Before co-hosting with me last Thursday, Queen Angie made the fateful comment to me off the air: “I am immune to bad Hollywood remakes.” She said this to let me know there was nothing, NOTHING, I could throw her way movie wise that would cause her to get angry.
She should have never spoken those words.
On Sunday, Queen Angie and I discovered the latest Hollywood remake tragedy: 21 Jump Street. It came in the form of a 30-second TV-commercial during Sunday night’s American Idol San Diego audition. The 21 Jump Street commercial was so horribly bad, it made you wonder if there was anything good in the movie at all. Sadly, I went looking for the answer to that question and found one of the previews currently airing in theaters.
Watch the video, and see my comments, after the jump.
Really? REALLY? This is how they decided to remake 21 Jump Street?
Okay, technically it isn’t a remake. The movie is set 20 years after the end of the TV show. Johnny Depp even has a part in the movie playing his original character, Tom Hansen.
In the original TV series, the cops on the show weren’t bumbling idiots. Sure, they often came to Jump Street with chips on their shoulders and lessons that needed to be learned. And mistakes were made from time to time. But idiots who don’t even know what the Miranda Rights are? Never would have happened. Captain Fuller would have bounced those idiots right out of the station house.
Sadly, this is what Hollywood thinks of the TV shows we grew up watching. They aren’t interested in taking what made the show popular in the first place and simply finding a way to adapt it to today. Instead, they are aiming for the money that movies like Wedding Crashers and The Hangover made by being raunchy, bawdy, and socially inept. Just look at how Hollywood destroyed The Dukes of Hazzard in their efforts to get at that money.
Unlike some people, I don’t have a problem with Hollywood wanting to take an old TV series and attempt to turn it into the next blockbuster movie. TV and Hollywood have been feeding off each other’s ideas for decades. I just wish Hollywood would at least leave a small trace of what made us like the TV show in the first place.
And no, Johnny Depp doesn’t qualify as that small trace. He lost that several movies, and costume changes, ago.
What do you think about the 21 Jump Street preview? Do you plan on going to see the movie when it is released on March 16? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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