... without breathing hard.
I mean, it's only competition will be the Tron reboot from Disney. And who's going to go see the sequel to an underperformer from the early 1980s?
Especially when they can see an animated bear from the 1950s?
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Wow. That's bad. The animation in particular is bottom of the barrel. India?
I mean, it's only competition will be the Tron reboot from Disney.
Oh, sure, THAT old thing... :)
(And that Narnia thing is sure to have burned itself out at another studio after one week.)
This one was obviously intended to be Christmas Day marketing, they unfortunately moved it up a week to compete with Tron (o-kayyy, good luck with that), to the week that parents never go to kids movies. Thus leaving Christmas vacation all alone for Jack Black and "Gulliver's Travels" to unjustly make $200M domestic without breathing hard.
I don't know, Yogi looks cute here to me. So is Boo boo, but I don't like the gags. I think the animation is good though. Give the animators a break. Sheesh. At least they got jobs in this pathetic economy now. And whoever the first Anonymous was obviously ignorant who did the project.
That first comment managed to offend both animators in Los Angeles CA and India. Do you think the animators actually wanted to be on this project? Not everyone can be at Dreamworks or Pixar.
Hey, all it comes down to puppetering. Pulling strings and leevers. This is a good example of what to appreciate of H&B at their peak...now I wanna see the real cartoon again. And as for Tron, I bet it'll be as slick as Diz can make it. And I liked the original.....
To be fair, it will suffer a lot due to the next Harry Potter being released in six weeks, and the next Potter is supposedly the most anticipated fantasy film of all time at the minute
Hey, all it comes down to puppetering. Pulling strings and leevers.
Yeah and its sooooo easy. A monkey could do it.
I don't know, Yogi looks cute here to me. So is Boo boo, but I don't like the gags.
Waterskiing? Ultralight planes?...What is this, 1986??
(Warner's concentrating too much on the character marketing, and not the source--
We get slapstick jokes about Pickanic-Basket Stealing, but none of the dialogue wit--As if somebody knew the on-paper characters, but had never seen the original toons in his life.)
What gets me is the voicetalent and the money they must put out to obtain it: Dan Akroyd imitating Yogi, Justin imitating BooBoo and put through a squeaker-voice software. They could get anybody to imitate these characters. Save themselves a lot of money, thus increase making more money if the movie does any good. Which is what its about.
The trailer reminds me of Garfeild. I'm bored. Hope it does well but, no.
"Hey, all it comes down to puppetering. Pulling strings and leevers."
I hear they have a magic button that says "Animate Bear". Poof! Then they go have margaritas at the beach.
Wait.. No. This stuff is HARD and takes skill and talent. Stop trolling it just because it's cg. These animators and artists were probably working very long hours. Demeaning their work as "easier" doesn't help at all.
It ain't like the original was high art, either.
^Yeah, but two wrongs don't make a right.
"This stuff is HARD and takes skill and talent. "
No...we're talking about this new Yogi Bear travesty.
There's something about showing trailers that attracts trolls who need to assert some superior discernment on their part.
Anyone who thinks that is "bottom of the barrel" is quite sheltered about the scope of animation out there.
And it isn't "bad" on an absolute level either. The original Yogi was barely animated at all.
Looked at this at work (a high-end feature studio) and the reaction of several of us was that it looked a lot better than we expected from the teaser poster that was released recently. Much as the peanut gallery would love to sh*t on this, the animation isn't bad. The movie might be bad, but the animation does what it's supposed to do, and does it well.
'the animation does what it's supposed to do, and does it well. '
I agree. The best puppetry in town. Till next week......
"Does it well"? By whose criteria? How the hell can you expect people to love this shite when they've seen better? The fact that this piece of dreck is based on a similarly drecky cartoon doesn't make it any less shite. A old plug's shite smells just as bad as a thoroughbred's.
^ The same way I can love both The Dark Knight and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Both films have their place in entertainment value, some are high brow, some are low brow but at the end of the day every film resonates with different folks on different levels and just like Chipmunks did well, this could do well.
The animation is terrible. Character-less, with little imagination, wit, or charm. And the acting is piss poor.
I doubt India did this. They don't do animation this bad.
no, in india they do much worse....
rufus.
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