What’s Aged the Worst?
Robert Stack’s rejected backend, Kareem’s no-longer-surprising casting, the extra slap, racial material, and the translated-jive localization problem
In the discussion (5)
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- Robert Stack taking an extra twenty thousand dollars instead of a percentage is identified as a costly decision. — Bill Simmons
- The jive dialogue creates translation problems, with a Bavarian dialect used in German. — Bill Simmons
- The original shock of Kareem appearing in the film has faded with time. — Bill Hader
- Leslie Nielsen returning to slap the passenger again is identified as a gag unlikely to be made now. — Bill Hader
- The African basketball sequence is identified as uncomfortable for contemporary children. — Bill Hader