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Why rehash the original like this?

posted 14 years ago by charlesadams1
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It might have made sense if Innes and Idle had taken the story forward into their solo careers and then shown them as they are today and then included archived material like from "Archaeology" but from what I can see it is exactly the same jokes and story as they had in the original only with extended scenes using those people available (those who aren't dead or too expensive).
Then you get lots more modern "celebrities" like Conan O'Brien and Garry Shandling instead of Gilda Radner or Mick Jagger?

Is Eric Idle really that poverty striken? Monty Python isn't keeping him in enough scratch that he needs to sell whatever he can?

[–] charlesadams1 14 years ago

OK, apparently they did include alot of the stuff I mentioned in the film but you WOULDN'T KNOW IT from the promotional material Eric has out.

It certainly looks like the same film with slightly different stuff added in which makes me wonder why Idle didn't just re-edit the original and re-issue it as a 2-DVD set with the additional material included as bonus material?

[–] htownsteve 10 years ago

I agree with yer second post. Should have done a two-DVD anniversary set or something. This, by itself, is like Neil Peart wrote: "Yes we know, it's nothing new. It's just a waste of time."

Son, you can't polish a turd