Reviews

This is coming from a huge fan of the show... Seen the whole series from beginning to end many times... and I could tell how the magic of the show got lost in the translation from the small screen to the big screen... First of all, the film makers somehow decided that it was best to flood the film with tons of product placement, expensive jewelry, cars, locations and clothes... the whole film seemed like a fashion show, with a little thin plot attached to it... A plethora of consumerism... How can anyone care for this characters in this film when they are flooded with all this garbage? I've seen single episodes in the series that have more depth, invoke greater feeling and get across more meaningful messages in less than thirty minutes than this extravagant, consumerism obsessed film did in more than two hours... Sure, it's nice to see it on the big screen, but it doesn't mean that it's not what it is... a bastardization of the original product; a product that has been bought by companies to parade their product on these mannequins (characters if you can call them that anymore) that are parodies of their former selves... And the whole plot is just plain ludicrous... This Big character comes across as a wimp that gets scared at the last minute... that's so out of character and so childish.... and then adding characters that practically do nothing for the film, like Jennifer Hudson's Louise.... A waste of time and waste of space that could have been given to a recurring character from the series.. Maybe it would have helped if more writers had been attached to it, rather than leaving only MPK to embark on a huge film like this on his own..