Hoodwinked Too
Paul S. Person
watching in the local theaters, I rented /Hoodwinked Too/ from RedBox.
Now, it must be understood that this is a sequel, and that all sequels
are attacked by reviewers. Those that preserve the structure of the
original are panned for doing nothing new. Those that do something new
are panned for not preserving the structure of the original. They
can't win.
From a literalist perspective /Hoodwinked Too/ does new things; no
multiple stories here! But from another perspective, it merely works
with a different set of movies than the first did.
I liked it. I liked the references to other films. I liked the action
sequences. The character development sequences worked too.
So, if you haven't seen it, you liked the original, and you have seen
a lot of movies, you should enjoy it. And, judging from the reviews,
your kids should enjoy it too, even if they don't get the references
to other films.
--
"'If God foreknew that this would happen,
it will happen.'"
Your Name
<pspe...@ix.netscom.com.invalid> wrote:
> The Film Industry having failed, again, to provide anything worth
> watching in the local theaters <snip>
Come on now, The Smurfs is playing in America. ;-)
For some moronic reason The Smurfs movie has actually been listed in the
Box Office top 10 for far too long, which no doubt means, as usual, that
unrecognisable Hollyweird-ised "reboot" mess will now take over from the
original animated TV show (which actually took over from the original
comic strips) and the real Smurfs will be lost to history. :-(
Warewolf
203-118-184-212.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz:
Would you prefer that they (or some twisted spoof) used drugs, drank
alcohol and ran amuck in the forest and surrounding area leaving
destruction and dead bodies in their wake?
While I was watching the original series, there was a *lot* of things that
I hated - the hit-and-miss stories (a fat fairy turning people into mice
because she's grouchy? Really?), the annoying secondary characters (Dane
Barbara and Hoggatha, in particular), the oh-so-creative character
additions (Smurflings? Seriously?)... In the end, the final season's
'time travel' gimmick killed it and I'm sure I'm not the only one who
cheered inside. 9_9
At a time when religious, corporate and political douchebags are making
things worse for the average citizen, scenes of the aforementioned
annoyances getting punished/massacred in the most brutal ways possible
would be a welcome distraction (if not a healthy dose of wish fulfillment).
Let that overworked princess named Sabina slit her abusive tutor's throat.
Let Gargamel destroy a certain big-mouthed ogre with a suitably effective
trap.
In other words, let the punching bags of the show get some much-needed and
long-overdue revenge.
With any amount of luck, other (fans-turned-)directors will follow suit and
characters like Reg Roach (of Robo-Roach fame) and Bill the Caveman (from
Terrible Thunderlizards) will get the animated justice they deserve.
Or was all that done via Robot Chicken?
Change your approach, you Hollywood hacks - series like Daria and the
Dating Guy won't beautify the television wasteland forever (particularly if
the executives have been keeping their mower blades sharp). (O_O)
Signed,
Warewolf
who wonders if a pair of disembodied lips would make for a good detective
series *shrug*
Your Name
<warewol...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> your...@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote in news:yourname-2308110910150001@
> 203-118-184-212.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz:
>
> > In article <4i1557hi5j7aah3q5...@4ax.com>, Paul S. Person
> > <pspe...@ix.netscom.com.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> The Film Industry having failed, again, to provide anything worth
> >> watching in the local theaters <snip>
> >
> > Come on now, The Smurfs is playing in America. ;-)
> >
> > For some moronic reason The Smurfs movie has actually been listed in the
> > Box Office top 10 for far too long, which no doubt means, as usual, that
> > unrecognisable Hollyweird-ised "reboot" mess will now take over from the
> > original animated TV show (which actually took over from the original
> > comic strips) and the real Smurfs will be lost to history. :-(
>
> Would you prefer that they (or some twisted spoof) used drugs, drank
> alcohol and ran amuck in the forest and surrounding area leaving
> destruction and dead bodies in their wake?
They may as well have - what they've made is about as close to the
original as your idea. :-(
> While I was watching the original series, there was a *lot* of things that
> I hated - the hit-and-miss stories (a fat fairy turning people into mice
> because she's grouchy? Really?), the annoying secondary characters (Dane
> Barbara and Hoggatha, in particular), the oh-so-creative character
> additions (Smurflings? Seriously?)... In the end, the final season's
> 'time travel' gimmick killed it and I'm sure I'm not the only one who
> cheered inside.
Yes, towards the end things started going downhill faster, but that
happens with almost every show because the writers run out of sensible
ideas ... often that signals a "jump the shark" moment, quickly followed
by cancellation.
Another pain in the sit-upon is that they've been releasing Smurfs DVDs,
but they've been "collections" of mixed episodes ... NOW (no doubt thanks
to the movie) they've decided to release proper Season DVD sets, which
means those of us who bought the older version got screwed and will have
to buy them again to get all the episodes. :-(
Paul S. Person
wrote:
>In article <4i1557hi5j7aah3q5...@4ax.com>, Paul S. Person
><pspe...@ix.netscom.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> The Film Industry having failed, again, to provide anything worth
>> watching in the local theaters <snip>
>
>Come on now, The Smurfs is playing in America. ;-)
They may be playing in America, but they aren't playing locally.
What is /most/ irritating is that the reviews on Ebert and the notes
on Rotten Tomatoes show that interesting films are being released,
they just aren't playing here. Yet. Or ever. As the case may be.
I'm not entirely sure why I am in this position. A year ago, I would
have gone and seen the most acceptable film I could find, regardless
of reviews or my reaction to the trailer. I don't think that it is
that ticket prices rose another notch a while back; $8 isn't that much
for a movie in a real theater (or even in a theater in a 10-plex).
Perhaps it's the knowledge that, if I /really/ want to check out /Rise
of the Planet of the Apes/ (I found the original pointless, and see no
reason to believe that the remake is any less pointless), /Fright
Night/ (I never say the original, but it looks like the standard
"teenagers vs vampire" film), or /Conan the Barbarian/ (I didn't like
the original at all and see no reason to believe the remake will be
any better) I just have to wait until they come out on DVD and rent
them from RedBox -- at substantially less cost.
A year ago I would have seen each of those films as a matter of
routine. Perhaps I have just seen too many clearly substandard films
over the last few years.
I am glad to see that this group still has some members other than
myself. It was looking pretty dead. But I don't see any comments on
/Hoodwinked Too/. Am I the only one who has seen it?
Your Name
<pspe...@ix.netscom.com.invalid> wrote:
Or maybe you're simply growing up and getting past that silly young
person's phase of "that's what we do on Friday nights" ... something I've
always said was rather idiotic as well as over-inflates box office sales
causing more of the same rubbish to be made (either as clones or sequels).
> I am glad to see that this group still has some members other than
> myself. It was looking pretty dead. But I don't see any comments on
> /Hoodwinked Too/. Am I the only one who has seen it?
I haven't seen it. I did see (most of) the first movie on TV a while back.
It was OK, but I'm not sure it was worth making a sequel.