Ain't Gonna See No Formulaic Film Cashing In On Nostalgia For Old TV Series, Fool

So now there is a film of The A-Team. This is on my list of films to see, just beneath Cats and Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore and Big Tits Zombie (yes, it is real). The cast were on T4, bigging it up, even Liam Neeson who you might have expected would have better things to do. But no, there he was, telling the world how enthusiastic he is about this film: 'When I read the script I said to myself - My God, I thought Ibsen was dead! And it was good to be able to play a real hero for a change, as opposed to, say, Oskar Schindler.' It is this show of enthusiasm that may constitute the real 'acting challenge' represented by The A-Team.

Not that I'm suggesting that the film will be bad. It is much more likely to be mediocre. But perhaps, in opening it out, they have managed to give it a bit of an edge. What always bothered me, watching the TV series The A-Team when I was younger, was that 'crime they didn't commit'. They were always very insistent upon that in the opening preamble to each episode; so insistent that I began to wonder what this crime was. Genocide, gang rape? I know they didn't commit it, but it still seems to matter. In essence, there is nothing wrong with the whole family sitting at home watching the antics of a group of men who haven't raped and slaughtered their way through a Cambodian village, but it does seem that it might influence the tone of the thing somehow. However, Dave assures me that it was all explained in the pilot, and it was something so dull that a.) I have already forgotten it, and b.) it probably wouldn't matter if they had committed it.

As for the film, I'm sure they'll come up with some interesting crimes for them not to have committed, maybe even a different one for each character. I can hardly wait to not see it.