Don't sit there and tell me this Yogi Bear trailer isn't the least funny thing ever. It is.
If you keep up with these sorta things, then you're probably already aware that there's a Yogi Bear movie being made as we speak. It was announced that Dan Akroyd had joined the cast as Yogi, with Justin Timberlake already announced as Boo-Boo, about two months ago, and already it appears that the studio's made some serious headway on the project: a trailer has just arrived online. If this isn't the least-funny looking movie trailer that we see all year, I promise to eat a handfull of broken glass. See the stupefyingly unfunny Yogi Bear trailer below, my gentle Examiner readers...
Whenever we pick on a kids' movie here at Comedy Examiner HQ, invariably someone gets their panties in a wad because, after all, "it's meant for kids". The implication, of course, is that all children must be painfully stupid. How else to explain anyone sticking up for, say, Flick or the Alvin and The Chipmunks sequel? In a totally non-revolutionary statement, I submit to you that just because a movie is meant for kids doesn't mean it has to suck, or be unfunny, or appear cheap. You know, like this:
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Comments
Sure it looks like it'll suck but here's the bigger question: Why would you hire Justin Timberlake to provide a voice and then have him sound nothing like himself? Why waste the money, just hire a real voice actor. Same thing for Akroyd. No one goes to see a movie based on the star power of people you never see in a movie.
If you take it for what it's worth, shameful fun, then I am ok with it. It seems to be better than Marmaduke and I would say that it is on par with Alvin and the Chipmunks. I think Akroyd and Timberlake do a great job with the voices. A solid schlocky guilty pleasure.
As a huge fan of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, I am both excited and concerned about this announcement. On one hand, I enjoy Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw cartoons so it's good they're doing a film adaptation. On the other, it could be another run-to-the-mills family junk akin to ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS so it's bad they're doing a film adaptation.
It doesn't look THAT bad to me. Sure it's a bit doofy, but what do you expect? It's harmless popcorn braindead comedy. Just go in with your mind slack and chuckle at the fat jokes.
Oh dear lord, Hollywood <i>has</i> run out of ideas. And this is what one of the Blues Brothers is doing now??? Who next, Bill Murray as Quick Draw McGraw? Steve Martin as Hong Kong Fooey?
Mr B, most likely they got JT instead of a real voice actor is to draw in kids who otherwise might not care about Yogi and BooBoo.
The digital versions of Yogi and Boo-Boo, as is so often the case, pale in comparison to the hand-drawn cartoons we grew up with. Beyond that, the slapstick gags in this trailer--pies in the face, etc.--are beyond stale. They're archetypal, and no longer funny.
Does Dan Aykroyd have a running bet with Bill Murray on who can do the title voice for the crappier movie?
O.M.G. Nothing in that preview was even funny. Like, at all. How can human people make something that sucks so bad?
Okay, aside from the sheer, explosive-diarrhea-in-my-brain WRONGness of the mere thought of the idea of this, the spleen-destroying idiocy of casting Dan Aykroyd as Yogi Bear is ONLY topped by casing JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE as Boo-Boo.
I wish you could see the expression on my face right now. Let me help you. Picture someone who has just seen Bea Arthur and Ernest Borgnine involved in BDSM, then was told he was dying of cancer, and then swallowed a live dung beetle. THAT is my expression.
Oh. My. God.
I am 20 years old and i think i would love this movie just as much as my son. I think any child would be greatly amuzed by it. If your older than me and cant find the comedy in this movie than you've seriously lost the child like humour in your self enjoy the little things. Dont take life to seriously!
Maybe for children?
Ok, so while it won't be nominated for an Oscar, I've seen far worse trailers for far worse movies.
Should have stuck to fully animated cartoon, and the 1950's atmosphere.
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