Anyone want a new Ranger WAIFU alongside Gadget, Foxglove, and Tammy? Well here, I give you Chip’s Mom. WHOA!
I actually had a thought with her eyes that maybe it was Clarice but she doesn’t have a beauty mark. Not that I would ever imply an oedipus complex, that’s for rule34 to deal with.
(also I just realised the double entendre of cutie mark. I feel like such an idiot.)
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Most non hardcore RR fans I know who’ve seen the film have generally liked it. As in not as rabid as us. Hopefully I’ll catch it during the week, weekend has been crazy busy.
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It’s probably coming. I mean didn’t cartoon network do this.
The design looks a little similar to the art they used for this mobile game
Edit: It made me realize, if it does become a thing, it’ll very likely be a mobile game
a pale imitation gamelike product you mean
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I finally got down to watching it and I believe this is the kind of movie RR needed to be, rather than what some fans wanted and dreamed up in their headcanon for 30+ years. Clearly, the filmmakers were fans at heart and grew up with the show. Were they fanfiction writers or fan artists or did they run websites or moderate forums based on it? Who knows? But they saw an opportunity to do something different that would be inclusive to a wider (newer) audience, but with respect to those who enjoyed the show, even religiously, who are grown up and can appreciate the humor as well as some fond memories. I think true fans ought to dig this affectionate parody. I felt nostalgic watching it and had quite a few laughs. The film did what it set out to do and that should be celebrated.
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I watched it with my girlfriend and I think I’m still processing it. Afterwards, we tried to drill down what exactly it is about the movie that felt so disrespectful to me. It’s not that it’s an animated actors cartoon crossover where some of my fav characters are portrayed as washed up, cus Roger Rabbit did that with Betty Boop in a way that felt more like a loving homage.
I think it’s the whole meta-commentary about ill-advised sequels and reboots that because of its nature as a Disney movie can’t point the finger where it’s deserved, the actual producers and companies who decides to make the movies. Once you realize how the trick works, that they are willing to tip just about every sacred cow apart from one, this style of smug self-referential reboot kinda start showings its seams a little.
That’s how I felt about the live-action Scooby Doo movie back in the days as well, that to some extent it felt like they where treating the source material as beneath them. Good enough to make money out of, not good enough to apprach the story on its own terms, apparently.
One thing I keep wondering is why CDRR in particular? Why did Ducktales get a whole extended series that manages to be a homage and a pretty good pastiche at the same time, but Rescue Rangers get this hot mess? I kinda get the sense that they basically see the show as kind of a passé cultural phenomenon; they reference it in the same breath as pogs. And I guess it’s not un-fair, I keep forgetting how much of a cultural artifact Chips indiana jones outfit and Dale’s magnum pi jacket is, cus to me that’s just how they dress.
There is a chance that I’ll eventually land on considering the movie to be kind of a guilty pleasure, it is at least not boring. But the most devestating thing about it, frankly, is the quality of the “2d” animation. Cel-shaded 3D is never going to be a replacment for traditional 2D animation, no matter how many times cartoons and anime try to convince me otherwise.
I get that when blending live-action and animation, you run into a problem cus animation is typically 12 frames/sec and movies typically 24 frames/sec, but the way Who Framed Roger Rabbit solved that problem is they simply animated some key scenes on ones. Is it horrendously expensive and time consuming? Oh yes. But it’d be worth it. (well, it’d be worth it to me and the animation enthusiasts, maybe not so much for box office numbers…)
Pretty much everything you just said is how I feel about what I know and have seen.
I’m not going to insist too strongly on my point of view, because I haven’t seen the movie and I don’t think I can bring myself to, but the inklings, intuitions and sneaking suspicions I’ve gotten from all the YouTube clips and trailers have been pretty consistently confirmed one after another. There are so many incomplete sets of individual turn-offs to Disney’s approach here that would each be sufficient on their own to give me gross feels that giving it a shot feels downright unwise.
Which makes me really sad. It makes me ask the same question - why’d it have to be CDRR at all? And I think you nailed it, but I think that makes it even sadder. It could just as easily have been Goof Troop if you’re fishing around for an abandoned IP that’s as culturally dated as Pogs (Hey, I like Pogs… still have my collection, but then I’M culturally dated too). I say this as someone who loves Goof Troop too, just saying Disney seems to be cannibalizing CDRR almost arbitrarily. “Reach into the Dated IP Bin and pillory one of 'em, it’ll be fun”.
Doesn’t really feel like this movie was ever intended to be FOR me, and I guess… fair enough, sure, nobody said it had to be. Still breaks my heart a little, though. I’ve never really been a lulzy sort of person so watching Disney drag its own ass over one of its properties doesn’t enthuse me as a way to pass the time. I tend to engage with things I like in a pretty earnest fashion even if I’m making fun of some aspects of them. Like you mentioned, it’s possible to lampoon or lampshade a thing while maintaining a strong soul of fondness for it at the core, but every time I see a new clip from the film it’s doing the opposite.
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I suspect that to an extent this movie is what happens when popular culture spends years hating on and demonizing millenials only to realize we’re next in line in the nostalgia cycle now, but even as they try to pander to us, they cannot hide that underlying disdain.
One thing that’s fascinated me following the conversations about this movie is how people seem split between the people who feel that it’s an incredibly cynical movie and people who feel like it’s the kind of movie someone has been excited to make their whole life. I even saw one person who felt like the movie was oscillating between the two states on a scene-by-scene basis.
Those very different takes are interesting to me. It reminds me a little bit of how so many modern adaptions manage to feel somehow butchered and like a shot-for-shot remake at the same time. The hollywood system is really good at getting the details right (in the CDRR case, they’ve pretty much nailed down exactly which characters to reference for maximum nostalgia impact), but really bad at capturing the heart and soul of a story.
And Goof Troop is pretty great! The movie in particular I believe is an underrated gem. Considering what they did to Gadget, I’m a little afraid to think what they’d do to Roxanne, what manner of insect would she be bred with?
This deserves its own topic but I fully agree, A Goofy Movie is one of the best 2D animated films Disney has ever done in my opinion, at least insofar as readapting their existing properties goes. It has immense amounts of heart and it’s fun through and through. The sequel is… definitely one of those sequilitis cases, but given what we have to compare it to, surprisingly I think it stands above a lot of other stuff.