14 DAY TRIAL // Even Charlie Sheen thinks that the new “Two and a Half Men” with Ashton Kutcher is bad. Though initially supportive of the new version of the show, the actor is now saying it should end with this season.
In saying so, he's clearly echoing the words of millions of fans who have decided to stick to re-runs and now see the Kutcher-starring show. Here are their thoughts on it.
Now promoting his upcoming show, “Anger Management,” based on the movie of the same name, Sheen tells The Hollywood Reporter that “Men” has gotten really bad.
Granted, he definitely has ulterior motives for saying so but, considering that he was initially quite psyched about the new season, his words ring true, if only slightly so.
“I don’t think [Two and a Half Men] should go on past this year. I just think that people are there because there’s nowhere else to go. Yet,” he says.
Luckily, this is where his new show comes in.
“And we [on Anger Management] will not disappoint. At this stage of the game, to deliver a turd? It’s not going to happen. It’s going to be an absolute [expletive]-ing rocket ship to the moon,” he boasts.
Still, he insists he no longer harbor hard feelings for Warner Bros or Chuck Lorre, the series creator, with whom he famously got into a verbal spat that eventually cost him his job.
He believes though that “Men” will end because creative juices going into it have dried up. There's still a lot of potential to it, but there's no one to bring it to light.
“I’ve done what he’s done,” he says of Kutcher. “I’ve replaced a guy [on Spin City]. It’s so [expletive]-ing hard, you can’t believe it. It’s all your thinking about and you’re surrounded by these ghosts.”
“They physically changed the set [on Men] so that there’s not this subconscious thing of it’s Charlie’s piano or it's Charlie’s stuff. So hats off to [Ashton] for doing the best job that he can. I don’t think that he’s working with the best writing because [Lorre is] doing too many shows. He and Jon [Cryer] and Angus [T. Jones] deserve better material,” Sheen adds.
Here is the full interview.