A shout out cameo being a cameo from a remake of a movie or TV show by someone from the original. The cameo can be the same character from the original or a new character.
Best would be from the Brady Bunch movie, Ann B Davis as the trucker Shultzie. Not only is Davis from the original Brady Bunch, but her cameo is named after another character she payed, from the Bob Cummings Show. The character serves a purpose rather than being a cameo-for-cameo’s sake and advances the story.
Worst is Jacklyn Smith as Kelley Garrett in Charlies Angels: Full Throttle. Yeah it sort of advanced the plot, but it was pretty much completely stupid. Smith did a terrible job with it and it was just overall a screeching halt-point.
Not a cameo - he was a major character in several episodes - but Richard Hatch appearing on the new Battlestar Galactica has got to get an honourable mention.
Burt Reynolds showing up in the remake of The Longest Yard probably deserves mention. Granted, I won’t even bother to watch the insult that is the Adam Sandler version so I won’t call it a good cameo or not.
If they ever make a move of * Lost in Space* they should have Mark Goddard (Maj. West) play a general and June Lockhart (Mom) the new Will Robinson’s principal.
OK, let’s recall that the theme is “best and worst.” The mere existence of a cameo is insufficient. Explain why you think your choice is the best or worst.
I liked the appearance of Molly Ringwald in Not Another Teen Movie. As soon as I heard her voice, I started laughing. The fact that her final line was “Fucking teenagers”, was great.
Martin Sheen’s cameo in Hot Shots, Part Deux is what always comes to mind for me. They get to play on Apocalypse Now,* Platoon*, Wall Street, and the familial connection to Charlie Sheen in a span of about 20 seconds.
James Garner, the original Maverick, had a role in Mel Gibson’s movie Maverick.
(The movie also had other interesting cameos, including one by Danny Glover.)
Faye Dunaway in the Pierce Brosnan/Rene Russo remake of The Thomas Crown Affair. She plays Brosnan’s shrink in several interstitial scenes, despite the fact that it’s totally out of character for Brosnan to have a shrink. The scenes give you information about Brosnan’s motives that the movie would do better to conceal until they pay off so the suspense is maintained, and Dunaway does a horrible, horrible job.
Joanna Barnes in the 1998 version of The Parent Trap. I thought it was perfect–she was the girlfriend in the original version, and used the name Vicky in both movies. In the remake, she exuded the same saccharine insincerity as she did in the original, and I thought it was a nice touch to cast her as the girlfriend’s mother in the new movie.
You have your tenses mixed up. Or you’re in psychotic denial, which is perfectly understandable, given the movie.
(but that woulkd have been way cool IMHO)