Live-Action Remakes before Disney did them

[@Mrnotpib]

“Who Framed Rodger Rabbit” is exactly this. Not quite a remake of anything, but every character that shows up still acts like themselves. Chuck Jones still hated it, though. Even though he personally drew Daffy for the famous Donald and Daffy Dueling Piano scene. Go figure.

[@AlexBoucher]

Damn that's interesting. Thanks for the info. Surprised he didn't like Roger Rabbit, since there's a lot of Tex Avery there

[@robgronotte1]

@@AlexBoucher Chuck Jones' style was about as far from that of Tex Avery as you could get. TA was wild madcap while CJ was word play and spoofs of high culture.

[@ghoulamvs4887]

The live action popeye movie is genuinely amazing. Though you mentioning my GOAT sam raimi had me wishing for a raimi popeye film… that’d be insane

[@dabatman5187]

It would have been the greatest movie ever made

[@nostalgiamostalgia0319]

I know, Robin Williams was a real treasure but he disliked doing this film aside from a few memories.

[@FormulaFanboy]

Garfield the Movie (2004) is also one of my all time favourite films and I don't care what anyone says about it

[@electrojones]

Speed Racer is the gold standard for this stuff, but it's in the CGI era. BTW, you managed to talk about how faithful The Flintstones movie was to the source material only by leaving Rosie O'Donnell's Betty out of the clips shown. Haha.

[@maplebob23]

Speed Racer gave me a terrible headache. I don’t think I could finish it.

[@littlebugp]

I loved Speed Racer as a kid, and I still do. I also really liked 101 Dalmatians and 102 Dalmatians. People tend to forget about Oddball the puppy.

[@AlexBoucher]

I was considering adding Speed Racer to the vid! Really need to see that movie

[@moldypizza]

@@AlexBoucherIt’s fantastic, hope it can make an appearance in a future video.

[@Clwnanite]

Everyone is talking about Popeye, but the flintstones was perfectly casted and goddamn so funny

[@cowtzu]

Rosie O'Donnell as Betty is perfect casting? lol

[@marcusfridh8489]

John Goodman as fred, Rick moranis as Barney, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma, Elizabeth Taylor as the mother in law, and a very hot Halle Berry

[@himonightbreeze]

If you go back far enough in their catalog, you'll find Disney was on the Remake tip for decades. They had 3 different movies about Tom Sawyer and/or Huck Finn within a year. They remade The Absent-minded Professor into Flubber. They made Homeward Bound, Freaky Friday, and The Parent Trap twice. They've made 3 Swiss Family Robinson movies, each about 20 years apart. (1940, 1960, & 1998) They recycle ideas more than any other studio, they just typically wait long enough for one generation to forget the last one.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

The 1940s Swiss family Robinson films was actually from RKO pictures. The 1960s one and The New Swiss Family Robinson were by Disney. Disney’s making a remake of both the 1960s one and The New Swiss Family Robinson next!

[@Robyn_007]

At least the early Live Action Remakes are sometimes funny bad compared to the bland focus tested products Disney makes.

[@GreatgunYu]

The only good live action adaptation of a Disney animated film is 101 Dalmatians live action movie from 1996 that Disney made. It’s really good. It’s not a near exact copy from the animated version but a different unique take of the original story book. The villain is really sinister and terrifying than the animated one. This is before Disney decided to make everything live action.

[@Robyn_007]

@user-sq5eg8vz6j Yeah, Cruella da Vill in those movies was awesome. Super disappointed in the direction they took her in the remake from 2 years ago.

[@AlexBoucher]

funny bad is the best kind of bad

[@CartoonPhreak]

Inspector Gadget was also remade into a live action film.

[@narottamcecil1803]

Disney was involved in that one, and they made a live action “George of the Jungle” movie, how do you think they got the inspiration to remake their animated films into live action in the first place?

