Friday, August 26, 2005

"My mom says I have cancer."

When the funniest line of a movie turns out to be "My mom says I have cancer," you know you are in trouble... Hollywood's current remake of "The Bad News Bears" is truly bad news for fans of the original "classic."

Billy Bob Thornton is certainly no Walter Matthau as the beer-guzzling, foul-mouthed, head coach. While the remake sticks closely to the original storyline, the casting simply falls short of matching the original. Let's hope that in the future Billy Bob sticks to more challenging and interesting roles such as the ones he had in Slingblade and A Simple Plan.