From TV to film, for better or worse

THE BEST "The Untouchables" (1987) - A stylish TV series becomes a stylish film, thanks to director Brian De Palma and stars Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro and Sean Connery.

"The Addams Family" (1991) - Technically, this film is based on a series of New Yorker cartoons, but most people are probably familiar with the '60s TV series, so why quibble? A smart, funny screenplay, tight direction (by Barry Sonnenfeld), great casting (Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester, Christina Ricci as Wednesday) and the joyous chemistry between Raul Julia and Angelica Huston (as Gomez and Morticia Addams) make this one of the very best small- to-big-screen crossovers.

"21 Jump Street" (2011) - The popular 80s drama about youthful undercover cops has been turned into an action-packed comedy starring Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Dave Franco.

"The Flintstones"

Elizabeth Perkins and John Goodman brought the kids cartoon "The Flintstones" to life in the 1994 Universal Studios production.

"The Brady Bunch Movie" (1995) - Take a clean-cut, early-'70s family show. Update it by placing the square bunch in the '90s. It's a camp parody that is respectful to the source material. And in Shelley Long and Gary Cole it has two terrific Brady parents.

"South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" (1999). Everything that Trey Parker and Matt Stone couldn't get away with on basic cable they got to do in this filthy, funny and R-rated masterpiece.

(2011) Jason Segel wrote and starred in "The Muppets," a movie based off the children's TV show. Amy Adams also appeared in the fim.

"The Beverly Hillbillies"

Cloris Leachman stars as Granny in the 1993 movie "The Beverly Hillbillies", based off the popular TV show from the 1960s.

"Star Trek: First Contact" (1996) - Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) fights off sexy Borg queen Alice Krige while the crew attempts to get a drunken inventor to make his first faster-than-light flight. Easily one of the best entries in the long-running series.

THE WORST "Lost in Space" (1998) - Take a family-friendly, campy series, then turn it into a mega-budgeted, post-apocalyptic adventure story with Joey from "Friends" (Matt LeBlanc) as an action hero. "Danger, Will Robinson," this movie stinks.

"The Avengers" (1998) - One of the best, and sexiest, series in TV history morphed into another example of Hollywood's "if it's bigger, it must be better" mentality. No Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee (Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman couldn't match up with them). No droll British sense of humor. Can you say critical and box-office dud?

"The Mod Squad" (1999) - A lame attempt to update the hip, late-'60s cop show. A decent cast - Claire Danes, Omar Epps, Giovanni Ribisi - could not overcome a paint-by-numbers screenplay and poor direction. And nothing could compete with Clarence Williams III's 'fro from the original series.

"The Wild Wild West" (1999) - Someone should have told the makers of this travesty that less is more. Too much gunplay, too many special effects, way too much snarky posturing made this reworking of the classic - and delightfully small-scale - 1960s Western an overblown bore.

"The Dukes of Hazzard" (2005) - Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott as Luke and Bo Duke. Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke. Casting doesn't get any worse than this.

"Starsky & Hutch"

Ben Stiller, left, and Owen Wilson starred in Warner Bros. Pictures' movie version of the TV show "Starsky & Hutch."

"Sex and the City"

"Sex and the City" in 2008 and "Sex and the City 2" in 2010 were based on the popular HBO series by the same name starring Sarah Jessica Parker.

"The Honeymooners"

Gabrielle Union plays a woman who dreams of a house in the suburbs, but her husband, played by Cedric the Entertainer, right, has big dreams and get-rich-quick ideas to take them to the next level in the comedy "The Honeymooners," based on the TV show.

"The Green Hornet"

Seth Rogen and Jay Chou starred in 2011's "The Green Hornet" based on the TV show from the 1960s.

"Bewitched"

Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell starred in Columbia Pictures' 2005 movie version of the popular TV show "Bewitched."