The old film was about a soon-to-be father in law getting to know the other father, who was some sort of secret agent IIRC. It’s a 70’s film, and one of my parents’ favorites. I saw that a new film with that title was coming out, wondered if it was a remake.
Yes. Michael Douglas plays the Peter Faulk role and Albert Brooks is to play the Alan Arkin role so I’m told.
This is one movie that needn’t be remade. It was perfect the first time.
“Serpentine, Shelly!”
LOL, “serpentine”. That was a running gag in my family. Something as innocuous as getting out of the car and going into the house would be met with cries of “serpentine, serpentine!!”
Man, that sucks they’re remaking it then. Of course, no complaints about Micheal Douglas and Albert Brooks, that’s a good cast, but still no reason to redo a classic.
Now they can ruin the entire 70’s by remaking Neighbors, Hopscotch, and So Fine.
“I have flames on my car! I have FLAMES on my car!”
“O si, si… SMOOCH SMOOCH SMOOCH… he-a very handsoooome!”
Serpentine! Serpentine! That’s the line our family rips on too! I love that movie. I hope they don’t fuck it up in the re-make.
I thought the Guacamole Act of 1917 outlawed the remake of this film…
Y’know, it’s weird. My father took me to see The In-Laws in the theatre. I don’t remember it at all, except for the brief moment of a dictator unveiling his new flag, showing a topless chick. Hey, I was nine, and naked boobies on the big screen were a novelty.
Possibly for this reason, I have conflated The In-Laws in my mind with the Lemmon/Matthau movie Buddy Buddy, a superficially similar screwball farce from two years later, which also features a brief glimpse of bare breasts.
My cinemagoing skills have undergone significant development in the intervening years, needless to say. Considering the only elements of the films that clearly made a permanent impression, I think perhaps it is incumbent upon me to see them again.
P.S. Given how our culture has become ever more puritanical since 1979, how much you wanna bet the flag joke doesn’t make it into the remake?