Great Escapist fun!

Rating: 8/10 (31 May 2003)

Silly, fluffy, film with mostly great actors. As far as this being a remake, with the exception of the Minis, the main characters name, and gold bars, its barely a remake. I mean, how many movies involve some sort of gold heist? How many were full of exaggerated characters? With elaborate escape plans that need to be changed at the last minute? This one uses the same old cliches as many others do, but, this was well done and very enjoyable. This used the cliches better than most. We want fun and we wanna get wasted on the movie experience. The Italian Job did its job.