[@jessquinn6106]

The difference being, the old remakes were FUN and not made just for a quick money-grab. They also hired REAL actors and not just pretty people that could not adlib a burp at a Hungarian dinner.

[@projp9057]

Asterix and Obelix: Take on Caesar is also a good example of how to make a live-action out of a cartoon

[@MPbmfm]

It's not made in or by Hollywood... Maybe that's the reason

[@MZFKDL]

or Mission Cleopatra)

[@marcusfridh8489]

Mission Cleopatra is my favorite of the Asterix live action, like the flintstones, it was perfectly casted, Monica Belucci as Cleopatra was damn fire

[@AlexBoucher]

the poster for that movie gave me nightmares as a kid

[@MarkPag]

Asterix and Cleopatra live action and Asterix and the middle Kingdom are the worst. My favorite is Asterix and the Olympic Games: the only reason why I remember this movie is Alain Delon as Julius Caesar.

[@JayStack5]

I personally like all these Movies (not the Disney live-action ones), and that's with growing up with watching Looney Tunes, Flintstones, and Popeye on Boomerange.

[@justincrane8825]

The three movies discussed here are live-action adaptations, not remakes.

[@therewillbefudd]

It makes me furious how insane your editing skill is. Keep it up. Fantastic job as always!

[@nicks4802]

Popeye Meets Ali Baba's 40 Thieves holds a special place in my heart as one of the first cartoons I ever watched. If you've never seen it, go watch it, The part with the fold-up menu always made me laugh

[@OleAlexanderBrunaes]

Same. This cartoon is a part of the Bugs Bunny Show. and Cartoon Festival VHS, I watched it alot around the time I was 2-3 years old.

[@DavidGonzalez-tv2lf]

Feels like the whole live action thing was just an excuse to tell that beautiful recount of the history and evolution of classic animation

[@AlexBoucher]

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[@crystalfairy912]

My personal favorite live action adaptation is 1997’s George of the Jungle. They didn’t forget they were adapting a cartoon full of sharp wit and slapstick.

[@elineman4523]

You didn’t even mentioned the fact that the Popeye movie had songs done by freaking Harry Nielson. Also Disney live-action remakes are different from those three you mentioned which are based off of cartoons while those are based off of aimated movies. But either way good video.

[@AlexBoucher]

I cut out several interesting bits from each movie (including the drugs on the set of Popeye), for the sake of brevity. If I had mentioned everything interesting about all the movies the vid would be an hour long. Sorry that Nilsson didn’t get a shoutout. For the 3 movies, I was referring to live-action remakes of animation (as a medium) and not specifically if they are movies or shorts. Happy you enjoyed the video Eli!

[@NickOwens]

What a great video essay. Not just a good example of how hard it is to translate animation to live-action, but a fun history lesson on the medium of animation itself. I gotta watch me some Popeye cartoons, I never knew how expressive and dynamic the animation was before.

[@maplebob23]

It reminds me of how we forgot how to go to the moon.

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

Actually, Disney co-produced the Popeye feature, and probably made more money off it than Paramount. And the "Superman" feature, not to mention (and let's not) two live-action versions of "L'il Abner" (one a film version of a Broadway musical), came along before "Popeye." And you left out "The Grinch," the top grossing movie of 2000.

[@GWKTM]

0:43 Those aren't really "remakes". They're just adaptations of the properties they're based on, and have original stories. And Looney Tunes Back in Action is a hybrid. Not full-on live action.

[@saturdaymorningfan3123]

"Live remakes before disney did them" than has popeye a disney movie. Oops. Disney and paramount teamed up to make popeye. Paramount gets american rights and disney everywhere else in the world and disneys name is right in the movies opening title! Also, blondie, snuffy smith and lil abner were live movies before popeye. With that grouchiness over this was a pretty great video. Love the history of the cartoons talked about. Great job.

[@Soundwave08]

the live action popeye is a classic! the songs "im mean" and "everything is food" are genuine bangers.

