Berenstain Bears is Getting a Movie. Guess What Kind of Movie?

Good god, man!

Seriously, what's with the whole "cartoon characters in our world" plot? Why do people keep using it? Are they too cheap to make their own cartoon world for them to inhabit? Do they only have the budget for four animated characters or something?
 
My grandparents gave me these books, and reading was very important to me. These Bears were a very important part of my childhood So what do I say to this? Just shoot me.
 
Dang it Hollywood, why must you be so mean to us with our childhood?

Where the Wild Things Are worked since it was a bunch of monster like creatures inhabiting an island.

The Berenstain Bears on the other hand, doesn't and will not work in live action. Maybe CG or 2D, but not live action.
 
Has Hollywood really ran out of ideas where the only thing they're capable of making is film renditions of children's books/TV shows?
Here's a suggestion: try creating something original. :shrug:
 
WHAT THE FREAKING HELL?!

Seriously.

These bastards clearly have no limits for what's okay to bastardize and what isn't. I absolutely loved these books in my childhood, so this is just going to be horrible. Why can't they just leave children's book as animated shorts for the children?!
 
I liked the Bearenstain Bears in my childhood and to see them fall like this is disgusting. I've got guns for everyone who wants a bullet in their head, but hurry before I close up shop to shoot myself.
 
Shell out twenty bucks and buy Up, Waltz with Bashir, Wall*E, Sita Sings the Blues, Persepolis, Coraline, or Ponyo and that's exactly what you'll do.:shrug:

I think - as I did with the reactions to Alvin & the Chipmunks, Garfield, and the Scooby Doo movies, that you're all overreacting... a little. For one thing, the movie's not out yet - you're driving yourselves to heart attacks based on an intention. I think the idea of making a Bernstein Bears feature, particularly one in live-action, is laughable, but I'm going to save my vitriol for when the thing actually gets released.

EDIT: Also, it doesn't seem like he's saying the bears are going to interact with the real-world Fat Albert style.
 
I'll give you Up, Waltz with Bashir, Sita Sings the Blues and Ponyo, but I think WALL-E, as amazing as it was, might be stretching it a little. Persepolis, however, was based on a graphic novel, and Coraline is based on a book. Not that this affects their quality, but I think when they said original, they also meant not an adaptation.
 
Good point. Allowing for that, though, in the last couple of years there has still been Idiots and Angels, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Tokyo Godfathers, and Corpse Bride, just off the top of my head. So playing the "originality is dead" card in regards to animation doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
 
Geez, so they're now attempting to stretch out a kids' book to a, what, 90 minute film?

Now, I realize that some have been successful. Look at, say, Shrek - they took all kinds of liberties with the original book, but let's face it - the original story wouldn't have lent itself well to a film. So they had to, but they did it the right way - which most adaptations miss.

And I don't see how they could do that for Berenstain Bears.
 
There's just something...not right about this. Sure, I can understand them doing something like this for Scooby Doo, Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks, but this?

If they wanted to adapt the Berenstain Bears to the big screen, they should've just made it a cartoon movie.
 
....hold on, I just about had a huge heart attack reading this.

It's LIVE ACTION?!

That's even worse than a full-length animated one!
 
Not to be annoying, but Corpse Bride is based off a short Russian folklore story.

I agree with what you're saying though, there still is a lot of original animation out there.
 
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