NO

[foxhack]

NO

NO

NO



DAMMIT NO!

Dan Aykroyd, you are DEAD TO ME. DEAD. Your Yogi... SUCKS. HARD. You're nowhere near the original voices. Who told you you could do this?! And that guy who plays Ranger Smith... I thought his face was CGI. He looks LIKE AN EMBALMED CORPSE.

(But Justin Timberlake sounds okay.)

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARF T_T

Comments

[foxhack]

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Good point.

[foxhack]

Then again, do kids these days know who Alvin and The Chipmunks and The Smurfs were?

[mneko]

He's Ranger Smith? That's good casting... who better to play a cartoon douchebag than a real-life douchebag?

[foxhack]

No, the guy who looks like a walking embalmed corpse is Ranger Smith.

[furrykef]

Ranger Smith is a douchebag?

[angelophile]

What just happened?

I mean, I know Dan Aykroyd's basically been in freefall since thinking Blues Brothers 2000 was a good idea, but I still hoped for the occasional return to form like with Gross Pointe Blank. But, yeah...

I'm definitely joining the Bill Murray camp on the Ghostbusters 3 issue.

[mister_f]

I may be treading on water with this statement, but the original cartoon wasn't all that great to begin with. Awesome character design, but really chintzy animation and predictable plot. Yes, it was made for children, but it doesn't hold up so well many years later. At least the early Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny cartoons still do. I think when John Kricfalusi did a couple of Yogi cartoons, they were awesome.
Then again, when I was older, I never liked Hanna Barbera stuff as much as I did as a kid.

[foxhack]

It's an H-B show, of course it was formulaic. They cranked those episodes out like a sweatshop.

But even if the Yogi show was pretty dumb, at least the company tried to have some quality. The actors didn't phone it in. They knew their work. At least at the start, anyway. Don't get me started on Scooby Doo.

[furrykef]

I think Boo Boo Runs Wild was one of the most boring things I've ever watched. I haven't seen the other Yogi shorts that John K. has done, though. John K.'s just a mixed bag for me, I guess... I think he's just insane. Sometimes it's a good kind of insane, sometimes it's a bad kind, sometimes just a "meh" kind.

Funny enough I think Justin Timberlake does a better Boo Boo voice than John K. did. Justin sounds like Boo Boo... John just sounded like John. (Aykroyd, meanwhile, is out of his element. A couple of his lines sound fine, but at other times he's just way off. On the whole, my mother probably does a better impression...)

[mneko]

I'll be damned. Justin Timberlake actually sounds like Boo Boo. He would have been the last guy I would have picked for that role, but against absolutely all odds, he's a good fit.

Note to Dan Hemorrhoid, though: Yogi Bear was based on Art Carney, not Rodney Dangerfield. Maybe you should have waited until Warner Bros. made a Jabberjaw film.

[foxhack]

Yeah, Timberlake is a surprisingly competent (and real life) voice actor. Who knew.