Just got around to this fine 2007 British production. If you like your humor straight up, dry and based on increasing levels of absurdity, rent this.

So I go to look up some details in IMDb and find, to my horror, that it's being remade.

With an American cast. An all African-American cast. Chris Rock among them.

As no American remake of a foreign film made solely to make it "appeal to American audiences" has ever been anything but a suck-fest, my heart fell just seeing the 2010 listing. Seeing how the chose to cast it - which, I'm sorry, almost certainly tells how they're going to spin it - is just awful. I'd love it to be the first black comedy (er, doubly black comedy...) to rely on genuine wit and humor, and not on Eddie Murphy/Chris Rock jackassery only one step removed from Amos and Andy.

But I won't bet that way. Hollywood already thinks its audience is composed of morons. What they think of the "black audience" is unprintable in this day and age.

Reminds me of the time I was in my local multiplex for some other movie and noticed that one named Friday was playing there as well. I couldn't *not* check out the possibility that a film treatment of one of my favorite Heinlein books had been brought to theaters completely under my radar, so I ducked in to check it out.

And ducked right back out. I only needed maybe 10 seconds to validate what you said about how Hollywood treats black audiences.