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[strredwolf]

A recent post by glitchphil apparently triggered a comparision of porting animated TV to live action (any medium, TV or big screen movie).  As you know, some movies just don't make the jump very well.  If you've of long memories, well before the FCC had to make Saturday morning cartoons educational...

Here's the list of failed port jobs I know of:

• Scooby Doo.  The origional mysteries worked very well, and Cartoon Network's animated movies also work to this end.  But live action?  It turns into a watered-down B-Movie that doesn't deserve to be a B-Movie, maybe a C or D, and obviously shows that they spent 90% of it's movie budget on animating Scooby.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Animation was great.  Special appearance in Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo. But pull it into live action, and it bombs badly. (Tal, however, tells me that there's a 100% rendered TMNT movie comming out soon.)
• Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.  Actually, to my knowledge, there hasn't been an animated MMPR and spinoffs.  However, someone mixed the MMPR theme with an unrelated but strangely enough look-alike anime and it looked damn good!  I think it was inside AMV Hell, the Movie 3 (check Google Video).  I'm also finding alot of MMPR/spinoff fan artwork, including that of "Doggie Kruger," and "it just looks brilliant" (quote stolen from Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear). It just reinforces my belief that MMPR should of been animated first -- the amount of cheese put in those shows makes kids who watch it lactose intolerant.
  

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How about..

[nikkyvix.livejournal.com]

Garfield?

From all I've heard it didn't make anybody's top five...or ten. I tend not to trus movie critics, but they claim that Garfield, being the only character, yanks you out of immersion in the film rather often. Scooby-Doo did that for me. I can't really say yay or nay to Garfield, though, because I've never watched it, and I make it a point not to dump or praise a movie to others unless I've already seen it myself, with one extreme exception: Stealth. I won't submit my eyes to that sort of torment. Even the commercials beat them up.

What about the other way?

[kipakuta.livejournal.com]

Movies that get remade into cartoons?

I'll say Evolution, and The Mummy, for examples.