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Frasier (2023)
Give this reboot the boot. It is just sad.
This is hopelessly terrible to the point that it is sad.
This is the worst reboot since Rosanne, but that was dreadful to start with.
Any good sitcom requires a witty script, excellent direction and well considered casting. You know...just like the original Frasier. This has none of that.
This, to use one of Frasier's earlier terms is "on the nose."
Nothing makes sense. The setting is wrong. The characters are wrong. The dialog is wrong. The script is wrong. What a waste of an opportunity.
For example: Why did Niles and Frasier's offspring become so out of character? Niles son is wearing a rugby jumper...what??? And he's a complete yawn. Frasier's son is a fireman? Really?
I fear this debacle will have lost all of its original followers who were hoping for something even approaching the quality of the original, and it in no way will attract any new young fans.
As I said...Sad.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Maverick on Metamucil.
What is with all of the hype surrounding this turkey? I was really looking forward to this and was expecting a movie at least as entertaining as the original. But oh boy was I disappointed. Honestly I couldn't get through it.
The characters were so wafer thin if they turned side on they'd disappear. I didn't like, hate, feel for or relate to a single one of them. I have met fighter pilots on several occasions and they have been impressive, engaging, disarming but mostly humble people. The polar opposite of these cardboard, yeeha all American clowns. At least the characters in the original were somewhat interesting.
The script was not just embarrassingly corny and cringeworthy, it was boring. What has happened to script writing in Hollywood? If you're going to dump a 100 Million plus into a film at least employ someone who can write.
The storyline was so lacking in credibility, it should have been classified science fiction fantasy. Come on, give me something that will at least suspend my disbelief for a while.
The acting? What acting? Each scene was either hammed up or indifferently delivered. Nothing flowed. The scene between Maverick and a very ill looking Ice was difficult to watch. I mean, really? I like a bit of sentimentality as much as the next person but Val Kilmer, playing an Admiral of all things, just looked and sounded sad.
Worse yet, the things supposed to be the stars of the show, the jets and the flying, were pretty awful. These scenes were mostly poorly directed and stuffed so full of CGI they looked cartoonish. All too often we were shown current Super Hornet jets doing things that they simply can't do to the point of monotony. This took away any authenticity the movie may have had, and "rendered" the whole experience one big yawn fest.
But possibly worst of all was the disconnect between the age of the main character and the way he carries on. Lets face it, Tom Cruise ain't getting any younger and he's showing it, but it seems this Maverick bloke hasn't grown up at all.
I can see why it didn't even get a nomination at the Globes.
Crashed and Burned.
Trollied (2011)
Dark Spirited Lazy British Trash
When you don't have much talent and you want to try and find a formula for success it seems these days you should plumb the depths and go for the cheapest, joyless, most mean spirited base laughs possible.
This is not clever. It is not in any way funny, unless you have serious issues. It is a sign of the times that this stuff even gets financed.
If you like this show then you really should seek any and all forms of therapy...because you need it.
I can't believe the same country that produced Yes Minister produced this predictable, awful dross.
The producers, writers and directors should take a "lettuce" leaf out of their own books and go back to working in a supermarket. They will be way more productive.
Frasier: Freudian Sleep (2004)
Frasier's "jumping the shark" episode
This "filler" episode looks like knowing the show was finishing the writers were simply getting to the end of the season and going through the motions. It's clearly one of the worst episodes if not the worst. The dream scenes are hard to get through and the final one where Martin is trying to be Fred Astaire is just embarrassing. If they had their time over I'll bet this aberration would get tossed like the salad with a usual serving of poignant hilarity in it's place.
Yes Minister (1980)
Fine dining on the best of British wit.
Re-watching Yes Minister is like dining out at a favourite eatery from your past where nothing has changed nor deteriorated. You know what is coming but you still find yourself being delightfully surprised at just how good it is.
Sadly, given the low number of reviewers here, this masterpiece of satirical comedy is on a level that all too few will ever experience. Why spend the time agonising over every line of the script when you can just phone in a run of cheap shot gags punctuated with a couple of bars of annoying up tempo music and some canned laughter and make millions right?
But at least Yes Minister will continue to defy its age, playing as fresh and new as the day it was minted. This is testament to the superb writing skills, masterful acting and tight and uncomplicated direction.
So do yourself a great service and slip back to a time before smart phones and social media and immerse yourself in some of the most incisive humour ever filmed. I promise it will get you laughing and thinking but also lamenting just how rare a gem you have uncovered.