The OP makes no sense. How can anything be more crappy than a Hanna-Barbera cartoon? Those things were an affront to animation.
I’ve been watching a lot of cartoons lately with my 5-year-old, and it seems pretty clear to me. American cartoons made before 1957 (WB, MGM and Disney): terrific. American cartoons made after 1990 or so: some are pretty good. American cartoons made bewteen 1957 and 1980 (mostly Hanna-Barbera): utter garbage.* Watching the deterioration of Tom & Jerry in particular is depressing; it’s like seeing a beloved family member disappear into Alzheimer’s.
No American cartoons were made between 1980 and 1990, only half-hour toy commercials.
The light source is all over the place. Look at the shadow casted off Yogi’s nose. Now look at the shadow coming off the bottom right pic-i-nic basket. It’s at a completely different angle. Meanwhile Yogi’s body looks like it’s being lit from above whereas his knee is being lit from the righthand side. Meanwhile Boo-Boo’s body seems to be lit from the left.
So, yeah. Apparently they’re on the planet of Asimov’s Nightfall.
Eh, it sounds like it’s made for kids, and kids will probably enjoy it.
What’s the big deal? It’s not like nobody’s ever made an unoriginal, uninspired movie before this.
Yogi Bear was popular when I was a kid. People my age are having kids now and adding a bit of nostalgia makes it more likely that we will take our kids to see that movie over something we’ve never heard of before. If Yogi bothers you I have to warn you to avoid movie previews until after the 3D Smurfs movie comes out in a couple of months. We freaking loved the Smurfs as little kids so of course they are making a movie with them.
Now that’s a movie I’d watch: the inhabitants of Jellystone Park degenerating into madness, rampaging, setting everything on fire — anything to fend off the awful, awful darkness in the only night they have ever known.
Because someone rightly said “hey, we can make this for maybe $50 million and then make $125 million at the box office before we even get to DVD”? So the first one got made.
Then someone rightly said “hey, we can do it again and make anorther $140 million.” So the second one got made.
Yes, better that they only know Garfield from a lame ass comic strip and motivational classroom posters.
The key to remember is that most of the kids pop culture stuff we consumed was crap as well and we were idiots for liking it. And not wanting to admit we were idiots we now wrap it up in a shroud of nostalgia and lament how all the kids stuff today is crap and kids are idiots for liking it.
I suspect a Yogi Bear movie will be awful, but it might not be. I doubt the people behind it are intentionally setting out to create a bad movie and while the odds are against them, more power to them if they succeed in making something good.
The really sad part is that Hanna and Barbera were actually responsible for most of the really great Tom and Jerry cartoons before the 1950s. Declining budgets and TV forced them to simplify the drawings and backgrounds, use limited walk cycles and Xerox the living shit out of stuff.
I feel so sorry for them. They weren’t hacks by nature, they were genuine artists forced to become hacks, like how the over-praised Chuck Jones turned out some equally awful animation in the 1960s.
Thing is, what’s the market for this movie? Kids today don’t know who the fuck Yogi Bear is, and they’re lucky not to.
The real market is parents who watched Yogi Bear when they were kids, buying the DVD for their kids. Except, of course, Yogi Bear sucked at the time, and this movie will suck extra hard. But it’s got an premarketed character. A craptastic movie about some random newly invented animated muskrat would have to fight hard to even get on the radar screen. A craptastic movie featuring some half-forgotten crappy cartoon character from the 60s/70s at least has some name recognition, plus you can piggyback sales of the craptastic back catalog onto the marketing for the new movie.
It’s not like there was going to be a decent animated muskrat movie, but instead we got this pile of crap. The animated muskrat movie would have been crap too.
First it was the Flintstones, then Garfield, then Alvin and the Chipmunks, then Speedracer and now there is Smurfs and Yogi Bear so that means it can’t be too much longer before we get a Snorks movie and that makes me happy.
Don’t forget He-Man (Masters of the Universe), Transformers (Transformers: The Movie), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles leading the way for crappy cartoon-to-movie adaptations. And each of them I loved since I was still an idiot kid when they came out.
At least the Flintstones was live action and 2-d. Why do we have to have every cartoon movie these days CGI with live action. Why can’t we have an entire animated Yogi Bear movie. Or live action with real bears.