{"id":387413,"date":"2011-04-22T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/22\/review-russell-brands-narcissistic-know-all-arthur-is-a-remake-so-bad-it-could-end-his-hollywood-career\/"},"modified":"2011-04-22T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T01:01:10","slug":"review-russell-brands-narcissistic-know-all-arthur-is-a-remake-so-bad-it-could-end-his-hollywood-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/22\/review-russell-brands-narcissistic-know-all-arthur-is-a-remake-so-bad-it-could-end-his-hollywood-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Russell Brand&#8217;s narcissistic know-all Arthur is a remake so bad it could end his Hollywood career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"203.149625268\">\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 2:01 AM on 22nd April 2011<\/p>\n<p><span>Verdict:<\/span> It&#8217;s all over for the Brand brand<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0b2frating_showbiz_1.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"1 Star Rating\" title=\"1 out of 5\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This remake of the well-loved Dudley Moore comedy has been drowned in the States by a tsunami of stinking reviews. But it\u2019s not completely terrible.<\/p>\n<p>The screenplay shows occasional flashes of wit, and I laughed several times. Russell Brand has wisely decided not to try and imitate cuddly Dudley. He has, as they say, made the part his own.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/3a66article-1379445-0BB4DE1200000578-236_468x353.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"353\" alt=\"Fatal error: Steve Gordon's 1981 screenplay won an Oscar nomination, but there's no danger of Peter Baynham's rewrite doing the same\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fatal error: Steve Gordon&#8217;s 1981 screenplay won an Oscar nomination, but there&#8217;s no danger of Peter Baynham&#8217;s rewrite doing the same<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whether these assets are enough to make the movie a hit and salvage Mr Brand\u2019s film career from going into a death spiral, I rather doubt.<\/p>\n<p>The plot remains essentially the same. Arthur is a cheery wastrel whose wealthy family (here represented by an icy Geraldine James) wishes him to marry a suitable young lady (the effortlessly warm Jennifer Garner, seriously miscast as a gold-digging, status-seeking, nymphomaniac bitch \u2014 a far cry from the boring bride-to-be in the 1981 original).<\/p>\n<p>Arthur goes along with this to keep his fortune, but then meets the love of his life \u2014 in the old movie, a tough-talking waitress played by Liza Minnelli, but here a whimsical tour-guide and wannabe children\u2019s author, played ineffectually by Greta Gerwig.<\/p>\n<p>Will Arthur somehow marry the girl of his dreams and keep his millions? Anyone who has ever seen a romantic comedy will know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Gordon\u2019s 1981 screenplay won an Oscar nomination, but there\u2019s no danger of Peter Baynham\u2019s rewrite doing the same. It follows the same template but has made a fatal error in its choice of tone.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0928article-0-0BB4DEC000000578-985_468x359.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"359\" alt=\" No cuddly Dudley: Brand with his co-star Helen Mirren\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No cuddly Dudley: Brand with his co-star Helen Mirren<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s changed from a screwball comedy to formulaic 21st century romcom, complete with extremely crude jokes, some of them put into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 2:01 AM on 22nd April 2011 Verdict: It&#8217;s all over for the Brand brand Rating: This remake of the well-loved Dudley Moore comedy has been drowned in the States by a tsunami of stinking reviews. But it\u2019s not completely terrible. The screenplay shows occasional flashes of wit, and I laughed several times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: Russell Brand&#039;s narcissistic know-all Arthur is a remake so bad it could end his Hollywood career - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/22\/review-russell-brands-narcissistic-know-all-arthur-is-a-remake-so-bad-it-could-end-his-hollywood-career\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Review: Russell Brand&#039;s narcissistic know-all Arthur is a remake so bad it could end his Hollywood career - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 2:01 AM on 22nd April 2011 Verdict: It&#039;s all over for the Brand brand Rating: This remake of the well-loved Dudley Moore comedy has been drowned in the States by a tsunami of stinking reviews. 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