Recovered
Welcome to Recovered, where Dan and Keith dig into all films remade, rebooted, and redone. They say there are no new stories under the sun, and Hollywood's been taking that as an excuse to tell the same stories over and over since the silent era, so we dig into which movies warranted a remake, which remakes improved on the original, and how very often neither of those things are true.
Recovered
Episode 63: The Roads to Comedy, Question Mark
It's way back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the early days of Dreamworks animation, and Dan and Keith take on two movies about con artist pals and the woman they meet along the way getting into shenanigans in exotic locales. Back in the 1940s, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour kicked off a hugely popular seven film series of road movie hijinks in Road to Singapore, which helps prove that millions of people can be wrong about something. Flash forward all the way to the year 2000, and Dreamworks concocts an animated adventure in the same vein with Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh taking The Road to El Dorado. We dig into what the 40s considered comedy, and the movie behind the "Both is good" meme, and have exactly one movie's worth of a good time. Plus Mayan facts from two white guys on the internet! How can you go wrong?