Me And My Shadow Yanked From The 2014 Shedule For Mr. Peabody And Sherman

[D'Snowth]

I'm sorry, but could somebody please answer my question and explain to me what this Me and My Shadow is supposed to be? This is the first I've ever heard of it.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I'm sorry, but could somebody please answer my question and explain to me what this Me and My Shadow is supposed to be? This is the first I've ever heard of it.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/dreamworks-animations-me-and-my-shadow-gets-great-first-poster/

I dunno, first link with information that came up

 

[D'Snowth]

Hmm. Reminds me of the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode where that cruel old rich dude died, and his shadow escaped.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

See, my first thought was Danny Phantom with Johnny 13's shadow. But you can also make the case it's similar to Facilier's shadow in the Frog Princess...

 

[D'Snowth]

Not such an original premise after all then, eh?

Matter of fact, there's a POEM about that from looooong ago.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

To be absolutely honest, I don't see what's so amazing about the concept. A shadow wants to go on an adventure because its owner is boring. Whoopdedoo

 

[Drtooth]

To be honest, I'm looking forward more to the Peabody movie. Being a fan of J. Ward's productions, I'm interested in seeing how this new movie will do in emulating the art style and writing of the original 50-year-old cartoons while trying to make it fresh and new. And to see how they can somehow stretch a 5 minute cartoon series to an hour-and-a-half long movie.

This movie has promise. If nothing else, it's ALL CGI, Peabody looks more or less like his own character (Sherman, however...). It's not going to be a miscast CGI/Live action hybrid. We've had too many of those, and the live action actors usually suck because they desperately don't want to be there (The Chipmunks/Yogi Bear... surprisingly not the Smurfs). Rocky and Bullwinkle could have been a better movie no doubt. The studio just about forced a female lead that just was there. Both George of the Jungle films, despite playing around with the concept, were shockingly the most humor accurate of the group. Dudley Do-Right was a complete misfire. Only Alfred Molina and whoever the heck played Inspector Fenwick knew what they were supposed to do. Though I did like the line about "a grown man with an extensive Pokemon collection." Of course, that's kinda become a thing now, but at the time, it was unthinkable.

The plot line intrigues me. Essentially Sherman meets a girl, gets her lost in time, and they both have to go rescue her. Though the writers seem to forget that it's a what if machine, as the time space continuum gets screwed up. I kinda have faith in it being a Dreamworks film, even though the other offerings this year sound iffy. The Croods doesn't look too interesting, and I WISH they made the film with Aardman with the John Cleese script. Turbo I already complained about. That's a HUMONGOUS step back in the wrong direction. Shades of Sharktale no doubt.