Adaptation movies along the lines of...(what do you expect?)

[marukisu]

...

 

[Episode29]

 

[Space Moose]

Ok i was recently flipping through tv and saw the Live action adaptation of Scooby Doo the movie and i can honestly say i found it enjoyable. However it is widely considered a bad movie. Adaptations of old cartoons get alot of slack and are often dismissed by critics. This got me to thinking about other movies like this such as Garfield, Alvin and The Chipmunks, Scooby Doo, Garfield, Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Flinstones, and Josie and the Pussycats are old cartoons that most people grew up on and the most common complaint is that it isnt faithful to the source material. I felt Scooby was very faithful on a few levels and i enjoyed it. For people who didnt like movies of this nature could you please go in depth and give an explination as to why it is SOOOO!!! bad and what would have been a good alternative in terms of a plot(im more specifically intrested in your answers for Scooby Doo)

Garfield and Josie and the Pussycats are originally comic books.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Ok i was recently flipping through tv and saw the Live action adaptation of Scooby Doo the movie and i can honestly say i found it enjoyable. However it is widely considered a bad movie. Adaptations of old cartoons get alot of slack and are often dismissed by critics. This got me to thinking about other movies like this such as Garfield, Alvin and The Chipmunks, Scooby Doo, Garfield, Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Flinstones, and Josie and the Pussycats are old cartoons that most people grew up on and the most common complaint is that it isnt faithful to the source material. I felt Scooby was very faithful on a few levels and i enjoyed it. For people who didnt like movies of this nature could you please go in depth and give an explination as to why it is SOOOO!!! bad and what would have been a good alternative in terms of a plot(im more specifically intrested in your answers for Scooby Doo)

The problem is not the plot, it's the style. The style is all wrong. Like The Flintstones movies, Scooby Doo and the sequel are live-action films trying so hard to be cartoons, that it becomes counter productive and non-sensical. Why not just make a cartoon?

If you're doing Scooby Doo in live-action, you're doing to for a reason, so take advantage of that medium. Sarah Michelle Geller and a CGI Scooby are not reason enough.

Scooby Doo could have been a great, hugely fun family adventure with a little bit of horror. But the filmakers didn't think of that, or trying to make the film work on more than one level (the bloody dog can't talk, the gang only think he can as they've smoked so much), or even homage classic horror movies (even Van Helsing managed that). It's so superficial and surface that it's horrible.

 

[marukisu]

...

 

[Apollo]

what movie is that "head blowing up" from?

 

[Space Moose]

what movie is that "head blowing up" from?

Scanners.

 

[bullets]

I also enjoyed Scooby Doo but never bothered with the sequel. It wasn't what I thought was the best interpretation but I had to settle for what they gave us.