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What a load of Rap - the Wild Wild Pest strikes Here at the Nest we are getting mixed reports of the Wild Wild West movie featuring the somewhat over-exposed Will Smith. As an example, the creators of the South Park cartoons have attacked the reworked Wild Wild West mythos as a complete sell-out of the original TV series. It seems they feel about it the way most Brit fans felt about the sexed-up Doctor Who movie, when the Doc was getting jiggy with his assistant. Don't be too surprised if Will Smith turns up as the leg on some yeti-type monster attacking South Park in one of the forthcoming new season episodes. This despite the fact that rather unsurprisingly, Will is said to leave his fellow secret service agent, Kevin Kline, and mad Bond villain Kenneth Branagh, eating his thespian dust with his normal high octane performance. While the South Park duo have been dismissed as Wild Wild Pests by the studio, there is still the matter of all the derogatory fan chat floating around in the wilds of cyberspace. The lads at the Nest haven't seen the movie yet, but we've put the poll up for all our American cousins who have seen the film to cast their votes on this one. From what we've heard, the post civil-war story line and explicit focus on the race of our Willy's Agent West has made the US audiences a bit edgy and uncomfortable - especially since this is a distinct divergence from the original TV series' diet of 1960s cheese. If this is the case, we suspect the movie will do a lot better outside of America, where issue-led TV is less of a turn off. As well as the fact that hardly anyone remembers the original series with the level of Wagon Train-like affection held by our colonial chums across the Big Pond. Still, we do like our steam-punk. And outside of HG Wells, Jules Verne and William Gibson's Difference Engine, the Wild Wild West is one of the defining series for this genre. Pop-corn us up for this one, baby. Any cinemas with review tickets, you know where to find us! Interesting Will Smith Factoids
Top Wild Wild West links The official
Will Smith site The official Wild Wild West Movie site http://www.wildwildwest.net Macintosh screensaver http://www.wildwildwest.net/dld/wildwildmac.sit.hqx PC screensaver
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