Re: Underdog...."AHHHHHH!"

In alt.tv.cartoon-network Disneygeek <edrhodes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> To be fair, play the teaser and tell me what you think.

> http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/underdog/

> I was wondering if they were going to go with Polly Purebred and Riff
> Raff (although I always saw Riff Raff as more of a fox than a pit
> bull)

> It looks like it has possibilities.

Yes, if I didn't know it was supposed to be "Underdog", I would just think

it was yet another kiddie movie with talking animals.  Maybe not my thing,

but something that parents could take their kids to see on a Saturday 
afternoon.

Calling it Underdog, however, is an attempt to attract the parents who 
will remember this as a cartoon from their early years.

But as is the case with many Hollywood adaptations, it really looks like 
they had this generic script hanging around, and simply stamped it with a 
well known franchise, doctored it up a little, and called it good.  In 
reality the Underdog movie would have probably done just fine even WITHOUT

being saddled with the name, Underdog.  In fact, it would probably have 
done BETTER because now you aren't going to be comparing the movie to the 
original cartoon.

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