AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

mmm535-108-591223 I just rewatched the Animorphs TV series. Despite being obsessed with the books (read every one multiple times), I realized that as a kid I had somehow simply stopped watching the TV series. Wondering why this was, I watched it again. Here are the major reasons why I think the show doesn't work:5) Too many parts were miscast: Cassie: I just didn't buy it. The real Cassie is so intuitive. Tobias: The real Tobias was basically neglected trailer trash. The guy who plays him in the TV show makes it hard to believe that he would actually get bullied in the ridiculous ways he does. Marco: They got the humor right by choosing this actor, but not the humanity. Marco is not actually macho, like the actor (who I hear went on to become a personal trainer...) Marco likes to think he's macho. But he isn't. Jake: A good actor in other roles, but he's almost too effeminate in this series to be believable. Jake is quite decisive and assertive and I felt let down. Visser Three: Because he was in human form, I'd call this part miscast. The whole "Victor Trent" role was stupid. (However, some parts were cast very well... Brooke Nevin was a dead-on Rachel, attractive, sweet when she needs to be, aggressive and outspoken otherwise. She could have been a little more intense, but in reality Rachel's intensity and ferocity grew as the books went on-- it wasn't immediate. Paulo Costanzo was a perfect human-Ax. The actor who played Tom was also pretty close to how I had imagined Tom from the books, though I wouldn't say perfect.)4) Poor special effects and costume. Some of the special effects didn't even exist, i.e. when morphing was shown via a shadow on the wall, rather than directly. The andalite and hork-bajir were two of the sorriest aliens I've ever seen in any type of media. 3) Poor cinematography. Some of the worst camera work I've ever seen. The first person shots were just awful. 2) Awful minor actors and extras/awful editing. They should have cut out a lot of these scenes. Not only is a lot of the acting bad by the so called "controllers", but there are actually scenes were you can hear the extras saying things like "I'm talking to you, you are standing right next to me, you are listening to what I'm saying..." and other filler like that which should never be heard by the audience (and really shouldn't be said by any extra to begin with... not if they want to make it in Hollywood, anyway...)1) The show was totally disrespectful of K.A. Applegate's brilliant source material. It made up a bunch of awful story lines that had huge plausibility issues. In the show, the Animorphs are seen (and even captured...) by controllers in their HUMAN FORM. And yet, somehow, they aren't questioned by anyone after they escape, or at school the next day. The "disc" idea was idiotic. The "Victor Trent" storyline is also ridiculous. Ax's rescue was completely poorly done, regardless of the fact that it would have been very expensive to make the actual underwater rescue that took place.

Vahnseru You know, the show REALLY could have done much better than they did. At first, when i watched the first episode the night it premiered, i was like, "this really isn't that great". I didn't care about the actors, the dialog, or even the crappy way the Controllers spoke(typical supreme being dialect). What really turned me off was the use of horrible CG and the way it strayed away from the books. If my brain could turn away from these two, then the show would be a'ight.Later in life(present day), when i'm 19, almost 20, i decided to give the show another chance and ordered the VHS online(for only a dollar!). You know? The first 3 episodes were really not that bad. The actors were pretty good(except for Rachel) and the story was kinda similar to the books. Even Marco's humor was good. Still, the low-budget way to make this show turned me off. Hork-bajir look like something from the 80's 'Dinosaurs' and andalites really don't look that great. And this is for the first 3 episodes... Don't get me started on the others. ALSO everyone else is right in saying the show shoulda been longer and put on another channel(Nickelodeon is for 'brainless cartoons' like the other guy said).Read and tell the Animorphs media team this. They've ruined a good series and should regret it hahaha.

gamemaster988 I'm sorry i missed this T.V. show. I loved the books. I read them all, I think. Heck my friends and I played Animorphs on the playground. Anyone know where I can get the DVD's? E-mail gamemaster988@gmail.com if you know where. Animorphs were the greatest and i would really like to see the show. Even if there was only one episode. I hope that this final random rant fills the ten line quota.. but in all seriousness, I wanna see this T.V. show. I grew up on the original Power Rangers, Goosebumps, Animorphs, and G.I. Joe. I want this to be part of my child hood flashback. E-mail me if you know where to get the series DVD. gamemaster988@gmail.com

Keilyn13 There was so much that could have been done to make this a quality show. For one thing, get rid of that Boris kid! Joseph Gordon-Levitt was the obvious choice, as his personality and appearance were both perfect! And Gregory Smith would have been amazing as Jake- he's always the actor I imagined in that part. That said, the other actors were all pretty good choices (and I loved the Tobias pick), so no more problems there. Next issue: If memory serves me correctly (and it probably doesn't- I only watched the first episode before giving up on it), they did a weekly or nightly half-hour show on Nickelodeon. Wrong length, wrong station. If they had done what Farscape did and made it an hour-long special on Fox or some other channel, they'd have had a lot more flexibility to do it right. Nickelodeon is for brainless cartoons- they no longer know how to handle real quality programming. They shouldn't have done it without better funding than they had- no sci-fi/fantasy story, even one for kids/teenagers, will work on a shoestring budget. Why not gear some of that book/merchandise revenue to the show, in turn getting good ratings and making more money as you increase interest in both sets of the series? Was their marketer on sedatives? But even with everything as it was, I believe (and if anyone reads this who has seen the show will probably agree) what lost the fanbase was its nearly complete disregard for the books. It retained the characters, the aliens and the idea of morphing- and that was about it. And it failed utterly, being cancelled not long after it began. Animorphs was an amazingly well-written series that hooked most of us by the mix of crazy humor and emotion-wrenching drama. Whether it was plausible or even entirely original didn't matter because the author (props to Mrs. Applegate) did such a good job. If anything, the TV show hurt that. From reading the posts, a lot of kids who got a glimpse of the show decided that the books must have been just as awful (or *gasp* unaware that there even were books). The show could have been so much more- it could have contended among the best preteen/teenager programming, and been a guilty pleasure for the adults out there. But it wasn't, so I bid it a wistful but otherwise indifferent farewell. I'll stick to my original sorrow over the book series ending.