As probably the biggest fan of the original series on the board, I LOVED this. I had a hard time accepting the new actors (through no fault of their own), but it was still an awesome and VERY fun movie. If the TV show had had this kind of budget, its exactly what they would have done.

The after-credits scene is what cemented this movie as perfect to me. (small spoiler alert......) Seeing Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz pass the torch, so to speak, made me feel even better about the whole thing. (Especially since Dirk is one of my all time favorite actors.)

^ (merged)

I will add one thing that bugged me about this movie. (WARNING: long, military nitpickery rant ahead.)

Supposedly the "A-Team" is in the 75th Ranger Battalion in this movie. That's bullshit. In the original show, they were Special Forces--that is, green berets. This isn't just me bitching because they changed from the original; it literally doesn't make any sense within the context of the movie. Even though all the dialog says "Rangers," nothing they do is ANYTHING that the Rangers would touch. Rangers are elite infantry--the key word there being "infantry." They do things like storming the beaches of Normandy. They do NOT perform covert or undercover operations like the A-team does, nor would they ever, EVER wear civilian clothes in a FOB. That's all Special Forces stuff. Not to MENTION the fact that, during their court martial, all of the insignias on their class-A uniform are SF (except their collar insignia, which were inexplicably infantry. RANGERS wear infantry insignias because they are part of the infantry, but SF is its own branch; you can't mix the two. Its like wearing a medics insignias on your collar and military intelligence insignias on your shoulders. Its a contradiction that makes zero sense. ) And of course the final, crowning idiocy is that the very term "A-team," from which the team gets is name, comes from special forces units called A-teams. For christ's sake, movie people, any Private three weeks into boot camp knows this stuff. How frigging hard is it to hire a military adviser so you don't look like a jackass?

Now, many SF soldiers do go through Ranger *training,* but any man from any branch can do that. It doesn't make them part of the 75th Rangers, and it doesn't make them infantry.

But really. Mixing branch insignias on a uniform? REALLY???

/rant

I'm sorry. But little things like this drive me crazy--so simple, and so easy to get right if you take five seconds to research it. (Or, you know, just stick with the original concept, which had it right in the first place.)

Oh it was by no means a dealbreaker for me either; this was (like a few others have said) the most fun I've had at the movies in a long time. And honestly, despite my bitching, I'm not all that worried about uniform insignia and unit titles in a movie where you can fly a falling tank, and then survive it falling into a lake from 20,000 feet.