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http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/disne ... ment-78444

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What do you think?

Meh, looks passable. Nothing original, but then again Disney has been making these sort of films on and off since the 50's.

For those of you who can't watch Quicktime videos on your computer, here's a YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7B5XOsn7w

Thanks for letting us know that the trailer is out, Julian! I laughed and sang along through the trailer. I have no idea what the film is about, based on the trailer, but I can't wait to see it- that song will be in my head all day- I'm giddy! I enjoy talking animal movies, so I'll probably be seeing it when it opens! It may not even be that good- the trailer is probably decieving, though- it's probably better than the trailer makes it seem.

No thanks.

I hope people don't get tired of canine-centered movies by the time Bolt comes out...

yukitora wrote:I hope people don't get tired of canine-centered movies by the time Bolt comes out...

Why? How many other canine centric films have there been recently? Firehouse Dog didn't get that much attention surely?

Poster:

Are you serious? They stole Pixar's pronunciation gag from Ratatouille?!

What I find funny is how in the YouTube link comments people keep saying that Disney sunk to a new low when they have been doing this since the 50s.

Disney pretty much pioneered the silly animal movie genre, with movies like "Gus", "Monkey's Uncle", "The Ugly Dachshund" and many others. Even this Chihuaha movie is too silly even for Disney it shouldn't come as a surprise that they produced it.

CUTE.

Seriously, it is cute.

Jamie Lee Curtis or Drew Barrymore weren't even featured in the trailer..



Anyway, it looks..okay. That's all I'm going to say. I won't be rushing to the theatre, because to tell you the truth, it looks a little cheesy.

This movie looks a bit silly, but adorable all the same

Jules wrote:What do you think?

Put that dog to sleep. Now!

This movie looks like an abomination on every level and only serves to support the fact that the only time people should be flocking to a theatre to see Cheech Marin in a starring role is if his first name is followed by "And Chong".

Panfan wrote:Jamie Lee Curtis or Drew Barrymore weren't even featured in the trailer..

They were lucky. I'd want my name as far away from this as possible.

Albert

Escapay, the truth is that although the movie will likely be bad (I stress that I still haven't written it off completely), I think a competent film-maker should (in theory, at least) be able to create a good film out of the material (in this case, a chihuahua fish-out-of-water story).

Take Disney's The Pacifier, for example. I didn't like it. I thought it was cliched, boring and unimaginative. But is there any reason why the movie couldn't have been a perfect family film with the just the right mix of (real) comedy and sentimentality, and a plotline a tad less pedestrian? All the film-makers need to do is seek to challenge our higher intellect rather than deliver unsatisfying and shallow tummy-tickler stuff. Then again, the director helming a film must be competent and not simply the eccentric guy next door who one day woke up and declared himself a motion picture director.

Jules, I almost always used to give some movies the benefit of the doubt if it didn't look too good from the trailer alone.

But in the past 5 years or so, nearly every movie that I've seen where I gave it the benefit of the doubt based on the trailer just plain sucked.

Mere words cannot capture just how excruciatingly horrible the trailer for Beverly Hills Chihuahua is. Mere words cannot capture just how unbelievably stupid the movie seems.

Julian Carter wrote:I think a competent film-maker should (in theory, at least) be able to create a good film out of the material (in this case, a chihuahua fish-out-of-water story).

The problem with competent filmmakers is that more often than not they have to bow down to the incompetent bigshots who force them to polish turds into some kind of marketable schlop at the box office. For example, did the world really need another Bad News Bears? And did they have to force an artist like Richard Linklater to slum it and direct the thing? No and No.

Jules wrote:Take Disney's The Pacifier, for example. I didn't like it. I thought it was cliched, boring and unimaginative. But is there any reason why the movie couldn't have been a perfect family film with the just the right mix of (real) comedy and sentimentality, and a plotline a tad less pedestrian?

Yes. Vin Diesel. He's a talentless hack who has sullied the word "actor" into something unforgiveable.

Jules wrote:All the film-makers need to do is seek to challenge our higher intellect rather than deliver unsatisfying and shallow tummy-tickler stuff.

It's easier for them to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Which results in stupidity like Meet the Spartans, Prom Night, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

30 years from now, Disney's crap like The Pacifier and Beverly Hills Chihuahua will be looked down by many Disney fans the same way that most today look down at Condorman or Unidentified Flying Oddball. Sure, it will have probably a small amount of devoted fans, but will generally be tucked away in the "What was Disney thinking?" shelf.

Albert

I haven't seen "The Pacifier" yet, so I can't comment on that, but the trailer doesn't even really give us any insight as to what the film will be like. Sure, we can assume that it'll be a fun talking animal comedy. But we really can't judge it too harshly until we see it, right?

Ames wrote:the trailer doesn't even really give us any insight as to what the film will be like.

It's a horribly misleading 90 seconds that turns viewers away, there's nothing else to it.

Ames wrote:Sure, we can assume that it'll be a fun talking animal comedy.

When we "Assume", it makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me".

Albert

I haven't watched The Pacifier but I have watched The Game Plan and it sucked major.

Here is the summary of that movie: "I'm the Rock. I have muscles. I'm incapable of loving another person. Oh, wait. No, I'm not! This little girl made me feel stuff. The end"

And yes, "Chi-Wow-wa" looks pretty stupid. I didn't expect anything better really.

I have to admit, I'm mildly intrigued/amused by the trailer

Balto123 wrote:

yukitora wrote:I hope people don't get tired of canine-centered movies by the time Bolt comes out...

Why? How many other canine centric films have there been recently? Firehouse Dog didn't get that much attention surely?

Just dog movies in general. I mean last year we had underdog, and that performed mediocre at best. And before that there was the poorly received remake of the shaggy dog. Okay, there haven't been that many movies, but Bolt would be the 3rd disney canine-centric film in 18 months.

I think im going to pass on this movie..... I wonder whats the reasoning for its production. Im guessing...financial?