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I have absolutely no clue who Russell Brand is.
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Seeing Alex Kitner being eaten by a shark is then also no longer entertaining, or watching Debra Winger dying of cancer...
Arthur has that type of movie alcoholism that is basically harmless to the drinkers general health and only works to make him more articulate and funny.
It's a mistake to compare it to the real life version.
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I never thought the original was that great or that funny. Or the sequel. Given that this one has the comedic black hole of Russell Brand in it, I'm passing. I'm not wasting my vomit on it though; it doesn't matter enough to throw up on. 
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He may play the idiot, but he's a smart guy, and capable of being very funny.
He's first and foremost a stand-up comic, but he has a simple technique of aiming for cheap sex shock jokes. They get very predictable after a while. He also packages himself as a lothario, which is ... well, surely something that'll pass. People in the UK either love or hate him. I feel he misuses his brain.
I suppose the famous event of his (and Jonathan Ross's) sacking from the BBC as a result of the prank on-air phonecalls to Leonard Sachs ('Manuel' from 'Fawlty Towers') is well known in the US by now?
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I have not kept track of this remake i imagine it came and went away very fast, which to many members on this board in America gives us one thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.On DVD yet?
It is on DVD and every time I see it I can hear Dudley Moore rolling over in his grave. I'm such a fan of the original, a true classic and to remake it and then make all the characters so far fetched and idiotic, yuck.
Happy Thanksgiving though to everyone!!
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The one main problem I predict is that Arthur, despite being fabulously rich, and an alcoholic, he was utterly likeable. Because Dudley Moore instilled him with a wonderful persona.
Russel Brand is does not have that innate likeability....at all.
That's true in spades. I'm seeing this remake for the first time on basic cable right now, and Brand is just not selling it. I'm not rooting for him or enjoying his presence in the slightest. Dudley Moore was immensely funnier, too.
I think Brand was better-cast in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, in which he plays a hedonist-playboy that we aren't supposed to root for.
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