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Daniel Caylor says:
07/27/10  6:13pm

So awkward…

 
jasreet says:
07/27/10  6:15pm

NO NO NO NO NO, Hollywood Please stop Beeping with my childhood

 
jasreet says:
07/27/10  6:16pm

no no no no, hollywood please stop Beeping up stuff from my childhood

 
Mike Russo says:
07/27/10  6:23pm

Why do all of these CGI cartoon characters always have these ultra-detailed, super creepy human eyes? Ugly, ugly, ugly!!

 
Justin M. Durden says:
07/27/10  6:25pm

…it hurts.

It hurts so bad.

Brandon Cordy says:
07/28/10  7:27am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmEBBskGizY

(sorry, couldn’t resist)

 
 
John Dorian says:
07/27/10  6:28pm

Ugh, I think I have to see this movie on the account of the new Coyote/Road Runner short attached to it.

Kieran Pertnav says:
07/27/10  8:28pm

It sucks that the new Coyote and Road Runner cartoons are being attached to such lousy looking movies. I’d like to see them, but I definitely don’t want to see Yogi Bear or Cats and Dogs 2.

Ron says:
07/27/10  11:55pm

That’s nothing new unfortunately. I remember the great Mickey Mouse short ‘Runaway Brain’ played before ‘ A kid in King Arthur’s Court’. I just left after the short and went to see ‘The Usual Suspects’ instead. If you time it right, you can do something similar.

 
Scarabim says:
07/28/10  8:32am

Well, now, Ron, I wish I’d thought of that. I wanted to see that Mickey short so bad (friends RAVED about it), but attached to that lousy movie..no thank you. Good thing we’ve got Youtube now; I’ve seen that lovely short over and over and over…

 
Steve Gattuso says:
07/29/10  8:08am

It’s intentional. The studio knows that the movie sucks and is doing this in an attempt to bring in the proles.

 
 
Craig Simpson says:
07/28/10  9:25am

Why can’t they do these CGI movies like the roadrunner short instead of making them so psuedo realistic? The style of that short looks pretty awesome. If they’re going to mess with an old classic, at least keep a level of respect for the cartoon aspect of it.

 
 
Brian Marshall says:
07/27/10  6:28pm

GROAN! It just doesn’t end! It just doesn’t end.

 
Kitschensyngk says:
07/27/10  6:30pm

And so begin the nightmares…

Tekena says:
07/27/10  7:57pm

no, no it just continues.

 
 
:: smo :: says:
07/27/10  6:34pm

first talking about animation collective and now this? sometimes i think you guys secretly delight in making animators cry.

 
Steve Sherman says:
07/27/10  6:35pm

I thought those earlier pictures of Yogi were a joke, but now I see that it ain’t no joke. Yeeesh. There are so MANY things wrong with this image. Like 3D is going to help this. The Viewmaster reels had a better Yogi.

 
Kelly Tindall says:
07/27/10  6:36pm

WOW. I can’t believe that those horrible test shots from awhile back were the real deal. I’m all for giving the benefit of the doubt, but come on!

 
Ixintro says:
07/27/10  6:38pm

Man it all just looks like one big joke, if only…

 
Tommy says:
07/27/10  6:41pm

That may well be the worst poster ever. What’s with Yogi’s mouth inside the O in the title?

 
Dann Beeson says:
07/27/10  6:45pm

*long drawn out sigh* ………what.

 
abel says:
07/27/10  6:49pm

Why do they keep doing this kind of unnecessary semi realistic stuff based on old cartoons?I wonder if people actually likes these things or they watch it because there’s nothing else to watch…

 
David Germain says:
07/27/10  6:58pm

Wrong on every level.

 
Trevor says:
07/27/10  6:58pm

5 bucks to the person that can find asymmetry in either face

Gerard de Souza says:
07/28/10  12:07pm

If there was assymmetry, they’d give them the one-eyebrow-raised stcok attitude expression.

