Trailer for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. on TrailerAddict.
I really don’t know how to feel about this. I lived for the original Man from U.N.C.L.E. with all the passion a girl, 10 to 14 y/o, could bring (the original ran from 1964 to 1968 – after it went off the air I embraced Star Trek). I wore black turtle neck sweaters and wore my trench coat at the first indication of cold rainy weather (which wasn’t enough in the San Fernando Valley). I still have the paperbacks based on the show tucked away in the garage.
I will give Ritchie props for keeping the movie anchored in the 1960’s but the show never covered how Solo & Kuryakin came to be partners while the movie appears to start with that.
I will reserve judgment.
It doesn’t have the song. Without the MFU theme song, the movie is nothing. It will fail miserably.
Four U.N.C.L.E themes?
Fab!
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was for chicks.
Give me Secret Agent Man was for guys.
‘- it was for’ [coffee hasn’t kicked-in, yet]
Obligatory Emma Peale reference about now.
Guy Ritchie 60s spy caper? Squidnip.
But who can forget Honey Vicarro? Who, indeed?
MeTV has been doing MFU on Sunday nights, along with Mission: Impossible, which is a lot more plodding and slow than any of us remember.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Number 6.
Mrs. Peel, we’re needed.
Hugh Grant as Waverly. I expect someone a little more mature acting.