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Never Trust a Talking Dog

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (26)



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Remember yesterday when I said I generally enjoy movies about animals? We need to make one glaring, massive exception: if it’s not animated, animals should never speak. Ever. EVER. No good can ever come out of it. Animals are like babies — they shouldn’t speak in films, and when they do, the filmmakers should be thrown into a volcano.

For example: Dark Horizons is reporting that ContentFilm has picked up the rights to The Dog Squad: 3D, which has a plot synopsis that will make you want to smash everything in your line of site:

(it’s) about an overweight and lazy Bulldog (Donut), a disgraced former Police Dog (Clint), a sassy Lady Mutt (Samantha), an overly timid Guide-Dog (Bert) and a shamelessly womanizing Chihuahua (Hector) in a hilarious and outrageously entertaining live-action adventure that’s fun for all the family.

“Hilarious and outrageously entertaining,” eh? I. Don’t. Fucking. Believe. You.

[unclenches jaw]

The film is being directed by Les Mayfield, who has subjected us to numerous crimes against humanity, such as Blue Streak, Flubber, and Code Name: The Cleaner. It’s written by Steve Carpenter, responsible for the screenplays for Blue Streak, Soul Survivors and The Man. I can only hope that these two jackasses cry themselves to sleep every night with the knowledge that they are the very definition of what is wrong in the universe. Likely, they just snort piles of cocaine and bang hookers. I hope they get syphilis and dick cancer.

Oh, and it’ll be a CGI/live-action hybrid that will, of course, be in 3D.

I’d like us to all take a moment of silence for poor Agent Bedhead, who you know is gonna get stuck with this review.









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Comments

Amen, TK. And if I may add, animals and babies should never speak in ads either. Look, dogs are inherently cute and adorable. They speak a thousand words with their expressions and body language. They don't need any help from special effects.

Posted by: PaddyDog at May 6, 2010 11:35 AM

"(it’s) about an overweight and lazy Bulldog (Donut), a disgraced former Police Dog (Clint), a sassy Lady Mutt (Samantha), an overly timid Guide-Dog (Bert) and a shameles.."

SOLD! I'm there opening night, Old Man TK needs to lighten the fuck up.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 6, 2010 11:36 AM

And the Chihuahua will be voiced by George Lopez.

Posted by: figgy at May 6, 2010 11:39 AM

OMG. I swear if the solve crimes, I will know that Hollywood has eyes and ear everywhere. I was talking about what if our police dogs could talk. And then went around solving crimes without the help of their handlers. And now I am going to hang my head in shame.

Posted by: Nimue at May 6, 2010 11:44 AM

WHAT?! What about the dog in men in black? And the one in that Adam Sandler film?

Posted by: viktor at May 6, 2010 11:47 AM

if it’s not animated, animals should never speak. Ever. EVER. No good can ever come out of it.

While I haven't seen it, isn't Babe supposed to be pretty good and that involved non-animated talking animals, didn't it?

Just asking.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at May 6, 2010 11:49 AM

I hereby submit that everyone who is in any way involved in the movie industry (producers, actors, critics, etc) should be implanted with small explosive devices at the base of their cranium. Upon the vocalization, typing or writing of: "hilarious and outrageously entertaining" or, "adventure that’s fun for all the family" or any permutation thereof - said device shall explode in a Scanners-esque fashion thereby saving the world from having to endure the inane prattle of an obvious moron.

Posted by: admin at May 6, 2010 11:49 AM

Syphilis and dick cancer are both curable. How about genital warts and MRSA on their balls?

Posted by: Kate the Great at May 6, 2010 11:50 AM

Pffft, that's stupid. Everyone knows that the police dog should be the one named Donut. Stupid Hollywood, effing everything up.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at May 6, 2010 11:51 AM

Agreed on all accounts, TK.

"thrown into a volcano"...hmmm that is appropriate justice in my mind. The creators of Cats & Dogs should be first in line.

Posted by: Teresa at May 6, 2010 11:55 AM

Shouldn't the former police dog be named Donut?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at May 6, 2010 11:57 AM

Please. Don't throw anything into a volcano until I leave for vacation a week from tomorrow. Irish air space was closed for three days again this week. If I am stuck here in Chicago when I'm supposed to be sitting in Avoca eating fresh raspberry pavlova, I will kill someone.

Posted by: PaddyDog at May 6, 2010 12:00 PM

I think they are lying when they say that it's fun for the whole family.

Posted by: tamatha at May 6, 2010 12:29 PM

So the Mexican dog is an immoral womanizer? Of course he is, because where would Hollywood be without racial stereotyping? Lemme guess, the police dog will be played by an Irish Setter and the lady mutt will be played by Queen Latifah. I expect nothing less from the shit smear that wrote "The Man."

