DreamWorks' Answer to Flintstones?

[D'Snowth]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481499/

On a side note, isn't Chris Sanders the guy who originally developed the idea of Lilo and Stitch?

 

[Drtooth]

The Croods was originally a film called "Crood Awakening" and it was supposed to be an Aardman Animation co-production with Dreamworks before Aardman just up and left. And it was originally written by John Cleese. It's a shame we'll never see his movie. It would have been much better.

I'd say, if anything, this is their answer to Ice Age with an all cave person cast instead of prehistoric animals. Saw the preview and it just didn't leave an impression on me.

 

[D'Snowth]

I'd say, if anything, this is their answer to Ice Age with an all cave person cast instead of prehistoric animals.

So, if I may: your theory is that DreamWorks is trying to give us an answer to Blue Sky's answer to DWs' creation... in other words...

Shrek = DreamWorks
Ice Age = Blue Sky's answer to Shrek
The Croods = DreamWorks' answer to Ice Age = Blue Sky's answer to Shrek = DreamWorks

My brain hurts.

 

[snichols1973]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481499/

On a side note, isn't Chris Sanders the guy who originally developed the idea of Lilo and Stitch?

Yes, he not only developed the L&S movies and TV series (his only involvement with the anime series involved a number of scripts), he was also the voice of Stitch / Experiment 626; in addition, he worked on Muppet Babies as a character / model designer, and co-directed DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon, as well as creating the Dragons: Riders of Berk TV spin-off.

It could be worse if Seth MacFarlane were to succeed in reviving The Flintstones for primetime Fox; I just couldn't bear to think of what would happen if the Flintstones revival turned out to be more like a stone-age version of Family Guy....

 

[jvcarroll]

Croods looks like another CG film where they forgot to add the jokes. It's a beautiful trailer. I'm just not compelled to see it.

 

[Drtooth]

It could be worse if Seth MacFarlane were to succeed in reviving The Flintstones for primetime Fox; I just couldn't bear to think of what would happen if the Flintstones revival turned out to be more like a stone-age version of Family Guy....

I'm sorry, but Hanna Barbera already ruined the Flintstones in the 70's with the Pebbles and Bam-Bam show. And worse... the Flintstones Comedy show which managed to rope one of the greatest super heroes of all time into it and make one of the worst cartoon of all time out of him. I'm talking "Fred and Barney Meet the Thing." For those who don't know, Ben Grimm is a teenager with friends pulled straight out of Fat Albert and turned white who can turn into a Happy version of The Thing at will. Thus tearing away what made the character so special.

Also, Cave Kids was crap. Thank frog it didn't last too long.

Still, The Flintstones is a dream project for Seth. The thing that's really stopping him is Fox just about forcing him to focus on Family Guy, even though he does want it to end.

Croods looks like another CG film where they forgot to add the jokes. It's a beautiful trailer. I'm just not compelled to see it.

It seems to have little more than a heavy handed moral about following dreams or something. The Muppets practically own that Aesop for one thing. It seems like yet another daughter/daddy plot, and there's nothing very ambitious about the story so far. For a film about not being afraid to explore, it sticks to cliches in an almost frightened manner, thus being hypocritical. I'm sure the other trailers will show that this movie is more than just lush 3-D background porn, but so far, I wish this was the stop motion film written by Cleese that it was supposed to be.

Still, the plot line of Turbo is absolutely idiotic. It's Bug's Life Meets Cars with less substance.

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Still, the plot line of Turbo is absolutely idiotic. It's Bug's Life Meets Cars with less substance.

Not to mention the poster looks like it's from some DTV ripoff...of...something.



And some people are saying Dreamworks is going to eclipse Pixar. I don't see that happening just yet.

 

[charlietheowl]

Is that the real poster? It looks AWFUL, especially the date just tossed into the corner like that. They better put something better out if they want people to get behind the movie.

 

[Drtooth]

And some people are saying Dreamworks is going to eclipse Pixar. I don't see that happening just yet.

The sad thing is, they were very close to, and their movies were getting better. Just the 2013 outlook has a meh Caveman movie, a lame celebrity overload bug movie, and Peabody and Sherman... and the latter has the most promise! That was pretty much the case last year, though, with Pixar having Cars 2, but Dreamworks's Kung Fu Panda 2 (which had a deeper, darker storyline than the first) and the shockingly amazing Puss in Boots. I hear more and more positive things about their films since Over the Hedge. Even this year had the best Madagascar (at least, since the first) and the quite brilliant Rise of the Guardians. Turbo just sounds like something terrible they would have done after Shark Tale.

2014, Dreamworks is working on a movie called "Me and my Shadow" which blends CGI with traditional style animation. That seems to completely eclipse any idea they have next year.

 

[robodog]

That Turbo poster makes it look like Dreamworks is going back to it's crappy Shark Tale roots. It's hard to believe the company that produced great films like Shrek, Monsters Vs Aliens and How To Train Your Dragon can also produce crap like this Turbo nonsense.