 
 
Trevor says:
07/27/10  7:01pm

Wow…check back at the original WIP ones http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/the-cgi-yogi.html

The biggest difference is Boo-Boo’s tuft of hair on his head. They went from staying “kinda” in his original design to just all out ambiguous puff of hair on top. But boy, don’t those strands of hair look nice everyone?

 
Trevour says:
07/27/10  7:02pm

Let’s see if these advanced CG effects can pull off a perfectly square shape of Boo-Boo’s profiled head.

 
Laughing Gravy says:
07/27/10  7:09pm

Yogi looks scary.

 
Eden says:
07/27/10  7:11pm

Wait … this isn’t a joke? I’m frightened.

 
uncle wayne says:
07/27/10  7:12pm

Jeeeeeez, guys….can you all be MORE Negative!? I was dreading (belieeeeve me) the film, “Alvin & the Chipmunks” (—and for all of the above reasons!) I wound up LOVING the film. The Scooby Doo films were (and are) fanTAStick! Give it a try! I can’t wait to see more clips ahead!!

Brandon Cordy says:
07/28/10  8:07am

I saw the Chipmunk film (the first one) in the barbershop. It wasn’t terrible; decent kids’ film.

The Scooby-Doo films, however, I didn’t like as much. I certainly thought 2 was more true to the series than one, however. I just didn’t like the Scooby model or Freddie Prinze and Sarah Michelle Gellar’s performances. I thought Linda Cardellini and Matthew Lilliard were excellent, however.

Tedzey says:
07/28/10  4:16pm

Me TOO! I love how Lillard nailed Shaggy right to the “Zoinks!”

As for this poster, its more terrifying than nostalgic. The dead eyes scare the shit out of me!

 
 
 
Matt Petersen says:
07/27/10  7:13pm

At least they kind of look like Yogi and BooBoo……unlike Underdog.

 
Karen says:
07/27/10  7:57pm

The only thing that could be worse is having the same people who did the animation for Garfield, G-Force, and Scooby Doo do the animation for this thing. Sadly, it looks about at that level.

Walt says:
07/27/10  11:01pm

Well, considering that G-force and Garfield were products of two different studios, and much of the G-force crew also worked on the academy award nominated Surf’s Up…and some of the Surf’s Up crew also worked on Garfield and Scooby Doo and How To Train Your Dragon and Open Season and Spiderman and Alvin and the Chipmunks and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and…etc, etc, etc, I’d say that you need to get to know your industry “people” better. Animators work when and where they can, and do the best work they know how, with the time and resources made available to them. How about a little love for the hard working animators, huh?

 
 
jordan reichek says:
07/27/10  8:00pm

i dunno…i think it’s rather nice they chose not to ‘update’ the classic pic-a-nic basket that almost no one uses anymore….gotta accentuate the positive.

Matt Petersen says:
07/28/10  9:39am

Funny you should say that.
When my wife and I got married a few years ago, one of our wedding gifts was a Pic-a-nic basket that looked like the ones from the Yogi cartoons. They had them at Bed Bath and Beyond and my wife adored it.
We love using it when we go to the beach!!

 
 
Samir says:
07/27/10  8:07pm

Is not sexy like childhood cartoon…

 
killskerry says:
07/27/10  8:13pm

I have a horrible horrible feeling that at some point Cindy bear will show up in a bikini on a cell phone …maybe make a jersey shore joke.

You just wait. She’ll be in lurking there somewhere and I bet you anything shes had a nip-tuck upgrade in the chestular region. she’ll go from a negative A to a double D…make some kind of strange unsettling reference to high heels of some of other article of clothing she would never wear.

Yogi is so much more horrifying than the average bear. Colbert needs to be informed.

 
Pedro Nakama says:
07/27/10  8:22pm

This Christmas?

 
JDW says:
07/27/10  8:54pm

All hope is lost, this is the perfect motivation to finally get around to making that Grape Ape movie poster I’ve been meaning to make all summer.

 
Max W says:
07/27/10  8:58pm

I dunno, I think they did a good job blending the realistic and the hyper -realistic. Luckily Boo boo is hiding his goods with that plate.

