ShangLuda Admirable film.

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

elshikh4 The 1980s.. Who can hate it ?! It got magic all over it. On TV, it was the golden age (read : the entertaining one). Since the 1970s' end till the 1990s' start there was that determined spirit to make just colorful fun. Whatever the formula was, it must have the era's lovely catchy elements : Firstly a teaser. Then astonishing opening credits (the basis of the music videos later). Dynamic orchestrated theme music. Tasty adventure, adventurous, and atmosphere. Light sadness, violence, and sexiness. With certain smiling finale (something that one of the 1990s' products, "The X Files", had canceled). Mostly there were no depths, no blood, no connected episodes; which unconsciously gives you the optimistic feeling that tomorrow has to be another day.You may call it the childhood and the adolescence of TV; where the dreamy innocent everything. After that, the adult images and ratings would attack ruthlessly. Actually the irony between shows with no killings, and others feed on analyzing the corpses of endless hideously murdered people (the ominous nowadays' dynasty of CSI) is one irony to summarize the too many differences between the 1980s' and the 2000s' TV shows ! It was clear that the viewers had had enough, so let's go to the wild side of life : death ! Yet as for me, so millions of fans who are thirsty for the old times' entertainment, we won't get enough of those "lively" works ever.There was : the scientific toys (MacGyver), the fine views (The Love Boat), the mind-blowing roller-coaster's ride (Magnum, P.I.), the funny folks (Moonlighting), and the silly ones to make the picture whole (Miami Vice) ! Truly what a great amusement park the 1980s was.As for (The A-Team), it was the cotton candy. I think compared to all the others it was the lowest of the best. Look at its ID card; the memorable opening credits. It presents shamelessly (George Peppard) as an alligator or a shocking ugly lady; that's sheer cheese ! Here, (Mission Impossible) meets (Magnum, P.I.) meets (The Fugitive). The genius team of Vietnam's veterans whom work unofficially for the welfare and on the run too. It's brilliant. Just like that gang of characters as perfect soldiers of fortune for the 1980s' TV : An impostor ladies' man, a human truck, a hopeless crazy, and a too many faces commander who's crazier than the previous bunch, yet with planner brain. Of course, there is the pretty feminine sight. (Melinda Culea) was another 80s' beauty where all the gals must be more or less a Charlie's Angel ! So, what a combination of beauty, muscles, mind, and madness they were, as all action heroes and comic relief in the same time..Although it was the 1980s' fun, but it wasn't that fun. Sure it got its moments but it didn't reach the top that other 80s' gems had. Aside from slight usual matters; like obvious stunt-men most of the time, still one of the highest weak points is the reiterative formula. Unlike for instance (Magnum, P.I.) where too many twists in one episode, and new plot for every case despite the place's constancy; The A-Team with many supposed travels all over the world was nothing but the same comic book every time with the same must-disguise situation, must-fix machine, must-explode shanty, and must-jump car where absolutely nobody gets hurt ! I think the writers weren't smart enough to search for unique plots, or maybe the producers wanted no seriousness, bold satires, political issues, controversial anything, or emotional situations. Most likely, that was according to the aforementioned bible of the era, especially the commandment of : No Depths ! Moreover; kidnapping Murdock from the nut house went on and on as if the nut house was ruled by nuts. Collecting money for the team's missions was always deliberately vague. (Mr. T)'s image as B.A. was too bizarre to believe that the military police all over America couldn't find that moving jewelry store. He even got the most outrageous haircut ever been for a man at the moment (it's the letter T !).(Dwight Schultz) as Murdock was so creative to annoying extent sometimes, being kind of the 1980s' godfather for the 1990s' Jim Carry. (Dirk Benedict) as Faceman was charming yet funny as well. (Mr. T) was violent and super funny; strange why he couldn't make a lasting career, turning into one of the 1980s relic. And (George Peppard) was enjoying himself and us fully, doing what could be considered as the best of his legacy ! It's well-made fun time to amuse more than to amaze, that surprisingly never been dated, to watch in your living room (no, the bed is better), to brake your brain for 45 minutes, and to recall your memories with it, or the memory of making it and its likes once. We miss that age powerfully and increasingly everyday. Thank god for the reruns. Without them we couldn't survive in front of the crushing pestilence of (CSI), (The Shield), and (The Reality seem-never-ending Shows). Although I believe that saturation is fate, and changing is good, to the extent of having the urge to make (Baywatch) in one time, then the totally opposite urge to make (The Biggest Loser) in another !! BUT for nostalgic, artistic, or psychological reasons.. Heck, I adore the 1980s and its bright dreams. If only I can hire The A-Team to dispose of those nightmares of nowadays ! It's not "They never make 'em as they were", NO, it's "They never make 'em...Any more" !

