Just read a report that MGM is remaking Back to School with Cedric the Entertainer.
Is this remake fever ever going to end!? Now they are desecrating the greatness that is Rodney Dangerfield.
Where's that blood pressure medicine when you need it?
The remakes won't stop until people stop paying money to see them. You can blame Hollywood for it's lack of creativity, but it's really the moviegoers who are causing the problem.
Right on Nobody!
Well I haven't been going to see the remakes (or the Saturday Night Live 90 minute skits). And don't most of them bomb anyway?
"Just read a report that MGM is remaking Back to School with Cedric the Entertainer."
Unbelievable.
I assume this is meant to be tongue in cheek as the original wasn't any good anyway. I guess there is safety in remaking a bad movie since you can always blame the source material if it bombs.
Since I've never liked Rodney Dangerfield much, but like Cedric, this one might have possibilities. I'm sick of trying to avoid the original on basic cable where it turns up way too much. Then again I heard "Johnson Family Vacation" was just a tired retread of the National Lampoon's Vaction films.
This is just another variation on the old theme of not just remaking an old film, but remaking it and aiming it at a different audience. Remember some studio recently made a black version of the dull 80s Patrick Dempsey teen comedy "Can't Buy Me Love". I'm convinced the high school comedy "Trippin'" from several years ago was an overt attempt to make a "black teen" version of "the Secret Life of Walter Mitty".
I just wonder if they'll update Sam Kinison's angry Vietnam vet prof with a p**sed off African-American studies professor and who would play him? Bernie Mac seems too obvious, Dave Chappelle is too laid back, and Chris Rock is too big a star (even though his movies suck) to play what amounts to a cameo. Keith Robinson throws funny fits on "Tough Crowd" maybe he'd do good.