 
Andy says:
07/27/10  9:04pm

Terrible. In every way imaginable. Could these idiots not look at an Ed Benedict or Mel Crawford drawing for a lesson in charm and appeal? It’s almost as if all the corporation wants is a write-off and a claim to copyright.

 
Anoniguy says:
07/27/10  9:13pm

Tron is set to be released the same week as this. What smarter-than-the-average-executive decided to put THIS up against THAT?

And it seems to me, that as bad as Yogi is, Booboo looks about ten times worse. Something is WRONG with Booboo. Yogi just looks lame, not -creepy-.

 
SMW says:
07/27/10  9:24pm

There are some things that should not be changed, this being one of them. It makes me sad that children will have the memory of this cartoon looking like this instead of the lovely cartoon we grew up with. Do people just don’t care about character design anymore??

 
Baron Lego says:
07/27/10  9:43pm

So… the plan was to make the CGI character designs look like unappealing live-action costumes?

 
Damon says:
07/27/10  9:46pm

Wow they found Dan Ackroyd

 
Steve says:
07/27/10  9:48pm

Incredibly horrendous! On another unappealing note: why does my Firefox browser run the comments over the date to the right?

Ryan G says:
07/27/10  10:39pm

That happens to me too…it’s quite annoying as I can’t read the last bit of every top line.

 
 
TheGunheart says:
07/27/10  9:59pm

I’ve gotta say, if I were still a little kid, that poster would scare the hell out of me. Yogi should NOT look that scary.

Also, am I the only one who thinks they don’t seem to mesh very well with the background? Like, at all? They look at best like a pair of figurines photoshopped onto a CGI picnic blanket.

Cyle says:
07/28/10  4:47pm

Seriously, the bad Photoshop job seriously bugs me. It’s one thing to make unappealing characters, but you’d think they’d at least throw some effort into something as basic as the compositing on the poster. Yikes!

 
 
ZiggyStardust says:
07/27/10  10:06pm

hmmmmm just because the technology is there for realism doesn’t mean you have to use it. its a cartoon, so make it a cartoon! not some scary cartoon realism hybrid.

 
huston says:
07/27/10  10:23pm

How many fart jokes do you think there will be? I’m guessing 2 at least.

Max W says:
07/27/10  11:31pm

2 ?!?! Something like this has gotta have more than 200 to even work!

 
 
Daniel Caylor says:
07/27/10  10:52pm

How did Justin Timberlake fit in that suit?

 
MC Burnett says:
07/27/10  10:53pm

As of posting this, there are 40 comments here of people raging about a poster for a movie adaptation of a cartoon for children that is going to come and go without radically affecting anyone’s life.

The article about the passing Shirley Silvey and Mary S. Broggie as of this posting: 2 comments.

As an industry and community that constantly wants to obsess over how things used to be, I hope we can try and rein in a little perspective when we do. I think the mindset of the animation world would be much healthier if we did.

That being said, this movie looks like butt.

Scarabim says:
07/28/10  8:36am

**As of posting this, there are 40 comments here of people raging about a poster for a movie adaptation of a cartoon for children that is going to come and go without radically affecting anyone’s life.

The article about the passing Shirley Silvey and Mary S. Broggie as of this posting: 2 comments.**

Maybe that happened because people are more aware of Yogi Bear than they are of Shirley Silvey and Mary S. Broggie, hmmmmm?

Steve Gattuso says:
07/29/10  10:08am

I believe that’s MC’s point.

 
 
 
H. T. says:
07/27/10  10:59pm

I don’t know why I came to read the comments. They’re pretty predictable, including the idiotic internet staple “They’re raping my childhood!” Brother.

These characters were popular fifty years ago, and for the most part have been invisible since that time. Warner knows that no kids gives a damn about them the way they’ve been presented in the past, and they’re willing to try something new to refresh interest in them. Based on a SINGLE IMAGE that frankly is as good as most Dreamworks film imagery, almost every person here hates it. I’m done reading the comments here. I stopped for a while and was sucked back into it. In an industry supposedly filled with imagination and invention, this site seems to be the place where the hive speaks its hive-mind.

