[TomGuy]

well once you have the initial characters in your head everyone else comes up short.

The problem with remakes is that the newer characters try too hard to 'be' the classic characters. And that is impossible.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Yes - another decent example is Steve Martin trying to remake Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau. I haven’t yet seen the Steve Martin version (seen the Youtube clip of him taking English pronunciation lessons of “I vant tew order an umbrugguh”) - as great as Steve Martin is - he’s just not Peter Sellers.