Has any live-action adaptation of a cartoon ever been good? The promos I have seen for “Scooby Doo” have convinced me-- not that I needed to be persuaded-- to hold onto my $8.00 for something more worthwhile (I wouldn’t even pay $5.50 for the matinee showings).
I agree that the Scooby CGI was so awful it was silly. Are we still expected to be impressed by it? Producers need to lay off the gratuitous special effects.
I have no interest in seeing it, but I must admit I smile at the delivery of the line in the commercial (I guess she’s drunk) “You name means Scooby Poop”
I haven’t seen the movie, but I thought it would’ve been much cooler if Scooby Doo had been a 2D animated cartoon interacting with the live-action folks (like Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Anything is better than that ratty-looking CGI monstrosity.
[hijack]All these poor renditions of fun things from my youth are making me depressed. What’s next? An insulting live-action Transformers? Oh wait, they already gave that the CGI treatment. [sigh] Nothing is sacred…[/hijack]
Well, the first Flintstones movie was kind of good.
Please, Ranchoth…spell it out for me. What’s that rumor about Velma? Is it anything like that Power Ranger girl who was in “Not Another Teen Movie?” I like it when kiddie show actresses get naked.
According to various reports, a scene in which she and Daphne were possesed by a demon which makes people lock lips was removed from the film.
The demon has turned down various interviewers, but has been heard commenting, “I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that meddling cutting room floor!”
(Okay, so paragraph 2 I made up. Paragraph 1 is real.)
Even my 4-year old thinks it’ll be dumb. As for me, it jumped the shark on the very first commercial. Then I saw a trailer where apparantly Daphne is some kinda martial arts whiz, doing Hidden Dragon/Charlie’s Angels moves. That sealed it’s fate, as far as I’m concerned. When it comes out on TBS, I’ll watch it.
NOT.
Hey, even the serious Scooby fans at jumpedtheshark.com agreed Scrappy was the show’s downfall. He got 252 votes, and the next highest got 19. THAT’S consensus.
Damn Scrappy. He was just too much of a know it all. The joy of Scooby Doo was their continuous screw ups until they accidently stumbled upon the answer. None of this damn “puppy power” crap.
Is the supernatural menace in the Scooby movie real or fake? Lately, the new Scooby cartoons have been about real ghosts, real vampires, real aliens – whereas the old shows always, always revealed a guy with a mask.
So does the movie inherit the old cartoon’s skeptical fantasy, or does it chuck that into the trash?