Continuity is ESSENTIAL for any sequel and/or remake! This is why-except for the terrific music video, the remake of Wild Wild West failed(no offense to Mr Branaugh( terribly miscast as a descendant of Dr Miguelito Loveless)Mr Smith and Mr Kline,who didn't even try to capture the character traits that made James West and Artemus Gordon so iconic-one GLARING ERROR-they NEVER referred to each other by their LAST NAMES-it was always Jim/James or Artie/Artemus! ThatThat's what made the first TV- movie Wild Wild West Revisited so good!Their characters were "enjoying" the type of retirement you would have expected and their reintroduction into the Secret Service was also completely accurate! And while there will always be only ONE Dr Miguelito Q Loveless (his duets with Antoinette as well as his verbal eloquent duels with James West were priceless(it was obvious though never spoken(James almost did in the Night Loveless Died when he thought he was talking to his "uncle") that they mutually respected each other)but no one could have been better cast as his son than Paul Williams(who hinted at his father's heart but as many children's perspective only saw the pain that he suffered and blamed them)! That's why this 2nd TV-movie, while the characters of James and Artemus are still true to form, I spent much of the movie trying to figure out who Professor Paradine's father was?! I kept going over in my mind the list of all the villains until I finally realized that for some inexplicable reason the writers had chosen to create a "new former "villain! Then, when I saw Victor Buono as Dr Messenger(clearly and an admirably done spoof of Kissenger)I thought that the "Paradine" character was a McGuffin and kept waiting for the moment when Dr Messenger pulls off the disguise and reveals that he is in fact the inimitable Count Manzeppi! But it never happened! So that's why I only gave it an 8-no fault of the actors Robert Conrad Ross Martin Victor Buono and Jonathan Winters(who I truly liked but would have been better had his character had substance), but of the writers forgetting the key-Continuity!
Review of More Wild Wild West
