Thankfully, these are not actually happening...for now. But at one point, they were going to, and this is the test footage. Watch it quickly - if you must at all, because it makes The Smurfs look as faithful to source as Harry Potter by comparison - before it's taken down. Oh yeah, and that IS Eddie Murphy's voice.
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that kid just wanted to grope him. The batteries always go in the back not the crotch area
That kid made me want to run away screaming. He was awful.
Eddie Murphy is no Scatman Crothers. He's not even close. I like the animation (and Spot was great) but we could do better than Eddie Murphy. I'd rather hear some unknown do a great Scatman impression than have to put up with a celebrity voice-over that doesn't fit.
Eddie Murphy is supposed to be great with imitating voices, at least he used to be. You mean that he can't sound like a passable Scatman.
Marvin the Martian: tried to shoot a kid in the face, after getting his testicles groped!
For kids!
Well, my kids would have loved the Hong Kong Phooey movie. Not too positive about Marvin though.
Dear Scatman Crothers,
We're so so sorry. We assure your spirit that those of us who actually watched any of your work enjoyed it immensely and consider this a personal attack on good taste. We don't know if you've been watching, but we all acknowledge no one thinks Eddie Murphy is funny in the slightest anymore. Please let us know if there's anything we can do to calm your wounded soul and we'll get right on it. Double time if it involves harming Michael Bay for what he did to Jazz.
I hated the second half of the Hong Kong Phooey part: the first half was fine, if underwhelming. I actually thought the Marvin the Martian short worked as a standalone, though I can't imagine why anyone thought the character could hold down a full length movie.
Because no one paid attention to the trainwreck that was the Rocky and Bullwinkle film. There's a firm belief that any character can be turned into a marketable blockbuster movie. This also gave us Inspector Gadget.
My GF says she'd watch the shit out of the Marvin movie if they cut out the annoying kid. I personally enjoyed the Hong Kong Phooey part.
I think with the right writers, these 2 movies could have been good fodder for the kids.
Though IMHO, I feel that the Marvin character would be better suited as a series of shorts. Along the same vain as the original cartoons.
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@T16skyhopp is Hong Kong Phooey Eddie Murphy? It sounds like Eddie Murphy. I would see a movie about the snarky cat...without Eddie Murphy
@T16skyhopp I doubt either would have been good, but the write-up confuses me. They look precisely faithful to the sources to me.
@T16skyhopp I'm sad, really. Lots of 10 year olds out there are dying to finally see Hong Kong Phooey brought to life.
Wow. That was just...Wow. Soulless in every possible area. Warner Brothers, if you were/are going ahead with these, at least show us some courtesy, cut the crap, & just give us what these movies are & really should be...a giant crossover betwen HKP, Marvin, & this: http://youtu.be/wAg1r6zw7Bg
Wow, the Hong Kong Phooey one was not good, but the Marvin the Martion one was seriously awful. Who the hell wrote that and who hired the kid who can't act?
Marvin - Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a Half Century. Hong Kong Phooey - Don't know any individual ep names...but I did have lunchbox
This is seriously a thing? @ToplessRobot Hong Kong Phooey and Marvin the Martian in Live-Action Movies http://t.co/H0ZwPWY0
@jamawalk Oh, I get it now! It's funny because dogs drink out of toilets! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!
So disturbing, I need therapy dolls to discuss it. @ToplessRobot Hong Kong Phooey/Marvin the Martian Live-Action Test http://t.co/FdwKsHT6
Eddie Murphy is no Scatman Crothers.
That 'Marvin the Martian' trailer gave me cancer.


