Popular culture is a wonderful thing, especially for the people that made those classic television shows, films, cartoons, songs etc. that were actually pretty rubbish in their original incarnation but are fondly remembered by those with a penchant for nostalgia as being the finest things ever crafted by human hands.
These are people who form pop culture opinion, the people who are talking heads on nostalgic talking head shows in which talking heads regale you with tales of how they sit down with a plateful of Findus Crispy Pancakes just in time to watch the latest episode of Baywatch. These people manage to create some kind of time-capsuled ‘tweet’ of what they had for dinner 25 years ago and share it later for money.
That’s the dream folks.
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Of all the anthropomorphic hat-wearing cartoon bears who consistently overestimate their own intelligence, Yogi Bear is probably the one that deserves his own film the most.
In which case, get ready to be excited. Warner Bros is putting together a live action/CG hybrid movie based on Yogi Bear. Although it’s still early days, the studio is hoping that the Yogi Bear movie will replicate the success of Alvin & The Chipmunks and Garfield: A Tale Of Two Kitties, in that children will quite like it even though it’s obvious to everyone else that it couldn’t be any worse if it had a farting nun in it.
But however it turns out, there’s no doubt that this Yogi Bear movie will be better than the 1982 fully live action Yogi Bear movie that ended in tragic circumstances when, enraged by the hat and restricting collar it was forced to wear, the grizzly playing Yogi Bear lashed out and horrifically mauled Ranger Smith to death. Those images of Boo Boo tearing lumps from Smith’s disemboweled thigh won’t be forgotten in a hurry.
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