I heard somewhere that this was being remade, and I heard Idina would be in a starring role, so I thought, hmm OK, she can sort of act, and she can certainly sing.... she's no Bette Midler obviously but perhaps it might be better than the Ghostbusters disaster....
So some weeks later I find this online, and think ah OK, lets see how this worked out.
I firstly noticed it appeared to be about half an hour less than the original - kind of strange.
What it appears happened is that all the talent, skill and entertainment were taken out, who knew you could measure these things in time.
From the outset it's just bad, the opening cliché scene, with the same dialogue but delivered with all the care of an out of control rally driver, well it just made me cringe.
And from there is appears to be going downhill rapidly, I'm about 20 mins in now, and I can safely say other than Idina singing, this BAD REMAKE has no redeeming qualities at all.
I would say this is another example of an attempt to 'bring it to a new audience' when the original if it got a 20th or 30th anniversary release update thing would have been far more successful, and far better than this complete load of nonsense.
I can find no redemption in this film other than Idina singing, and I literally mean the singing, her acting is just as bad as it was in Glee *sigh*
I don't imagine it is likely I will see this through to the end without being compelled to scratch my eyes out and ram cotton buds in my ears......
Please Hollywodd, stop raping the classics for the sake of a quick bit of gratification - this is about as successful as premature ejaculation.
