No one should mention the Avengers movie as it is quite frankly, awful.
I happen to be watching old episodes of I Spy with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby and the Eddie Murphy/Owen Wilson remake was soooo wide of the mark it might as well be a different film. The tv show was a more or less straight espionage drama about two GOOD agents working undercover around the world. The humour in the show came from their seemingly improvised banter.
It's a cop-out to turn these shows into dumb comedies and a slap in the face to the show's fans.
Why make Starsky and Hutch into a comedy (ok, I did find it entertaining) when it could have the potential as an action franchise like Lethal Weapon?
Look at the travesty that was Wild Wild West- they didn't even make use of its great theme tune in the film!
Don't get me started on the ThunderbirRAB movie. When I watched the show as a nipper, despite he fact that the show starred puppets, with the tight direction and great soundtrack it felt like a grown-up tv show- it didn't need brats running around for it to appeal to kiRAB,
I did think the first Mission: Impossible film worked thoughIt tried to do something a little different while maintaining a good dealof the spirit of the tv show.