As for Yogi here? The jury is still out until I see some scenes and promotional stuff. The poster passes the smell test.

dom giansante says:
07/31/10  7:36pm

I happen to be one of the biggest Yogi fans out there…and i could not agree more. all they need to do is handle it with some respect, but they HAVE to update it, or they will be forever forgotten…if i have choice of the next gen becoming familiar with these characters, and i have to suffer a little in order for them to enjoy it…fine. Now Underdog…THAT was a piece of crap. they didn’t even try to make him look like the character…At least Yogi and Boob look like them!

 
 
Dustin says:
07/27/10  11:15pm

I’m putting the odds at 85% that there’s an awkward dance sequence within the film.

Mark McD says:
07/28/10  5:57am

A dance to a new version of “Who Let the Dogs Out,” substituting “bears” in the lyrics for “dogs.” Or yet another totally incongruous 80’s song (see “Horton Hears a Who”).

 
 
Matthew Hunter says:
07/27/10  11:21pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 
DonaldC says:
07/27/10  11:25pm

Oh heavens no.
Not another one of these heinously embarrassing things.

Let me guess. It’ll feature some sub par live action acting couples with a super weak story that has little to do with the original source material and a few lame one liners strewn about some predictably cheesy dialogue.

Garfield, Alvin, Marmaduke. None of these have been very good so I’ll hope you can excuse me if I’m not to thrilled about this or that heinous looking Smurf fiasco.

 
IT BURNS!!! MY EYES!!!! says:
07/27/10  11:31pm

Uncle Wayne, are you serious? Chipmunks and Scooby Poo are some of the biggest pieces of CG Crap thats ever been made… From the looks of this poster, Yogi Bear might take the crown though….

I didnt think they could fit so much ASS into one poster….but they found a way.

 
Barbara says:
07/27/10  11:51pm

Can you imagine what it would be like to show a 1960s audience a yogi bear cartoon, and then right after that show them this movie…I think people would be so perplexed at what they were looking at that they might go into shock..

 
Don M. Yowp says:
07/28/10  12:21am

If they’ve “been invisible,” logic dictates the best way to “refresh interest” is to make them visible. Why reinvent something that’s “been invisible”?

A poster IS “promotional stuff”. It’s supposed to instantly sell the product. This poster .. and other material I’ve seen .. doesn’t for me. However, it might for others. People have different tastes.

Indeed comments can be predictable. I could have predicted, based on responses to previous topics here, someone would spout off assuming everyone else has a bias against any attempt to resurrect something from years ago.

I would dearly like to see a revived Yogi succeed. But nothing I’ve seen appeals to me. Saying to “wait” for a bit is like eating eight spoiled pieces of meat thinking if you just keep eating, eventually one will taste good. Who, in their right mind, does that, except in the hope something will justify their own preconceptions?

 
Krepta says:
07/28/10  12:31am

Is this God’s way of telling me that cartoons are for kids and I’m too old to enjoy them anymore?

I hate you, God.

 
Mitchell Craig says:
07/28/10  12:55am

Not being a big Yogi fan, the poster strikes me as….bleh.

Just one more mediocre movie to fill up the Redbox come Easter 2011.

 
Chowder says:
07/28/10  12:59am

NO

DAN

WRONG

WHAT ARE YOU DOING

YOU WERE RAY STANTZ

YOU CAN GET ANY ROLE YOU WANT

WHAT ARE YOU DOING

 
Craig Clark says:
07/28/10  1:05am

Bill and Joe would say no. Anything but picking up a pencil and animating a cartoon…

 
Peter H says:
07/28/10  2:12am

Hey! A step forward in CGI realism – this looks just like a man in a Yogi costume! Why not go one step further and let the Jim Henson Company make the whole thing in live action? (Answer: because although it would be cheaper and better, that’s old technology – Execs “know” that only CGI will sell!)

 
victoria says:
07/28/10  2:15am

I have no problem with them trying to update old stuff like Yogi Bear and Loony Tunes, I simply want them to stop using them period! I’m sick of looking at them in any form.

