Underdog the movie

[Dontebell]

Walt Disney Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment is bringing Underdog to the big screen
http://www.superherohype.com/news.php?id=3168

[DrSpengler]

He's now a normal pet dog named "Shoeshine" whogets genetically enhanced by chemicals?

That stings.

[Brodie]

Oh, for ****aroo's sake.

[Voltron]

This looks good! I can't wait till they give Steel Spider a movie! Man that is going to be so awesome!

...j/k

[KROW]

...

:|


This is because of that damn credit card commercial, isn't it?

[Weapon X]

There are so many other movies that could be in the works, why this?

Seriously....why. :ohwell:

[The Stryker]

Like Mighty Mouse the Movie!

[Weapon X]

Like Mighty Mouse the Movie!

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a98/BatManBlade/KillerMonkey.jpg


:)

[The Stryker]

:lol: Damn where do you people find your Pics?

Mighty Mouse took Pills to get his Powers!

[Weapon X]

Anyways back on topic...Underdog just seems so old to make a movie out of, or something like that. :ohwell:

[The Stryker]

Or Maybe it is like KROW said, Because of the Commercial Underdog has gotten some attention.

or maybe its another studios quest to obtain Nostalgia factor by bringing back a somewhat obscure character on a bigger scale.

[Weapon X]

Yeah makes sence...I guess.

[ThirdMarioBro]

I'd like to find the person who came up with this dumbass idea, string him up by his toenails and sumbit him to Chinese water torture.

[Deathknight]

Oh god, say it isn't so. What else can we ruin in the next few years?

[KROW]

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a98/BatManBlade/KillerMonkey.jpg
Awww, what a cute monkey.

[Spitfire]

What's next Green Hornet?

[Raph's Girl]

What's next Green Hornet?

Um... it'll be in theatres this fall supposadly. Kevin Smith wrote the script. No clue who's playing the infamous descendent of The Lone Ranger tho. :P

Hey... at least it's not as bad as the upcoming Green Lantern film staring Jack Black. :ohwell:

[DrSpengler]

Hey... at least it's not as bad as the upcoming Green Lantern film staring Jack Black. :ohwell:

Now that one, thankfully, was totally fake. :oops:

[Raph's Girl]

Just got back from seeing Underdog!

This is a cute film for Beagle fans like myself....it's also very hilarious. There are elements of Superman in it like Underdog changing in a phone booth :lol:

The movie starts out with Shoeshine just being a bumbling idiot of a police dog. He made a fool of himself and leaves the force. Only to be captured by the bad guys. Simon Bar Sinister (played convincingly eevily by Peter Dinklage, known amongst sci-fi fans as the midget in the short lived tv series Threshold) is experiementing on dogs. Trying to make some sort of serum to make em more human. Simon tells Cad (played by Patrick "SPOOOON!!!" Warburton) To prepare the Beagle. Well the dog was warned by another dog what Bar Sinister was doing and he escapes (but not before the serum combo falls on his fur, giving him powers. One thing leads to another and he gets a home and a name. He was named Shoeshine by Dan Unger (Jim Belushi) because the dog kept on licking his shoes. Dan's son soon learns the dog has powers and kinda becomes the sidekick.

Thruought the film the boy learns the value of friendship and family and Shoeshine learns to be a hero (albeit reluctantly at first).

All in all a good movie. Polly reminds me of Lois Lane (well her owner, Molly, IS a reporter after all) in some ways. Especially since she loves Underdog but can't stand the bumbling idiot she thinks Shoeshine is. :lol:

The special effects are good. Except for one of the ending scenes where Underdog crashes to earth after saving the city. As Jack Unger picks up the motionless dog you can SOO totally tell it was a plush dog. :roll:

[Drtooth]

Raph's Girl.... I just lost all respect for you! :tcouch:

(honestly, I was willing to give this a chance until I saw Jim Belushi was in it!)

[VaughnMichael]

Raph's Girl.... I just lost all respect for you! :tcouch:

(honestly, I was willing to give this a chance until I saw Jim Belushi was in it!)
The reason I hate this movie is because of the icon you're using right now drtooth if that series never existed and was the true under dog I may not have hated this movie so much.
Oh wait actully I take that back I hate talking animal cgi films..so nevermind...this is just another sack of crap like the garfield movies are to me.:roll:

[Raph's Girl]

(honestly, I was willing to give this a chance until I saw Jim Belushi was in it!)

Oh come on.. Jim Belushi plays a security officer at the science building Simon Bar Sinister works at in the beginning. He's a former cop and decorated hero of the city who left the force to be with his son after his wife dies (no idea what of). He's also the secondary hero of the story after Underdog (he helps to capture Simon Bar Sinister).