AdlerM11 I remember the show when I was a kid. It was one of the best shows on at the time. Four people who were on the run from the military had enough brass to help people in need and wouldn't sell out to the highest bidder.My favorite character of the show was Hannibal Smith (George Peppard). He was the coolest. He always seemed he had a way out for any of the tough situations they ran across. And he always had the Jazz. And I don't think just the character of Hannibal had the Jazz, but I believe Peppard always had it and he brought it to the character of Hannibal.Also I think it would be great if they made a movie about the A-Team. I vote Bruce Willis or Peirce Bronsan as Hannibal, Ryan Reynolds as Face, Jim Carrey as Murdoch and last but not least Ice Cube as B.A.. But I also feel that the surviving cast members of the original A-Team should have at least cameos in the film and a little bit of homage paid to Peppard as well. So I say all systems go for the A-Team movie. So if the powers that be in Hollywood read this please make one. It be the coolest movie and besides I would pay to see it.

the_fonz_101 As I was growing up, I would watch the A-Team reruns with my oldest brother in the mornings and we'd sit there and just watch in awe as we saw the cars, the action, the girls and the enemies. The A-Team was entertaining, action-packed and suspenseful the whole way. Fit with the cigar-chomping leader Hannibal Smith, the smooth-silk con Faceman, the funny crazy pilot H.M. Murdock, and of course, the big bad tough guy B.A. Baracus. The other show that was a copy of the A-Team was MacGyver because they always built equipment out of random material. Equipped with guns and a 1983 GMC Van with a red spoiler, anybody will love the A-Team as much as I did, and I still do.A 10 out of 10.

bkoganbing Judging by the comments I see, The A-Team certainly had its legion of fans. I have to confess to a guilty pleasure in watching it, but when I look back, I can't believe how dumb it was.In thinking back on all the episodes you could probably count on the fingers of one hand and have a digit or two to spare of the number of people who actually met their demise. Talking about shoot to wound, it was more like shoot to wreck. Nobody ever got killed with all the weaponry the outlaw A-Team could bring to bear. They'd shoot up vehicles however at a prodigious rate and the bad guys would be too banged up in the wreck to continue the fight. Or they'd shoot a tree branch down on the head of a villain. Stuff like that, but they never killed anyone with all those automatic weapons. Of course if people actually died, it would sort of remove the playfulness that characterized the show.The best thing The A-Team had going for it was its members, all very individual personalities even if they did function as a team. George Peppard was the leader, planner, organizer who came up with such intricate schemes to help their clients that he fell in love with his own plans. As Mr. T would say, 'he was on the jazz'.Although Peppard was billed first it was Mr. T that people remember best from the show. Interesting in that he was the only black and an enlisted man, a sergeant. He was incredibly innovative in terms of fashioning weapons when the team was denied the use of their regular hardware. He had a fear of only one thing, flying and that was used for many a gag. Of course a fear of flying was understandable if the pilot was one H.M. Murdock. There was a Marine general from World War II named Holland M. "Howling Mad" Smith, but he had nothing on Murdock. Dwight Schultz could drive anyone bonkers except the unflappable Peppard. Mr. T. as B.A. Baracus had a running fight with crazy Murdock the entire run of the series.The fourth member of the group was Templeton Peck, product of an orphanage who as Face learned to live by his wits early on in life. He was the conman, the procurer of whatever was needed by the team at a given situation. He was played by Dirk Benedict with a certain amount of smarmy charm though he was always in a good cause. The team would not be involved in anything less.The team were outlaws, tried and convicted for crimes in Vietnam we are assured they did not commit and escaped from military prison. They also had to avoid the Military Police and the various people like William Lucking, Jack Ging, and Lance LeGault sent by the army to capture who pretty much always failed.The first season the team had an outside contact in Brenda Starr like reporter, Melinda Culea. She left the show and I can't really blame her as her role gradually got dumbed down to camp follower. This was one testosterone driven show.I have to say though that of the group Dwight Schultz is an actor who still fascinates me whenever I see him. No one really knew who he was before The A-Team. Since he left he's played an astounding variety of roles that still leave me in awe of the man's talent. And most of them far from the comic vein of Howling Mad Murdock. So with some god awful stories, but a cast that really clicked, The A-Team ran for three seasons with same formula. Why then did producer Stephen Cannell decide to alter things by having The A-Team captured by the Military Police, but given a stay of execution so that General Robert Vaughn could use them for rogue intelligence assignments. You don't want to let guys with these kind of skills go to waste, but it destroyed the show. They even added another member of the team, Eddie Velez, presumably to bring in a Latino demographic. Velez was all right in his role, but it was like he was an interloper in an established show. The A-Team got canceled, presumably they're still doing intelligence work while collecting their military pensions, if indeed they were entitled to them with a court martial conviction.I used to say loud and long at how dumb this show was, but I did watch it and I suspect many were like me. I guess we were all on the jazz.