Anyone think there could be a chance of this being a good movie?

Anyone think there could be a chance of this being a good movie?

I doubt it's got any hidden depths to it, so I don't think it can be good. Maybe it could get to "not bad" status.

Anyone think there could be a chance of this producing good porn?

it will be just as forgettable as Pets

I already think it'll be just fine, however that's coming from the angle of "Something I would take my niece and nephew to watch" as opposed to "I want to base my life around this media" like much of Sup Forums seems to be aiming for.

Why can't a happy film for young families just be a happy film for young families?

lol

It's got some decent ideas.

>ugly animals singing pop songs for an hour and a half

I'll pass.

It has hope in that it's directed and written by one guy, Garth Jennings, who's never made a kids' movie before. He did the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, which I remember liking a lot when I was younger.
Basically I'm saying he's got a slightly oddball British sense of humor and it will probably not be totally bland studio cookie cutter garbage. It should end up having some kind of personality to it.
Now, whether or not it'll be good, that's anyone's guess

>He did the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, which I remember liking a lot when I was younger.

God, that movie was complete ass. Humor completely missed the mark compared to the book, horribly misconstrued characterization aside. Ended up being another forgettable sci fi humor flick

It was written by Adams, all of the large changes from previous versions were his idea.
It wasn't perfect but as a big budget Disney Hollywood adaptation there are so many ways it could have been way fucking worse. I especially liked the art direction and creature puppets/costumes, it's still a very good looking movie today. I'll agree that the humor played a little more broad and less dry than the book, but I have to imagine that was most likely for commercial reasons. However the animated Guide sections were spot on I think.
I also have quite a bit of nostalgia for it so that's part of it

>Dat straight-to-DVD tier character design
As expected of Illumination.

Secret Life of Pets didn't even cost $70 million and it broke the record for an opening weekend on an original animated film. Meanwhile Disney is regularly spending over $200 million on their movies. I don't think they're doing much more than steadily producing easily digestible product, but it sure seems to be working for them.
Makes me wonder what happened to stuff like the Lehman Brothers joke in Despicable Me, though I guess I could also ask the same of the occasional profanity used in early Dreamworks movies. As soon as you start raking in the big bucks the parent company buts in to make sure your movies are as safe as possible.

>It was written by Adams

wait what? He died in 2001 and didn't the movie come out in like 2005?

It was already announced and in pre-production when he died, Adams' death stalled it for a bit.
>"The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote.... All the substantive new ideas in the movie ... are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him.... Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie." - Robbie Stamp

He also did Son of rambow which was great.

Very little. The pig housewife has over a dozen kids, so there might be some preggo / impregnation stuff...
Also, dumbasses are suckers for gorilla porn. They generally use Gorillas as stand ins for Africans, and give them dicks that are hilariously overcompensatory. Seriously. By now, this being the internet, everyone should know how tiny gorilla dick is.

It's just a schtick, It is a movie for little girls who will dance around their portable dvd player singing too loud with it.

I'm reserving judgement until I hear if the actors are actually singing the songs.

wasn't the producer a fox originally?

I couldn't last the whole trailer...
It's bad.

>movie about a fad that wore out almost 10 years ago

no.

already know a guy whos gonna porn the gorillas

so no