Forbiddendonut, "Babe" is pretty good, but it's the exception that proves the rule. It is an excellect story with a solid cast that doesn't rely on the fact that the animals are talking to get cheap laughs; a major crutch for every other movie in this genre.

While we're on the subject, I need "G-Force" scrubbed from my brain. I'm up for anything besides invasive surgery. All I've come come up with so far is eating plutonium and standing next to a running microwave.

Posted by: Kballs at May 6, 2010 12:34 PM

"Pajiba: Read This Website or the Dog Dies"

Posted by: , at May 6, 2010 12:58 PM

I kind of liked Homeward Bound as a kid...

Or did you mean really talking animals in the movie, with moving mouths and actually conversing with humans?

Posted by: Vi at May 6, 2010 1:31 PM

Alright, sidebar here-

This is arguably the third time out where Hollywood is attempting to jam 3-D down our collective gullet. The first two being the 50's and 80's. And I think it's a safe bet that it's going to end much like the previous two attempts for several reasons; first off it's a gimmick that doesn't add anything to the overall quality (or lack thereof) of the product, second it adds to the cost of an already over inflated ticket price, and thirdly, shitful movies like this that often were not even intended to be 3-D to begin with and making garbage fly into the audience's faces will not distract them from that fact.

If you're going to present crappy movie in 3-D, it's going to wear out the welcome. Theaters are not going to spend ungodly amounts of money to buy equipment capable of showing 3-D movies if the majority of what's out there sucks donkey quim. And Hollywood- if the movies you make are that bad, making them in 3-D doesn't make them any better. If the majority of movies in 3-D are wretched, people are going to associate 3-D format with bad movies yet again; "If the movie' in 3-D, maybe that's all it's got going for it." Seriously, how many older 3-D movie are really considered anything other than gimmicky schlock? Are there any 3-D movies that a really considered classics? And if you can think of any, was it the 3-D that made them good, or were they good regardless?

Folks if you're pissed off after leaving a shit movie because you feel swindled, imagine how pissed you'll be after spending even more money to be subjected to it. It's like Golgafrincham survivors are calling the shots in Hollywood.

"Hey we made all these lousy movies, how do we make them better?"
"I know, we can make them in 3-D so people will be memorized."
"Will that work?"
"It worked when we sat in on a research group."
"Weren't those the junkies we picked up around LAX?"
"Yes, but we found they have the same mentality as the average teenage moviegoer."

If Hollywood doesn't start bringing in a higher quality of movie for 3-D presentation, 2-D movie will have little worry of endangerment.

Posted by: bleujayone at May 6, 2010 1:34 PM

Who is this movie aimed at?

Talking animal movies are things you take your kids to see, and hopefully they are entertaining enough that you don't claw your brains out while sitting in the theater.

This movie, however, sounds like it's aimed at adults. Is anyone going to take kids to see this?

Posted by: BWeaves at May 6, 2010 1:40 PM

I loved Milo and Otis when I was a kid, and they talked. Although I haven't seen it in about 15 years, so it might be a giant crapfest to my adult self.

Posted by: Lindsay at May 6, 2010 3:16 PM

Given the choice between "Look Who's Talking", "Cats and Dogs" and "The Human Centipede", I'll take the mouth to ass resuscitation any day...

Give me "Milo and Otis" and "Baby's Day Out" anytime...

Posted by: East Coast Ugly at May 6, 2010 3:48 PM

Babe, for the win!

The only talking animal movie worth it's weight in gold, I tell ya, GOLD!

Posted by: latvianluck at May 6, 2010 4:11 PM

Just the other day I said to someone, "That'll do, pig." And of course they said, "Are you calling me a PIG?"

Sigh.

The poor doggie picture up there is making me sad.

Posted by: MM at May 6, 2010 4:19 PM

East Coast Ugly:

Milo and Otis was narrated if I remember. That's not the same as making their mouths move and putting words in them.

Posted by: PaddyDog at May 6, 2010 4:34 PM

Milo and Otis was narrated by Dudley Moore, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at May 6, 2010 4:43 PM

Paddy Dog...

That was my point. The animals didn't talk.

I liked that.

Posted by: East Coast Ugly at May 7, 2010 9:41 AM

Babe is based on an acclaimed novel and directed largely seriously, with some subtle, character-driven humor. Now come on, there must be some other Newbury Award winners out there that can be turned into decent flicks. What about Watership Down? Don't let the committee written, focus group tested, pop culture saturated lowest common defuckinator dictate the state of talking animal films.

Posted by: Franzibald at May 10, 2010 11:37 PM