# Animated remakes of live-action feature films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 28, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-remakes-of-live-action-feature-films/1012254 "2024-12-28T04:42:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-remakes-of-live-action-feature-films/1012254/21 "2024-12-29T00:08:35Z")
I am watching the 2018 computer animated _Grinch_, and it doesn’t seem to be a remake of either the original Chuck Jones cartoon or the Jim Carrey live action movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-remakes-of-live-action-feature-films/1012254/22 "2024-12-29T00:17:25Z")
The songs (for example ‘You’re a mean one Mr Grinch’ and ‘Welcome Christmas’ ) were composed for the 1966 cartoon movie, are used in all three movies, but are not from the source material, which is a story book, so the 2000 and 2018 movies definitely owe something to the 1966 version, if not to each other. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-remakes-of-live-action-feature-films/1012254/23 "2024-12-29T08:11:14Z")
BTW I’m sorry if my comment upthread was in any way contributory to your decision to watch the 2018 Grinch movie. It’s not very good. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-remakes-of-live-action-feature-films/1012254/24 "2024-12-29T17:09:26Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > [Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry:_Willy_Wonka_and_the_Chocolate_Factory) > > Adaptation/ remake of the 1971 live action film, incorporating various elements from the film that weren’t in the original book. A year or two ago I caught a few minutes of this while channel-flipping. I had assumed it was just a regular episode of the TV show that was parodying scenes from the 1971 film; I didn’t realize it was a full-length adaptation. I’m fine with admitting this as a remake despite the inclusion of extra characters and scenes, since plenty of other (non-animated) remakes also do this. It’s not like I’m asking only for word-for-word, shot-for-shot reproductions of the source material. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-remakes-of-live-action-feature-films/1012254/25 "2024-12-29T17:51:38Z")
Family Guy had a clip of Brokeback Mountain from the point of view of the horses, but it was just one of their cutaways. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-remakes-of-live-action-feature-films/1012254/26 "2024-12-30T00:29:53Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > In 1971 there was an animated short film of [A Christmas Carol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_(TV_special)). I’m not sure it would count as a literal remake, but Alistair Sim and Michael Hordem reprised their roles as Scrooge and Marley from the 1951 film. It was produced by Chuck Jones and directed by Richard Williams (_Who Framed Roger Rabbit_). They based their animation style on period illustrations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animated-remakes-of-live-action-feature-films/1012254.md?page=1)