And this week's Friday night movie has been... Mr Peabody and Sherman!
I watched a lot of Rocky and Bullwinkle when I was a kid. So I was already familiar with these characters and their shtick. Needless to say, I was perplexed to see that someone decided that these two should have their own full-length feature. I mean, is this the type of thing that will sell to the kids of the 2010s, let alone anyone who was a kid in the 1950s?
So it seems that I needn't have worried: This was hilarious with some real laugh-out-loud jokes, snappy dialogue, some clever use of visuals, gags that are anything but archaic, and some actual heart - not to mention various allusions to the source material. It is like that the makers realised that this wasn't that big a property so they had the freedom to do whatever they wanted - and so they ran with that.
Like I said I had no idea who green-lit this but I never would've guessed it produced such a gem.
