Onion calls that one right...

[acroyear]

'Yogi Bear' Movie Introduces Boring Cartoon Character To New Generation | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

Executives at Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. announced today that the upcoming 3-D live-action/CGI film Yogi Bear will introduce a whole new generation to a dull, culturally irrelevant cartoon character. "Finally, today's children will have the chance to be completely uninspired by the same inane and repetitive gags that failed to capture their parents' imagination," Warner Bros. spokesperson Ian Daley said of the cartoon bear, whose trademark defining feature is that he wears a hat.

It's a reason CN first ran so many 60s H-B cartoons when they first started up so many years ago: they were cheap because they weren't terribly good.

I note that even when they emphasized Yogi by name on Laugh-a-lympics (H-B's best production ever), Yogi himself rarely actually was involved in any of the games...

Comments

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

Except that CN has a whole network dedicated to those cartoons now.

I think there should be a moritorium on making bad movies out of H-B cartoons. I think we have more than met the quota.

[motherwell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Yogi Bear NEVER interested me. Making a big-budget 3D remake of that antique just shows how cowardly and unimaginative today's movie industry is. I guess Foghorn Leghorn is next.

I hope this movie totally tanks.