Rating: 
Summary: The Original is BETTER!
Review: This movie deserves zero stars. Avoid any version (VHS or DVD) of it!See the original in all its Glorious black and white beauty! The original is a million times better than this trite,stale re-hash with a not-very-talented cast. This a remake that should never have been made,it is horrible! To even suggest that Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson could recapture the charm and sparkle of Judy Holliday & William Holden is preposterous! Melanie Griffith has got to be one of the worst actresses ever, and she butchers this role. As for Don Johnson, it takes more than a pair of horn-rimmed glasses to pretend he is William Holden. John Goodman has the right girth and maybe a bit of the swagger and behaves like a brutish lout to compare with Broderick Crawford in the original "Born Yesterday". But just because the three leads in this remake may look or sound a little like the 3 Academy Award winning talents that were in the original cast, does not mean the movie will work. There is good reason why a remake hadn't been attempted for over 30 years--the film is so good, why mess with it? That's what this version is, a mess!
Hollywood insists on tinkering with classics like this to try to bring them to a new audience, but most of the time, they fail, miserably. How many times (and millions of dollars later)do they need to be reminded of this? To borrow that old joke,(when somebody is trying to 'put one over on you'), "...let me check my driver's license, to see if I wasn't born yesterday " :
Don't get fooled by this movie.It is wretched! Run, don't walk far,far, away from this one!Avoid it like the plague.
Rent or buy the original BORN YESTERDAY, you'll be glad you did!
Rating: 
Summary: Extremely Enjoyable!!!
Review: While I do not pretend that this film is a classic, and the rating of 5 stars may therefore be seen to be grossly exaggerating the quality of the film, it is highly enjoyable.
Judy Holliday, William Holden and Broderick Crawford were excellent in the 1950 version but this remake, to me, benefits from a freshness which had been achieved by Douglas MacGrath's excellent reworking of the Garson Karin script.
There are some films which are cinematically, artistically and critically excellent but there is another important factor and that is enjoyablity. Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson are both charming in this film and while Griffith can handle more, Johnson found his niche with this film.
John Goodman is excellent as always and contributes to the very enjoyable while not mentally taxing film.
Rating: 
Summary: So it's a remake!?!
Review: Who cares? If I want to watch the original and I feel that strongly about it, then that's what I'll do - stick to the original. In this case, I enjoyed this particular remake very much. It's not the original, no, but it's pure entertainment. I found it to be fresh and engaging. If you only wanna see the original, then skip the remake, but if you're willing to open your mind to a new script with some different actors, then sit back, relax, and enjoy the escapism.
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