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Remember Drop Dead Fred? Yeah, They're Going to Remake It

BuzzSugar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:20:18 PDT

Ack! Hands off my childhood!

Sorry for the outburst, but, seriously, it's one thing, I suppose, to take successful '80s franchises like The Karate Kid and update them for a new generation. It's kind of another to just start randomly selecting one-off gems from my youth for the sole purpose of giving someone a starring vehicle.

When I first saw that Drop Dead Fred would be remade with Russell Brand in the lead, I immediately thought: "Oh, great. What's next, Beetlejuice?" And then I read this:

The first Fred was critically drubbed and commercially unsuccessful. But it did achieve a certain cult status and is considered a film that fell short of its full potential. The take for the new Fred is to make a film in the tone of Beetlejuice, building a universe around the concept of imaginary friends. Brand would play the trouble-making pal.

The original Drop Dead Fred was dark, weird, off-beat, and totally absorbing. Why remake it at all? Why not just write a movie for Russell Brand about a girl with a zany British guy for an imaginary friend? Is there anything good about this news, or does it just make you want to . . . well, you know, drop dead?

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Little Girl Questions the Fairytale Ending

GiggleSugar — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:00:00 PDT

Drop Dead Fred, a wickedly immature comedy about maintaining imaginary friends into adulthood and blaming "them" for one's obscene behavior, was one of my fave movies in the early '90s - naturally. The irreverent tyke in the following scene portrays the protagonist as a young girl. Her response to her mother's lame-ass bedtime story is quite possibly the best advice any growing girl (or grown woman) could ever hear. Listen. Very. Carefully.

Ted Trailer: Mark Wahlberg Has a Bong-Loving Bear BFF

Becky Kirsch — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:40:09 PDT

The trailer for Ted starts off like a typical romantic comedy: there's a meet-cute between John (Mark Wahlberg) and Lori (Mila Kunis), they fall in love, "Sweet Disposition" plays, etc. There's some trouble in paradise though, and it comes in the form of Ted, John's real-life childhood Teddy, who also happens to be his best friend. This isn't one of those invisible BFFs (a la Drop Dead Fred) either; everyone can see Ted as he smokes weed, works in a grocery store, and makes inappropriate gestures.

Ted kind of reminds me of Brian from Family Guy, which isn't too surprising considering Seth MacFarlane writes, directs, and lends his voice to Ted. (The fact that Ted sounds like Peter Griffin is a bit distracting). The trailer could definitely be worse, but didn't have me laughing out loud either; I cant help but think that maybe Kunis is only in this as a favor to MacFarlane (since they do Family Guy together), though that still doesn't explain Wahlberg's involvement.

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