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"Shy" takes a ride with UNDERDOG!
SPOILER ALERT !!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. So, yeah... this probably is just as mediocre as it should be. I was hoping Dinkelage would save it... and it seems he does try. Here's a spy who saw the flick seeing release this weekend!
It's been less than an hour since I left a preview screening of "Underdog". There is a spoiler in the review, so plan your reading accordingly.
While there's no need to fear, there's also no need to waste any brain cells over whether to see this or "Bourne Ultimatum" this weekend. Wait for DVD, or when it's on cable on some rainy day, or if you're stuck on a plane and this is your inflight movie.
The old favorites are there- Riff Raff, Simon Bar Sinister, Cad, Sweet Polly Purebread... The "talking dog" stuff is just as good as the technically above average "talking animal" films, and Peter Dinkelage tries to make the goings on seem more important than they are, while Patrick Warburton tries to make them seem funnier. Voiceover talent (Jason Lee, Amy Adams, BradGarrett) are all adequate.
While all the villians we know and love/hate are there, the biggest villian of all is the script, which adds a father and son who end up adopting a beagle named Shoeshine who was drummed out of police dog squad after screwing up a bombsniffing/PR exercise (are beagles actually considered for bombsniffing, or is this some sort of canine affirmative action thing?). The fact that I can't recall their character names says something, I think. Also (SPOILER)...
...the pill that gives Underdog (and other dogs) the power to do all the wonderful thing he does also works on humans. If this is the case, why waste it on dogs?
(END SPOILER)
Jim Belushi plays the father, and I think he's at least ten years too old for the part. Any time he moves faster than walking, like when he's running up the City Hall steps, he looks like he's running with a load of crap in his pants. And some of the special effects that don't involve making animals talk are pretty shoddy, like making them (or people) fly or when things explode.
There's also some obnoxious General Mills cereal product placement going on, and one for Subway that I've been waffling on as to whether it was cute or not.
I suppose if you have kids to stash somewhere rather than have them see "Bourne" with you, and they've seen "Ratatouille". "The Simpsons" and "Harry Potter" already, you can do worse... like stick them in the theater where "Bratz" is playing. You do that, and I don't believe that you deserve to get them back.
No names, please. I'm Shy.
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This just in... Shy has been fired from his job...
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I saw the Bratz trailer. Considered self-immolation immediately afterward.
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Am proceeding with the self-immolation.
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KILL ME!!!!!! PLEASE GOD!!!!
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I think Underdog deserved a cartoon or animated CGI resurrection and not live action. I still love to watch the Underdog cartoons even after first seeing it over 30 years ago.
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Goddamnit and just when I was gonna bitch about there not being any Shoeshine Boy in this movie at all. And I do so love to bitch!
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"HAHAHAHA", I say.
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Providence is the new Hollywood!
There's Something About Mary. Brotherhood. Buddy. And now Underdog. Woo Hoo! -
Check out slusho in this movie. Quickie Mart scene. Customer 3 in line 2. You heard it here first
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i suppose i would still go see it if david cross made a cameo dancing with jim belushi during a scene.
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i think i need to explain my last post just in case people havent seen this, because it's wonderful and makes me laugh every time. david cross sure loves to rip on hack jim belushi in his blogs. he throws a rip on his drunken, fat ass every now and then fast forward to another 'current' blues borther show where jim belushi is raping the corpse of his dead brother.. hey is that david cross there?
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my favorite film genre is "bad tv cartoon adaptations"
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I'm a hardcore G1 fan. This is sacrilege. UINO, etc, etc.
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I saw Mr Magoo (with Leslie Nielsen) in the movies...Definitely one of the worst movies I ever, EVER saw. Fat Albert, on the other hand... Actually not awful.
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Now The Chipmunks,thats gonna be the real test,who ever can sit through that pile of Dog S*it I will pay anybody to see that one.
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unfortunately. It's a shame, too, since it was filmed in my and apparently "derf24's" backyard. Hopefully, we'll get some more films made here.
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The whole premise and much of the fun of the old Underdog cartoon was that these dogs, see?, could like, talk, see?, and were treated EXACTLY like humans, see?
I mean, in the opening credits, the man tosses Shoeshine Boy (who is humble and loveable, BTW) a coin, and Shoeshine .... BITES the coin to make sure it's real and not a slug! How terribly, terribly human.
Now they take a DOG and he's treated like a DOG only they introduce UD's "Energy Pill" as the CAUSE of his humanity.
Where, o where, has my Underdog gone?, croons Sweet Polly Purebred.
He's been neutered, sugar, and you can blame the Hollywood hacks who think that classics are "raw material" that they can screw with.
EVERY every every time they do this, it ends up a bollocks ...
At least Marvel seems to have learned that the fans want a recreation, not a "reimagining."
Sheesh.
Not that I ever would have paid cash money to sit through Underdog, but ... -
Hello, This is Jason Lee yes I'll do it, speaking.
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They have excellent noses and the proper temperment. And I agree this movie should have been animated. That way we get a Sweet Polly Purebread with boobs.
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"What? There's a new movie I can drag my five spoiled kids to that features a talking dog that flies around in a cape? Sounds great to this Soccer Mom!"
On the upside, though, maybe it will do so well enough that Warner Bros. will greenlight a KRYPTO THE SUPERDOG movie.
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from the Howard Stern show, then it would've taken in a mint.
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Beagles are great dogs
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When dogs rule the planet they're so gonna make us pay for this kind of shit.
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It makes no sense for this to be live action.
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...a chocolate covered pretzel?!?
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Took my little cousin, she loved it,every kid loved it and I was entertained throughout. It was certainly a nice suprise. Much better super hero film then spiderman 3, I'm not kidding, this was at least focused did what it had to do, and entertained the audience it was targeted for.
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