Why are old cartoons being turned into CGI movies?

I think it's because they lack the imagination to create something new.

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What I don't get is how these 3D characters still look fake.  Take a look at Avatar.  The CGI characters in it look somewhat realistic (i.e. shading, eyes, movement.)  After watching a scene from Avatar in HD quality, look at an ad for the Yogi Bear movie.   Let's face it, Yogi and like characters look like they were drawn in Microsoft Paint.  I know Avatar cost a crapload to make, but maybe these movie theaters shouldn't make a CGI character if they can only afford to make it look like it was designed in 1987.

Ad nauseous wrote: WTF is next?Bugs Bunny? Quick Draw McGraw? Tom & Jerry? when will it end?????

As much as I know I'll be hated for saying this (), I think the only way that these movie companies would succeed is if they use the same type of CGI used in the Pixar movies (Up, Despicable Me, etc.)  They should NOT use crappy CGI and try to make the character look realistic.  It just won't work.  Of course, this doesn't mean the storyline of a new movie would hold a candle up to the original series.  Be lucky they are remaking old characters...they could be creating new travesties like the minions on Despicable Me.

One reason is because Hollywood assumes that audiences are no longer amazed, and wowed at pencil animation, and are now more dazzled with CGI effects. So the studios are doing everything they can to make pencils more obsolete than typewriters. In response, I'd like to show these bone headed suites who think they know what people want 'A magic trick'.

And those Pepsis and Reese's Pieces would lead to the fart jokes. And that's no exaggeration - those things are so miserably popular (just as you say) that there's probably actual PRODUCT PLACEMENT for food items that gets followed by bathroom jokes. (I don't know of any examples, but I'll bet there are.) In other words, there's probably the belief that those jokes wouldn't PUT PEOPLE OFF the products.

Zach6848 wrote: Now it's all fart jokes, butts, poop and whatever other incredibly obnoxious/annoying/inappropriate crap they can throw in without getting somehow censored or canceled.

I wasn't a 90's kid but, Ren and Stimpy?

Captain Pipcard wrote: Zach6848 wrote: Now it's all fart jokes, butts, poop and whatever other incredibly obnoxious/annoying/inappropriate crap they can throw in without getting somehow censored or canceled. I wasn't a 90's kid but, Ren and Stimpy?

Yeah really. Ren & Stimpy, Beetlejuice, and Rocko's Modern Life were the kings of "Let's see what kinda crap we can get past the censors." humor.

Right now, TCM is showing Little Rascals films from the early 1930s.  No CGI there.

CGI movies are the in thing, and Hollywood has ran out of creativity for the majority of kids films. Which is why we either end up with classic cartoons being made into live action with hip and modern flairs or we get another sequel. As for the bathroom humor mixed in with pop culture reference....It's rather annoying. This is why we're always amazed when a good movie comes along because it's a relief amongst all the stupidity. I'm not looking forward to the smurfs movie...Nor the possible remake of The Secret of NIMH. No one can top Don Bluth's version!

"Why are old cartoons being turned into CGI movies?"

PaWolf wrote: Screw cartoon movies...some of us grew up.

I think they can't come up with anything else, so they make old cartoons into CGI movies. I wouldn't mind if they had an Inspector Gadget CGI movie--to make up for the horrible 1997 film, but the overreliance on CGI bugs me now, plus the hacks can't find ideas.