Review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) by Debbie Prager for Washington Post — 23 Jul 2007
Phil Kaufman's version of the Don Siegel SF classic is good as remakes go, but not as good as the original. Where Siegel was swift, compact, and efficient Kaufman tends to be slow, garrulous, and needlessly baroque.
Ideas that Siegel knocked off in a few shots are expanded to fill entire sequences—but they're good ideas, and can stand a little stretching. Good allegories never die; they just expand and contract to fit the times.
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This review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) was written by Debbie Prager and published by Washington Post on 23 Jul 2007.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers has generally received positive reviews.
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