If you're looking for a good movie adaptation you're probably smurf out of luck...

So with the announcement I read today that they're going to make a Captain Planet movie, even though I thought the show sucked as a kid, it got me cringing again at the fact that Hollywood's going to fuck up another childhood cartoon we all used to enjoy. First it was Scooby Doo, which was beyond awful. I don't count the Flintstones movie, because  I liked that. I mean you got John Goodman and Rick Moranis, what's not to love? Anyway, first Scooby, then Garfield, which somehow both of these have churned out sequels carrying on the corny awfulness. I mean did anyone watch Underdog or Fat Albert? You probably didn't, cuz the trailers, thankfully showed you how awful the movies were going to be. Plus any movie starring Kenan Thompson you just know is going to suck cuz the man is NOT funny. I'm not even going to get into Alvin and the Chipmunks. My disdain for those movies and how the chipmunks are portrayed still angers me. If I wanted to watch a movie with talking chipmunks I'll watch Chip n' Dale.  I mean they were the size of children in the show! Also, what the hell happened to Jason Lee? Seriously? How irrelevant has that guy become? Sometimes I forget that he played one of my all time favorite characters, Brody, in Mallrats. Guess that's what happens when you decide playing a redneck in a bad TV show is a good career move. Now this brings me to the Smurfs. The Smurfs, one of the cornerstones of cartoon shows we all watched as children, and if your one of those pretentious jerk offs who claim you never watched it cuz "you were outside all time", making it sound like playing outside wasn't common place when we were all kids and that your better then every one because you were outside all time, then you are a fucking liar and can go fuck yourself and you're going to probably die of skin cancer anyway. Whew! Anyway, looking at the trailer, not even NPH can save this movie. I don't get what goes into the mind Hollywood screenwriters when they adapt these movies. It's like they've learned nothing from the Pixar or Shrek movies. Or for that matter, all the Looney Tunes shows that have been out. If they paid attention to how they handle humor and actually making it funny for the entire audience they would make better movies. It's like their overly trying to dumb down the material because they think children won't be able to handle the movie if they made it a little more sophisticated. I mean I know nowadays we have more overbearing and close minded parents who feel the need to censor everything from their children like their amish or something, which come to think of it is probably why these movies suck so much. I finally figured out why these are done so poorly and make you feel dumber after watching them! I was wondering why because it seems like more and more these days that people have lost all sense of imagination and wonder and are more concerned with everything being more realistic. It's like they've lost that sense of enjoyment when you take a minute or two out of your day (or longer) and just escape into your imagination, whether it be a book, comic, or movie. Anyway, I wish Hollywood would just leave these shows alone and actually come up with original ideas. What a concept....