Rating: 
Summary: Not nearly as good as the original!
Review: Yeesh! This has gotta be one of the worst cinematic adaptations of a classic TV show I've ever seen! For starters, most of the core characters that made the infamous sitcom so endearing aren't even in this! Calhoun, Lightnin', Sapphire-- nowhere to be seen! Also noticeable is the movie's PC spin on a very un-PC show! A most obvious example of this is Amos (Nicholas Cage), who is now a white guy with a bad sense of direction! And where the original Amos was pretty much just a supporting character who did the narration, the new one is the co-star! Then there's Andrew (Samuel L. Jackson)-- that's right, they made his first name a bit more 'proper'-sounding here--, who's changed from the Kingfish's somewhat dense tag-along sidekick into a Pulitzer-prize winning author/columnist/professor who pretty much stands on his own-- or tries to, anyway. And as far as I can figure, the Kingfish character was so gratuitously altered into the town sheriff (Dabney Coleman), you can't even see any similarities between the two anymore! Well, except perhaps the underhanded scheming that is. But other than that, the newbie's pretty much a polar opposite of the original.In summation: if you wanna see a good cinematic adaptation of a classic TV series, check out The Untouchables™ or The Fugitive™, and forget about this one altogether. Better yet, why not just watch the original show-- granted you can find tapes of it of course... 'Late!
Rating: 
Summary: Fun In Film
Review: You have a couple of choices when viewing a "light" comedy like Amos & Andrew. Number one, you can watch the film and look for something that really sticks to your ribs (and not find just that), or, you can sit back for an hour and a half and have a little fun! I suggest you try the latter and have yourself a few genuine belly laughs! This movie is fun, well acted and a nice ride through the early ninetys attitude change on the race issues that are rapidly changing in todays vast movie field.
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