Knight Rider: A Quick Review

I just managed to get some time to myself to sit and watch the remake of Knight Rider.

Excited as I was, I couldn't help feel slightly disappointed that the producers of the new version had managed to stick so rigidly to the kitschness of the old version:

While the special effects are undoubtedly twenty-first century, and the car's power system is now eco-friendly and solar-powered, KITT - voiced by Val Kilmer - still managed to sound ridiculously camp.

David Hasselhoff, cameoing as the original Michael Knight, still managed to act so offensibly bad I might have switched it off if he'd appeared at the start.

And the car chases were unfeasibly improbable: a supercar Mustang, powered by the world's fastest hybrid engine, is completely incapable of outrunning a lumbering Ford SUV on a twisty mountain road?

Despite this, the program still managed to make feel twelve years old.  And that was cool.