Who Remembers Marsupilami?
I didn’t remember him until I saw this International trailer for what I believe is a French live action film about the little yellow guy with the super long tail! Warning, it’s not in English, so you may not have any clue what’s being said.
Does that strike any bells? I know he barely appears in that trailer at all. Maybe the company producing the film can’t do very good CGI. But Marsupilami is joining the likes of Yogi Bear and the Smurfs with this while live action/CGI mash-up. But who knew that Marsupilami was a Belgian creation? All I remember is the old Disney cartoon.
It was your typical madcap zany cartoon. Honestly though, I can’t even remember a single thing about the cartoon.
Anyway, this movie, Sur la Piste Marsupilami, or ‘On the Trail of the Marsupilami’, will be released in France in April. No clue if it will ever come to America. Not that I’d go see it. I haven’t gone to see any of those live action/CGI mash-ups and I don’t plan to start now. I just thought this was a neat blast-from-the-past sort of thing to pop up on the Internet today.
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I remember “Hoo Bah!” But only because it haunts me. And I remember Bonkers the Cat. When are they making a Bonkers the Cat movie? But it has to be based on the first season when he had all those sidekicks like the bunny doctor and the other thing. And his partner was the Harvey Bullock lookalike. As opposed to the attractive blond woman in the second season who created a really odd sexual tension with the cartoon cat.
I’ve seen a few of the live action/CGI mash-up movies based on old cartoon shows. They’re all pretty awful of course. But I did enjoy “Scooby Doo and the Curse of the Lake Monster.” It was a made for TV movie with a…not horrible CGI Scooby Doo. But what I enjoyed about it was that the mystery was a small part of the movie. And Scooby must have been really expensive to animate so he didn’t appear much. So it was up the the four kids to provide most of the movie. And they were great. There was a lot of good characterization for four characters who usually just fall into a static role for 200 episodes. Now they had emotions and feelings and a sense of realness that they just couldn’t get in 40 years of cartooning around with a talking dog and solving mysteries.
It was good, but like I said, it was the only good one out of maybe a dozen other terrible versions of those kind of movies.