This is
the second film in recent memory to take an unlikely source and modernize it for today's audience, but unlike I Think I Love My Wife, this Steve Carr (Rebound, Daddy Day Care) update removes all of the wit and cleverness of the original, then beefs it up with stupid sight gags, terrible characterizations, and a plethora of scenes of «fall on your ass» slapstick that was already old back when the original film was released in 1948.
Not exact matches
As Variety observed, «this marks the first time
in recent memory that
films both led and directed by African - Americans have nabbed the first and
second place spots at the box office.»
As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time
in recent memory, and possibly ever, that
films by African - American directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle
in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist
in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened
in the
second - place spot.
Probably one of the more eagerly awaited sequels
in recent memory, Avengers: Age Of Ultron crafted by Marvel Studios / Disney and directed by Joss Whedon, makes a decent entry into the
second -
film - of - the - franchise market, but does not supersede the original
in acting, writing or humor (so one can forget the «The Empire Strikes Back,» «Superman II» and «The Dark Knight» allusions).