> December 17 - Yogi Bear
>
> Why why why why WHY do animation houses insist on throwing established 2D
> characters into 3D? When does that ever work?
>
> It would work *better*, I suppose, if the character in question were more of a,
> well, *character* than an icon. But Yogi Bear is more the latter. Whatever
> place he has in pop culture history is rooted to the charmingly crude drawings
> in which he appears. A Yogi Bear in three dimensions with detailed fur doesn't
> look like the Yogi Bear anybody knows and might love; rather, he looks like
> those cheesy, mute cardboard suits workers wear at theme parks. Those are
> fine for photo ops, but who wants to pay to watch one for an hour and a half?

And here I thought I was imagining that this movie was being made. How unfortunate.

On an unrelated note, there's a guy in my one gen ed class that sounds like Yogi Bear.