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This Is Probably Going to Be the Best Thing About This Movie / TK

Trade News | November 23, 2009 | Comments (15)

Dustin had the misfortune of having to report, last year, that a Yogi Bear movie is being made. It’ll be a live action/animation hybrid, much like the abominable Garfield and Alvin and the Chipmunks movies, and directed by Ash Brannon (Surf’s Up). And, once again, there are semi-respectable actors who for some inexplicable reason are going to debase themselves by taking part in it.

So far, Dan Aykroyd has been cast as the voice of Yogi, and Justin Timberlake is rumored to be playing the part of his diminutive sidekick Boo Boo.

I’m having a hard time coming to grips with the fact that my life led me to a place where I would type a sentence like that.

Also, Anna Faris will play Rachel, proving that she is determined to become the next Brittany Murphy — acting in a couple of decent roles, and then descending into the depths of the Hollywood swamp of shame (we reported last week that she’s acting in the less-than-promising looking TMI with R², as well as Robin Williams’s Wedding Banned). Yikes.

Pretty much the only semi-amusing bit to come out of this news is that T.J. Miller also auditioned for (and was cast in) Yogi Bear, and as part of his audition he sent in a video of himself acting the part … with an actual bear. The clip is actually rather charming and funny. If you don’t know who Miller is, you probably last saw him screaming “OH MY GOD!” over and over in Cloverfield, where he played Hud, the cameraman. Anyway, check out his faux audition tape. (h/t to Slashfilm)


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Comments

Actually I can kinda see Dan Ackroyd as Ranger Smith ...

Wait, what the fuck am I doing even commenting on this? A bear that steals pic-a-nic baskets, his two-foot-tall conscience and the park ranger that tries to stop him -- this was barely enough plot to sustain a seven-minute cartoon, much less an actual movie (and who the fuck is Rachel?). I'd rather watch 90 minutes of a cat taking a nap.

Wait, actually I already spent 90 minutes watching a cat take a nap yesterday. And then it got up, yawned, arched its back and used one of my stepmother's good chairs as a scratching post.

THAT will be more entertaining than a Yogi Bear movie.

And ... the Banana Splits get shafted again.

"Uh-oh, CHON-go!"

Posted by: , (just , cause I'm tired of typing that other shit) at November 23, 2009 10:52 AM

Actually "," Ackroyd is going to be Yogi, which I can see (hear?). Although I found Yogi Bear pretty boring when I was a wee one, so I'll skip this.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 23, 2009 11:03 AM

I got that, BWeaves, I meant he would make a better live-action Ranger Smith because he ... kinda looks like him a little. Which is pretty fucking pathetic if you think about it long enough, me actually sitting here wasting my time rearranging the cast of a "Yogi Bear" movie.

Also pathetic: The thought going through my head that at some point they're going to get down to making a "Deputy Dawg" movie.

Posted by: , (just , cause I'm tired of typing that other shit) at November 23, 2009 11:09 AM

"...yeah, that's what I thought. You been stealing pick-a-nick baskets..."

Just the fact that he said "pick-a-nick" makes me love the clip.

...even though Yogi is the only one who ever said pick-a-nick.

Posted by: PissBoy at November 23, 2009 11:25 AM

When I was a kid only the losers like Yogi.

Posted by: figgy at November 23, 2009 12:05 PM

Who is Rachel? Isn't the girl bear named Cindy? I'm confused.

Also, I liked Yogi when I was little. So yeah, that hurt figgy.

Posted by: becks at November 23, 2009 12:20 PM

Oh, and in total badass news, I just wanted to inform y'all that I've fed a bear a marshmallow with my mouth like Hud does in the video.

Completely fearless motherfuckers! (It should be noted that I was the only adult who chose to partake in this activity which was clearly intended for children)

Posted by: becks at November 23, 2009 12:28 PM

,: I have no remembrance of any human characters in Yogi Bear. I only remember Yogi and Booboo.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 23, 2009 12:33 PM

TJ Miller was also the funniest (read: the only funny) part of Bruce McCulloch's short-lived show Carpoolers. The show was not good, but his character Marmaduke was kind of amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5YcUDAdYMU

Posted by: Courtney at November 23, 2009 12:57 PM

As long as they leave Magilla Gorilla alone, I'm cool with it.

Posted by: mswas at November 23, 2009 1:30 PM

BWeaves, Ranger Smith was, as you might imagine, Yogi's nemesis, the guy tasked with trying to extract promises that Yogi would give up his crack/picnic basket habit and mend his filching ways. IIRC, he wasn't much of a villain, he was more likely to try to talk some sense into Yogi than, you know, tranquilize him with a dart gun and ship him from Jellystone to Alberta, and then sell Boo-Boo to the zoo, and tie Cindy to the railroad tracks ...

Now that I look at that, it's clear to me that, in the Cold War era, Yogi represented the thieving Soviet Union, Boo-Boo his conscience the scolding United States, picnic baskets were the nuclear football, and Ranger Smith was everyone else -- the appeasers and sanctioners and other fellow travelers.

And Cindy represented a good shaggy lay.

It's all in how you look at it.

Posted by: , (just , cause I'm tired of typing that other shit) at November 23, 2009 1:52 PM

Yeah, I always got the impression that Cindy was a whore.

Posted by: Skewicide Blonde at November 23, 2009 1:54 PM

You guys just aren’t seeing the possibilities here. This could be the greatest movie ever. All they have to do is go for the R raiting. Something like Yogi Bear on Brokeback Mountain. Yogi and Ranger Smith discovery their long suppressed love for each other. While Cindy Bear and BooBoo embark on a relationship filled with pain, depression and drugs. Picture Richard Gear and a psychotic gerbil.

Posted by: EricD at November 23, 2009 2:07 PM

The only Yogi bear movie I want to see is about the Unabooboo and his cookie bouquets of justice.

Posted by: Undead Abomination #768921 (formerly Vermillion) at November 23, 2009 2:08 PM

Cindy was a whore. Am I the only one who wants to cuddle that bear? It's just so...fluffy...and fond of marshmallows...must hug teddy...
p.s. Don't ever let me into nature by myself, I'm pretty sure I'd end up eaten.

Posted by: s. pisaster at November 23, 2009 4:43 PM





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