I'd also like to say that they use the original Underdog in the film. There's charactures of him in the newspapers and footage from the original plays as well. So they DO acknowledge the animated series. The live action one is more or less an homage.

[Drtooth]

Firstly, I have a thing against Jim Belushi. He has none of the talent his brother John has, though I hear he does pretty well as a Blues brother with Dan Akroyd, so I'll give him that.

Secondly, I REALLy hate talking dog movies.

Thirdly, I take my cartoons seriously. I wouldn't want my characters on a shoddy product. I mean, say what you will about the Bullwinkle movie, they paid attention to detail. Even to the extent of having them sing the Pottsylvanian anthem which was only sung once in one episode during the rocket fuel story arch (I believe). Jason Aleander even had Boris's receding hair line.

I mean, from what i saw they got every aspect wrong.

How hard is it to make someone look like this..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/SimonBarSinister.jpg

just slap a bald wig on him and paint (or color key) him green.

[VaughnMichael]

The live action one is more or less an homage.
More like basterdization.

How hard is it to make someone look like this..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/SimonBarSinister.jpg

just slap a bald wig on him and paint (or color key) him green.
Realy hard actully considering they really don't want to do things like this in hollywood anymore...everything has to be ultra realistic even when it comes froma cartoon now. Everythings just way to serious in its looks making it in a real world setting then they try to make it all silly and cartoonish it just really doesn't work well together.

[Brodie]

I'm sure this movie will be really good.


Like Alone in the Dark.

or Resident Evil

or Troll 2

or Roadhouse

or Click

or House of the Dead

or those Scifi channel movies

or Batman and Robin


Like, Really good.

[VaughnMichael]

I'm sure this movie will be really good.


Like Alone in the Dark.

or Resident Evil

or Troll 2

or Roadhouse

or Click

or House of the Dead

or those Scifi channel movies

or Batman and Robin


Like, Really good.
hahahahahahahahha man those movies are AWSOME!:lol:

[Drtooth]

...or both Inspector Gadget movies.

To be fare, Disney did a pretty good job with George of the Jungle. John Cleese voicing an Ape named Ape. The onyl one better was Paul Frees, and he ain't doing much no more.

[GK Punk]

To me it looks like someone wrote a script about a dog super hero, and a producer working for disney said "Let's slap an already known property on it!"

[VaughnMichael]

To me it looks like someone wrote a script about a dog super hero, and a producer working for disney said "Let's slap an already known property on it!"
Gotta agree there..I just can't see myself enjoying this mo matter how many drugs I was on, much I drank, or no matter how much money some one paid me lol:lol:

[GK Punk]

Same. It just doesn't seem appealing at all. I might watch it once it hits TV like HBO or something, but even that I am doubting.

[Drtooth]

I will give you this: In between seeing Underdog, Hot Rod, or Bratz, I'd go with Underdog.

Of course, add to the list "Have my man parts crushed slowly and painfully in a vice," I'll go with the vice.

(Can't Wait for Mr. Bean's Holiday though! I did a fan girl scream when I saw the ad for it on TV... AND I'M A GUY!)

[KROW]

(Can't Wait for Mr. Bean's Holiday though! I did a fan girl scream when I saw the ad for it on TV... AND I'M A GUY!)

Seconded.

Though I think Hot Rod sounds more entertaining than Underdog (though it equally sounds like Jackass with a script), I've had my summer film fill with Simpsons and Potter and feel that Mr. Bean would be a great bookend to it.

[Raph's Girl]

Seconded.

Though I think Hot Rod sounds more entertaining than Underdog (though it equally sounds like Jackass with a script), I've had my summer film fill with Simpsons and Potter and feel that Mr. Bean would be a great bookend to it.

I saw the Mr. Bean's Holiday trailer attached to Underdog. It looked kinda funny but I've never quite understood Brit humour. Plus the fact that the only movie I've seen him in unfortunatly was Scooby Doo... :ohwell:

Hot Rod looks very dumb.

Next movie Im seeing is "The Last Legion". I at first was gonna see it cuz it's about the end of the Roman empire and Im into historical stuff...but I saw a trailer on tv a couple min ago and it seems the movie is more or less the origins of Excalibur. So an Arthurian link, which is fine by me.

[Drtooth]

Hot Rod looks very dumb.
.

The respect I said I lost for you? It's back! I'll never understand why Andy Samberg can freely ripoff Napoleon Dynamite and become a comic hero. he's not funny in the least, and I'm getting sick of awkward laughs.

plus, if I want to see a movie about a terrible stuntman who winds up being shredded to a pulp by his stunts going haywire, I got a DVD of the Super Dave Osborne movie.

