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From more "minds" in Hollywood. :banghead:

 :doh:

Hide the children.

EC

This is definitely one cartoon that does NOT need a movie.

YESSSSSS!!!!!
I've been waiting for this ever since i saw the chipmunks movie,  and they were in East Germany (before the fall of the wall) and someone was like "Bring him ze Ax!"
it turned out to be a slammin guitar shaped like an axe.  Alvin totally wailed, and ummn  then they surfed or something.

the only part i'm leery on... when did the chipmunks become Run DMC?   We know they can't deny their roots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk_Punk

 :(

Heh it's only a matter of time untill:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/04

Jason Lee as David? Rapping chipmunks? :mjbdeadagain

-MJB

Just when you think they can't abuse our collective childhoods anymore than Buzz Bunny............

QuoteJust when you think they can't abuse our collective childhoods anymore than Buzz Bunny............

I honestly never ever considered the Chipmunks some kind of sacred cow to my childhood.
Im frankly surprised no one has done it before given the various ways the characters have been used in the past.

Its the freakin Chimpmunks...
Its like being upset that they are going to do a live action version of Shirttales or the Monchichi's
Yes, the happy smiling monchichis! :)

 :mellow:

I'm actually surprised it took this long. With the steadily lowering cost of producing 3D animation, I think movie studios mining recognizable cartoon properties for reinterpretation is a trend that we'll be seeing for a while (let's see, there's Garfield, Transformers, TMNT... and I guess you can also count all those straight-to-DVD Barbie features they crank out every few months).

Personally, I'm waiting for a modern take on the Smurfs... it's just a perfect platform for heavy-handed satire and parody: you can have ball-busting feminist Smurfette, Metrosexual Smurf, MMORPG-obsessed Smurf, Democrat Smurf, Republican Smurf, goth-and-every-other-music/fashion-trend Smurf, creepy old man Smurf, stoner Smurf, MC Smurf, otaku Smurf, hotel heiress Smurfette... 

QuotePersonally, I'm waiting for a modern take on the Smurfs... it's just a perfect platform for heavy-handed satire and parody: you can have ball-busting feminist Smurfette, Metrosexual Smurf, MMORPG-obsessed Smurf, Democrat Smurf, Republican Smurf, goth-and-every-other-music/fashion-trend Smurf, creepy old man Smurf, stoner Smurf, MC Smurf, otaku Smurf, hotel heiress Smurfette...

NOOOOOO!!!!

Quote from: Glitch Girl on July 05, 2007, 06:29:58 AM
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From more "minds" in Hollywood. :banghead:

NOOOOOO!!!!

 :o Why?! :o  I wonder if the chipettes will be in the movie?

for those who don't know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipettes

About the smurfs: http://imdb.com/title/tt0472181/

Quote from: Sword on July 05, 2007, 06:50:14 PM
About the smurfs: http://imdb.com/title/tt0472181/

Noooooooooooooooo!

Oooooooooooooooon!

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taH eht ni tarP dna tsiyrubnuB motnahP

Quote from: JeyNyce on July 05, 2007, 06:44:37 PM
:o Why?! :o  I wonder if the chipettes will be in the movie?

Somehow, after seeing that movie poster, I get the mental image of the Chippettes in a Rap video...

The image ain't pretty.

Seriously though, my big gripe about this is why bother?  Is Hollywood so devoid of ideas that they have to dredge up EVERYTHING that's been done before and make it "hip" and "edgy"?

Don't answer that.

The Chipmunks don't even look cute.  As for the smurfs I can't find the words to comment.

Please take note of my extreme lack of surprise.

Quote from: Glitch Girl on July 05, 2007, 07:54:31 PM
Seriously though, my big gripe about this is why bother?  Is Hollywood so devoid of ideas that they have to dredge up EVERYTHING that's been done before and make it "hip" and "edgy"?

Don't answer that.

So....what you seem to be asking for is capitalism with a conscience, eh?  You might as well ask the scorpion not to sting the frog (cf., e.g., The Crying Game).

I suppose I am feeling more modernist than postmodernist today.  *shrug*

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

Like I said, don't answer that.  Just me venting in rhetorical questions.  ;)

The problem is that executives always get the idea "if this works, then if we make more of a similar thing, that will work too."  I mean look at the HUGE number of serial TV shows that came out last year.  You had to keep dodging them as they crashed out of the sky.  Now this year, it looks like sci-fi and fantasy shows are what everyone is going to do.  Now that might actually work better, since there are very few of those (sci-fi especially) on broadcast television, but still, there are many, MANY more examples of why doing it this way is often a bad idea.

Quote from: Glitch Girl on July 06, 2007, 06:52:47 AM
Like I said, don't answer that.  Just me venting in rhetorical questions.  ;)

So....you're asking us not to take you seriously?  Do you realise what that would do to the forum statistics, not to mention your credibility as a sensible forum member? :P

I mean to say that you have your finger on the pulse of today's American corporate mentality (as does catwhowalksbyhimself).  Picture this: Smurfette signing some release so that her image could be used willy-nilly, in whatever Photoshopped fashion the agency pleases... :o

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

Just think about this now.....There were 2 Garfield movies, I'm surprise that no one made a Heathcliff/ Marmaduke movie. 

OK not to go totally off topic here, but the marmaduke cartoon reminded me of this...

What was the character that was like an ugly dog with a doghouse on his head, and when he removed it it caused people to totally freak out cause he was so hideous? I think he was a sidekick who fought crime... and I think he rode in a sidecar... I dont know why that just popped in my head.

People here at work have a vague recollection of it but cant place it.

Yukk, sidekick to Mighty Man, the miniature superhero.  They were part of the Plastic Man show back in the late70's/early 80's (don't remember the exact date, but I remember watching it)

OMG thats it.

I now just want to have a complete 80's cartoon day where I could "sample" all these old shows that exist in the fringe of my brain. The probelm is that they would all be sooo bad it would taint this rose colored image I have of them all... Well except maybe Laff-O-Lympics. How could anyone not claim that was awsome. Hanna Barbera meets battle of the network stars....Pure gold!

just throwing this out here, originally the chipmunks were a parody of the music style of the 50's, and as they changed with the times so did there appearance and the "twist" on the music, look at the toon its all bad 80's pop songs

so i'm not saying its going to work there is a 99% chance it wont but if its played tonge in cheek

Quotethe chipmunks were a parody of the music style of the 50's

Not quite true.  Originally, the chipmunks WERE the music of the 50's.  The original music album was in 1958.

Now if you meant that it was a parody of music at the time, which happened to be the 50's, then you are correct, in that case.  If that's what you meant, then sorry.

Next thing you know they'll be doing a Super Mario Bros. movie...

Wait? What? They did? Oh.

What? It sucked? Oh.

Wait a second...do these guys not LEARN? :P

Quote from: Sevenforce on July 06, 2007, 03:26:43 PM
Next thing you know they'll be doing a Super Mario Bros. movie...

Wait? What? They did? Oh.

What? It sucked? Oh.

Wait a second...do these guys not LEARN? :P

Ya know, that last question *so* doesn't need an answer.  <_<