July 12, 2011
Howdy. I will try and… aw beans I don’t even know anymore. If I put something new here then it will be here.
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I think there should be a movie in which He Man, The Smurfs, Fat Albert, Garfield, The Thundercats and every other cartoon all-star to the rescue accidentally enter a magic portal to New York City at the same time. Also present are Underdog, the Ninja Turtles, George of the Jungle, Hercules, Curious George, Alf, Crocodile Dundee, Thor, Clifford the Big Ol’ Dog, King Kong, the Capital One vikings and I don’t know Squiddly Diddly who dwell in The City anyway. In fact I think that must be what happened because otherwise every legal resident would be used to weirdos running around “not understanding” how things work and causing comic mischief that their convenient, less interesting normal person friends who mysteriously get equal billing and screen time have to cover up and pay for, and would have long since exhausted their ability to be amused at this schtick. Likewise, I expect that when the The Avengers movie happens the crony hangers-on to the various heroes will travel around in a van solving mysteries together so that they don’t all get separate time-wasting scenes.
Congratulations. You found a way to deprive the word “trilogy” of the last of its reputation solidifying clout without putting the word “prequel” in front of it.
I’m GLAD a smurf movie has traveled forth at last to give challenge. Between this and the chipmunks it’s about time we were doing soulless corporate hip ‘n edgy remakes of stuff that was shoddy and insufferable to begin with.
PurpleSpace sez:
But the main question is: Will this be in 3D?
I think the little blue creatures already had a sufficient world for having adventures, in fact, I’m not really sure it was supposed to be a different world from our own, but simply taking place during that high fantasy era all the history books seem to leave out where magic existed and there wuz dragons an wizards an stuff.
What’s so special about New York anyway? There is traffic and pollution, and being one of the older US cities, not alot of original urban planning. But I’m sure it will not be any less “Zany” in this re-imagining!
PurpleSpace sez:
Oh wait, it is, well don’t I feel adequately moronic? The answer may surprise you.
Uvprimlurx sez:
“In 3D” is such a ubiquitous and unremarkable phrase that I can’t fault you for tuning it out. When I saw Thor I had neglected to observe that some showings were in 3D and some weren’t before I reached the ticket department. Thankfully I had arrived in time for a non-dim-blurryizer spectacles showing.
Movie creators don’t have enough creativity, or respect for their audiences, and they may be right in thinking this way, to expect anything to be paid attention to that isn’t in a contemporary urban setting. That’s why so many characters end up there for these lousy movies, I guess. It’s also easier to get cameo parts for Mountain Dew and Red Bull.
Although this was made by the at least one of the shrek cabal members so maybe they just felt they’d used all the easy jokes for that setting. Pointlessly altering a major aspect of the source material also let the advertising use taglines like “These ain’t your GRANDPA’S smurfs!” Of course not. If I’m to have any appreciation for my heritage it will need to have better taste than this.