Saturday, February 19, 2005

My Childhood has been cheapened

I am rather concerned about this whole Pooh's Heffalump Movie business. Do any of you remember the heffalump song? I sure do.

A heffalump or woozle is very confoozle
because they come in every shape and size (size, SIZE, SiZe)!
If honey's what you covet, you'll find that they love it
because they guzzle up the things you prize!
They're black, they're brown, they're up theyre down
They're far, they're near, they're insincere
BEWARE!!!!!!!!!

Paints a rather frightening image, doesn't it? And the cartoon that goes along with it does nothing to help the situation. That was some scary shit, man. Pooh was under the bed by the end of it. And so was I.

Now, this new movie is showing the heffalumps in a completely different light. Gone are the forboding images of these ominous creatures. They have now been replaced with happy-go-lucky animals who bounce along after Christopher Robin and Co. Whatever happend to the nastiest creatures ever to set foor in the Hundred Acre Wood? I'm sure we would all like to know. This new movie seems to violate about 8 different pieces of Winnie the Pooh mythology. Not that I'm a big Pooh freak, or anything. I'm just saying.

The trailer does have one saving grace; a rather comical exchange between Rabbit and Tigger.........
Rabbit: We can't go in there. It's fraught with danger.
Tigger: And you just can't argue with a word like "fraught."

And Tigger's right. You really can't.

2 Comments:

Blogger Emerson83 said...

Those Heffalumps used to scare the shat out of me- and the old Winnie the Pooh was tops as far as animation goes. This whole conundrum however, falls under the "revitalization" of our era (read: the bastardization of old things that were great, but are now gone). Cabbage Patches, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake...the list goes on- and they're all coming back with an inaccurate and softened up/"trendy" vengeance. Damn, this is the dorkiest comment ever. Sorry.

2:05 AM  
Blogger Spark of Life said...

The fact that my post was as dorky as it was, invites a multitude of even dorkier comments.

9:38 AM  

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