What are you doing, Dreamworks?
What, what, what are you doing?
Forgive me if this has been brought up already, it was actually announced back in October but I've only become aware of it recently. Guess what Dreamworks Animation bought the rights to make into a movie
Yup.
Now, don't get me wrong, I've loved Captain Underpants since I was a kid. I'm just baffled at the thought that this might someday be the new DWA movie. I mean, this was the book series that featured an army of talking robot toilets that ate people. This was the bathroom humor in Rugrats times six. How do you make a 90 minute movie out of that? I know, they're obviously gonna change it when they adapt it (ie. How to Train Your Dragon) it just seems odd to me because lately they seem to be just as concerned with telling a good story as they are with being funny and while this series might have some joke potential there isn't much story potential imho, at least not for something over an hour long.
I also have to wonder what the hell this is gonna end up looking like. You know they're gonna use CGI, and they've tended to stick towards a more photo-realistic style but Captain Underpants was drawn and written like something a 4th grade kid would write. I don't think I've encountered anything that more genuinely felt like something a kid would come up with besides Axe Cop and that actually was written by a little boy. This would have potential as an animated webseries or maybe even a Nickelodeon show (they need all the cartoons they can get IMO). But a movie?
Now, despite all the qualms I might have with this, I do kinda get how this might fit into the rest of DWA canon. Captain Underpants has always championed creativity and individuality in it's characters, which DW has been about since Antz. And the superhero character himself was always pretty damned useless, it was always up to the two troublemaking kids to do the right thing and take responsibility for what was going on. Heroes that don't fit to society well and have few heroic qualities but still are compelled to do the right thing... that's a good chunk of DWA movies in a nutshell.
I guess I can see the two main characters working okay, and it would be nice to see a Hollywood movie that doesn't portray kids as either angles or unintentional annoyances. It's everything else that has me baffled.
Anyway, this rant's gone on long enough. This is where I got the news if anyone's curious.
And yes, I tagged this both as dreamworks being awesome and dreamworks not being awesome, I am that confused as to how I feel about this...
Thoughts???
Forgive me if this has been brought up already, it was actually announced back in October but I've only become aware of it recently. Guess what Dreamworks Animation bought the rights to make into a movie
Yup.
Now, don't get me wrong, I've loved Captain Underpants since I was a kid. I'm just baffled at the thought that this might someday be the new DWA movie. I mean, this was the book series that featured an army of talking robot toilets that ate people. This was the bathroom humor in Rugrats times six. How do you make a 90 minute movie out of that? I know, they're obviously gonna change it when they adapt it (ie. How to Train Your Dragon) it just seems odd to me because lately they seem to be just as concerned with telling a good story as they are with being funny and while this series might have some joke potential there isn't much story potential imho, at least not for something over an hour long.
I also have to wonder what the hell this is gonna end up looking like. You know they're gonna use CGI, and they've tended to stick towards a more photo-realistic style but Captain Underpants was drawn and written like something a 4th grade kid would write. I don't think I've encountered anything that more genuinely felt like something a kid would come up with besides Axe Cop and that actually was written by a little boy. This would have potential as an animated webseries or maybe even a Nickelodeon show (they need all the cartoons they can get IMO). But a movie?
Now, despite all the qualms I might have with this, I do kinda get how this might fit into the rest of DWA canon. Captain Underpants has always championed creativity and individuality in it's characters, which DW has been about since Antz. And the superhero character himself was always pretty damned useless, it was always up to the two troublemaking kids to do the right thing and take responsibility for what was going on. Heroes that don't fit to society well and have few heroic qualities but still are compelled to do the right thing... that's a good chunk of DWA movies in a nutshell.
I guess I can see the two main characters working okay, and it would be nice to see a Hollywood movie that doesn't portray kids as either angles or unintentional annoyances. It's everything else that has me baffled.
Anyway, this rant's gone on long enough. This is where I got the news if anyone's curious.
And yes, I tagged this both as dreamworks being awesome and dreamworks not being awesome, I am that confused as to how I feel about this...
Thoughts???