It has been years since Rowan Atkensen (sp?) has been Mr. Bean. Maybe a decade or so. Britcoms have always been my favorite thing to watch on PBS (Sesame Street not withstanding) and I remember when they used to air Mr. Bean, the Thin Blue Line (forget the title, but it's something like that), and Black Adder (1,2,3 and 4) alternately. They air Monty Python, but it's been a while since they had anything else (though they just started running Fawlty Towers again).

[VaughnMichael]

there's other great brit shows on pbs also like Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Apperances, & the canadian show I've loved for years The Red Green Show.
I watch PBS every week because of these types of shows even if I've seen them 100 times before the shows never get old to me and bring back so many memories.:)

[Drtooth]

Love Are you Being Served, hate Keeping Up Appearances. Mine also used to show the British Office and Coupling as well. I hate when they put on junk like British Cop Shows and CSI crap like that. We have enough channels with that crap on.

[Raph's Girl]

Always loved Fawlty Towers. My grandparents just LOVE Keeping Up Apearances. Seen a couple eps of that...it's ok..

[Barkworm]

(Can't Wait for Mr. Bean's Holiday though! I did a fan girl scream when I saw the ad for it on TV... AND I'M A GUY!)
I've already seen it and that movie is lame beyond words. I'm not a fan of Bean but I liked some episodes and when I heard they'd keep it more like the show (unlike the previous Americanized movies) I had some hope for it. Maybe Bean fans will enjoy it, I don't know.

[VaughnMichael]

My grandparents just LOVE Keeping Up Apearances.
yeah older folks tend to like this show allot I tend to find myself in the mindset of an old person and enjoying the company of older people so I guess this is why I like this show lol.
And I guess no one here watches the red green show besides me haha:lol:

[Raph's Girl]

And I guess no one here watches the red green show besides me haha:lol:

Actually I liked the Red Green Show. What other show (except maybe McGyver) would have all those usefull ways to use duct tape! :lol:

Unfortunate that the series was cancelled last year. But there IS a spin-off series coming...it's an animated prequel about Harold as a teen. :lol:

Did you ever see the movie? It had em go to this duct tape convention in Minnesota while on the run from this land developer.

[VaughnMichael]

Actually I liked the Red Green Show. What other show (except maybe McGyver) would have all those usefull ways to use duct tape! :lol:

Unfortunate that the series was cancelled last year. But there IS a spin-off series coming...it's an animated prequel about Harold as a teen. :lol:

Did you ever see the movie? It had em go to this duct tape convention in Minnesota while on the run from this land developer.
The show has been what!!!? It still comes on every week here in Pittsburgh,p.a. and like almost every episode I've never seen.
Oi animated series about herold *sigh* that will never fly as much as I liked harold on the show what made the show for me was all the wacky characters and sketches the show took me back to the days of the 3 stooges and those kind. Man is there really confermation of Red Green being cancled? Because thats a damn shame!:-?
Yeah I have the movie on dvd it was ok not the typical red green stuff though that I really like and the woman he met in the movie didn't even stay with him in the show he has that nerdy girl he got married to who looks like a girl version of himself lol

[Raph's Girl]

The show has been what!!!?

Yea... the series finale was April 2006. It lasted for 15 seasons with the series finale being the 300th ep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Green_Show

[VaughnMichael]

Yea... the series finale was April 2006. It lasted for 15 seasons with the series finale being the 300th ep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Green_Show
You've just shattered my entire world Raphs girl......:cry:
Grown men shouldn' cry like this...*walks away*

[Masked Ninja]

Putting in my vote for Red Green, I've loved that show for years, along with our other PBS Britcoms, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. :D Didn't know it'd been cancelled, though. I gotta get me a TV. *sigh*

On topic of the actual thread, I think this is one movie I'm not gonna touch. The mouth replacement on the dogs looks really dated... the movement doesn't look natural at all. Looks like a fun diversion if you don't want to think for 90 minutes and just enjoy a fluff movie, but certainly nothing I'd spend money to see.

[DrSpengler]

My Review. (http://www.filmsy.com/reviews/underdog-2007-review/)

You know, I didn't think it was that bad of a kid's flick and I enjoyed it as a new take on Underdog. I really didn't mind the changes since they worked for the new setting.

[Drtooth]

If you're a crusty old member of the Underdog online fandom, well, you probably decided to hate this movie long before it ever came out.

While not crusty, from that review I think I'll stay as far away from it as possible. I'm gonna change my avatar and sig too....

[DrSpengler]

Well, I didn't write that with you in mind, so I mean no offense.

But really, for a movie with the plot of "what if Underdog existed in the real world?" I think it succeeded quite well. If you can look at it that way then I think most Underdog fans should be able to enjoy it on some levels.