The A Team movie 2010
This particular blogger has been waiting for an A Team movie as long as any other 80's child. While hollywood will continue to churn out reinventions of classic tv series, they either take off like the Transformers or crash and burn like the Dukes of Hazard.
The A Team has accomplished everything I've been looking forward to in the many years leading up to it. The back story to how they originally meet is covered quickly and well as it sets up the team with catchphrases and attitudes that defined Hannibal and the boys. If you are an A Team fan you will have a smile on your face several times during the first 15 mins of the movie as you recognise all the nods to what made the original characters so fun to watch. For any new viewers to the A Team, the modernisation of the times and people ensures that you can be comfortably introduced to the guys without needing to have ever watched the tv series before.
As with any tv to film transition, the characters undertake a bit of growth in their own ways, some more than others, but these remain safely seperate from the action. The pace switches between fast and plan making at regular pace evening it out throughout the film. You never feel bored.
One of the angles taken is that the A Team are definately the best at performing the craziest stunts. There will be moments that you want to clap out loud to with completely unrealistic chances of survival, but that's why we want to watch the A Team.
The roles seem to have been cast perfectly creating a great team chemistry between them. You genuinely feel like they have known each other for years and gotten to know each other well. Liam Neeson brings the best out of his boys as the plan man Hannibal Smith. His straight talking, in charge attitude gives him a commanding presence that he makes no faults with. The Hangover's Bradley Cooper is just plain fun for any guy to watch as he has women falling over him all over the place. Charlto Copley, who shot to fame in District 9, is the star of the show in my opinion. The wisecracks mixed with constant affirmation of his insanity will make him popular with audiences the world over. Rampage Jackson fills Mr T's boots but but also helps mold the man who "Pities the fool!"
Considering no one in the TV series ever got shot, while there is violence, it is very tame for an action movie. They don't focus on pools of blood an gruesome injuries galore. The bad guys take on a rather exageratted form but I personally didn't mind since it came across as quite fresh for the bad guys to be a bit ridiculous.
All in all an awesome retelling of some incredibly beloved heroes. 9/10
If you've seen the A Team, comment and let me know what you thought.
