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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell

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tommyrot - Feb 10, 2006 12:55:23 pm PST #452 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Bastards! Dont' fuck with the Man with the Yellow Hat!

In the G-rated movie, directed by Matthew O’Callaghan ("Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas") and written by an apparently large committee, the Man with the Yellow Hat not only has a name (Ted) and a celebrity voicer (Will Ferrell) but also a host of neuroses. The Man with the Yellow Hat is babbling, awkward with women and full of self doubt.

When he actually buys his trademark yellow outfit for a journey to Africa, the scene is played as a joke on his fashion sense. The point is hammered home when he finally looks in the mirror and exclaims (in that Will Ferrell whiny sort of way), "I look like an idiot!"

The Man with the Yellow Hat is an object of ridicule?

Why?

...

At this point I’m ready to see what a monkey with a typewriter could do.

Heh.

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From a different review:

To put it in context: This film is better than either of Imagine Entertainment's live-action Dr. Seuss projects, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" or "The Cat in the Hat." There's eh, and there's sub-eh.

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Cashmere - Feb 10, 2006 1:00:09 pm PST #453 of 10001

Now tagless for your comfort.

I've seen the video for the song that Jack Johnson does for the movie. Owen stands in front of the television and yells "MONKEY!!! Ooooo-ooooo-oooo!!!" The video is very sweet and I love JJ. And Curious George.

I'm very much afraid I'm going to have to see this film, regardless of how good it is.

§ ita § - Feb 10, 2006 1:01:59 pm PST #454 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Owen stands in front of the television and yells "MONKEY!!! Ooooo-ooooo-oooo!!!" The video is very sweet and I love JJ. And Curious George.

I love Owen.

Aims - Feb 10, 2006 1:04:51 pm PST #455 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but in the books, doesn't TMITBYH BRING George home with him?

Theodosia - Feb 10, 2006 1:12:38 pm PST #456 of 10001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I'm feeling particularly vulnerable, since Curious George is the house mascot of where I work. So I want the movie to be good. ::Sigh::

dcp - Feb 10, 2006 1:34:15 pm PST #457 of 10001

The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Seconding the ::sigh::. I too wanted the Curious George movie to be good. Oh, well.

Curious George was the very first book I ever got to take home from the library. It was a big deal. And Curious George Rides a Bike is what got me started with origami.

tommyrot - Feb 10, 2006 2:16:33 pm PST #458 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

My favorite was when Curious George went into space. But I think I was already a fan of the space program before I read that one.

Aims - Feb 10, 2006 2:20:14 pm PST #459 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I liked when Curious George went to the hospital and got high on the ether.

Steph L. - Feb 10, 2006 2:43:52 pm PST #460 of 10001

Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I liked when Curious George went to the hospital and got high on the ether.

Which book was that? Curious George and the Crack Whores?

Aims - Feb 10, 2006 2:48:01 pm PST #461 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I think Rides a Bike. He goes to the hospital becaus he breaks his leg.

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