Movie Title: Willard

Movie Title: Willard
Rating: 2
Reviewed By: Robin McFetridge

Review:

What the hell were they thinking? Why would anyone think it was a good idea to remake a movie that was truly crappy the first time around? They even used the song that was redone about a decade ago because the original song was also not adequate enough. Although, this time there was a twist. In the original movie Ben was the intelligent rat and Willard a mentally retarded person who made a friend of Ben. This film makes Willard a lazy incompetent leach that makes friends with Sophocles the rat and he dismisses the rat whom he called Ben. The truly smart rat was Ben.

Crispin Glover (Like Mike) is Willard, a middle-aged man that still lives in the family home with his invalid mother. His father died a few years earlier. The age of his father would suggest he would have been about 60 if he were alive today, but they decided to make Willard’s mother (Jackie Burroughs, A Guy Thing) appear as if she were 90, and since they never explained her actual illness, 90 would make a good reason to want to stay in bed. Even though she chooses this point in time to decide Willard is a horrible name and she is changing it to Clark. Willard works at his fathers manufacturing company, only it now belongs to Frank Martin (R. Lee Ermey, Saving Silverman) a complete son of a bitch who treats all employed by him like they were crap on the bottom of his shoes. As I stated, Willard is not the model employee, so Frank is especially abusive to Willard. Willard discovers his basement is infested with rats and he is incapable of getting rid of them. While feeling sorry for himself he learns the rats understand and listen to him, so he gets them to play a prank on his evil boss. Then he tries to get rid of the rats because he hates everyone but Sophocles. Ben will not allow this and gets rid of Willard’s mother instead. This creates even bigger problems for Willard, so lashes out.

I can’t believe the actors in this movie chose to participate in the crap. Now these trained rats were pretty incredible. Also appearing in this Glen Morgan directed movie were David Parker, Kristen Cloke. Laura Harring and Kim McKany. The book and screenplay was written by Gilbert Rahlston, which would explain why they just can’t make this story work no matter how many times they try. Oh, and I will never get that horrible image of those nasty toenails out of my head. I give Willard two couches.

Tootles.

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