A "Banana Splits movie with a body count? Somebody please tell me this isn’t for real.
It is real, and I find it surprising Sid and Marty Krofft* would be okay with it, but there you go.
*both are still alive
Well, people kept complaining about cop shows being adapted as comedies, so I guess it was just a matter of time before kids’ silliness-for-its-own-sake shows found a genre to adapt into.
Next up: H.R. Pufnstuf as a kaiju…
Never watched the original series, so this has no ap-peel to me.
I’ve often heard the phrase “I can’t even” and, intellectually, I know what it means. But this is the first time I have understood it on an emotional and spiritual level.
This is mind-blowingly insane. Also my wife and I were just talking about the old Sid & Marty Kroft shows after watching a kids react video on Youtube.
More on it here on Wiki: The Banana Splits Movie - Wikipedia
IMDB: The Banana Splits Movie (2019) - IMDb
Given that they’ll make money from a property (assuming they still have an ownership interest) that’s long past its prime, I don’t find it at all surprising that they were okay with it. I did notice that it’s a straight-to-video release, so it’s not going to make very much money.
I believe this is the first R-rated movie adaptation of a Hanna-Barbera property.
I think you’re correct. The Land of the Lost movie was PG-13.
I mentioned this earlier, might be enjoyable for some. “Kids React To Creepy 1970s Kids Shows (Sid & Marty Krofft)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Ujk9A01io
It was always a horror show to me…
The Banana Splits was my first favorite TV show, when it was originally on Saturday morning TV; I was three years old. Their theme song was one of the first songs I learned to sing, and I even named my stuffed dog Fleegle, after one of the characters.
I watched the show as an adult, when it was run on (I think) Cartoon Network. Lordy, it’s awful. Not horror-show awful, just cheesy and dumb. I could see why it appealed to three-year-old me; I imagined that it drove my parents crazy.
Even so, I’m disappointed that it’s being made into a horror movie. It’s just misuse of the property, which was, as Wikipedia notes, basically a kids’ version of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
(Also, for the record, since there seems to be some confusion about this: the original TV show was made by Hanna-Barbera, though the costumes and sets were made by Sid and Marty Krofft.)
*tra-la-la la-la-la-la tra-la-la la-la-la-la *
Wow, that could have been great. This does not look great.
I read that originally they wanted to do a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie, but they couldn’t reach a deal.
Even though the original Banana Splits contained some of the worst cartoons ever made and I find it hard to care what they do with it, I still find the idea beyond weird.
This is going to be even worse than The Happytime Murders.
♪
One insana, two insana, three insana, four
All insanas throw a fit, so do many more
Over the hill and on decay, the insana thuggees go
Come along to bring you the insana unfit show ♬
Possibly, although the DVD set of *Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law *has a 15 certificate (UK).
Now *that *is how you do an adult version of a kids’ show.
After watching the short clip, I want to go to there.
Snorkycould easily be a First instar spawn of Cthulhu.
I think Snorky could be a prime suspect, but you just know that if they try to question him, he’s not going to say anything.