I absolutely loved The A-Team when I was about six - it was Saturday afternoon viewing round at Granny Mary's, and I used to sit there avidly with my BA figure waiting for them to start blowing things up (I was too young to know if there was much of a plot to it). I did think it looked pretty good from the trailer, but I'd heard mixed things about the movie version.
If you like cheesey macho action films, this isn't a bad one. You have to really like cheese though. Take along some crackers. Liam Neeson and the guy who played Face were pretty good. The BA character was up against it - Mr T is a hard act to follow, but he did OK. The Murdoch character just wasn't funny, however, which pretty much killed it as a nostalgia exercise. The other thing that killed it as a nostalgia exercise was the lack of appreciation of how much we all liked the original theme tune as kids. The movie ends...the old familiar voice-over rattles through and then...some pointless metal track starts up. Luckily some reasonably imaginative action sequences meant that I didn't feel compelled to demand my money back, though I did feel a hankering to watch the series as it was back in "the day".
I am informed that there were some cameos from the original Murdoch and Faceman at the end of the credits - I missed these due to pressure to conform to the Sixfields tradition of getting out of the cinema the very second the credits start to roll. Do they do this in other places?
I actually quite liked it but then I was probably a bit too old for the original so don't look back at it with quite the same fondness most people have.
ReplyDeleteI actually thought the Murdoc character was pretty good but that's because I like the actor that played him (the dude from District 9).
I didn't see the end credits either as the version I saw didn't have any.. ahem
Ha! Just spotted your comment, Lemmie. Blog noob that I am!
ReplyDeleteThe dude from District 9 is a friend of a friend - apparently he himself felt some of the funnier stuff had been cut from the film. I did feel the balance was more action-orientated and less funny than I remember the TV show as being.
I wasn't meaning to criticise him as such, just felt that it was underdeveloped overall.