Kenan Thompson is one of the best cast members “Saturday Night Live” has ever had. It’s not his first ensemble sketch comedy. He starred as a kid on “All That,” which Nickelodeon spun into “Kenan & Kel” with Kel Mitchell. That TV show was so successful it spawned “Good Burger” (1997) where Kenan and Kel are part of a ragtag team of workers at a fast-food restaurant. The dopey plot is pure Nickelodeon sitcom junk food, but watching these two 19-year-olds trade snappy banter makes you understand why Thompson’s career took off and makes you wonder what happened to Mitchell.
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I’m old enough to have seen the original “Going in Style” in the early 1980s, back when Hollywood movies would show up on network TV a year later. The original old-men-rob-a-bank flick, with George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg, was more poignant. The 2017 remake, with Alan Arkin, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, is more polished for a modern audience. They’re both good. As usual, Arkin inhabits his grumpy-old-man character like none other. I wanted someone to explain to me why Caine, with his English accent, worked in a Queens (New York, not THE queen) steel mill for 30 years.
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