I love talking dog movies. I can't help it. No matter how bad they are I still enjoy them. It's my one weakness. I even paid to see the Underdog movie and enjoyed it. I knew going in it was Underdog in name only. It seemed to me they dug up some old generic script about a dog gaining superpowers, cut and pasted the names of various Underdog characters in and filmed it from there but I still enjoyed it. Dogs are the creatures I identify with the most and I can't hate anything involving them.
I couldn't hate the Underdog movie enough being a huge fan of the original cartoon series. I look at that and I just don't see the problem with the Bullwinkle movie. At least in terms of being true to the cartoon. It was perfectly cast, June Foray was back as Rocky and cartoon Natasha, a Bullwinkle historian as all the male cartoon voices. Jason Alexander even had Boris's same receding hair line.
But yeah, Underdog was one of the times they went over the creator's head, and he wasn't too happy about it. The magic of Underdog is that he's a anthro dog among like 2 other anthro dogs walking around with man and no one has a problem with it. That's like making a Mickey Mouse cartoon with a real mouse.
Still, I always have to ask, why DO they make cartoon based live action movies? Even when they get everything conceptually right, they manage to screw something up. I still don't get the hate for Popeye, though. It was closer to the real source material than any of the cartoons ever were.
As for overrated movies I agree with Cars, Twilight and Titanic.
To the person who said they found Cars creepy, you aren't alone. A lot of people are creeped out by the concept of things that should not be alive being alive.
Pixar seems to be pigeon holed into the things that come alive that shouldn't movie company. At least, that's what they started out with... Luxo the lamp, Tin Toy... their first theatrical movie WAS Toy Story. I think when they branched out and did movies based on creatures and humans was when they really hit their mark. I love things like Up, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles.
But Cars, while overrated hit its note with 5-8 year old boys. I find the film enjoyable, yet not Pixar's best. The second one, for some strange reason, I like much better than the first. But still, I'm sitting on pins and needles with Brave.
As for Twilight, I've always had problems with the whole Vampire love story thing. Of all the various monsters out there Vampires are the ones that are the most difficult for me to accept when portrayed in a positive light. These are creatures whose entire existance depends on killing humans and draining them. I can't see how some people can take a creature like that and turn it into something sympathetic. I also can't figure out why so many people want to BE vampires. It seems to me that for every power you'd get you'd also get a weakness that would cripple you more than if you'd stayed human. You couldn't go out in sunlight anymore or even stand by an open window or you'd burst into flame. You couldn't go near garlic or crosses anymore. And due to the whole Holy Water thing you could theoretically be defeated by a kid with a Super Soaker.
I have no problem with vampires being sympathetic characters. Huge Duckula and Groovie Goolies fan here. It's the fact the books are nothing more than trendy versions of those old crummy, cheaply written super market check out romance novels written by someone who has no real handle on vampires and can't get away with inconsistencies like the comedic vampires do. I miss vampires being campy and on kid's breakfast cereals. The way I see it, these books first struck a cord with emo goth types (who quickly lost interest) and then weaseled their way into the mainstream where the girls the emo goth type hate took it as their own.