15 Reboots Worse Than the Original Movies
by
Joal Ryan, for Metacritic
– July 5, 2016
As the Melissa McCarthy-led Ghostbusters may attest, it's not easy being a reboot. Here's a look at 15 reboots, from the mere misfires to the flat-out flops (based on Metascores) that failed to match the acclaim or impact of their predecessors.
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photo by Sony Pictures
As an heir to the Japanese monster franchise's many bad sequels, Hollywood's first crack at Godzilla was on point. As a reboot of 1954's seriously good Gojira, the film that started it all, it was way off the mark. (A much better reboot followed in 2014.)
“Watching inept American actors and wishing they were badly dubbed into Japanese isn't any fun at all.” —Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail
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