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| The infernal poster for Rob Minkoff's Mr. Peabody & Sherman |
Mr. Peabody is the dog who's the adoptive father of the boy genius Sherman, and they have a time machine, which is used to give the boy history-lessons. But now a woman wants to remove the boy from Mr. Peabody, - and there's also a mess in time!
Mr. Peabody is a disappointing adaptation of the 1960's animated TV-series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, which doesn't catch the otherwise inviting, original idea to make a fantastic film. It would have been more of a bother making, surely, had this been the live-action feature that the man behind it, Rob Minkoff (The Lion King (1994)) had originally wanted, (and worked against at least since 2003), but it would also had been a lot more fun to watch, I speculate.
Instead we are here served an animated children's adventure comedy that feels uninspired, calculated and like a bowl of nonsense. The film seems to regard itself as smart because it includes historic figures and locations, with added laugh-less, idiotic comedy. To make it all worse, the two title characters are both irritating know-it-alls and the film is overloaded with dialog.
The kids might like this, but do yourself a favor and steer way clear of this 3D dud that has otherwise received mostly (mysteriously) positive notices. It did, however, bomb commercially, (a movie with this kind of budget has to make a lot back to avoid losses), which resulted in a 57 mil. write-down for DreamWorks Animation.
Minkoff has announced his next film, an action movie entitled Chinese Odyssey.
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Watch the trailer here, which is A LOT better than the film, unfortunately
Budget: 145 mil. $
Box office: 268.7 mil. $
= Flop
What do you think of Mr. Peabody & Sherman?
Did it rub you the wrong way, as it did me?
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