The next live-action cartoon ripoff - Disney to do UNDERDOG (1 Viewer)

[Edwin-S]

Watching the trailer once was bad enough. The only thing worse was having to watch it twice in a row, before the start of Ratatouille. What an abortion. Calling that thing Underdog is just an insult to the original designers of the character. I don't know what that mutt in underwear was, but I do know that it wasn't Underdog. If the jackasses who make this crap can't come up with a sustainable story that uses the actual character then don't do it at all. This fecal matter is on the same level as trying to make a Bugs Bunny cartoon using a real rabbit. Hollywood's penchant to make live action movies from properties with distinctive cartoon personalities is enough to make a person puke. It is like a neon sign stating that the original characters aren't good enough to be in a movie that carries their name. Wow, don't even get me started on the other live action abortions of classic cartoon characters....*cough* The Flintstones *cough*. What's next?A Calvin and Hobbes movie with a short kid and a real tiger.

 

[MandyHan]

Not sure that abortion is the correct term to use here...but anyways, I don't think it's really worth it to get too fired up over this movie and just take it as it is, which is a movie made for kids. and i think they'll like it.

 

[Thomas Newton]

Along the same lines, I found it HIGHLY inappropriate that the latest DVD collections of Animaniacs and Pinky & The Brain auto-play a commercial for a violent, bloody "Doomsday kills Superman" video.

For fans of the original Underdog, I will note that a three-disc DVD collection showed up in stores the other day (both as a box set and as individual discs).

 

[Seth Paxton]

They did that already in Vegas. Well something like that.


Between this and Vick it's a pretty horrible year for dogs. I just don't get how stuff like this gets greenlit.

 

[MandyHan]

I think it gets the green light because they know kids and their families will go see it!