 
Graham says:
07/28/10  2:17am

I wonder if it’ll have repeating CGI backgrounds.

 
revned says:
07/28/10  2:21am

The only good that can come from the release of this movie is if Warner Bros. also (finally) releases John K.’s Ranger Smith cartoons uncut on DVD, but I’m not holding my breath.

Too bad I’ll never see them on [adult swim] again…

 
Christopher Smigliano says:
07/28/10  2:47am

The Ranger isn’t gonna like this…..

 
juan alfonso says:
07/28/10  3:55am

It’s the screenplay that goes with the cgi characters that I’m worried about.

 
Fooksie says:
07/28/10  4:23am

The designs don’t bother me at all. In fact, they kind of remind me of the old Viewmaster reel I had with Yogi.
I wasn’t excited to see Hoodwinked, and that turned out to be an extremely watchable movie.
I’ll give it a chance.

 
ParamountCartoons says:
07/28/10  5:59am

So the protype Yogi artwork that was removed on some site that was removed is REAL!

 
Steve Hogan says:
07/28/10  6:03am

I wasn’t born when the original Yogi cartoons came out, but I loved them as a kid while at the same time finding the more contemporary “Yogi’s Gang” cartoons dull, preachy and lifeless. Pretty much the same for all the other cartoons of that period featuring the character. Thank God I wasn’t watching Saturday morning cartoons any more by the time “Yo Yogi” came out.

See, it’s not so much about nostalgia as watching a winning formula get watered down or ruined by hamfisted tinkering. In this case I’m not responding to the writing but the character designs. I’ve seen CGI films with appealing looking cartoony characters, but so far this isn’t one of them. Someone apparently decided that because Yogi and Boo Boo were interacting with the real world they needed to look more realistic, so they went with some sort of half step drains away the fun of the original designs and leaves them looking like a half assed version of the Disney Country Bears.

Kids like cartoons because they’re fun and funny to look at, not because they have individual strands of hair or detailed irises.

 
Aaron H says:
07/28/10  6:13am

Dan, I know you are getting antsy, waiting for Bill Murray to give in and do Ghostbusters III. I am probably the biggest Ghostbusters fan in town. But please don’t do this to yourself. You’re better than that. Just because Bill Murray stooped down to the level of TWO Garfield movies doesn’t mean you have to turn this into a “race to the bottom.”

Love, Aaron

ps. Please keep Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson away from any executives bearing money and terrible scripts featuring updates of classic cartoon characters.

 
David Gerstein says:
07/28/10  7:02am

Every third blogpost about Yogi Bear in the last ten years has been some fan discussing about how perfect the grotesquely off-model 1960s Yogi and other Hanna-Barbera merchandise items are. Because we don’t like Yogi looking like Yogi; it’s more fun when he doesn’t.

Warner takes a tip from us and we go berserk. Fickle, aren’t we?

Mr. Semaj says:
07/28/10  12:20pm

Sad but true.

 
 
Brandon Cordy says:
07/28/10  7:29am

I mean…at least they _look_ like Yogi and Boo-Boo (see “Scooby-Doo” the movie for how bad things can get in these sorts of TV-animation feature adaptations). I actually sort of like the designs (they’re maybe at 115% shagginess furwise, but otherwise I like them)

I’ll reserve my judgment for when I see (a) a trailer and (b) Cindy Bear.

 
Gummo says:
07/28/10  7:31am

It’s just ugly.

And why go to all the trouble to CGI if – at least on the poster — it looks like 2 guys in costumes?

Hollywood is a very strange place.

 
BJ Wanlund says:
07/28/10  7:42am

Well, not this Christmas per se, not unless Dec 17th counts as Christmas. Yes, my most anticipated as well as my least anticipated films are coming out the same day (Tron Legacy and Yogi Bear respectively). However, unlike, say, Alvin & The Chipmunks (which I’ll never touch), I will have to see this in motion (i.e. a trailer) before I say I won’t ever see it.

