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[OmegaSupreme]

More mining of nostalgic properties because Hollywood has no new ideas and we are stupid and will pay money to see this. What's next? What's left?

 

[kunonabi]

That was much worse than I was expecting.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Is this the first full-length feature film written by AI? I'd believe it.

 

[SJRB]

Ultra bad.

Unless halfway through the movie Clifford tastes meat and starts eating people and the movie turns into Cujo Overdrive or something. That'd be rad.

 

[AJUMP23]

That was worse than I expected.


Edit: are they going to kill Emily Elizabeth's parents at the beginning of this movie?

 

[zweifuss]

Wow Cleese and Thompson must have been paid a lot to be in this. I was expecting just no-name actors to be in this and have the dog be the focus.

 

[TransTrender]

WoW
Looks haunted
Borne from hell
Pure nightmare fuel
Also the animation is pretty F-Tier for a Hollywood production. I guess the GPU crunch is also hitting those big money rendering farms, because fuckin yikes.
Also that dog pretty much is killing people.
Also want it to develop a taste for meat, or every time it goes to the bathroom it creates a superfund site.

 

[plushyp]

 

[OmegaSupreme]

If they don't talk about the dog's piles it will be for nothing.

 

[Mistake]

They should do one where he dreams of going to space. Call it: Clifford the Big Red Rocket

Spoiler

he also molests the other dogs

 

[Umbasaborne]

Why is ign hosting the trailer for this baby movieV

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

Well it's nice to see Kenan Thompson starring as Kenan Thompson.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Why is ign hosting the trailer for this baby movieV

Have you seen the ign staff lately?

 

[PleaseDontBanMe]

Why is ign hosting the trailer for this baby movieV

dude

I'm 87 and i want to see this

 

[jufonuk]

 

[Insane Metal]

Exactly my thoughts

 

[EverydayBeast]

What other animal has had so many movies? I think dogs start at #1 for “starring in a movie” role.

 

[jufonuk]

What other animal has had so many movies? I think dogs start at #1 for “starring in a movie” role.

 

[Quasicat]

I used to watch the original Clifford with my (now teenage) daughter and the new Clifford with my youngest son. I really liked the original and can tolerate the new show, but this is where I tap out. Fortunately, the kids seeing this would be for nostalgic purposes and we’ll wait until it hits steaming.
On a side note: Cam Clarke plays Mac (and a few other characters) in the original Clifford. It would annoy my daughter and wife like crazy when I would hear the voice and immediately yell, “Snaaaake,” in my best Liquid voice.

 

[dr_octagon]

 

[Kenpachii]

Ultra bad cgi

 

[dr_octagon]

Arthur is next

then Family Ness

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

I mean yeah the CGI is kinda cheeks but I think it looks alright for what it is. Trying to get kids into the "franchise". It's a fucking giant dog busting shit up. The books weren't all that great either so I'm not sure what anyone's expecting.

 

[Davey Cakes]

It was never going to be visually convincing.

 

[Ticallion Stallion]

Some things should remain as cartoons...

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I was more coming from the angle of the endless mining of old properties and no new ideas. I don't expect a Clifford movie to be brilliant.

 

[mortal]

These studios really have money to burn.

 

[Moomalade74]

I animated a test to try and win this movie, the whole team did a great job, but MPC came in and stole our lunch as usual. Looks okay visually but I think despite closely referencing dog mannerisms, they are struggling to really convey the weight and mass of the dog from the clips shown here, particularly the park. It's a fine balance, you don't want the creature to be lethargic but neither do you want it to lack inertial follow through and slow outs. Always tricky.

 

[StormCell]

Do children today just not like hand-drawn cartoons? How about any kind of cartoon?

I seriously don't get all this live action nostalgia treatment. It's like if they decided to make a new Duck Tales movie, you know they would try to go live action somehow or it would just be a bunch of Pixar animated graphics. Some things are best as colorful cartoons.

 

[Guiberu]

 

[BouncyFrag]

To the glue factory.

 

[infinitys_7th]

You will believe a big red dog does not exist.

 

[Revolutionary]

Looks better than the Tom & Jerry movie, at least. I could only stomach 15 minutes of that movie before shutting it off. This just looks like a dumb kids movie that they might actually enjoy

 

[BigBooper]

The market might be tapped dry because of The Joker, but I'd like a Bozo the Clown movie.

 

[sol_bad]

More mining of nostalgic properties because Hollywood has no new ideas and we are stupid and will pay money to see this. What's next? What's left?

How many times a year do you go to the cinemas? And how many of those movies you see are not big franchises? I think you'll answer your own critique about why Hollywood is worried about making original ideas.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

The cartoon was fire on the low back in the day though.

 

[lachesis]

Just sent this video to my teen daughter (big fan of BTS)... to troll. lol

I'm a horrible dad.

 

[showernota]

John Cleese looking good for being ancient years old.

I laughed out loud at the magic tear.

 

[sol_bad]

The CGI looks terrible but I did laugh at the end of the trailer when Clifford accidentally ate the other dog.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

The CG renders in these kind of movies always look so out of place when they are animated. It is like there is both too much and too little animation of the dog. They just put him in the scene and give him the same cheap looking soft self-shadow effect that they've been doing for decades. And when they animate him rolling on the grass in the park, there is no impact. Clifford the Big Red Ghost Dog.

Hollywood should stop doing these live-action adaptations of cartoons. Either make it a new cartoon or a CG animated movie, but live-action with a big CG dog just doesn't look right.

This movie looks like it belongs in the early 2000s, not 2021.