Oh boy, this is going to be rough for me. Well, no sense delaying any further, let me talk about this.
So my obvious starting with the voices. When they first announced that they were working on Rescue Rangers, I kinda knew that the original cast would most likely not return. It was a running trend of bringing back nostalgic franchises, but replacing those classic voices with star actors. Only two things ultimately were different from this: Animaniacs and Duck Tales. With Animaniacs, they brought back the original cast, it was just the cutting of most of the original character and some rather poor writing that went against it, while Duck Tales had a new cast, but while the show changed many of the characters somewhat, the writing for the most part was so good, it worked well and at least the actors for characters like Donald and Scrooge tried to sound like how they would sound. With Rescue Rangers, not only did they not bring back the cast, but the main characters of Chip and Dale don't even sound like them, even going so far as to not add the Chipmunk voice effect they have always been known for.
Then there is the animation. This one is the major reason most have attacked this trailer, with them pointing out that it's rather stupid to make a joke about changing from 2D to 3D when the so called 2D animation is apparently 2D made in a 3D program, which still looks bad and doesn't blend in well. It's worse as they bring in Roger Rabbit, a character who's own movie was traditional 2D animation done so amazingly well when they placed it in live action, something they took great love and care to do. This...this is just so frustrating. As if that wasn't enough, the gag about the animation transition is from a 3D Dale, who actually looks rather amazing for such a transition. This leads me to wonder if they couldn't do good 2D, then why not just go all 3D as they seem to be rather good at it. I personally think it works rather well and like it more then the 3D transition for Bugs & Co in that recent Space Jam movie.
Then there is the story that I tried to make of in the trailer. From the way I interpreted it, the Rescue Rangers was a show that got popular but once it ended the cast fell into obscurity? What? I mean, that's how I saw it given the way they interacted with other characters and now they are trying to get the gang back together to what? Solve Crimes? Had a hard time trying to find something more to the story. Heck, this story would have worked better as a Bonkers movie, which would make sense in a cartoon cross live action movie. And why was Gadget not shown much in the trailer, or heck, where is Foxglove who is a fan favourite character (even the comic Boom! studios knew that enough to bring her back and actually give her a part). What is the story and why does it feel like it was wasted on the wrong franchise?
Hang on, if the gang split apart, then why are Chip and Dale in this situation. If we take everything we know about this, they still work for Disney doing shows and both are in simplistic 3D designs. See what I mean, none of this is making any sense.
I know, I know, don't judge it until you watch it, but from what I've seen so far, I more invested in the Sonic 2 movie and even the Blue's Clues one as both appear to at least treated with respect to the source material. As a massive Rescue Rangers fan (seriously, I payed nearly $180 in postage just to get the 8 issues of the Boom! studios comic when they came out, have comics and how to draw art books and even one of those limited run display pieces with Chip and Dale holding Gadget up while she holds a key and that cost a bit to get in too), this feels like a massive let down. You can't make a joke about remakes when what you give isn't the same as what the fans had wanted as it just feels like a remake regardless. This is why the Sonic one worked, cause they listened to the fans and it made big that they started on a sequel and they just announced a third movie. This feels like that Tom and Jerry disaster and the fact it's going straight to Disney+ has people saying that going onto Disney+ is the new straight to DVD and boy does it feel like one of those unwanted DVD sequels.
Yeah, I'm frustrated, but Hollywood and Disney have given me no reason to trust them with beloved franchises that people want to see.
Seriously, they should have done this as a Bonkers movie. Would have worked better then what I'm seeing here.
So having seen a number of people talking about this trailer, I find that perhaps I was too easy on it. Certainly the fact that it's been what, 34 years since Who framed Roger Rabbit came out? And this was the best Disney could do is rather insulting for animation fans. On top of it, it is rather ignorant and stupid to make fun of other animation types from movies when your own is a complete mess. That one shot of the animated Cats from the CATS movie and trying to say your better then that when you can't even get your 2D right is just hypocritical. The more I think about it, the more I see the flaws.
Yes, those 3D Alvin and the Chipmunk movies did look better and at least stayed faithful to the source material, even though they had those celebrity voices, they still modified them to sound like the Chipmunks. What the hell was Disney's excuse? Chip and Dale have always sounded similar with their voices, so why did all of the sudden did that change? Do they plan on just giving up on Donald Duck and give him and average voice? That's part of their character, it's what defines them.
I have serious concerns about this movie and it reeks of incompetence.
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