Lady and the Tramp (2019)

r96sk

7.0

Nov 18, 2020

Needless? Yes. Enjoyable? Also, yes. I'm not entirely sure <em>'Lady and the Tramp'</em> was a film that needed remaking but here we are. This 2019 production is solid. I like the way it is shot and brought to life. It's rewritten in a few parts, to mostly positive effect - though the original film is still, by a fair distance, best. I wouldn't say the cast are anything exceptional but they do what's needed. Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux give good performances as Lady and Tramp respectively, while Adrian Martinez's Elliot is probably the character I'll remember most - away from the t…

Pathetic, they cursed the original. The plot is not the same and the couple is now mixed-raced. Not only many positive white characters were replaced with black, but also the remaining white characters were given additional negative traits, so we got a movie with stupid whites and smart blacks - that's how it should be in post BLM US production. They used real humans and computer generated images but somehow they managed to make the plot less real than the original. It's ridiculous to see some of the first cars ever made and mixed-raced marriage in the same movie, did they forget that these we…