Woody Woodpecker live-action movie

How many of you knew that there's a live-action Woody Woodpecker movie? It was released last October in Brazil in theaters, and released direct-to-video in the U.S in February.

Oh yeah, and it sucks.



The CGI Woody would have looked pretty impressive if this was 2000 but today it just looks cheap. I guess Universal got cold feet about releasing it to theaters in the U.S after it wrapped (just a guess) and it's no wonder...

 

saw the Preview on a recent rental disc, skipped and enjoyed the Main Feature!

 

Explain to me again, why Universal hates Brazil so much...?

 

Maybe Brazil stole their lunch money or something, I dunno!

 

When are they going to make a live action Droopy movie?

 

Does this count?

 

I watched a few minutes of it on Netflix; no good. They waited 75 years to do a Woody Woodpecker movie, and when they finally did, it was this one. I don’t get it.

 

"Hey, we own this character so let's get it out there in a cheap movie to cash-in".

 

I’d be surprised if anyone under the age of 40 has any idea who Woody Woodpecker is. The Walter Lantz cartoons seems to have vanished from rotation on TV and in popular culture. Are they going to make a Chilly Willy movie too?

 

I'm a few years under 40 and I know who he is really only because I'd see the cartoons on TV every once in awhile. He always seems like an annoying character to me.

 

no idea! I love Woody...guess I will not see this.

 

Woody was great didn't miss him when he was on TV when I was a kid...AhahhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. I have DVD set of Woody Cartoons in B&W...

 

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/post-something-random.258225/page-1203#post-18276740

 

Woody is a classic TV cartoon and they should've just left him alone.

 

Most of my friends are in their 30s. Last year I asked all of them if they could do his laugh, and the vast majority of them could. My nephews and nieces are in their 20s and were also familiar. It was indeed surprising to me.

 

Every huge corporation in the movie/music business couldn't care less about Brazil. The medium/tiny ones ignore that Brazil exists.
Maybe the reason could be the eternal financial crisis and the lack of professionalism of some of the local senior executives.

Here we only get the major worldwide hits and the very, very, very cheap releases and rejects.

 

How much of your foreign film business comes to you with Brazilian subtitles or voice dubs?

 

Major hits (mostly comedy, action, animation and child movies) are dubbed and subtitled, with both options running at different screens of a multiplex at different times of the day or the week. The following DVD/BluRay/Netflix release always replicate the subtitles and the dubbing.
The rejects (bombs) sometimes are advertised here as hits and receive the same treatment, eventually becoming real hits, regardless of quality.

The good foreign flicks are always subtitled.

 

Gaaahhhhhh...

These were done right, decades ago, the end. You can't barf it back up. So take your stupid-reboot budget and pour it into restoration, doped-up producers.

Here's an actual WW cartoon:

 

Better to make your own films like the most excellent City of God. Perhaps my most favorite movie of the new millennium thus far.

 

Maybe they like modern takes on past their prime cartoon characters. Heck, I understand an adult version of Little Lulu is popular down there.

 

The Walter Lantz cartoons are available for viewing on Amazon Prime.

Amazon.com: Woody Woodpecker & Friends: Craze Digital

 

I know you mean well but over the past few weeks I've put Doug Walker on notice for reasons best explained elsewhere.

 

Are these all public domain? Because I see the "usual suspects" in public domain characters there, I'd always assumed that when looking through Prime's catalog...but didn't think any Woody-works was part of that exclusive "club".

Oh - and Dudley...Little Lulu? Now that's random...

 

Maybe if you've got all that development money lying around, you could do something to, I dunno, support Steve Stanchfield over at Thunderbean...throw the guy a bone, and maybe he'll do some nice cleaning-up of the real arcticle for you.