Pajiba reports that Neal Moritz, the producer behind the “Prom Night” remake and “I Am Legend” (an adaptation and a remake), will be remaking everybody’s favorite talking baby movie, “Look Who’s Talking.”

Don’t act surprised. It’s not like we didn’t all see this coming. At the rate Hollywood is going, every last frame of film in recorded history will be remade by the end of the year.  And since the original John Travolta flick made nearly $300 million worldwide and spawned two sequels, it was bound to be remade sooner rather than later.

As a general rule remakes are a bad idea. They smack of a lack of originality and are almost always accompanied by pedestrian, banal filmmaking and a cash-grab mentality.  But there are two kinds of films in particular that should never be remade: really good movies, and really bad movies.   The good ones are already done right, so why try to fix what isn’t broken? And the bad movies are bad for a reason.  And even if you could make significant improvements to a terrible movie, who would want to see it anyway?  The damage has already been done. (If you have to ask which category “Look Who’s Talking” falls into then this remake is probably targeted at you).

The sweet spot for good remakes exists somewhere in realm of the mediocre. Take the recent “The Crazies” for instance. The 1973 original from George Romero wasn’t the greatest flick but it had potential.  Breck Eisner’s update this year was an effective modernization of something that desperately needed a modern touch.  It wasn’t perfect but it was a slickly produced bit of B-movie fun that was a solid improvement on the original.

The project currently has no writers or a director yet, but that’s never stopped Hollywood from making anything before.