Sentences with phrase «entertaining as the remake»

Not exact matches

As someone steeped in the technicality of how our team at Revive & Restore will employ advancing biotechnologies to achieve our goal of ecological restoration it was a welcome and heartening reprieve to read an entertaining and creative take on how fictional twelve - year - old Chris remakes the passenger pigeon with some help from a remarkable secret family history while treading secretly himself to defy the limitations set upon him for his young age.

It's actually really surprising that Hollywood hasn't tried remaking the film, because although the original is entertaining as a B - movie guilty pleasure with some hilarious quotes («I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.»)

Race to Witch Mountain proves that some remakes can be just as entertaining if not more so, than the original,

Race to Witch Mountain proves that some remakes can be just as entertaining if not more so, than the original, but it helps to have one of the rising stars in Hollywood as your leading man too.

2013's Carrie is the second adaptation of the Stephen King's first novel, published in 1974, though it is not really an adaptation so much as a remake of the campy but entertaining 1976 Brian De Palma film.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle makes the smart choice to make itself a sequel instead of just remaking the original as well as turning Jumanji into a video game considering how relevant video games are in this generation — the cast is fun, the action is entertaining, and there's even sprinkles of heart as a bonus.

The remake is every bit as fun and entertaining as the original, but up - to - date enough to entertain the 1990's teenie - boopers.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?