This remake of the 1972 classic The Poseidon Adventure is better than most remakes. It’s certainly better than the 2005 made-for-television version that had terrorists wanting to sink the ship, instead of the rogue wave capsizing the luxury ocean liner.

Don’t get me wrong – the original is still better by a longshot. But this one at least does it justice. Where the classic had a good tale to tell, this one perhaps falls a bit short. But where it at least made up for that shortcoming, it definitely had some action all the way through, and one thing that impressed me was that people died. Who would have thought?

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I can certainly understand Anne Hathaway wanting to shed the image of The Princess Diaries.

Bijou Phillips, on the other hand has to rid herself of Bully. I can’t say either made a particularly good choice with this movie.

Phillips made a step up perhaps in that she didn’t take her clothes off quite as much. But her character was actually even less developed this time around than she was in Bully, if that is even possible. Hathaway, meanwhile, actually had what was perhaps an interesting character, but it seems about the only compelling reason to see this movie is the fact that she’s not the little princess any more. As it turns out, that’s not enough.

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