creates characters that remember the originals, yes, but also stand on their own."

Do you ever suspect that they get paid to say crap like this?

[Conservatrix]

Can't black screenwriters come up with their own original ideas? Black Cinderella (Hmmmm.... last time I checked, Cinderella was Italian... unless she was Sicilian maybe), black Nutty Professor (who can improve on Jerry Lewis? I mean, come ON!), now this. Are they going to remake All In the Family? Will Archie Bunker be a Louis Farrakkhan-type who hates all whites?

These types of movies do NOT enhance blacks culturally. Stop trying to interject yourselves into stories which are obvious about white society and white culture (no more blacks in European-based fairy tales, PLEASE!) Find your own stories and make them GOOD and people will see them and admire them.

[fish hawk]

Ebert: the Dick Morris of the movie industry, only queer.

[hattend]

Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times calls it a "surprise and a delight, a movie that escapes the fate of weary TV retreads and creates characters that remember the originals, yes, but also stand on their own."

Ebert is wrong 9 times out of 10. If I hear a "thumbs up" from this dufus, I avoid the movie.