… what with war, violence, poverty, corruption … and, oh, yeah, this … due out in August (and based, of course, on the classic).
Why, one might ask, if they’re completely switching the story around (“A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers — a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.”) are they using the name, aside from cashing in on Boomer sentimentality. Which, as any number of remakes-in-name-only demonstrate, is a great way to alienate your prospective customer base.
And 2007 was looking to be such a good year so far …
(via Les, who’s chortling over the tag line that will no doubt have the Fundies providing the film with a lot of unwarranted publicity)
Previously kvetched about here.
You can’t see it, but my left eye is twitching something fierce.
Hokey smoke! Now I’m visualizing live-action movies in this vein featuring a moose and a squirrel or a chicken and a lion! Or four turtles…
Maybe Disney should remake their shorts using real mice, ducks, and dogs. Or Warner Brothers and that rabbit, pig and duck… not to mention the coyote and roadrunner!
‘Scuse me. Need to get to the bathroo…
Underdog a “Classic”?
That was a bottom of the barrel ‘toon, right next to Magilla Gorilla and Huckleberry Hound. I used to *leap* across the room to change the channel.
Oh, man, I *loved* Underdog.
Katherine does, too. So there.
Hmph. You must have been about Katherine’s age then.
Could have been. The show first came out in 1964, so it was out and about during my easily-warped formative years.
Yes, Underdog was much fun as a kid. It didn’t hold up into adolescence as well as Jay Ward’s cartoons, but I still find myself quoting it (“When Polly’s in danger I am not slow, so hip-hip-hip and away I go) and even using the quotes in games “I shall lightning-jolt you!”). Of course, no show with Wally Cox could be all bad, eh?
Plus it has a really cool theme song, which I made Dave sing when we finally met up again a year ago! 🙂
The companion pieces on the show varied. The Klondike Cat was mediocre, and I absolutely cannot stand The King and Odie, but I will always love Commander McBragg (which theme Dave can also sing), despite the fact that Keith Scott, author of The Moose That Roared, despises it.
In fact, I wrote an episode for my and Dave’s amusement back in high school. “There. Cape Canaveral. Did I ever tell you how I was the first man in space?” Of course, Dave, not to be outdone, had McBragg blow up the Death Star. :-/
Anyway, if you’re feeling nostalgic now, just listen to the Underdog theme and The World of Commander McBragg, courtesy of Mike’s Classic Cartoon Themes.