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Topic: Yogi Bear (2010) + Rabid Rider (cartoon)
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Mike Blakesley
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Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-31-2011 01:01 PM
This was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I watched it at the behest of my wife, who was far more interested than I was...and wound up having a good time. It has some good word-play, the female love-interest is EZ on the eyes, the scenery is pretty (filmed in New Zealand) and Aykroyd does a pretty good job of approximating Yogi's voice.
I was actually pretty impressed with Aykroyd and Timberlake both. Especially Aykroyd -- I expected to spend the whole movie thinking "Wow, this is a bad impersonation of Yogi Bear by Dan Aykroyd" but that didn't happen. He really inhabited the character, which is pretty surprising considering Aykroyd's got such a distinctive voice.
The dumbest part of the movie was the whole fireworks display scene. This is an indication the movie was made by big-city types and not real fans of the outdoors. Did they actually do ANY research about national parks and such? No forest of any description would allow that kind of stuff within 50 miles.
However, overall I give the movie a solid "not too bad." Which is pretty amazing because I was all set to give this a "really sucks."
I can't say the same for the Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoon which precedes the main event. While it has a couple of good gags, it has a lot of problems:
1. It's too short. A classic RR cartoon would feature about 11 gags. This one has what, three or four? You're just getting into it and it's over. This is probably due to #6 below.
2. The overall look and feel of it is just wrong, all the way from the colors to the pacing. They should have used hand animation; these characters just don't look right in CG.
3. The Road Runner doesn't go "Beep beep" nearly often enough...he's just standing there or running past, most of the time. And when he does "beep beep," it's too soft in the mix.
4. The ending is bad, because the Road Runner normally never does anything TO the coyote -- Wile E. brings most of his problems on himself.
5. It's missing the faux-Latin freeze-frame species identifications for the critters. (Yes, I realize not all of the classic RR cartoons had them.).
6. There are no explosions. No TNT, no Wile E. trying to blow a fuse out when a stick of dynamite is accidentally tied to his face, etc. In fact, nothing falls on Wile E. either. (No wonder it's too short, the powers that be probably crossed out most of the filmmakers' ideas as being "too violent.")
7. The music wasn't so good. I realize there is only one Carl Stalling and one Milt Franklyn, but the music on this toon just sounds too generic. Bring back the "brassy" WB music sound...that's part of what makes a Looney Tune looney.
Having said all that, I will still say that (like the main feature) it was better than I expected.
Main feature: 2.5 stars out of 5
Cartoon: 2.25 stars out of 5
NOTE: I can't comment on the 3D effects because we played it in 2D. I was worried we might get some complaints about that, but out of about 300 people who came to see it over the weekend, only two asked if the show was in 3D.
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