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Author Topic: Underdog: Hit or miss? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-25-2007 11:00 AM                        OK, this one really took me by surprise. When I saw the one-sheets for the Underdog movie, I thought....OK, this is totally going to royally suck. I mean, in the old cartoon, Underdog is a dog, yes...but he's really a boy with a dog's head, if you think about it. He doesn't act like a dog; he talks; he walks on his hind legs, etc. So when I saw they were using a REAL dog for this movie, I thought...well, this is going to royally suck. Then last night I saw the trailer with Pirates. The trailer is frickin' hilarious! The audience was laughing like crazy and now I've totally changed my mind on the movie. I don't think it's going to be anything stupendous, but it will at least be original and a good kid-pic for August. I actually think it might do pretty good business. If you don't have a trailer for this movie but expect to play it, I would suggest you should follow any means necessary to get the trailer and program it aggressively. The one sheet will NOT sell this movie, but the trailer will.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Udovich Film Handler Posts: 71 From: Sheboygan, WI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 05-29-2007 11:30 PM                        Hey Mike, I sure agree with you. At first I thought this movie looks lame. Then I saw the trailer and it changed my mind. I must say it looks like a hit.  |  IP: Logged Sam King Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 05-29-2007 11:59 PM                     It's PG-13, who do they think their audience is?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-30-2007 01:49 AM                     Likely the people, like me, who were old enough to actually remember the show?  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 05-30-2007 02:36 AM                     It's rated PG, not PG-13.  |  IP: Logged Frank Dubrois Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 896 From: Cleveland, OH Registered: Mar 2005 posted 06-07-2007 08:59 AM                    PG or PG-13, it looks stupid as hell.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-07-2007 11:24 AM                        It's a movie for kids about a dog superhero. How exactly would you propose to make it look NOT stupid as hell?  |  IP: Logged Frank Dubrois Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 896 From: Cleveland, OH Registered: Mar 2005 posted 06-07-2007 12:31 PM                    quote: Mike Blakesley It's a movie for kids about a dog superhero. How exactly would you propose to make it look NOT stupid as hell? Since the very idea sounds stupid as hell, I wouldn't have even let it been made. Since I can't make that call, I simply express my opinion of the movie (that I haven't seen, but still judge anyway based soley on the trailer).  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-07-2007 06:31 PM                     "Stupid" like George of The Jungle? "Stupid" like Dudley DoRight? I liked the former. Dudley not so much. I'll give Underdog a shot. (But NOT Nancy Drew. Nancy Drew looks unwatchable to me, like that Hilary Duff movie...what was it called? oh...The Lizzie Borden Movie.)  |  IP: Logged Frank Dubrois Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 896 From: Cleveland, OH Registered: Mar 2005 posted 06-07-2007 09:47 PM                    As much as I don't want to see it, Nancy Drew looks BETTER than Underdog.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-09-2007 12:04 PM                     I think I'm going to dress up my beagle opening weekend.  |  IP: Logged Kara Tillotson Film Handler Posts: 87 From: Manistee Mi Registered: Jul 2006 posted 06-09-2007 08:53 PM                        I thought the preview looks hilarious.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-10-2007 02:53 AM                     quote: James Westbrook (But NOT Nancy Drew. Nancy Drew looks unwatchable to me, like that Hilary Duff movie...what was it called? oh...The Lizzie Borden Movie.) Sadly, we're getting that movie. Nearly every time there's a kid movie, we get it. And we had that movie, it's Lizzie Mcquire. Glad I never saw that one. On a related note: it's weird seeing her now, you know, actually looking like an adult.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-10-2007 03:31 PM                     I wondered if anyone was going to catch the Lizzie Borden reference. There is nothing wrong with these type of movies. We are just the wrong demographics. In the mid-90's, my boss decided that every movie needed to be screened and if one needed to be screened on a Thursday night, one would get assigned to that movie. I got assigned The Babysitters Club. I stayed in the auditorium long enough to determine that the film was in frame, the sound had no defects, there were no printing errors and the cues were on correctly. The rest of the time, I conversed with the cleaning staff. The only pieces of the plot I remember was one guy exclaiming "You're THIRTEEN?!!" and somebody's Ice Cream Cake melting.  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 06-11-2007 07:57 AM                     Played the Underdog preview in front of Surf's Up this weekend...got some laughs but nothing special.  |  IP: Logged

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