Concepts that are good but later get ruined

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mandy m

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You know this, every animated film gets a good concept. But however when something goes bad at the studio it ruins the concept of it and later turns from good movie into crap. Now mainly because there are likely so many of them list them here's mine


American Dog- John Lassester had to been smoking something to screw this one up. It had a really good story that sounded like a James Bond parody, but then John had to turn it into a toy story clone. I swear I hope to god that Sanders considers the idea to Dreamworks.


Cool World- The original idea of this one just blew me away. Cool World started out as a horror movie and the producer of the film just had to tick off Bakshi for turning it into a Roger Rabbit knock-off. It wouldve worked better if it was done in Bakshi's point of view...


Do you know anything that had a good concept but later getting turned to crap?
 
There was a series in 1999 called "Xyber 9" which had, I thought, a terrific concept. Kind of a King Arthur meets Mad Max world. It had a lot of recognizable archetypes, Tony Jay and Tim Curry as the villains, and could have been very iconic.

What happened? I don't know, but watching it, it just felt like the writers and producers were handcuffed. Even by Saturday morning cartoon standards. It was repetitive, sanitized beyond measure, didn't go anywhere, and was canceled after six episodes aired (they made over twenty, I think).

Eventually, Disney XD aired the rest, and, it never got better. And yet, it reeked of potential.

It could have, it should have... been a whole lot better.
 
I honestly think that I would have liked the Emporer's New Groove better as a musical fairy-tale, than a Looney Tunes style comedy.
 
Really? Strange, I thought the route they took with Emperor's New Groove was the right way to go and a refreshing change of pace for Disney, who up to that point had been churning out "sweeping, musical epics" like The Lion King and Tarzan.

And don't even get me started on American Dog, it makes me sick to think Lasseter even dared to turn such an original, dark concept into the generic crapfest that was Bolt. Some 'genius' he is.
 
I disagree. John didn't destroyed it, he saved it. Bolt worked out well with it's plot, characters, and development. I think the final product was really great.
 
^ This. Really, if we start judging projects based on what they aren't instead of what they are, we're not gonna like anything.

And The Emperor's New Groove, as it is now, is one of the funniest movies of the decade.
 
You must of not followed the early buzz for American dog, the project that eventually birthed BOLT. After reading about what was to come and seeing what came, BOLT just seems lazy and extremely average. It wasn't even good, it was just okay.

I feel like the Ninja Turtles series Flash Forward wasted a lot of setup with the darker stories and deeper mythologies of seasons past to all of a sudden be flung into a silly future. The least they could of done is made the future dark and gritty and have the turtles follow suit, they were heading that direction anyway. It didn't help that Back to The Sewer gave the turtles, movie inspired, cutesy designs and a bad plot.
 
From what I read from the people who worked on it, all American Dog had going for it was some good production art. Everyone who worked on it hated it, and Sanders himself was often absent from the production and just left weird notes for everyone to follow.

I followed the early buzz, but frankly I didn't see what all the fuss was about. And this is from a fan of Lilo & Stitch.

Anyway, back on topic, I'd like to nominate the obscure British series "The Legends of Treasure Island". The idea is a funny animal adaptation where the island itself is pretty much the one from Lost. It starts out kind of cool, but it's ruined by incompetent directing. The characters go from being able to slug it out with the pirates to surrendering at the first sign of trouble from episode to episode. The map is completely useless, but both sides want it at all costs. Jim fights with a metal sword one episode, only for a wooden sword to be important enough to him to serve as a hostage when the pirates steal it...

...It's all just one big mess. The show can't stay consistent, making everything that happens feel pointless.
 
Spongebob... dun dun duh....

The concept of a cute little sponge living with his zany friends under the sea was cute at first --- then the writers started focusing on the sponge's workplace and Krabs & Plankton have become a favorite.

Sometimes I think it should be named The Adventures of two Resturant Rivals with a few other sea creatures. :sweat:
 
Not really turned to crap, but Surrogatescould have been expanded on much more. The way the movie was, it was less about the robots and more about conspiracy. Don't get me started on how it was too short and left me waiting for more.
 
I Agree I'm tired of plankton+Krabs episodes they're trying to be to actiony it gets pretty boring and most of the times their showing "Movies" that are only an hour-long and these are lackluster at best. go back to the old Sponge that just goes through daily life with unusual results.
 
I always saw Fast Forward and BttS as bad concepts with worse execution. Now I think the concept of the Ninja Tribunal and Demon Shredder in the lost Season was a good but got ruined by the whole anime super moves and turning into dragons junk. I dont mind ninja magic powers but they weren't intergrated very well into the action most of the time. I remember the characters that didnt' have the super moves had the better action scenes in the season.
 
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