Why? It’s a question I ask myself when I watch reboots and remakes of older films. Whether I like them or not, I always ask why. Why was this rebooted? Why was it remade? And then I look for …
As one of my favorite films growing up, I think about the things I really liked about the 1990 version of. Not only was it a lot of fun, but it was intelligent and had some subtle but effective social commentary. The 2023 version, written by Jamal Olori and Stephen Glover, is just a slapstick comedy, with boneheaded characters and a narrative so incomprehensible I often forgot what I was watching.
Kevin and Damon work for a corporate house-cleaning company, a job they are promptly fired from for recklessness and smoking weed on the job. Now jobless and broke, they decide to explore a house they’re cleaning only to find they are in the home of famed basketball player LeBron James . Without regard for the law or common sense, these two numbskulls get the bright idea of throwing a house party right there.
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