Entertaining movie, shame about the title!

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2008)

I was put off seeing this in the cinema when it came out as I'm a great fan of the Michael Caine original and had no wish to see a hollywoodised remake. However I caught it on TV for the first time tonight and was pleasantly surprised. It isn't really a remake at all, just borrows some character names and a couple of plot ideas, the minis being used as getaway cars through a computer induced traffic jam being the main one.
Quite frankly I think some Hollywood exec or five messed up using The Italian Job title. To my mind they'd have done much better to call it something like 'Another Italian Job', used different character names and then have the central character get the idea for the getaway because he's a movie buff and saw the original film!