Danny_G13

Must say the 7/10 this reboot is scoring on IMDB is both predictable and equally surprising. Yes, welcome to the new Frasier, a show I have held off watching for a while given I'm a huge fan of the original.

I mainly held off because a Fraser without Niles, Daphne and Marty really isn't Frasier, and while Kelsey Grammer's enduring title character remains unchanged and lovable, nothing else about the reboot, save for his son Freddie, comes close.

So, as you've guessed, Fraser has left Seattle behind for a new life in Boston as a professor at Harvard, and in doing so has moved next door to his son, to be closer to him.

We'll get straight to the bad.

The dialogue, the jokes, and the characters. Sadly that's most of the show.

Jack Cutmore-Scott is the only one, aside Grammer, who actually manages to hold things up - his Freddie is a nice homage to Marty, a character very much taking after Frasier's late old man, and he does a very good job of being his own, while also keeping the spirit of John Mahoney alive.

But that's where it ends. Nicholas Lyndhurst's Alan is abysmal - badly cast, he's the wrong guy for this role. Completely. The character is ALRIGHT but he's not the right person to play him. Needs recast for that role to even remotely have a chance. Too dry, forced, and contrived. It's not his role.

Jess Salguiero's Eve - is she supposed to be a 'Daphne'? She's generic and could have been played by anyone. She's not even necessary and will likely be written out after a few episodes. She's redundant along with the baby, let's face it.

Then there's real pain. Anders Keith's David is diabolical - nothing to do with the casting, he does his best, but the material is agony. Fraser is a show about misunderstandings but this character seems to be a single human parody of that idea. It's just not funny, and he's utterly annoying. Poor Keith is left stranded by the bad writing.

And that's the whole thing in a nutshell.

Trying to find the good isn't really that feasible. It's not abysmal, it really isn't, but it's not a patch on the masterful old show.

This probably sounds like a hatefest, and it really is lovely to see an old friend of the 90s back - something comforting about seeing Frasier again.

But this isn't the show we love. It's a bad fanfic version of it.

They have given it a good shot, but there's just too much chafe, too much of this seems a parody indeed of the old show.

Maybe it will get better, but unless some bad characters are removed and roles recast, we don't give it a lot of hope.

Generous 6/10.

I'm one of these generous guys who even if I didn't love a movie can still give it 8 for entertaining me. I rarely give a film below 6, because they all have some sort of redeeming value.

But 'Home Sweet Home Alone' is the literally worst movie I've ever seen, and it's only at 20 minutes.

Who, on EARTH signed off on this? Who thought this would make a good movie?

I get a modern reboot of Home Alone isn't the worst idea, but this execution is absolutely criminally dreadful.

Appalling dialogue, worse acting, and yet filmed expensively in 'Hollywood-ovision' so it does actually look the part of a high budget film.

It's just horrible horrible horrible.

It's almost unfathomable how bad the dialogue is, how horrendous the characters are, and it's everything about cinema gone stinkingly wrong.

Just less than drivel, the worst movie I will ever see.

And I'm still only 20 minutes in.

And this review does contain spoilers - the movie itself. Of your mood.

Let's be clear from the off, this is kind of like the Hollywood remake of Ring 2 - which was basically a mix of all of the Japanese originals.

And that's what this is, a mix of classic PS1 RE, Gamecube RE, Resident Evil 2 and the remake.

It's a fun amalgamation of all of the most classic RE stuff, with a bunch of cinematic changes thrown in to make it work more on the big screen, and while some of the alterations in plot are curious, it's still good enough to enjoy.

If you're a fan, that is.

You may be horrified at some of the changes, but it still FEELS like Resident Evil.

Think how RE4 was a great game but didn't feel like RE - sure, this movie changes some things, but it feels very much like it should, and is a lot better than the original RE film from years ago.

Some of the casting is a little suspect - Jill is basically a brunette Hispanic, but overall it gets away with it - it's all the little RE easter eggs and locations chucked into an ensemble, and it is one fans will enjoy and get all the references.

If you want RE properly on the big screen, this is certainly worth your time.