Should I go see this?

CHICAGO TAP THEATRE Mark Yonally's latest tap-dance narrative, Changes: A Science Fiction Tap Opera, is even more campy than last summer's "The Tell-Tale Tap: Stories of Edgar Allan Poe." Set entirely to songs by David Bowie, the evening-length Changes begins where "Space Oddity" leaves off: Major Tom gets lost, then crash-lands on a planet ruled by cruel dictator Altego (played by Yonally himself, "glammed the hell out," as he says). Eventually Major Tom frees the planet's citizens from slavery in what Yonally calls a "rousing space adventure" with a subtext: the sci-fi angle allows him to satirize egotistical leaders and state-sanctioned torture. The dancing itself is straightforwardly satisfying, underlining or playing off the music's rhythms while providing the story's details and emotion. And its thunderous reverberations, especially when all or most of the 11 cast members are performing, magnify the saga, giving it an operatic scope.

I dunno - I'm kinda' afraid....

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It might be enjoyable, if you're in the right frame of mind. And don't have a headache to start with.

why are they making movies based on old TV shows? most of them just don't work ....

I remain convinced that there's nothing inherently wrong with this idea, yet...

No, some work. Maverick was fun, as was Starsky & Hutch though I see quite perfectly why some people didn't like it. They're wrong, though. Snoop as Huggie!

Running Scared was just sad. How can you improve on Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, and Joey Pants with a parakeet on his head? You can't. They shouldn't have tried.

ETA: And, really, they didn't try. They made an entirely different movie. So why do they feel compelled to recycle titles, then? Anybody?

I agree with ita that there's nothing inherently wrong with the idea, but execution is so often crap. The Brady Bunch comes to mind -- they wore those weird '70s fashions because they were fashionable when the show was made, so there's no reason to keep them in bell bottoms in the early '90s.

That said, HGWT will be a test of whether Eminem can actually act, as opposed to being a personality.

Running Scared was just sad. How can you improve on Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, and Joey Pants with a parakeet on his head? You can't. They shouldn't have tried.

They tried? When? Wait...it wasn't a TV show.

Running Scared was just sad. How can you improve on Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, and Joey Pants with a parakeet on his head? You can't. They shouldn't have tried.

Sadly, the only part about that movie I remember is when they park their car in a bad neighborhood and come back to discover someone has spray-painted "Undercover Cop Car" on it. (If I'm even remembering the right movie). Though it still makes me laugh.

Yes, it (making old TV shows into movies) CAN work, but they seem to keep missing what about the show made it good, or at least popular, when it was on. And they keep "reinventing" it until it's unrecognizable, so that it'll have only a thin, superficial, resemblance to the original.

I think they recycle because there are only so many to go around. IMDB finds me dupes on searches way more often than I expect.

Running Scared, a la Hines/Crystal is a great great movie. Huh. Now I'm looking at that slash there.

I think Eminem looks like he has decent chops. I don't know the source material though, and would be startled if he could pull off what's been described here.

Though, hey, I was startled to like 8 Mile, so there you go.

They must be planning a complete "revisioning."

IIRC, yes. And it actually sounds interesting.

Also, while there's the head-start on account of the semi-autobiographical nature of the movie, the boy kicked all kinds of ass in 8 Mile.