[@Soundwave08]

I remember watching the movie for the first time when I was 9, six years later and its still amazing.

[@Mattmurdockk431]

Steamboat Willie is also a copy/parody of the then popular Buster Keaton 's film Steamboat Bill jr.

[@MZFKDL]

As always, nice work, dude) all these inscriptions, which are stylized for a particular movie, cartoon... just amazes me.

[@alexkerry7631]

I loved your classic cartoon montages in this, great job!

[@JaredGriffiths2000]

I like the live action Flintstones movie the most out of live action remakes talked about in this video.

[@templetonf]

Great video! Interesting points, although I disagree on the terminology. Disney's recent live-action remakes are exactly that: re-making an animated movie that already exists using live actors and sets (or what is supposed to look like them). The earlier movies you call "live-action remakes" are more original than that: taking pre-existing cartoon series and a) translating them to live-action, and b) creating a movie plot out of them (a cohesive story with beginning, middle, and end, told over the course of a typical movie runtime). There was no pre-existing animated movie of Popeye, Looney Tunes, or the Flintstones for their respective live-action movies to lift their plot from. Although their creators were banking on IP recognition, they still had to work on crafting a movie out of the material. Disney seems to do a lot more coasting with their remakes, their toughest question being "What should we change to make this more 'modern'?"

[@toob1979]

Something that handcuffs the Disney live-action remakes in a way the three examples used in this video didn't have to deal with is their structure. Popeye, the Looney Tunes and The Flintstones only had to recreate the characters from those classic cartoons. The film makers had (somewhat) free rein to do what they pleased with the plots and scripts. When Disney remade _Beauty and the Beast_ and _The Little Mermaid,_ the scripts were already written. The stories pre-existed the new movies. Everyone knows what happens to Belle and Ariel, and any major deviations would get the studio crucified by critics and the general public. The live-action and photo-realistic versions of the Disney classics have only one thing to offer: They're not "cartoons."

[@JH-hb8ob]

I saw Popeye in the theater as a kid. I enjoyed it's weird vibe

[@benrositas8068]

Many seem to love dumping on the Popeye movie, but it has been a favorite of mine since I first saw it, when it started showing on cable TV, back in the early 80s. And I think they nailed the look and feel of a Popeye world in the town of Sweet Haven. And, of course, Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall knock it out of the park as Popeye and Olive. I don't think there were two better actors for the parts, then or now. Also of note are Pappy, Wimpy, and Bluto. Not perfect, but far from bad! Yeah, this movie got so much more right than wrong, imo.

[@DaveAdams222]

Absurdly well done! This deserves accolades beyond reproach! Awesome video essay!

[@AlexBoucher]

Thank you Dave!

[@QUSAI1996_]

This channel is insane, great video buddy. Loved your use of music and classical music

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

The Addams Family, George of the Jungle, Cinderella, and TMNT all showed it can work. The 60's Batman TV series is a fun example of a live action cartoon done right, adapted into a cartoon that uses live action rotoscoping to do it wrong.

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

1:23 The final words of Chat GTP.

[@Co3rupt]

maan, your editing is astounding, keep up the good work

[@DigitalLife3000]

I’m shocked that the original Scooby Doo live action film wasn’t mentioned at all!!!

[@pink-a-palouza7888]

I was pretty shocked that it wasn’t the one being picked because it’s with the whole Warner Bros. Catalog that he was going with.

[@AlexBoucher]

how can I repent for my sins

[@DigitalLife3000]

@@AlexBoucher 10 hour essay and analysis on the Scooby Doo-ology

[@tylerdurden757]

Make that 500 hours ​@@DigitalLife3000

[@bookish336]

I still consider "duck amuck" the greatest drawn cartoon ever produced. Absolute genius.

[@lucasreid4443]

Those aren’t remakes they are adaptations, a significant distinction.

