Why couldn't the whole movie be animated?

Why couldn't the whole movie be animated?

Because the story had them come out into the real world to help a real black girl.

Animation ain't cheap you Black Orpheus

Live action bastardizations of classic cartoons were really popular at that time.

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The show was barely animated.

Owl is just the worst.

>barely animated
funimation was the difference between limited (cheap) animation and no animation

Filmation, user. Funimation is the anime distributor company.

>Funimation
It's like you've never heard of Filmation.

Though let's be honest, who was worse during the "dark age"? H-B or Filmation?

70s Filmation = better writing/story concepts

70s HB = better character design

True, but who has the (miniscule) edge animation-wise?

I'd personally say HB, honestly. It's still limited, but at least there's more going on than just the talking heads of Filmation cartoons.

Hey hey hey, they gotta earn their pay. Animation is expensive, you know.

Because you can't roofie a cartoon

That sounds like a challenge.

A small detail that's bugged the shit out of me since I was a kid was hour round n flat his hair was as opposed to puffy and curly in the original

What I wanna know is why the fuck they didn't bother making the characters sound like themselves. Fat Albert has an iconic voice but Kenan just played it in his normal speaking voice.

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Most likely a limited animation budget, and probably the fact that live-action movies of cartoons were so popular in the 00's.
Honestly, it would've been cool to see a fully-animated Fat Albert movie.

Celebrities don’t know how to voice act

Better question. Why can't they reboot it with slightly cheaper art quality?

Fat Albert was voiced by Bill Cosby.