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Re-Animated is a 2006 live-action/animated television film that aired on Cartoon Network.
The film eventually spawned a television series in 2007 known as Out of Jimmy's Head.
Plot
After a freak accident at the Gollyworld theme Park, 12-year-old Jimmy Roberts is given the frozen brain of a legendary cartoonist Milt Appleday. Jimmy's new brain gives him the ability to see the entire cast of Appledays cartoon characters in real life. Now Jimmy has to manage two worlds: his everyday life and the animated world of Milt's brain.
Why It Isn't Re-Animated
- Terrible acting from the actors playing the live-action characters, especially Jimmy, since he shows no emotion and stammers throughout the film.
- The premise (a kid getting hit by a train, having to get a brain transplant, and being able to see things others can't) sounds unfittingly dark for an otherwise lighthearted movie.
- Poor writing: Despite the fact, Sonny attempted to kill Robin and Jimmy. Robin, Jimmy, and Yancy (who overheard Sonny announcing the plan) do not attempt to report Sonny's actions to the police. It is shown later that Sonny is still living with Roberts, even though he should be convicted for attempted murder, especially with blatant evidence of wrong-doing. This includes getting him committed to a mental institution for his insanity.
- Certain background objects in some scenes feel out of place. For example, there is a live llama in the classroom scene, a domestic duck in the GollyWorld tour guide scene, a white-and-yellow snake in one of the stairwell scenes, and an iguana in the theater scene. While all of these animals are pets owned by the same one-note character, this fact is so poorly established that it could cause viewers to do a double-take before understanding this fact.
- Unfunny attempts at humor, such as Tux the Penguin making bad puns.
- Poor character development, especially with characters such as Sonny and Jimmy.
- Bland and poor character designs for the cartoon characters. Crocco, especially, looks like a rejected version of Louis from Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
- It pretty much started the trend of Cartoon Network having live-action content on their station to cash in on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, and (except Tower Prep, Level-up, and Unnatural History) none of them were good.
- The scene where Jimmy gets hit by the train is laughably bad. The train also wasn't even moving fast enough to send him flying such a long distance.
- Jimmy's "best friend", Craig, is an absolute jerk for almost the whole film. He tells some kids at Gollyland that Jimmy can hold everything they have, though some of the things are HUGE and probably heavy, and Craig said that Jimmy ditched him, even though he had to be sent to the hospital! (To be fair, it was due to poor writing.) The film even goes as far as to try and paint Jimmy in the wrong for finally standing up for himself after getting fed up with Craig's treatment of him and tries to portray Jimmy reconciling with him in the end as a "happy ending".
- On the subject of unlikable characters being stereotypes just like Jimmy and Craig, Golly Gopher is incredibly unlikable, as he’s a manipulative, egotistical, narcissistic jerk who has little to no empathy for others and only shows concern for saving his reputation. In fact, he’s so unlikable that he’s become one of the most infamously despised Cartoon Network characters of all time. At one point, he even pressures Jimmy to make his new TV show by telling him that the fans he makes will be the same as friends. This is not just manipulative towards Jimmy exclusively for the sake of his own personal gain, but also extremely untrue and a terrible moral to teach.
- Boring scenes that will make the viewers uninterested during the film's running.
- During the hospital scene, we can see that several of the doctors and nurses show signs of malpractice. For example, they perform surgery while still wearing the cartoon character costumes (which may collect dust, bacteria, etc.), committing a potentially dangerous health code violation.
- Poor editing, such as having scenes that go on for too long.
- Bad and laughable dialogue.
- The climax is very easily resolved using a deus ex machina from Yancy (she uses her powers to teleport Sonny away). Because while she did mention having powers, she never mentioned having teleportation abilities like the one used to solve said climax. And the ability just came out of nowhere for no reason other than to save the day at the last minute.
- False Advertising: The DVD release had promising audio and subtitle tracks in English, Spanish and French, but the actual DVD release only has English audio, with subtitles in all three languages.
- It may uncommonly be considered a ripoff of a 1968 Sweden film titled Out of an Old Man's Head. This isn't helped by the fact that the spin-off series' title is a play on its name.
- Major Plot Holes:
- Robin says that Appleday is no longer popular and that the studio is now widely seen as a joke, and expresses concern that she'll be seen as a freak if she liked their cartoons. But that's incredibly hard to believe when there's an entire theme park dedicated to the studio that receives a huge amount of visitors presumably regularly. And later in the film, Jimmy can befriend the popular kids by inviting them to watch Appleday cartoons.
- While Sonny formulating his plan to obtain the brain, a very detailed drawing of his plan to turn the Gollyworld train into a device to decapitate Jimmy is shown. And unless he got the design from an old Golly cartoon, it means he drew said sketch himself. This means that he was capable of working as the head of Appleday, the job he was previously established as being incapable of handling. Although this could be excused by saying that even if he had the technical talent, he might've not had the creativity to handle the job, it's never confirmed.
- The characters are ripoffs of other famous characters especially from Walt Disney and Warner Brothers. Golly is a ripoff of Mickey Mouse (design) and Bugs Bunny (personality), Dolly is a copy of Lola Bunny and Minnie Mouse (design-wise), Tux feels like a Daffy Duck and Donald Duck copy, Crocco copies Porky Pig and Goofy, and Pickles and Prickles are rip-offs of Tom & Jerry.
- To rub salt to the wound, it even spawned a terrible tv show continuation titled Out of Jimmy's Head.
Redeeming Qualities
- The movie, along with its spin-off, has a creative concept of mixing animation with live-action, although the aforementioned flaws make the execution rather poor.
- The animation on the cartoon characters is decent because they’re animated by Renegade Animation, who did other projects such as Gaiam Americas' mockbusters (Tappy Toes, Chop Kick Panda, and Puss in Boots: A Furry Tail), and Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi.
- The voice acting is okay.
- Dolly Gopher is the only likable (or most tolerable) animated character out of the bunch.
- Jimmy, while still not likable due to his poor portrayal and serving as a pushover for the other characters for the most part, is a lot more tolerable than most of the other characters in the movie.
- Likewise, Craig and Golly are slightly more likable in the series compared to the infamous movie.
- The idea (while silly) of a person who can see cartoon characters was interesting.
- Yancy is a funny character, despite her rushed origin. And while she doesn't provide any real purpose to the story, the scenes with her are probably the best ones in the entire movie.
- Tom Kenny's cameo is pretty funny.
- The opening theme song is pretty catchy.
- On the subject of music, the soundtrack is mostly decent.
- Despite the series being just as awful, it can be a bit of an improvement.
Reception
Despite being the highest-rated original movie in Cartoon Network's history (to the kids 6-11 demographic), and rated the number one program of the week among kids 2-11 and 6-11, Re-Animated was heavily panned by critics, viewers and Cartoon Network fans. As of 2021, IMDb has a score of 2.7/10.
Trivia
- It’s the first live-action Cartoon Network movie to date.
Videos
External Links
Re-Animated at the Internet Movie Database
Re-Animated on Rotten Tomatoes
Re-Animated on Metacritic
Re-Animated on Letterboxd
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