A few years ago, this particular reviewer went through a phase - watching old movies. Watching Robert Redford and Paul Newman playing off each other in The Sting (1973) was the best thing to come out of that. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) featured Michael Caine and Steve Martin at their peaks, in a "con-within-a-con" caper that was strangely reminiscent of The Sting, which is perhaps why it was so personally memorable.
So I set out, with great excitement (but also trepidation), to watch a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - set in the same fictitious idyllic town of Beaumont-su....