With the overwhelming abundance of unoriginal films featured for release this summer, it seems Hollywood has turned to the popular ideals that executives had in mind when they revived reality TV; Cut down on costs by hiring crappie writers, and releasing un-innovative material. Borrowing from books, movies, comic books, documentaries and TV series, no less than ten major films are set to hit screens in what I have dubbed, "The Summer of the Remake". With titles familiar to the fogies and catchy plots new to the youngins, the films featured in "The Summer of the Remake" are promising to reel in big bucks at the box office. Among the familiar names leading the pack in the classic T.V. series genre are "The Honeymooners", starring Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Kramden; "Bewitched" , starring Nicole Kidman, and "The Dukes of Hazzard", starring Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke. From the genre of popular film, the magical VW Herbie returns to the big screen in, "Herbie: Fully Loaded". The classic "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" makes a return in the post-psychedelic technology age under the title, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. Lastly and most tragically there is "Lords of Dogtown", a spin-off of the contemporary documentary cult classic "Dogtown and Z-Boys" by skateboard guru Stacy Peralta. Other remakes this summer include the Comic book classic "The Fantastic Four", and a remake of H.G. Wells's classic "The War of the Worlds", which inspired the infamous "Invasion from Mars" radio broadcast in 1938 by Orson Welles.Surprisingly enough, amongst those who can claim originality this summer is zombie-master George Romero with his debut of "Land of the Dead". For some reason I'm not really surprised by the marketing ploy behind "The Summer of the Remake". After all, we're half way through the decade and still don't have any distinguishing face to mark this era. Besides, Hollywood knows they can count on the masses to spend their money watching unoriginal regurgitated caca.