Country Bears

[Bean Bunny]

Since the Country Bears was not success at the box office, Disney will probably not move forward with a interesting idea.
Had the movie been a successful, Disney executives were reportedly toying with the idea of using these very same puppets on a Country Bear Jamboree TV show. In its proposed form, the TV spin-off woul debut in the spring of 2003 and be closely modeled on the original Muppet Show. Each week, a major star would arrive at the Country Bear Playhouse, where they'd appear with the animatronic cast of the Country Bears film in a half hour variety show featuring skits and songs.

It's shame the show might not happen.

[BoyRaisin2]

Well, we don't know if the movie was a 'moderate success' or really anything yet, it's only Saturday night. We'll probably know by tomorrow afternoon.

[Bean Bunny]

Friday's opening numbers were not that high but yes we done still until Sunday. The movie was made on a budget of 30 Million so they won't lose too much.

[BoyRaisin2]

OK yeah, the movie bombed. :-)

[beaker]

>>>Had the movie been a successful, Disney executives were reportedly toying with the idea of using these very same puppets on a Country Bear Jamboree TV show. In its proposed form, the TV spin-off woul debut in the spring of 2003 and be closely modeled on the original Muppet Show<<<

*whew* raise your hands if you feel like we just avoided yet another trip to the porcelien altar with this news!

Im stil trying to figure out...in recent memory, whats more of a hideous grotesque, stomach churning twitch inducing cringe causing trailer: the one for country bears or scooby doo? I'd say a tie, but then again....that country bears just looks surreal-ly bad. i think eisner has some firing to do, and im not talking pink slips.

[Crazy Harry]

Originally posted by beaker
I think eisner has some firing to do, and im not talking pink slips.
Is hunting season open already?

(loads shotgun)

[radionate]

Has anyone ventured to the theaters to see this yet?

It upsets me, as I think that they could have had a good cute little movie, if the script was there. That's a big gripe with me of late, crappy scripts. Yeah, the idea of a movie based off a theme park attraction is lame, but it could be interesting. A pirates of the carribean or Haunted Mansion movie could work, if it was scripted right.

I watched the Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle last night. Think about it. Jason Alexander, Rene Ruso, Robert DeNiro, and incredible cameos, yet it sucked! Why? The script. Had they gotten rid of just one character (the annoying agent Karen Sympathy), and replaced her with someone more hip, the movie would have been saved). I think that with the bears, the same could be said with the Haley Joel Osmeth bear. If they had told the story through someone elses "paws", it might have looked more entertaining.

Just my humble ramblings. Carry on all.

[Sir Didymus]

So is Hayley Joel Osmeth the voice of Berry, or is he in the costume? I haven't seen it yet, but i want too. I used to love the disneyland show, and i haven't seen it in 5 years. From the previews, the bears look really neat. Everytime I mention that I want to see it to one of my friends or relatives, they always say stuff like "Oh, that's a baby movie!" or "That looks dumb". Is it really a bad movie? Please tell me whoever has seen it!

Sir Didymus

[radionate]

H.J.O. is just the voice as far as I know. I don't believe he was in the actual costume.

[Buck-Beaver]

Originally posted by radionate
H.J.O. is just the voice as far as I know. I don't believe he was in the actual costume. He wasn't, he just did the voice.

[ralphyman22]

Saddly enough i saw this film :( BUT i did get to see it for free, because my work had passes to a sneak preview of it. AND all i can say is that the movie was horrible. I went into it thinking that it would be a funny bad movie, in which it was just a really really bad movie, with a stupid plot and dumb jokes that even my 7 year old cousin didnt laugh at. Disney bombed with this one.

[beaker]

>>>Disney bombed with this one<<<

I saw this stinker coming a mile away...just the teaser poster alone gave me a bout of the cringes^_^ Anyways, sorry to hear you endured it...ack, I feel bad for all those kids who parents thought it would be an interesting 85 minute ride.

[kansasteen14]

Originally posted by beaker
>>>Had the movie been a successful, Disney executives were reportedly toying with the idea of using these very same puppets on a Country Bear Jamboree TV show. In its proposed form, the TV spin-off woul debut in the spring of 2003 and be closely modeled on the original Muppet Show<<<

*whew* raise your hands if you feel like we just avoided yet another trip to the porcelien altar with this news!

Im stil trying to figure out...in recent memory, whats more of a hideous grotesque, stomach churning twitch inducing cringe causing trailer: the one for country bears or scooby doo? I'd say a tie, but then again....that country bears just looks surreal-ly bad. i think eisner has some firing to do, and im not talking pink slips.

I think some firing needs to be done to eisner