Marmaduke (2010)

American_dog_2008 · Post by **American_dog_2008** » January 14th, 2010, 3:44 pm

Based upon the comics.

Starring George Lopez and on!

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810098548/info

Post by **eddievalient** » January 14th, 2010, 4:04 pm

Having never read the comic (it was never in any of the papers around here) or seen the 80s cartoon series, I have no preconceptions, so maybe I'll see this one and maybe I won't. It seems like a rather silly idea for a movie, but that didn't stop Fox from making Dragonball Evolution (which I enjoyed in a so-bad-it's-good kind of way).

Post by **Dacey** » January 14th, 2010, 4:21 pm

The comic isn't worth addapting in the first place.

Basically, Marmaduke lives with his family and causes trouble. That's it. He doesn't have a "personality" the way that Garfield does. Heck, he doesn't even talk! The main gag is "he's big," and that's about it.

The movie, for better or for worse, looks nothing like the comic whatsoever.

Post by **EricJ** » January 14th, 2010, 5:08 pm

Dacey wrote:Basically, Marmaduke lives with his family and causes trouble. That's it. He doesn't have a "personality" the way that Garfield does. Heck, he doesn't even talk! The main gag is "he's big," and that's about it.

Exactly: Marmaduke's one joke is that he's not only a "real" dog and he's big, he's just a little too enthusiastic about joining with whatever his family is doing...That, as stated, is it.
http://comics.com/marmaduke/
He doesn't even talk dog-talk like his cousin Scooby.

I smell a rights-package deal that came with the original Garfield movie, and which the producers fell back on when that CGI-enhanced comic icon burned itself out....Cats, dogs, six o'one, as long as we've got the mouth-moving software.

Post by **Foxtale** » January 16th, 2010, 2:18 am

*head desk* Seriously? This even makes the Garfield movies sound like gold.... >.< Okay not that bad. Definately, no desire to see this at all.