[@latewizard301]

My favourite live action (as a kid at least) was Inspector Gadget, used to watch that more than i watched the cartoon probably.

[@12Tecpatl]

Your editing is absolutely excellent

[@pendantblade6361]

I grew up with Looney Tunes and boy do I miss it. I should rewatch some of em.

[@skootergirl22]

Rip robin Williams

[@brandonspain12345]

Wait? What about Casper (1995)

[@micahblakeslee]

This is far from your first video I'm watching, but I believe it's my first comment. You always provide thoughtful, well-reasoned analysis. Thanks for the great videos and keep it up! :)

[@billwenham]

Only a minute in and I had to subscribe for the fantastic editing!

[@Jonathanest90s]

You do realize that the live action Popeye movie was co produced by Disney right?

[@compitalc]

Thank you, I was gonna say it too.

[@AlexBoucher]

yep👍I meant before Disney was doing live-action remakes with their own properties

[@RABartlett]

Something to keep in mind about POPEYE is it also drew from the more static, moody world of the THIMBLE THEATER comic strips, as indicated by the though bubble on the movie posters. I believe it's the only piece of extra-media to mention Ham Gravy, the strip's original protagonist and perhaps popular culture's greatest cuck. CASPER is very interesting, it's very much riding the tail the spooky and coming of age dramas popular in the late eighties early nineties (In short, it's a very watered down BEETLEJUICE) but because the director was drawing from his feelings of his girlfriend's brutal and very public murder, it has a strange, if at times misplaced, poignancy. For a while they had a series of movies based on Jay Ward cartoons, which made Hanna Barbara look positively fluid, but always an anarchic, self-aware humor. GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE, also starring Brendan Fraser, might be the most unambiguous success, took a little remembered show and just ran with the idea of "Tarzan, but it's a romantic comedy" (coming during the time romcoms were in their boom period). The follow-up, DUDLEY DO-RIGHT, embraced its cartoon heritage more, but was also completely unhinged, and is perhaps the the most aligned with the three films of the trio. The you had ROCKY & BULLWINKLE, with the studio's biggest stars, one of the biggest bombs of the year, and actually something LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION takes a lot more cues from than one would reasonably think.

[@Coffee_Fuelled_Jerk]

If I remember correctly, Popeye was based more on the comics and not the cartoon. Either the director or writer notoriously hated the cartoons, and hated what they had done to Popeye, the world and the characters, and they sought to rectify that mistake. I believe "Hats off entertainment" had a video on the topic

[@vitalepitts]

uh... the premise is kinda flawed on these not being remakes of films but rather adaptations of series.

[@Magnusmm88-wp4it]

Those live action remix weren't made by Disney.

[@JohnPannozzi]

I dont count Looney Tunes: Back in Action as a live-action remake at all. Its a live-action/animation hybrid, akin to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Out of the Inkwell series, the Alice Comedies, the Three Caballeros, the Space Jam movies, Cool World, and so on.

[@Lorenzo-dq2zy]

Great vid Alex!!! it’s Laurent btw lol

[@PhilipAJones]

I am here to say SPEED RACER is not only of the greatest live action remakes of all these but one of the greatest FILMS of all time! No I will not budge on this fact.

[@BugsyFoga]

Looney Tunes back in action is my all time favorite film out there

[@GWKTM]

2:24 You should've scrolled more up towards SMB movie, cause that's far more appealing than Spiderverse

[@carlcjjohnson8694]

11:27 in that case if he saw space jam 2, I cant inagine how he would feel about that movie

[@Breffix]

4:32 "Popeye is the first live action remake" Superman came out in 1978

[@t.z2359]

Grate vidio. If I were to give some critique. I wish you did give more time to the Live action Flintstones Movie, It felt like you did not give it the same amount of time as the prevues films. That said, considering how much time you gave to the Flintstones show, I could see how you felt talking about the movie would drag. Grate retrospective on animated shorts, interesting insight on the live action film, grate video.

