Favorite/Least Favorite Live-action movie based on animated series

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There have been many live action movies based of popular animated series franchises, such as Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, recently, The Chipmunks, Speed Racer, and (soon) DragonBall and The Jetsons, so I wondered which live action movies did you enjoy and which ones you didn't?

My faves:
  1. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
  2. Alvin & The Chipmunks (2007); hopefully this new sequel will star the CHIPETTES!
  3. Inspector Gadget (1999); I somehow found the plot of this movie more interesting than that of the original 1980s cartoon series.
  4. The Flintstones (1994)
  5. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
My least faves:
  1. Inspector Gadget 2 (2003); It harkened back to the original caroon series.
  2. Scooby-Doo (2002)
  3. Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
  4. Garfield (2004)
 
Loved Transformers, Speed Racer, Garfield, Flintstones. Scooby Doo and it's sequal was alright. The Flintstones Prequel wasn't bad. The Casshern, Death Note, and Devilman movies were really good too. And the live action Cutie Honey movie was GREAT.
 
The flintstones was great, becuase of the scenery, and the actors were pretty similar to the cartoon, with the exception of Rick Moranis as Barney. (That Baldwin Brother who played him in the prequel seemed to nail him better than Rick)

I really liked Casper as well.

Garfield: the Movie however, was pretty bad. It felt like a direct-to-TV Disney Channel movie. I think a Garifeld movie would've been really funny if they got a better actor for Jon. I think Jim Carrey could've played the nerotic, bumbling Jon Arbuckle a lot better. And if they had made Garfield more trouble-making for Jon and his life, and just had that be the premise, with Odie showing right before the credits, it would've been a funnier movie, paving the way for the sequel.
 
the live-action adaptation of Asterix and Cleopatra was very good as well as the 1st Asterix movie. Actors Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu portrayed Asterix and Obelix very good.
 
The live-action Inspector Gadget blew it in just about every way imaginable. I didn't expect it to be brilliant, but I at least expected it to stick more closely to its source material than it did. There is such a thing as being too tongue-in-cheek, after all. (Not to mention that I haven't seen such shameless product placement since Mac and Me.)

Come to think of it, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle made the same mistakes - too many overwrought attempts to be funny, rocketing along at such a pace that nobody in the audience can keep up with them. That's pretty much the same gag-a-second format as the actual show, I admit, but some things just don't work when you bring them into live action.

I think the problem with live-action movies based on cartoons is that in most cases, the source material was not all that great, and everyone knows that it wasn't all that great, so the movie tries to cover up for that by constantly making cheeky references to the fact that it wasn't all that great. Unfortunately, just acknowledging a problem isn't the same as fixing it, and the end result is a lot of self-depreciating humor that falls flat on the floor.
 
It's wierd: there's been a lot of good movies based on comics (i.e. Superman: The Movie, Batman/Begins, Spiderman 1/2, Ghost World, V For Vendetta, Death Note), but nothing based on concepts original to animation that's been made to world in live-action so far. I guess Speed Racer is drawing more from the dubbed anime than the original Mach Go Go comic so it might be the first good live-action cartoon (though I won't be able to say if it's good or not until tomorrow when I go see it, and from the looks of things the movie is 95% animation anyway).
 
I don't have any favorite live action movies based on an animated series.

So I will name three live action movies based on cartoons that like that wasn't good at all .

Masters Of The Universe
I really hated this movie becaue it was so wrong. I did not like the whole sideplot with He-Man going to Earth and spending the majority of the movie there and focusing on two teenagers. I also wanted to see more characters from the cartoon in the movie instead of the ones they made up just for the movie. The only thing they got right was having Dolph Lundgren as He-Man. Another thing I was that version of Beast Man and Teela.

Inspector Gadget
The fact that Dic allowed Disney to completely butcher the cartoon in this movie made my lose some respect for Dic. The movie wasn't funny at all that villain was NOT Dr. Claw.

The Adventures Of Dudley Do-Right
This movie in my opinion just did not do justice to the cartoon at all. Brendan Fraiser just wasn't the right actor to play Dudley Do-Right and the jokes were just lame.
 
I don't think I've really liked any of the attempts I've seen. I've only seen a handful of live action movies based on cartoons, Inspector Gadget being one of them, and that ranks as one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
 
The best live-action movie based on an animated series has to be King Kong Escapes, a film from the makers of the original Godzilla films that was loosly based on the Rankin-Bass/ Toei King Kong series (which incidentally was teh first animated co-production between America and Japan). It is far superior to the cartoon series, and is one of the best Japanese monster movies ever.
 
My favorite live action films based on animated shows include Transformers, Speed Racer, Cutie Honey, Masters of the Universe, George of the Jungle, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.

I have yet to see the Death Note movie but I have a feeling it'll be on my favorites list.

And you guys will probably flame me for including those last three films I listed. Well, I call them three of my guilty pleasures.
 
I loved the Flinstones live-action movie. The props and backgrounds just felt so cartoony, and the right kind of cartoony. Not how Speed Racer tried making all those "speedy lines" for backgrounds as if it was the cartoon.

And John Goodman as Fred holywoah. You don't think about it, but it's totally perfect.

The movie also had some pretty good jokes if I remember.
 
I loved the Scooby Doo films, Matthew Lillard wand the girl who played Velma (her name escapes me at the mo) where perfect. I enjoyed the story lines too and they kept to the show concept.

The Flintstones was ok, the actors where right and I love the set but the story didn't do it for me.

I agree Garfield could have been done better. Was enjoyable but not great.

One I'd like to see are Johnny Bravo and Hong Kong Phooey. I think they have live action potential.
 
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