Berenstain Bears Movie Won't Be as Thought-Provoking as it Sounds:
If you were among those viewers displeased with Spike Jonze’s smart, brooding and wholly original interpretation of Where the Wild Things Are, then Shawn Levy has announced just the film for you. Hollywood’s resident Captain Trifle will produce a feature-length take of The Berenstain Bears in requisite live-action/CGI. Levy’s approach: “I’d like the film to be un-ironic about its family connections but have a wry comedic sensibility that isn’t oblivious to the fact that they’re bears,” he told USA Today. “The comedy comes from this bear family coexisting in a more recognizably real world.” Take that, hipsters. [USA Today]
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Posted 03 Nov 2009, 8:09 AM
So it's going to be The Brady Bunch Movie with bear suits.
Posted 03 Nov 2009, 9:40 AM
Inauspicious quote. But anything that insults hipsters, I can't lie...I am for it.
Posted 03 Nov 2009, 10:38 AM
So it's going to be stupid?
Posted 03 Nov 2009, 12:48 PM
It's actually Berenstein Bears, not Berenstain Bears.
Posted 09 Nov 2009, 3:30 AM
I loved these books as a kid!! I am disappointed though that they are dong live action/ CGI. I wish they could just do a cartoon. Look how well Shrek did and there wasn't any live action there!!! I don't understand this fasination in hollywood with turning what should be a cartoon fantasy into a "real life" live action movie... It doesn't work!