BJ

 
Rooniman says:
07/28/10  7:51am

CURSE YOU, HOLLYWOOOOOOD!!!!!

 
Alissa says:
07/28/10  8:07am

Ugh, ugly with a capital U. Definitely not seeing this one.

 
Tory says:
07/28/10  8:22am

Yogi hasn’t been invisible for 50 years, I’d say somewhere between 15-22 years, and even then there were glimpses till the early nots of this millenium. He was still known well when I was a kid in the 80s from syndicated reruns and the spinoff series always airing, popular with clothes, toys, lunch boxes and things always available, everyone knew him then. I saw someone dressed as him in a mall five years ago, Hong Kong Phooey too oddly enough. This is something people forget now, things older than the year before still retained popularity and recognition with the kids and general public until this last decade sped up the turnover rate. More people knew about the Marx Brothers, Laurel & Hardy, W.C. Fields, Buddy Holly, Louis Armstrong and others then too. Older films, television and music had longer shelf life and it seems sometimes to me that there is a purposeful blocking out of that material though I reckon it is just a side effect of the cable specific channels securing rights to all of these things, removing them from syndication then abandoning their original purpose and the old venues have moved on to other systems of programming.

As to this film, well, I think Scooby, Garfield and the Chipmunk films were fine, Smurfs dreads me a bit as does this but they both look far superior and more respectful than Underdog. I think this will be an ok family film and hopefully will attract some more attention to the original, I think it more likely that Yogi’s old programs will be hyped in regards to this than Underdog ever was with that travesty.

 
purin says:
07/28/10  8:24am

That’s a very cluttered-feeling poster, all haphazardly copied and pasted together. Something’s wrong with Boo Boo’s (wait… Justin Timberlake?) shoulder.

 
Scarabim says:
07/28/10  8:29am

Nice to know somebody re-purposed those hideous bear suits from Disney’s Country Bears movie.

Oh, wait…

Seriously, I’m one of those folks who dislike Hanna-Barbera’s creations in the extreme, so I don’t see this as sacrilege. I see this as gilding the turd; this is even more awful-looking than the original cartoon.

 
Jessica Plummer says:
07/28/10  8:30am

You guys are all silly. This is clearly just a 2 hour adaptation of a romp into a delicious, delicious Orangina commercial…

 
Sam says:
07/28/10  8:46am

Wow, what a bunch of sour grapes here. I’m glad at least there are jobs for animators, Yogi Bear isn’t the best character to be made looking realistic, I wish they would at least hire the companies to do a full animated feature than live action + animation. Maybe it’s just cheaper to do live action, but to get the children and family audience they just include the 3D animated stuff.

 
Roberto Severino says:
07/28/10  8:46am

Good God! They can’t be serious. I feel sorry for the children suckered into watching these deformed creatures. Someone get them a barf bag, quick!

 
Brandon Waltman says:
07/28/10  8:56am

It seems as if no one with any design sense at all made this poster. Or the characters. And I don’t think it would be too much of a jump to say the movie is going to be lacking in all artistic sensibilities. A bunch of suits threw this together to make a quick buck. I hope it loses them money so they’ll stop churning out crap like this on families every other Christmas. So much disappoint.

 
randy V says:
07/28/10  9:23am

they just watered it down, averaged it out, took away the super-designy elements and added fur and human eyes. it looks bland – because it is. i won’t take my kids to this but i will seek out original yogi bear for them.

 
top cat james says:
07/28/10  9:46am

“Hey There, it’s Yogi Bear” is the REAL Yogi movie. Accept no substitutes.

 
Anthrax says:
07/28/10  9:51am

Justin Timberlake? You gotta be kidding me.

 
Michael F. says:
07/28/10  9:56am

I would have taken a much younger person for Boo Boo. Haley Joel Osment perhaps?

