Disney Making Live-Action Chip 'n' Dale Film

[Scarim Coral]

I would of said yes if it was fully CGI (including the humans they helped) but with live action? That seal its grave, pandering to the children demography and enraging us nostalgia fanboys. Who knows? Maybe in a bizzare twist it could be good but I am not counting on it.

Still if they were to update their looks, they would be on the right path, no offence but Indiana Jones and Magnum PI is kind of outdated now.

Spoiler: Modern take of the main cast

 

[dragongit]

Hey Disney, how about that thing you were once known for, before you became that company that buys out a lot of other companies... that thing that made you a house hold name and beloved by millions of children and adults for over 70 years... how about some animation? and not just CGI shit, how about some gold old fassion hand drawn animation. I thought Pooh looked good. How about you do that, before you take a crap on one of my favorite childhood cartoon series.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

No.

Nonononono.

Not "live action", if it's live action, they will inevitably add in a human character, which just adds a layer of awful to the whole thing, not to mention that the characters people give a shit about (CHIP'N'FUCKING-DALE) will be CG.

Maybe if we're lucky they'll get Shia Labeouf! He's not doing anything at the moment right?

A re-make of a classic series with Shia Labeouf, I fail to see how this can end badly!

Oh god, stop with this!

I can't take anymore!

Next thing you will tell me is that they are going to make a series of Indiana Jones movies with Shia as the new Indiana Jones!

...

GODDAMMIT!!

 

[Jack Nief]

...Why not... just a purely CGI film, since those have a habit of not sucking in comparison to a live action film who's star characters are CGI?

 

[Something Amyss]

Disney, Rescue Rangers is about a group of rodents (and a bug) saving humans and animals alike, usually from their enemy who is a cat in a suit.

What part of the above makes it seem like they'll translate well into a CGI + real life film?

And as much as I want it to be good, I can't help but have that exact thought process.

 

[Mr. Q]

I feel very conflicted about this. On the one hand, yay, more Rescue Rangers. On the other, ech, all the other recent CGI/live action hybrid movies like this have been shite.

I don't even know whether I should be excited or filled with dread, or whether I should take a "wait and see" attitude, or just not even give it a chance on principle.

Like I said, conflicted.

I feel conflicted as well. I loved Rescue Rangers growing up but, if they are going through with this, I want this movie to be good. No half-assing it for a quick cash grab, no hiring of hack writers to butcher our childhood, no needless characters or plots that are irritating and confusing, none of that.

If Disney ever listened to the people once in their lives, let it be now. DON'T FUCK THIS UP!

 

[Hero in a half shell]

EDIT: *even further reading* Yeah, this is geared to fail: "commercials director", "origin story", those terms just further prove how this will be crap.

a Rescue Rangers origins story?

What?

This film is 2 decades too late, and in completely the wrong format.

 

[Naqel]

On one hand, I'm worried it will be an abomination.
On the other, Disney has a pretty damn decent track record.

They probably can pull it off.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Groovy, when this movie comes out, my DeviantArt inbox is going to be flooded with Gadget Hackwrench spam.

 

[BeeGeenie]

Sweet Mary mother of Mickey Mouse this is going to suck.
The fact that the abominable Chipmunk and Smurf movies were even mentioned in this article removes all doubt that it will suck.

Granted, the Muppets team will probably do the best they can with it. With any hope, it won't reach anywhere near the level of bad that the chipmunks have sunk to, but search your feelings, you know it to be true.

 

[Mike Fang]

live. action.

[HEADING=2]LIVE ACTION?![/HEADING]

are you screwing with us here, Disney? You lazy bastards could does this entirely CG or maybe you could hand animate it, like the show was!

I swear to all the gods if this turns out to be like the smurfs or chipmunks, filled with obnoxious characters and pop culture references, i will burn Disney down.

My thoughts exactly. We've had three Live Action/CGI movies wit chipmunks, we don't need anymore like them! And seriously, with a movie who's main characters have to be animated to begin with, can you still really call it "Live Action" ?

Amen to that. Seriously, who says CGI/Live action hybrids are doing well? The Smurfs and The Chipmunks movies were both complete bombs, from what I remember. This has all the warning signs of a focus group cash-in to me.

 

[EHKOS]

Well, on one hand the movie is going to suck. But at least we get some new Gadget rule 34, so we really can't complain now can we?

 

[vid87]

The ONLY possible way I could consider ever giving this a chance is if they get the original voices actors - hell most of them are still working.

 

[Naqel]

Oh come on, we all know this is because making movies this make money. You can't honestly expect it to be good.

They're not Valve of the movies industry, but they sure as hell aren't EA either.

I have no special nostalgia for Rescue Rangers, and have never really been disappointed with anything Disney prduced so far.
Not to mention the massive "fuck-up" credit they have for making Avengers happen on the big screen.

 

[JaredXE]

And now we shall have a new generation of furries arise thanks to cg Gadget.

Why make it a cgi hybrid? Are they going to make the detective with the bulldog the human character that teaches the chipmunks how to detect?

 

[Nubrain]

okay after thinking about this I've decided to be tentatively optimistic about this project.

first while other live action cgi mash ups have been pretty bad Disney is no stranger to mixing animation and live action together and are unlikely to make that the whole point of the movie meaning we may get some decent story and characterization out of it

second unlike Alvin and the chipmunks or smurfs it actually makes sense to do this based on that world. It's been a while since I've seen rescue rangers and correct me if I'm wrong but though they talked to each other I'm pretty sure they didn't talk to any of the humans. They used things from the human world and sometimes saved people and animals but there was a kind of sense that there were too separate worlds there. if they can do a who framed roger rabbit and use the two different styles to build two different but entwined worlds that the characters have to move between than that could be pretty compelling.

Third Tangled, Wreck it Ralph, Frozen. Disney has been on something of a roll.

of course when a trailer comes out I may eat those words but for now I'm hopeful.

 

[Meinos Kaen]

No. Nonononononono! *starts sobbing* Leave my childhood alone! Please! ENOUGH!

 

[wickedmonkey]

Cue the films focus moving away from the Rescue Rangers and focussing on human characters -

A kind of goofy guy and a girl he is either with or inevitably falls in love with and he/she/they/someone in their neighbourhood has a cat. Who is fat.
They discover the cat is actually some criminal mastermind who kidnaps them, the Rangers show up, the humans are confused with the concept of talking rodents, they get rescued and help the Rangers foil Fat Cat's plan, dull commic hijinks along the way - the guy will have cake or something catapaulted into his face at some point... It ends with the two humans falling in love/having kids and the Rangers disappear into the night.

Bleurgh.

You heard it here, I f*cking called it.

 

[Neonsilver]

One of my favorite cartoons in the past.
A origin story feels unnecessary, that was covered by the first few episodes after all. On the other hand I remember the show from my childhood and while they are definitely betting on the nostalgia factor to draw more viewers, children today will probably be unfamiliar with it.

The problem with the cgi hybrid approach is for me that they are likely using that to force some plot about a human (most likely some shy awkward guy that tries to get together with a woman)in the movie and turn chip n'dale into sidekicks.