Yuck- Flintstones on the Rocks

[DarleneIllyria]

This movie came on last night on Cartoon Network. It was made this year, and it was not good. All the characters looked really, really weird- and the voices didn't sound good to me at all either. Anybody see this mistake movie last night?

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Hottest Men alive:
Dale Midkiff
Anthony Starke
Tim McGraw
Jonathan Crombie

Lumpy: Did you go out for anything, Dud?

Dudley: Well, I went out for football, but I got my finger stepped on, so my mother made me quit.

Eddie: Well listen-- I went out for basketball and I got my hair pulled, and my mother made ME quit.

Dudley: It's not that I was afraid of getting hurt or anything; it's just that-- well, it's kind o' hard to play the flute with a busted finger.

[Eddie and Lumpy suppress laughter]

Dale Midkiff is my man! :)

Class of 2002! :)

[TV Guy]

It definitely took some getting used to -- it was a highly stylized approach to "The Flintstones", done by the same guy who does "Dexter's Laboratory". I liked how they paid tribute to the early "Flintstones" episodes, with the music, the sound effects, and the more minimalist artwork than done in the later spinoffs.

There was obviously an effort to take the voices in a different direction. Although the original cast has passed on, some of their replacements have been doing the voices for as long as twenty years. Wilma was played by Tress MacNeille of "The Simpsons". She did an OK job, probably a little too nasal. The new voice for Betty tried to imitate the original Betty, Bea Benederet, more than any of her many replacements. I don't remember Betty having a Brooklyn accent before, though. The actor doing Barney was clearly trying to imitate the way Barney sounded in the first-season episodes of the original series.

The real standout was Jeff Bergman as Fred. He did a flawless recreation of the original Fred, Alan Reed. Much better than Henry Corden, who played Fred in the many sequels and spinoffs (and Fruity Pebbles commercials). Doesn't surprise me, though. Bergman was the first successor to Mel Blanc as the Looney Tunes voices, and nailed pretty much all of them (with the notable exception of Bugs). It was so great to hear Fred sound like himself again.

The plot seemed a little too simple to be sustained for 90 minutes. But I think the plot was supposed to take backseat to the characterizations. I didn't care for how extreme the characters of Fred and Wilma were here -- Fred was more boorish, and Wilma more shrewish, than usual. Once again, this seemed intentional in the stylized environment.

Altogether, I thought it was an interesting experiment, certainly more creative than some of the specials done in the 90s.

[This message has been edited by TV Guy (edited 11-04-2001).]

[Pavan]

I thought it was hilarious! It had the sounds from the original, same kind of plot as the original series. It was pretty good.

[PPatters]

I don't know. My jury's still out. I sort of like the primitive direction that it took, it kind of gave it that older look, and I like that. The voices were alright, Betty, I thought, was good, I mean you can't have PERFECT recreations, and I'm sure that the actors that did those voices would have liked for their characters to live on, even if the voices were slightly different. The wonderful thing about cartoons is that they can be immortal in their own way, and that when the voices die, the characters don't go with them.

[ALF Rocks!!]

on a scale from 1 to 10, ill give it a 1. I didnt like it at all. The only good thing was Fred's voice. Other than that, i hated it. It had a terrible plot, and the animation was CRAP! It looked like it was lazily done.

[moofomoo]

Originally posted by ALF Rocks!!:
on a scale from 1 to 10, ill give it a 1. I didnt like it at all. The only good thing was Fred's voice. Other than that, i hated it. It had a terrible plot, and the animation was CRAP! It looked like it was lazily done.

Ditto. Ditto. I hated it.

**Gracie**

[PPatters]

I think it was rather nice, and I think that if we were a little more open-minded, you would have liked it, too. I guess you are one that beleives that anything that is a little outside of the norm is bad. It was a really nice "revival" of the classic series, as long as you can keep an open mind about.