Ever since his death, Jay Ward’s cartoons haven’t been treated very well. Brendan Fraser made Dudley Do-Right an insult to Canada, Rocky and Bullwinkle turned CG (while a weasel remains 2D for some reason) and tried to be witty but only ended up with middling success, and the Flash-animated George of the Jungle series is even less like the original than Disney’s movie. As I speak, some condom ad director is planning to turn Chip ‘n’ Dale into a complete plagiarism of the Alvin movies, as if The Smurfs wasn’t obvious enough.
There’s no chance a live-action cartoon adaptation will ever be more than just an excuse to cause pain on Jason Lee. And now DreamWorks Animation has... |