“Yogi Bear” is a sure-fire classic!
(Just wanted to see if anyone from Hollyweird picks that up as a quote!)
I’m reluctant to put any movie above George Clooney’s “The American” for worst movie of 2010. But this may do it.
The worst movie ever is still Dracula 3000: Infinite Darkness. It will take a lot to beat that.
There is no creativity in Hollywood anymore. They have resorted to making movies out of cartoons and old TV shows. Now, they are going to re-make John Wayne movies!
The fun of the Yogi Bear cartoons is that they are from the late 50’s and early 60’s. Times were simple and the jokes are simple. Trying to take the story and make it modern, destroys the joke.
I am a huge Yogi fan. I told my kids that we would not be seeing this. I’ll take the cash I would spend at the theater and buy the old cartoons on DVD.
My girls remember the ones where the little girl was chasing a skunk saying, “Aba abquba kitty” with Yogi trying to save her while the parents picnicked and the one where the boy used Yogi as a horse. Spurs and all.
Sarah Palin’s fault!
Surely not the worst movie ever but one of the worst I’ve ever seen: Shrek II.
Most in need of a good editor: Deer Hunter.
Anyone else remember ‘Comin’ at You’, a 3D movie from the late 70’s?
Original voices Daws Butler and Don Messick have been dead for awhile so they had to recast—Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake?
From Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Brew
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/yogi-bear-getting-bashed-by-critics.html
(BY JERRY BECK)
What did you expect? The Hollywood trades are out with their luke-warm reviews of the live action-CG Yogi Bear feature, which opens this Friday, Dec. 17th.
Justin Chang in Variety (review blocked by a pay-wall) says:
-— “Neither smarter nor dumber than the average family-friendly comedy, “Yogi Bear” is a bland and innocuous small-fry outing that retains a measure of the original Hanna-Barbera cartoon’s charm, though scarcely enough to justify the time, expense and visual-effects trickery it must have taken to inflate an endearing 2D cartoon into a dopey 3D extravaganza….
-— “…Aykroyd and Timberlake do fine approximations of their characters’ distinctive cartoon voices and speech patterns; teens and adults in particular can keep themselves amused by imagining Timberlake, in one of his more self-effacing career moves, having to record lines like “I have a problem with baked beans” in Boo Boo’s trademark nasal delivery. By comparison, the not-quite-photorealistic, borderline-alien look of these CGI bears is off-putting, the technological advancements of lifelike fur and detailed eye movements being no match for the clean, expressive lines of hand-drawn animation.”
Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter says:
— “Poor Yogi Bear. At 52, he finally gets his first movie role and the film is likely to send viewers over the age of 10 into hibernation. The only worse 2010 animated feature also came from Warner Bros., Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, which only confirms the great irony that Warners, home to the greatest cartoon characters of all time, has lost touch with its own heritage…
-— “…the Bottom Line: A live-action/cartoon mix that’s misguided in just about every way.
(Note about “first movie role”—H.B. did do “Hey There It’s Yogi Bear” in the 60s)
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Worst movie ever!!
Hmm. My personal worst winner has a tie.
The only movie I’ve ever walked out on: Biloxi Blues
The movie I use as the standard for horrible movies: The Perfect Storm
You often hear “Well, it was no Perfect Storm, but....” around here.
I told my family after seeing the commercial for it over the weekend on TV that it would be one of the worst movies ever. If the crap they show in the commercial ain’t even slightly funny...
It doesn't have to have value, folks, it just has to keep the kids occupied.
If Yogi and Boo Boo aren’t coming out of the closet, some Hollyweirdos will think it’s terrible.