A Team

I have vague memories of watching the show A Team as a kid. I was really entertained by the main characters of BA Baracus and HM Murdock. Seeing the previews for the movie the A Team based on the TV show, spurred my memory, and I ended up buying season 2 on DVD really cheap. I enjoyed it as much as I did when I was a kid(at first) but after many episodes, the plots seemed to be the same for each episode. A boring trend ensued. Despite this, I really like the interaction of the main characters and I was impressed with how the plot was about them helping people and risking their lives for a good cause. It is a naive series, since, even with all the violence, shootings with machine guns, cars getting flipped over, and explosions, people rarely get hurt in this show. No blood and no bruises.

Anyway, on to the movie. As you can gather from the previous paragraph, I had a refresher in the show before watching the A Team movie. There was something likable about this movie, however, I am really disappointed with the way they re-did the main characters. My one reason for really loving this show was how the main characters interacted, and they didn't interact that much in the movie. They were together in one explosive scene after the other, but not enough interaction took place for me. They remade the characters all wrong. It's as if they went out of their way to redo them differently. They remade Murdock very wrong. His craziness was scary in the movie, and in the show it was a fun kind of crazy. In the show his craziness made him do a better job, because it made him get into his roles more, and be more creative and savvy. In the movie his craziness made you wonder if he would be competent. They did the worst job with him by far.

I can live with how they redid the other three characters, but they really stole the joy, fun and soul of these characters and made them something they are not. BA was into peace and non violence. Faceman was scrubby, Hannibal wasn't the planner in this movie. I was really disappointed that this movie murdered the whole premise of the main characters because that's what makes the A Team enjoyable.

The whole premise behind the plot really stunk. I just plainly didn't like the story line. I could see people go through all that trouble for real money, not counterfeit money.