 
Warhead says:
07/28/10  9:56am

Wow, the uncanny valley runs deep in these… THINGS.

 
Alex says:
07/28/10  10:09am

3-D? Really? Is that really necessary?

 
ManekiNeko says:
07/28/10  10:43am

Oh for God’s sake… Dan Akroyd as Yogi? JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE as Boo-Boo? Who’s Ranger Smith, Orlando Bloom? The character designs are at least recognizable, but the casting is the pits and really, we don’t need another one of these crap CGI movies. No more! The Uncanny Valley is closed for business!

 
Salomon Fenix says:
07/28/10  10:59am

I am question: Why all adaptations of cartoons to Movie sucks?

 
celia says:
07/28/10  11:16am

No matter how bad this film will be, it can’t top the bizarre and creepy Country Bears Movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpLvypKPRrE&feature=related

Warner Brothers should use this film as a model for what “not” to do.

 
Eric Drobile says:
07/28/10  11:55am

I used to like bears.

 
Gerard de Souza says:
07/28/10  12:07pm

Dumber than the average Hollywood exec. Yay-hey-hey!

 
Dan says:
07/28/10  12:21pm

Looks like shit!

 
Mr. Semaj says:
07/28/10  12:22pm

This is going to put a damper on the holiday spirit. :(

 
Maria says:
07/28/10  12:32pm

Justin Timberlake as Boo Boo?

And my world has come to a screeching halt.

 
Bruce says:
07/28/10  2:19pm

Love all the cut’n'paste objects! The poster looks like a first year photoshop project! And not to mention the AstroTurf grass lol love it! Poor BooBoo and his dead eyes… I can’t believe this passed for a movie poster ugh! Was the marketing director outsourced to India as well?!!

 
Tony C says:
07/28/10  2:24pm

I wanna know how much it costs to get grade A photoshopping skills like that for ‘my’ film poster.

 
RobEB says:
07/28/10  3:01pm

Well, I’d heard about this some time ago (like everybody else), but didn’t give much thought to it. Now that it’s right there in front of us, I realize that it’s all too real. It’s giving me a headache…

 
GOGOPEDRO! says:
07/28/10  4:31pm

Epic Fail…Sigh…

 
Roberto says:
07/28/10  4:44pm

For a realistic version I think it’s not one of the worst. Problem is, who wants a realistic version? Apparently there’s an audience for these things and that’s what I don’t understand. I would like to think that if there was an offer of both this thing and a 2D Yogi Bear movie people would prefer the last one. But I’m not sure. This kind of crap seems to work well for families. Alvin and the Chipmunks was a success.

The look is weird and the scripts are usually bad and unfaithful to the original sources. I’m not the biggest fan of Yogi, but it was a nice cartoon. If these things were at least faithful and decent in their scripts it would be a little more tolerable. Though the visuals are also a big problem. If traditional animation is really so dead, the way to go is cartoony designs in 3D like that Roadrunner shorts or Cloudy With a Chance Of Meatballs. Not more life action+CGI stuff.

I don’t really want to see Tom and Jerry or the Looney Tunes following this trend. To me that will be the ultimate insult: the most cartoony cartoons ever created turned into realistic characters. And it’s going to happen pretty soon.

 
Paul Dini says:
07/28/10  4:56pm

Here’s the trailer. Urg.

http://tinyurl.com/26l2nj9

Ashley May says:
08/2/10  12:00pm

My confirmation phrase for posting that teaser link to my Facebook account was “filmy hurt.” The cosmos has such a sense of humor.

 
 
Jake says:
07/28/10  5:00pm
 
Brendan Spillane says:
07/28/10  5:02pm

The ranger’s not gonna like this, Yogi.

 
Leirin says:
07/28/10  5:02pm

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sUpmIRyNr_Y/SOtOSYT0HSI/AAAAAAAAACQ/JhAO4nfZ6S8/s1600-h/Yogi-Bear-04.jpg
^THAT is what a 3-dimensional Yogi Bear should look like. Not this.
Why alter the design to make him look… real but not? Isn’t that the definition of Uncanny Valley?
Seriously, Madagascar-type CG designs (more abstracted) would’ve worked a lot better for this production.

