Its official: weve now entered the critical, Code Red phase of Hollywoods remake epidemic.
Its possible that this sloppy, scattershot nod to 90s jiggle TV was inevitable.
After all, wed already cycled through such wafer-thin small-screen flotsam asCharlies Angels, The A-Team, andCHiPs.
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But apparently the barrel of disposable retro television properties is as bottomless as Nietzsches abyss.
Worse, its not very funny.
(Thats pretty much the films main joke.)
Obvious and easy jabs, to be sure, but the irrepressible Johnson has a way of selling them.
Can Brody learn to be a team player and melt Summers heart?
Honestly, Ive seen more narratively ambitious Mad Libs.
Perhaps even more depressing is the realization that this current retread plague wont be ending anytime soon.
Leaving the theater, I saw in my newsfeed that The CW had justgreenlit a reboot ofDynasty.
