A colorful team of former Special Forces soldiers were set up for a crime they did not commit. Going "rogue," they utilize their unique talents to try and clear their names and find the true culprit.

There was something wrong with the A-team that just didn’t sit right with me throughout the entire film and I think the problem was that the A-team just wasn’t made for the big screen. The A-team is your perfect serialized television show where each week there is a new adventure, a new case that wraps up so very neatly so they can move on to the next job and the next adventure. That doesn’t translate well to a two hour movie as you can’t pull off that serialized feel in a film format. That is not to say that the film wasn’t fun and entertaining at times but it was your typical Hollywood summer blockbuster special effects driven kind of fun that is easily forgotten.

The film begins with the back story of first how the A-team came to meet and become a team then it delves into their fall from grace as a military unit that must go AWOL and try and clear there names all the while blowing things up and getting to one scrape after another. There is no transition of them actually being a military group and a disgraced group now on their own just a small message of eighty missions later to let us know time has passed. The A-team felt like something they might of released in the 80’s to give you a back story of how they came to be and just lead into the television series it just really doesn’t stand on it’s own very well.

Sometimes the nostalgia craze gets a little out of hand and the A-team feels like another product that is being made just so we will fell nostalgic. This is a weird contradiction though as those who actually remember watching the television series are older and won’t be as impressed with all the effects and explosions as those the movie seems to be geared for the tween and young 20’s generation. It’s like being handed your grandfather’s toys as a child but with smashed on electronics to try and make it look modern, tinker toys with GPS. The action in the film is great if a little overdone at time and the movie is entertaining but at the same time very perplexing.

As far as the cast goes it’s really hard to replace the originals especially Mr. T who was such an iconic figure in the 1980’s but they try there hardest to reintroduce you or introduce you to the foibles and little quips that took years of serialized television to flesh out these characters and to do it all in two hours. It kind of works but at the same it feels just a little off like much of the rest of the film. Liam Neeson does a good job but that is because he is such a great actor and the rest just feel like cardboard cutouts at times. The film is worth a matinee viewing as it has everything you would expect in a summer Hollywood spectacle but I am just not sure if you would want to watch the film more than once.

Grade: C