[@blattman13]

I loved back in action. Very true to the characters

[@MarkPag]

Great video. You talk about Kung Fu Hustle. This let me remark how Oriental movies (almost Japanese) are more capable than western ones to make proper cinema mixing a lot of genres.

[@randomreviews4278]

You forgot the Flintstones in viva Rock Vegas

[@meep14yu-gi-ohbestdeckprof98]

1st Cinderella i remember being fine

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

pan was ok oh wait that was universal nvm

[@mlcorcor]

Does Looney Tunes count? It's animation breaking the fourth wall, not a remake. 1995's Casper and the live-action Scooby-Doo from 2002 fit this mold though.

[@pinkwerewolf]

Popeye live action was super unique and I would say… excellent! Disney needs to use the imagineers a little more than just animatronics….

[@Anonymouthful]

Live action remakes are just the corporations showing exactly what we knew all along: 0 respect for their IPs when it comes to squeezing money of them by whatever means possible.

[@thomsboys77]

Disney distributed the Popeye movie in Europe

[@Leafyphox]

Popeye is PEAK CINEMA. How dare you say otherwise?

[@ethanester3258]

Does anyone knows what this song is? 20:51

[@electrojones]

A Stephen Chow Popeye movie would be ideal.

[@BadTunes.]

yo quick note to everyone if you want to watch a actually good live action /cartoon blend movie that is underrated and faithfully recreates the fill watch hundreds of beaver that movie is hella funny and entertaining ..

[@randomreviews4278]

Love Looney tunes back in action

[@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq]

Popeye was a Disney film.

[@SalamiSelimbo]

nice video

[@bungo6000]

i like your videos but you mix voices so low compared to the rest of your video. Your own voice is very quiet so I end up turning up the sound and then get blasted by a high note in the music or a sound effect maybe u just gotta get used to it, it's nothing major but some parts still sound very quiet love the visual side of the video

[@DrAwesomeGamer]

You miss talking about so much you miss talking about the live action. Ben 10 movie. You missed out talking about the Rocky and Bullwinkle live-action movie Just saying

[@kevin10001]

To me the flintstones was good it was like they took an episode and made a movie out of it and back then John Goodman was the perfect choice for Fred since he would’ve been a better choice for a Jackie Gleason biopic back then unlike Brad garret who ultimately got the role in a television movie about Jackie Gleason I would say Brad garret would be a perfect choice for a munsters reboot cause he is about the height of Fred Gwynne and can do a Herman impression not that he would have to but he seems to understand the character

[@gstone8255]

It’s almot evil How much people shit on Disney Livs Action remakes 😡 It makes me very angry

[@happy543210]

The Popeye movie was very good!

[@forrestdupre87]

No more Remakes I’m done

[@AlexBoucher]

but the remakes aren't done with you

[@TMNTfever]

I really liked Detective Pikachu

[@DannyConeHeadOnceLer]

You forgot Rocky and Bullwinkle live action movie It's very highly regarded by people especially Nostalgia Critic and Phantom Strider

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

Probably because I was young I liked The Flintstone movies & the Scooby Doo movie. Though the Scooby Doo movies could've been so much better. As far as any other live action remake, it's trash.

[@JeroenDoornewaard]

Hahahah funny to see!

[@christopherreichart9193]

yes more remake s piss people off Chris don’t care I enjoy the little mermaid and Beauty and the beast and Aladdin and the lion king and Alice in Wonderland and Alice in wonderland and Pinocchio. And Dumbo and Mary Poppins and cinderella and Lady and the Tramp and Carella and Pete’s Dragon and Christopher Robin and maleficent mistress of evil Alice I want to see more copy animated into Live action

[@christopherreichart9193]

I hate different I want to see the same Mulan and Peter pan and Wendy and maleficent 2014 and the jungle book and fixed these movies Alice in wonderland though the looking glass these movies are. The worst stop doing reboots