The movie got good reviews from critics who loved it and everybody loved it. So much so that people wanted to create new movies based on it. So much so that after its original release in 1979, new films based on it would be released over and over again for years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years