# Live action cartoons I want to see/never want to see **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912 "2014-01-15T22:05:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/1 "2014-01-15T22:05:46Z")
Based on the track record, I shouldn’t want to see any, but I would someday love to see a live action Kim Possible and maybe Totally Spies (I’m being sexist aren’t I?), and maybe Tom Terrific. I don’t want to see Rugrats, South Park, Phinius and Ferb… ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/2 "2014-01-15T22:37:02Z")
Kim Possible was a fun show, so yeah, I’d be interested in that. I’ve never seen Totally Spies, so I couldn’t say anything about that. I can’t think of any others apart from comic book adaptations. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/3 "2014-01-15T23:00:01Z")
Want to see: Samurai Jack. NOT want to see: Spongebob Squarepants. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/4 "2014-01-15T23:17:35Z")
I can’t think of any cartoons I’d like to see live action versions of, but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to see _The Incredibles, Final Fantasy, Laputa or Warriors of the Wind._ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/5 "2014-01-15T23:17:51Z")
How about _[Toy Story](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G0j_Huv2Fg)_? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/6 "2014-01-15T23:22:34Z")
Oh–Half Life 2. Does that count? I saw a short live-action clip where Alex gets the gravity gun and uses it for the first time, and it was freaking _amazing._ Kind of dubious about the impending World of Warcraft movie, though. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/7 "2014-01-16T00:41:06Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Based on the track record, I shouldn’t want to see any, but I would someday love to see a live action Kim Possible and maybe Totally Spies (I’m being sexist aren’t I?), and maybe Tom Terrific. > I don’t want to see Rugrats, South Park, Phinius and Ferb… Speaking of Tom Terrific, how many of us kids who grew up on Captain Kangaroo can remember trivia about Tom? I can still recite, from memory, the little ditty of Crabby Appleton: _My name is Crabby Appleton I’m rotten to the core. I do a bad deed every day, And sometimes three or four!_ ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/8 "2014-01-16T01:23:32Z")
I love cartoons, and I can’t think of any that I’d like to see in live action. What’s wrong with them being cartoons? Feature-length movies of some of them could be good, if they’re done well, but trying to adapt them to live action just adds unnecessary complications. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/9 "2014-01-16T01:26:57Z")
I’d like to see a well-done, well-written Jonny Quest. With a sort of retro-futurist look to it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/10 "2014-01-17T11:14:15Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I love cartoons, and I can’t think of any that I’d like to see in live action. What’s wrong with them being cartoons? Feature-length movies of some of them could be good, if they’re done well, but trying to adapt them to live action just adds unnecessary complications. Well, in today’s climate, they’re going to have to be adapted anyways, as traditional animation is all but dead in movies. Especially the types of movies that revive old properties–since the point is to make money on the nostalgia factor. And CG is where the money is at in animation. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/11 "2014-01-17T14:00:25Z")
There has been talk of a live action _Cowboy Bebop_ movie for years. I’d love to see that. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/12 "2014-01-18T00:53:55Z")
The live-action Flintstones movies were – ah – okay. Didn’t totally stink. So, on that basis, I’d give a chance to a Jetson’s live-action movie. Yes, they’ll probably muck it up and it won’t be any good – but the principle has been demonstrated to be possible. Second **Hermione** ’s suggestion of Jonny Quest! That could be fun! I never saw the Thunderbirds movie. How was it? A “Herculoids” movie without animation of some sort would be next to impossible. What, guys in big rubbery suits like the old Godzilla movies or H.R. Pufnstuf? No, this would have to use computer animation for the monsters. A purely live-action version would be just stinking awful! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/13 "2014-01-18T02:11:00Z")
I’d like to see a _Gummi Bears_ live action movie. As long as it wasn’t set in New York. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/14 "2014-01-18T12:41:02Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’d like to see a _Gummi Bears_ live action movie. As long as it wasn’t set in New York. John Boorman’s Gummi Bears might be interesting… Anyways…the live action cartoon I’d never want to see? _G.I. Joe_. The effects technology is about caught up by now, sure, but the right time to do it was no later than about 1992. I know, Watson. I _do_ know… ☹ Live action Shego, on the other hand, leaves me [cautiously optimistic](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4TdHhVxoZk&t=0m28s)… ---
**Author:** ![BlakeTyner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@BlakeTyner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlakeTyner)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/15 "2014-01-18T15:21:38Z")
DO NOT WANT: A live-action Thundercats movie. I’ve seen the YouTube clips and whatnot from fans, but still…you can CGI them, or go with the original animation, but to costume real-life actors as Lion-O, Panthro, and the rest…it’d just end up being Barf from Spaceballs. \*Cheetara cosplay, on the other hand, is perfectly acceptable in the right circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/16 "2014-01-18T16:44:28Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I never saw the Thunderbirds movie. How was it? Unfortunately I did (on a long plane flight). It was awful (except for the machines). Mind you, big fan of the original supermarionation show. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/17 "2014-01-18T16:57:18Z")
In the right hands, _Beanie and Cecil_ could be amazing. Not sure whose hands those might be, however. But start with Neil Patrick Harris as Beanie and go from there. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/18 "2014-01-18T17:03:03Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > There has been talk of a live action _Cowboy Bebop_ movie for years. I’d love to see that. Another vote for this. As for one I never want to see in live action: [Clutch Cargo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFnLirXjjto). > [@](#): > > Who needs drugs when there’s films like this? ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/19 "2014-01-18T18:03:24Z")
I’m still waiting on an actual _Avatar: The Last Airbender_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912/20 "2014-01-18T19:49:51Z")
What about a live-action _The Venture Bros._ movie? Yay or nay? You knew I’d bring that up, right? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-action-cartoons-i-want-to-see-never-want-to-see/678912.md?page=2)