Fri, Aug 08, 2003 - Page 20 News List

A remake that makes the original look good

Never a classic, Andrew Lang's take on 'The In-Laws' loses even the silliness of the original film, and avoids freshness and novelty like the plague

By A.O. SCOTT  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Hiller's In-Laws was silly, but in an idiosyncratic way that makes it worth catching when it shows up on cable. That is the new version's destination, too, of course, and it will lose nothing in the transition to the small screen, since it is shot with all the action safely in the center of the frame, and designed to be forgotten in plenty of time for the next remake.

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