I enjoy Thorny, Mac, Farva, Foster and Rabbit as much as the next guy, but it’s probably time they went into retirement.

The fact that it mostly works is a testament to the writing, which never pushes the concept any further than the basic premise, and the chemistry between the two leads. It is just pleasant, with some genuinely funny moments.

It is an amusing story with some structural issues and an unsatisfying conclusion. But it is intriguing most of the way.

The physical presence of the performers is more than enough to tell this story. It isn’t some groundbreaking action classic, though it does what it sets out to do successfully and is pretty entertaining at it.

This is a tremendous, fast-paced, dramatic, exciting, sneakily passionate take on the material, that is faithful, despite some modernizations.

It looked good coming in; it was even better than I anticipated.

Silly, happy, with a smile on its face and a song in its heart, it is just trying to make people laugh. At no point in its 88-minute runtime are we intended to take its ridiculous story seriously.

The result is a goofy, and surprisingly heartfelt, ode to old Hollywood, with tons of references and in-jokes that will go over the heads of not only kids, but a lot of adults, too.

The focus, as expected, is on warmed-over wisecracks and lots of chaotic action where you can’t really see what’s going on.

It is a decently made version of the same story that has already been made hundreds of times. Just because it is based on a true story doesn’t mean it isn’t also extremely derivative.