Roger Ebert's review
The episode states that Roger Ebert gave the American remake one star and condemned it as a crude betrayal of the original.
In the discussion (5)
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- The episode calls this the first one-star review covered after roughly 275 episodes.
- Ebert is reported to have said the returning director savaged his own masterpiece as thoroughly as a hired hack.
- His review is summarized as asking whether Americans were assumed to need a more elementary version than Europeans.
- The quoted conclusion calls the original a masterpiece and the remake laughable, stupid, and crude.
- The panel feels personally stung because both participants love the remake.