A Moment of Silence as The Newest Trailer for Yogi Bear Arrives
They say tragedy comes in threes, and that's proven once again with today's collection of repellent videos. First, it was the teaser for Bridalplasty; then the Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son trailer. Yet if you didn't think things could get any worse, Warner Bros. was kind enough to release another look at Yogi Bear. To quote Henry Hill: This is the bad time.
By now you probably know the story: Yogi Bear is a mixture of CGI and live action, with Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake voicing Yogi and Boo-Boo. Tom Cavanagh and Anna Faris provide a human presence -- and presumably were paid untold millions more than Aykroyd and Timberlake, since they acutally have to show their faces -- while the script provides gastrointestinal jokes. Sample, after an explosive burp: "I have problems with potato salad." If you can make it through this trailer without stopping, more power to you.
VERDICT: The horror...the horror.
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Timberlake's name on the poster is obviously for marketing purposes. It sounds nothing like him. Akroyd's isn't much better, but you can still sort of tell it's him. (Though if names hadn't been posted, I'm not sure anyone would be able to tell either way.)
I suppose you could make a game out of the number of times Yogi says "pic-a-nic". What would the over-under be? 100?
This is a film for little kids, and the humor is geared toward them, so I won't bother commenting on that. I will say that having this be in 3-D is lame. Little kids don't want to wear those glasses for 90 minutes, and parents don't want to pay the up-charge to take little Tommy and all his friends to see it.