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April 01, 2010

Is This Something?

I saw this ad while watching Justified on FX the other night.

In the short ad, I thought it seemed like an uncompensated remake of The In-Laws, with Cruise doing a take-off on Peter Falk's character, particularly the odd cheerfulness in violent situations.

In this longer ad, it's even clearer it's an In-Laws remake, with Cruise's character being described as insane, having had a full-blown psychotic break. Just as in The In-Laws, the Cruise/Falk character tries to explain that that's just a cover story to his unwilling partner, and the partner, understandably, is unconvinced.

Anyway, it's a ripoff, but I don't mind. The In-Laws is one of the best movies ever made and I don't mind that they tried a rehash of it.

posted by Ace at 04:04 PM

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