it's literally just an episode of the show stretched out to 70 minutes, the animation quality isn't even any better than any standard episode. The plot is also pretty stupid.
>cops and mayor will side with the renters over the big businessman
>cops will just ignore the bus hijacking, wreck, the literal domestic terrorism phil plotted etc over big businessman burning a document from a century ago
The nick website had a tie in game where you drive a bus around. It was so bad I skipped this movie even though I liked the show
This show really didn’t need a theatrical movie. Even as a kid I felt that. It was well written and smart, but it’s too grounded and slow to make for an exciting kids movie
>Jungle Movie was scrapped for this.
I know we got it a decade later but the earlier one looked more kino.
I find it super funny that the only effort they put into making the animation "better quality" is that Arnold, Helga, and Gerald all have lighting/shading but none of the other characters do. They couldn't even half-ass the whole thing, just those characters.
Also brown haired Big Bob was a weird choice.
>That whole plot with Bob just being a Hulk parody because they didn't know what to do
>it's literally just an episode of the show stretched out to 70 minutes, the animation quality isn't even any better than any standard episode.
More like an special, originally it was intended to be a TV film entitled "Arnold Saves The Neighborhood" that was supposed to be tied in as a S5 finale before Jungle Movie, when it was originally a theatrical film. Then Paramount fricked over by choosing the Tv film over a the jungle movie.
>it's literally just an episode of the show stretched out to 70 minutes
I always see this criticism posted at least once when people are talking about "TV show: the movie" and I've never understood it. What else is it supposed to be?
I'll bite
I think most people expect a movie to reasonably up the stakes and production value when compared to a show.
Beavis and Butthead went on a US roadtrip with a sideplot about illegal smuggling and murder.
South Park became a bombastic musical where an all-out war tears the town and nation apart.
Rugrats had higher animation quality and more adventurous plots for all three movies.
Spongebob upped the stakes and overall scale of its world for another road trip type of deal.
All Hey Arnold the Movie does is a tacked-on spy segment to an otherwise normal Arnold situation of saving the neighborhood and not really traveling much outside it. It also doesn't look much better than the show either. Another good example of this is The Simpsons Movie, where things are a little bit more bombastic than the show, but is largely a plot they could've made as a single episode.
>Simpsons Movie
>example of an "extended episode plot"
I don't get this. All of Springfield was in danger of being wiped out for good, the Simpsons were on the run, and Homer was the only one with the power to save the day while also saving his marriage and the bond with his kids. The globetrotting, emotional plot beats, and overall visual flair made it feel like a truly cinematic experience. Every member of the family was given something to do, even if Lisa's was pretty removed from the rest. Doesn't matter how you feel about the sanding down for mass appeal or how the comedy compares to the show at its peak, this movie is A MOVIE.
>Still no 4K release
Why?
It's a movie, sure, just by no means a good one, and one they made about a decade too late for no apparent reason.
I think The Simpsons Movie is just a single step above the show in terms of being more movie-like. It's not a "long episode", but it really isn't much more exciting or grand as what the show was already doing. stuff like the dome around Springfield or the millionth time Homer and Marge's marriage has been in peril aren't really enough for me. The compromises it makes for mass appeal weaken it, and it just doesn't ever feel right. I'd argue the Spongebob movie is similar in that it never feels better than the actual show, and key characters are sidelined.
villain should had been Scorpio and the moment he noticed Homer when he got back in Springfield he decide to cancel everything and leave
IIRC they went with a new villain because they didn't want audiences who hadn't seen the Scorpio episode to feel out of the loop, which is cowardly cuckshit.
so it's Hallmark quality?
I've always wanted an otherwise serious movie to do that thing all those Hallmark Christmas movies do where Santa Claus is blatantly a character and they spend the whole time "building up" to the big reveal at the end with disbelieving protagonists. Put that subplot in a Scorsese picture or something.
This. Did people expect them to travel across the fricking universe or something?
I expected it to be funny.
Well that’s different from feeling like movie
The plot could literally fit into an 11, maybe 22 minute segment, nothing really happens in the movie that justifies a movie happening. Something like beavis and butthead do america, at least in that one they travel across the country and there's alternative rock songs mixed in montages to make it feel cinematic. In the rugrats movie they did the same thing of getting professional pop songs and old rock stars, the artstyle is dramatically different and its way more detailed, and there's actual stakes of the babies dying because they're in a hostile environment, they also use the movie as a way to introduce a new character and change the setting.
They're just fricking morons who like to cry. As evidenced by the other replies.
>cops and mayor will side with the renters over the big businessman
have you seen real life homosexual?
>cops will just ignore the bus hijacking, wreck, the literal domestic terrorism phil plotted etc over big businessman burning a document from a century ago
They literally didnt. Infact that is the reason they are there in the first place.
Funniest part is the fact that the film itself wasn't even made in native HD. It was 480p upscaled to 720p for theaters. It looks like hot vaseline on streaming even in 4k. I can only imagine how awful it looked in a theater
Can't blame Craig for getting demoralized
>720p for theaters
Was this the standard at the time? How did we live like that?
Most movies were still shot on film and distributed to theaters on film at the time, when digital finishes became normal later in the decade the standard was 2k (slightly higher quality than 1080p). In this case, the movie was digitally animated in standard definition and then the final cut was printed to film.
It's one of the biggest prod mistakes made by Craig, low income stoped jungle movie for decades.
And still they are managed to come back after big failure.
Sadly Patakies will newer have green light.
Grim end for creative artists.
The Rugrats movie seriously ruined everything.
at least was a movie and don't a long episode
It's not that movie's fault that the producers are incompetent.
Explain.
The success of the Rugrats movie lead to a shitload of TV cartoons getting movies and contributed to 2D being perceived as outdated cheap shit in the face of shiny new CGI movies.
It's not like it was well received
All the nick movies were so trash back then and they kept making them
Nah, it wasn't that bad. I liked it as a kid.