You see, you’ve hit the nail on the head, and possibly without knowing it. You have pinpointed the problems with movies and their overall imagination. There are no new “good” ideas, or that should be stated, there are no new good ideas that people are willing to take a chance on, that they go to the vault and try to re-hash an existing product.

The most recent jump into this way of film is/was the Sex and the City franchise. They finished their 2nd movie this past year, and let’s just say it was Brett Favre like. Sure, it came out of retirement, and sure it made some money, but in the end didn’t it end up tainting the legacy? The sitcoms bank on their fans to come out to see the movie, what they don’t realize is that a lot of people don’t want their show taken from the small screen. The greatest thing about “good” sitcoms is that they have a running story, it doesn’t end. A film… Well, a film needs to end and that isn’t what the core audience is looking for it to do.

With all that said, I would only recommend one film that was from a sitcom, and I think that it only holds well because it was brought to a new generation. IT won no awards and it’s not on the classics channel, but if you pass it on the TV or you can view it in Netflix, I’d say give Dennis The Menace a shot. Sure, laugh now, but thank me later when you’re laughing your “you know what” off.