Toast says:
07/28/10  5:22pm

Wow! Maybe they should do a stop motion animation version of Yogi from that View Master frame :}

Hm…. I still prefer the 2d pre-70’s era Yogi :D

 
 
Steve Sherman says:
07/28/10  5:18pm

OMG! I won’t even comment on the trailer. But did you see the poster? “Based on a character created by Hanna Barbera Productions!???” Couldn’t they just say Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera? Or designs by Ed Benedict? You know, I think it was Jack Warner who used to think he owned Mickey Mouse.

 
Anna says:
07/28/10  8:32pm

Does anyone else think the title logo should have used a picnic basket instead of the weird face in the “o”

and joining the chorus of: “holy cut-and-paste poster, Batman!” The bears look extremely out of place and somehow the floaty “shadow” around them makes them extra fake to their background

 
Keith Paynter says:
07/29/10  10:58pm

Oh, cruel hand of fate – to foist this atrocity of artwork on society while Bug’s 70th birthday (re: “A Wild Hare’, released the same day in 1940) has passed virtually unacknowledged, even by the mighty Brewmasters!

Now I’ll never be able to show my face in public…oh, the shame!!

 
Alusa says:
07/30/10  12:00am

BEARS: THE #1 THREAT TO AMERICA

 
Andrew Kieswetter says:
07/31/10  2:23am

It looks okay.

 
Pokey the Horse says:
07/31/10  11:57am

Dan Ackroyd is MUCH too old to play Yogi. Should have gone with Seann William Scott. After all, WB had used him in their remake of another [this time non-WB show] “Starsky and Hutch” 6 and a half years a go [7 by the time that this Yogi movie gets to screen.:)] and the original property this year “Cop Out” and some other through their New Line Cinema. Yogi in the 1958-60 shorts when he gets peed off to see “proto-Yakky”, or in Don M.Yowp’s latest blog entry, “Snow White”, the Seven Dwarves, the three pigs,etc. gets ticked off like S.W.Scott.

 
Matt Downs says:
07/31/10  1:51pm

BEFORE Magilla Gorilla??????

 
STEF says:
07/31/10  8:16pm

God :C They even have creepy BLACK lower lips like real bears do…….. OAO

 
Fred Sparrman says:
08/1/10  6:22am

Look at how Yogi’s right knee is coyly turned in as if to hide his groin from the camera; likewise, Boo Boo is using a plate to conceal his privates.

What is on these people’s minds, that they feel the need to have cartoon characters consciously hiding their privates from us?

 
Pixar Fan 2010 says:
08/1/10  7:22pm

3 words, worst, poster, ever.

 
Dan portnoy says:
08/1/10  10:03pm

The fact that there were a billion comments here suggests that :
1) you all need lives
2) there is no #2

Why says:
08/3/10  3:59pm

Is this a kids version of Brokeback Mountain?

 
 
ray kroll says:
08/10/10  8:23am

just another cheap cheezy @#&$%@**!! 3D ripoff of great
cartoon characters. the look is god awful. (boo boo is
not as bad as yogi tho.) i never knew yogi had teeth like
that. horrible. and why get “stars” to voices for these
things? justin timberflake? give me a break! and hollywood,
enough with the 3D already! this crap got old in the 50’s.
there is a great scene in “the buddy holly story” where
buddy & his wife are watching a 3D movie. buddy makes the
comment that it looks like a seeing eye dog convention &
that “3D is just a flash in the pan” but its like every
20 years or so hollywood unleashes the unthinkable again.
thanx in part to james lib-whacko cameron’s envirocrap
film. thanx james @#**$%!! now 3D has infested the movie
industry again. are you ever gonna get the message
hollywood? i’m still mad about what you did to underdog.
please in the name of god, try something original. ahh,
i’m wasting my breath. yogi, they did ya wrong old buddy.

 
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