I Am Standing Here Beside Myself

There's an squib in the LA Times Calendar section about a remake of Short Circuit, a 1986 film about robot that comes to life. The article claims "They'll also surely factor in advances in political correctness, as the comic relief in the original film [...] was provided by Fisher Stevens, a white guy from Chicago playing a horny Indian scientist spouting enthusiastic malapropisms and stereotypically mangled syntax."

Well first, there was plenty of political correctness to go around in 1986. Second, Short Circuit is no classic, and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is Steven's character. They get rid of that and what's the point?