Peabody and Sherman movie coming from Dreamworks animation

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/01/17/robert-downey-jr-peabody-sherman/

My brother sended me this, unlike most movies based on cartoons which were mostly in live-action. Judging how this sounds its likely to be fully CG(unless if they dont make it as a 2D film. CG is likely). my friends are questioning about this.

As Known Unknown has said countless times, we shouldn't base our preconceptions on what has not been released yet. That being said, I have as high hopes as I do for this Were Still Relevant Dammit picture as I had for Rocky And Bullwinkle or Dudley Do Right.

Which is like zilch.

edited 3rd Apr '13 12:47:21 AM by Mattonymy

I loved The Simpsons Movie and That70s Show, so I am hoping for the pretty-good. I mean, The Simpsons Movie was written over a decade by 15 writers, and doesn't say anything about how good these screenwriters are. Anything can happen at this point.

I myself am mixed about this movie. But seeing how this is going to be computer animated, will it convince the studios to make their movies based on cartoons fully animated?

**** YES.

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Wow, Dreamworks, literally within your first concept art you just couldn't avoid using your trademark face. Bravo.

Okay, see?! The Dreamworks Face should totally be a trope!

Somewhat OT bump, but I've been wondering about something for a while and this seems a good place to ask. Did Mr. Peabody ever really tell Sherman "Quiet, you," or is that just a misconception stemming from the Simpsons gag?

You think that having by Robert Downey Jr. as Mr. Peabody and Rob Minkoff (co-director of The Lion King and director of Stuart Little) as director that they would avoid as many Dream Works cliches as possible.

You know, I don't think that concept art really "counts" as a Dreamworks Face. The eyebrow needs to be raised in a smarmy expression. Here, it's clear that his eyebrow is raised in interest.

I was never a fan of Peabody and Sherman, but I do know that they are no strangers to my parents. I myself would like to see some images(meaning film screenshots) before I can judge on it. I think 2D animation done digitally by flash or Toon Boom seems more suitable for this. Then again, most of the Dark Age Of Animation cartoons are like the grandparents for Flash cartoons.

I guess so, especially after reading one of the sub bullets on the It Just Bugs Me! page for Western Animation in General under the one asking about the bunch of Flash and Thick-Line Animation stuff that came about over the past few years that people have obviously been complaining about and there was possibly as much complaining about cartoons from the 60s and 70s when they hit a vast majority of the airwaves in those days for similar reasons.

edited 21st Apr '11 10:28:03 AM by fungal88

People are complaining about horribly bad animated flash shows like Johnny Test, but however they don't realize that the shows in The Dark Age Of Animation were done in a low budget similar to flash. Heck, some of them are shows that they don't even watch these shows at all and just complain about it.

They say people complained just as much about those shows back then as people do for Flash shows today. It just seems like today there are more haters because they didn't have the internet to hear 100 plus complaints from people over the world in 1960!

Peabody and Sherman?

Hooo boy, get ready for the puns...

That's a bad thing?

Sorry, just after watching so many Portal 2 walkthroughs I literally can not help but think of a robotic dog with a turret body

Like Skidds and Mudflap?

Nah, just joshin'. And of course, no offense if you're a fan of the LA Transformers.

A preview and an interview with Rob Minkoff.

I think it looks promising.

edited 12th Dec '12 8:59:21 AM by DS9guy

Sounds like a lot of fun. I've seen several episodes of the original show, and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Plus, comical history-related works have my attention by default.

edited 12th Dec '12 9:24:37 AM by Mort08

A film based on a Jay Ward title with a director of The Lion King is promising.

But he also directed Stuart Little.

Eh, the first Stuart Little wasn't all that bad.

Personally, not my thing.

They do look pretty cute in 3d, unlike the Smurfs and the creepy photorealistic Yogi.

@kyun: At first I was confused at why all cartoons being turned to computer animated movies would be a good thing, but then I realized you meant in comparison to movies like Yogi and Smurfs which are cgi plus live action...

So yeah, I kind of agree thats more preferred option