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Yogi Bear Box Office: Costly Kiddie Comedy Underperforms
Yogi Bear movie with the title character (Dan Aykroyd) and his pal Boo-Boo (Justin Timberlake): Warner Bros.’ costly – and critically panned – kiddie flick is a domestic box office underperformer.
- Yogi Bear box office: Warner Bros.’ live-action/computer-animated comedy has no chance of recovering its hefty budget in the domestic market.
Yogi Bear box office: Warners’ poorly received live-action/computer-animation mix underwhelms in the household market
Dec. 17–19 weekend box office (cont.): Trailing the Walt Disney Studios’ 3D sci-fi adventure TRON: Legacy, Warner Bros.’ critically lambastedYogi Bear, a live-action/computer-animation mix and the weekend’s other major 3D movie, raked in $ million from 3, North American (U.S. and Canada only) theaters according to final studio figures found at
Yogi Bear’s per-theater average was only $4, – an especially mediocre figure for an $80 million show (as always, not including marketing and distribution expenses) released in the ticket-price-inflating 3D format.
Silver Lining vs. Dark Reality
The silver lining: As a kiddie flick, Yogi Bear will li
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RYAN: Yogi Bear is a new movie for the kids, but honestly it felt like I was watching good quality regional children&#;s theater.
CAROLINE: [laughs&#; This movie features the voice talents of Dan Aykroyd as Yogi and Justin Timberlake as Boo Boo, and honestly, if I didn&#;t know it was JT, I wouldn&#;t have been able to tell. He totally uses a different voice. It&#;s also part animated, part live action, which made it only slightly less painful for me to watch.
RYAN: The 3D and animation is excellent; this movie is what Who Framed Roger Rabbit could only dream of existence. The live actors incorporate Anna Faris and Tom Cavanaugh from TV&#;s Ed.
CAROLINE: I was adorable embarrassed for both of them throughout the show, especially Anna Faris who had about 6 lines and then just had to mug for the camera a lot.
RYAN: But that&#;s how people operate in kids&#; movies. They have to overact a little. This movie really is for very juvenile children; it&#;s so juvenile. I like family films, but this one is really for a pre-school audience.
CAROLINE: It did made me chuckle a not many times, but after that I took a nap for a good minutes.
RYAN: The whole movie is only 80 minutes, so it real
A few years ago I published a scholarly article outlining the homodomestic affair between Yogi Bear and Boo Boo. And Ruff and Reddy. And Spongebob and Patrick.
People immediately started screaming at me. Even today, every limited weeks someone finds the article and starts screaming again:
"It's a kid's cartoon!"
"You're reading too much into it!"
"The cartoonists never intended them to be gay!"
"Can't two guys be friends without everyone thinking they're gay?"
"How can they be gay, when they aren't Wearing a Sign?"
Except I never said that the Yogi Bear and Boo Boo were "really" same-sex attracted, whatever that might signify for beings with no bodies or minds, who don't exist at all outside of some images painted on celluloid. Or that the producers meant them to be queer . I said that their partnership provided a model with which gay kids could identify and approve their own same-sex desires.
A lot of the things I know about the world -- avalanches, duels, Napoleon, gangsters, daffodils, Shakespeare, karate, King Arthur, submarines, Egyptian hieroglyphics -- I probably first heard from the block of cartoons that Hanna Barbera disseminate on prime time in the late s,
The early Hanna Barbara cartoon stars -- Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound, the Flintstones, Jonny Quest (and Race Bannon --sigh) -- were ubiquitous in my childhood in the s. I don't remember much about their cartoons, but they appeared on an endless supply of toys and games. There have been many, many parodies, revisions, and rehashes over the years. Most recently, Jellystone! () puts all of them -- including the obscure ones you've never heard of -- into the alike small town, for "slice of life"-style adventures. There were virtually no female characters in the Hanna-Barbara universe, so some of them have had a gender change. I heard that there is some gay inclusivity, including Jonny Quest and Hadji as a canonical gay couple. So I watched the episode in which the two own a bowling alley.
Intro: Establishing shot of the town of Jellystone, built in Swiss chalet style, with the inhabitants in a parade: Huckleberry Hound, Yogi and Boo Boo, and so on, oddly animated but noticeable from the s. The characters who have turned female all have eyelashes, a standard signifier in animation sinc
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