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A review (of the easily distracted variety) of Greg Mottola's reboot of Gregory McDonald's classic slacker sleuth.
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A review (of the easily distracted variety) of Greg Mottola's reboot of Gregory McDonald's classic slacker sleuth.
Now here's an unexpected series reboot I never saw coming. In fact, I can't imagine anyone did. "Fletch" (1985) and "Fletch Lives" (1989) were moderately popular Chevy Chase vehicles. Neither are what I would call comedy classics, but they did have some memorably funny moments in large part thanks to Chase's madcap comic energy. The Fletch-verse expands with "Confess, Fletch," a well-meaning misfire that never captures the zaniness of the '80's film (and that's hardly a high bar).
Confess, filmmakers, you didn’t really want to make this movie.
Jon Hamm stars as the sleuthing journalist.
The crime novels of Gregory Mcdonald emerged in the ’70s as a self-amused antithesis to more typically hard-boiled detective stories. The series began with “Fletch” in 1974 and continued a 20-year run, ending with “Fletch Reflected” in 1994. Irwin Maurice Fletcher (Fletch to everyone who knows him) is a shaggy