Good Filmmaking or Torture Porn?

Has anyone seen the movie Funny Games? I am planning on seeing it soon, and I would like to know your take. From what I hear, it is a pretty much identical remake of an Austrian film of the same name.

National Review contributors seem to be divided on it. Greg Pollowitz at the Media Blog seems to think that there's no reason to want to see it. Andrew Stuttaford gives his review in the New York Sun:

The original "Funny Games" was profoundly and brilliantly disturbing, an unsettling, upsetting examination of human savagery and the spectacle that we like to make of it.

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In almost every other respect, there is little to choose between the two versions. If the first was a masterpiece, so is the second.

I'm leaning toward Stuttaford's analysis, as I tend to enjoy this type of film more than Horton Hears a Who, which was praised in the Media Blog link. Also, judging from the trailer (and the music in the trailer), the film almost seems to have an A Clockwork Orange quality to it. Here is the trailer: