My title is a joke on the tag line for the new A-Team movie coming out next month. The tag line on the ad I saw is “There is no Plan B.” Pretty catchy huh? Being a die hard fan of the original show, it helps to have been fifteen when it originally debuted, I had some trepidation about the new movie version. Will it be a fun romp, that captures the spirit of the original while updating the material for a modern audience like Get Smart was? Or will it be a disappointing mess made simply to cash in on the interest of long time fans, like The Dukes of Hazzard turned out to be?
Hard to say. The trailer shows lots of explosions and good natured, manly bantering among the cast, as well as that recognizable tag line from the show, “I love it when a plan comes together.” But the trailer did raise a couple of nit picking questions. One, Was it really necessary to have BA in a mohawk haircut, since that was more a signiture look of Mr T than an actual aspect of the character? Two, did they really need to dye Liam Neeson’s hair white to play Hanibal just because Peppard was white headed?
True they are rather minor points but it brings up a valid concern. Are the film makers more interested in slapping some supercicial cosmetics on the project so that it looks like the old show and cause fans to plunk down money than they are in making a good movie? We will have to wait and see, but hopefully this will turn out better than GI Joe did.
Afterthought: Did anybody else notice that The Losers is an updating of the A-Team with a bunch of specialized commandos on the run and blowing a lot of stuff up?
