I don't mind remakes either, as long as they distinguish themselves from the original, and don't just become a carboncopy of the original. With that said, I also think it makes more sense to remake a bad movie, than a great movie. A bad movie you can improve upon, a great... maybe not so much.

And with THAT said, even if you are going to remake a bad movie, it needs to be a bad movie with a great idea or concept. Summer School doesn't seem to have either, so on that I agree: turn out the lights.

Well they will remake this much like they remade Can't Buy Me Love. They will make it a young Urban Black school and put alot of hip hop in it.

I think we should boycott these freakin remakes ... are all the ideas gone out of hollywood? Can they not come up with something on their own? I for one have almost had it completely with anything hollywood ... bring on the indies!

Hey, movie blog dudes ... why not dig up some indie movie news ... it's gotta be out there!

-- Penniless B.

Now, I guess I'm one of the few that really enjoyed SUMMER SCHOOL and so i CERTAINLY donut want to see a remake of it. And from teh synopsis given, that's not AT ALL the plot of SUMMER SCHOOL; it's not a remake, it's a "loosely inspired by."

why? you ask. one word. 5 letters. starts with M.

if you can't figure it out, go to summer school.

Hey McKay.

If you seriously think a "Summer School" movie is going to make any money... you're crazy.

That's one of the reasons I'm so dumb-founded by this. It's a stupid idea... and has no hope of making any money unless they produce it for about $56 bucks.

Cheers!

It's more a sequel than remake as the premise is nothing like the first. In my younger years I though Summer School was amusing, but it's definitely not a good movie.

The madness needs to stop, but it wont until movie goers finally decide to stop supporting the trash.

Much as I enjoyed this film when I was younger (following on Meli's argument) it was straight to the video this one, so why bother with a remake.

Mark Harmon was so cute though. ;-)

I loved Summer School, why are they remaking it? You can't remake it, well, you could.....but still, COME ON! You can't replace what the original actors did in the movie and you can't replace the time it was made in, you can only fake it. Hey lets go crazy here, lets remake Ferris Buellers Day Off, or how about Short Circuit. Or hows about Maximum Overdrive or Tremors or any good movie. And not just from the 80's and early 90's, how about movies from the late 90's like Men in Black or even the Matrix. Or how about we go into now and remake Shaun of the Dead.

They need to stop and think about movies that you couldn't even stand to watch again, you know, movies that just plain SUCKED! I'm thinking in terms of like Ghost Dad sucked. I understood why Gone in 60 seconds was remade, that was because of time ( I like the original one better than the Nicholas Cage one).

And thats my rant.

I say thank god there finally remaking something that was trash to begin with. Those are the ones that should be remade, the one'd that could have been good but failed.

The idea of boycotting would never work, too many stupid teens that are obseesed with the talantless actors that hollywoods tries to pass off today. Why do you think so many musicians are jumping to acting?

I think this is a really really really really , really really really really , really really really really , really really really , really really ,really really ,really really ,really really really ,really really ,really really bady idea.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Tension Breaker.

Had to be done.

Dear God! Sales are down, people are getting sick of all the remakes, and Hollywood still can't figure it out...what's next, Mork and Mindy the Movie starring Ben Afleck and Jessica Simpson?

I say dont remake dont the movie. Just Re-relese the movie in theathers.