The remake is as good as the original!

Rating: 10/10 (24 May 2002)

Now I usually don't like remakes. Why do it over unless you can do it better and people are usually fooling themselves thinking they can do it better if its already a classic. But this is definitely the exception. Now I fall somewhere in the middle , except for George Clooney the other members of the casts are just names to me( I don't get out to the movies much) and Sinatra and Lawford,etc. . although I am very familiar with are more of my mothers generation. But you gotta admit the sheer star power of the first movie is intimidating. But this new version can stand along side(and will) the original in the classic hall of fame. I bought both movies(It had been so long since I had seen the first) and played the new one first(I hadn't seen it yet). I was absolutely bowled over. The updates fit right in and just seemed natural. There was still a surprise at the end and not the one I expected. I thought well I don't believe it but watching the old one is going to be a letdown. Well was I wrong! The old one was made so well what must have been 40 years ago that it hadn't lost a beat or a bit of its sparkle. These two movies will stand together for another 50 years. Showing that when you do it right you can always do it again. Treat yourself. Watch them both.