A Review.

I finished the remake of Little Fuzzy.  Fuzzy Nation was good but all of the things that were changed for the new one I thought of as nostalgic in the original. 

Little Fuzzy was published in 1962 and it shows; characters routinely have a cocktail hour around five, they smoke cigarettes, cigars, and even pipes.  When a female character becomes engaged it's assumed that she'll quit working once she's married.

The villian in Fuzzy Nation was the typical business villian, sell my mothers soul for a buck; will do everything for the almighty cash.  Some business people are like that but I much prefer the Victor Grego business model, whatever he needed to do was okay but he also knew when to cut his losses. 

In the Fuzzy series it was hinted that Fuzzies were from another planet which explained their diet, unique physiology, and reasons for possible extinction.  The new one kind of wimped out on that, the science may have been more accurate but it wasn't as fun.

The only character that came from the original was Jack Holloway, in the first he was an older guy that had been a prospector for years.  He was tough and he was a loner, he reminded me of Jack Palance's character in City Slickers.  The new one seemed young, he reminded me of the Kevin Cline character in Silverado. 

Read either of the books and you will be pleased, I think that the original will be around a few decades more whereas the remake won't.