Monday, July 12, 2010

Oi! Thought you'd slip past me did you?

Thats right lovers of all things random something has attempted to slip past you, another favorite of your childhood is going for a dip in the Live Action / CG pool but is hoping you don't notice. So who is up to the plate this time? Not another Alvin and the Chipmunks we hope... Thunder Cats? No... Casper? No but it is Hannah Barbera... Snaggle Puss? Pretty close.

Yogi bear is coming to your theatres December 17, 2010. No trailer has been released as of yet, which I do find strange considering most films of this kiddy nature choose to build the hype early in  favour of a slow burn. Regardless there is a plot out:

 Everyone's favorite pic-a-nic basket-stealing bear comes to the big screen in "Yogi Bear." Jellystone   Park has been losing business, so greedy Mayor Brown decides to shut it down and sell the land. That means families will no longer be able to experience the natural beauty of the outdoors -- and, even worse, Yogi and Boo Boo will be tossed out of the only home they've ever known. Faced with his biggest challenge ever, Yogi must prove that he really is "smarter than the average bear" as he and Boo Boo join forces with their old nemesis Ranger Smith to find a way to save Jellystone Park from closing forever.

I am so sick and tired of these films coming in and trampling all over my childhood. A movie like this can only go two ways 1. They come up with a clever way of attracting business while they do some Furry Vengence style shananigans to the Mayor fellow or 2. hey do some Furry Vengence style shananigans to the Mayor fellow. Both fill me with a cold fear, but their is something else that could just ruin it more and that lies within the casting, Tom Cavanagh has been cast as Ranger Smith (meh it seems like the NPH casting in Smurfs, someone who has a good fan following), Anna Faris will play a nature documenter (this is the arbitrary love interest that all films seem to need to shoe horn in... not happy but I know I won't win this fight), Dan Akaroyd has been cast as the voice and motion capture actor of Yogi (Not too bad), and Justin Bloody Timberlake will voice/motion capture BooBoo (Que steam from ears).



As soon as I find a trailer it will go up. But don't let this movie just fly under the radar people force it to the surface for what it is.

Question: Who would you cast in this film for Yogi, BooBoo and Ranger Smith?

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