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"Father of the Pride" -Siegfried & Roy cartoon
This must have been in production since before Roy was mauled. It's from a press release:
In the tradition of classic primetime animated series like “The Simpsons” and “King Of The Hill” comes a new, highly anticipated CGI-animated comedy series from DreamWorks Television and DreamWorks Animation, producers of the smash hit, "Shrek", premiering this fall on NBC. Set in Las Vegas , "Father of the Pride" goes beyond the bright lights and glitz of the iconic "Siegfried & Roy" show to the off-stage antics and the suburban life of the show’s dysfunctional family of performing white lions. _ Featuring CGI versions of Siegfried & Roy the series centers on the family life of Larry, a down-to-earth, hard working lion that somehow fell into a life of _ show business and his relationships with his loving wife, taunting headlining father-in-law, teenage kids and his wacky bunch of friends. "Father of the Pride" will be the first prime-time television show with feature film-quality CGI animation and incorporates much of the cheeky, edgy and ironic humor that proved so popular in the DreamWorks hit, "Shrek. "Father of the Pride" features the voice talents of John Goodman ("Roseanne"), Cheryl Hines ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"), Carl Reiner (“Ocean’s Eleven”), Orlando Jones ("Drumline"), John O'Hurley ("Seinfeld"), and Wendie Malick, ("Just Shoot Me”). |
Yeah, it's been in production a long time. The thread talking about it is a year old
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maybe they can work the mauling into the show.....
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Giving this a bump since this is about to premiere next week. Any buzz on it?
This looks like something my 3-year-old would really enjoy, but on my TiVo it says it's TV-14 (without saying why). Guess I'll have to screen it before showing it to her. "Daddy, why is Monticore trying to eat that man?" |
Originally posted by Groucho Giving this a bump since this is about to premiere next week. Any buzz on it? This looks like something my 3-year-old would really enjoy, but on my TiVo it says it's TV-14 (without saying why). Guess I'll have to screen it before showing it to her. "Daddy, why is Monticore trying to eat that man?" |
I read a review of the pilot/first episode somewhere (Aint It Cool?) that said it was suprisingly funny and well done, and doesn't pander at ALL to S&R...in fact, it mercilessly made fun of them.
I might check it out. |
I'm there.
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anyone else watching this??? very good...similar to Shrek (same producers).. lots of adult jokes
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I thought it was totally devoid of funny. I chuckled maybe once, otherwise I thought it stunk.
The animation had a bit of problems- if you were lucky enough to catch this in HD you could tell the shadows were a bit off. |
Awful
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Not even worth one chuckle. This should be off the air in a couple weeks, if it lasts that long.
The animation had a bit of problems- if you were lucky enough to catch this in HD you could tell the shadows were a bit off. |
I just didn't think that sort of thing would be noticable on normal TV.
I'm not quite sure what's there to take offense at. If you "knew better" why mention it at all? |
I wasn't particularly impressed with the episode. I'll give it a few more tries before dropping it completely but there wasn't much to laugh at.
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I liked it. I was expecting it to be lame, but it got me. :up:
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It was okay and I'll give it a couple more views probably. I'm glad I recorded it, though, or I would have missed the first minute of the much-more-important Scrubs since it started early and I wasn't watching live!
Steph |
Disappointing, I thought.
But I'll watch it a few more times and see what happens |
Was it just me? Did anyone else jump everytime the Cheryl Hines lion said "Larry"? I swear, that sucked me completely out of whatever suspension of belief I had, it was bizarre.
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Originally posted by BabiG Was it just me? Did anyone else jump everytime the Cheryl Hines lion said "Larry"? I swear, that sucked me completely out of whatever suspension of belief I had, it was bizarre. Carl Reiner's character was decnt, but that's about it. |
Definitely not Shrek caliber material here. The fact that they kept promoting this as being from the creators of Shrek was the only thing that had me looking forward to it. Way too many stupid sex jokes. Seems like they are going for the 13 year old crowd.
I'll give it another chance since I think the panda story is basically over, but so far no good. |
During every promo I kept thinking.. that looks decent... until they showed Sigfried & Roy. Then interest drops to 0. I'm betting it will be the first casualty of the season.
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The animation is sub-par imo. The Girl panda seems to most acted out. I also thought the character designs were a little weak.
I was kinda surprised at all the adult humor. I'm just not use to seeing it in animation. Some parts were funny to me because of this. The audience its directed towards obviously isn't the same as a family/child Pixar film. |
eh it was ok I guess.. Not too fair to judge off just one ep, after all I call foul when networks do that and can a show after a few eps so only fair to give a show a shot..
that being said, it has some funny lines in it but other then that I did not see any thing all that humorous with in the show. Almost felt like I was working at watching the show, looking to talk myself into liking it. Ya know, Vs say Tripping the Rift or Futurama where I just really enjoyed the shows 5 min into the first eps I ever saw... As for the animation of Father of the Pride it seems a big chunky but odds are that is just the jaded fan talking as I have seen so many of these cgi cartoon movies and shows the last few years.. I don't think it's bad but they hyped it to the level where I was expecting Monster Inc sort of fur on the lions.. Eh but again, that is being nit picky and not fair to judge Father of the Pride against a $$$ film.. I'll watch a few more eps of course but I would not be shocked if it was not around as a show for too long.. |
It was pretty awful, but I'll give it a couple more chances. My fear is they spent 99% of their time on the animation and celebrity voices and 1% on jokes. Given how long this has been in production, how could that have been the best script they had? :confused:
It will last at least as long as it takes for them to burn through their guest stars. |
Originally posted by MrX Carl Reiner's character was decent, but that's about it. Alot of the jokes were forced, and I found S&R just plain creepy (and ecentric). It's on my Season Pass and I'll give it a few more eps to see if I might drop it. The white-trash oragutang was funny. |
I was bored 10 minutes into it.
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Can you Coupling II? Too many sex jokes that a) weren't funny and b) had no point.
OTOH, the preview clip with Donkey was funny - why don't they just give him his own show? :) |
I moved on after 5 minutes of this show.
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I saw bits and pieces of the show last night and it didn't keep me interested. The animation looks great though.
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they said it takes 9 months to do a show.. can that be right? they must prepare for a year or two for just 1 season
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That's why I'm giving it another shot. Hopefully they use different writers for different episodes since they must have to work on several concurrently.
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The only thing I'm holding out for on this show is Donkey. :D
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Originally posted by j123vt_99 they said it takes 9 months to do a show.. can that be right? they must prepare for a year or two for just 1 season If it literally took 9 months for one episode it would take nearly 10 years to do 13 episodes. |
only the Siegfried and Roy segments were rometly funny, other than that the humour is really smutty and not that amusing... whatever.
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I liked Andy Richter as a panda. None of the laughs were really LOL funny just slightly amusing. But I'll try it again just because of the future guest appearances.
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i thought it was hilarious...........NOT
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Originally posted by Goldberg74 Alot of the jokes were forced, and I found S&R just plain creepy (and ecentric). |
I thought this was pretty good. I'll actually tune in next week. Funniest parts for me...
- anything Siegfried and Roy said, pretty much. I know they had to sign off on this, so I think it's great that they can laugh at themselves like that. - "He's disobeying my orders. He's a Broken Arrow." LOL :) - Crap. Something at the end. I just forgot it. Anyway, I thought it was good enough to watch another episode. Looking forward to Donkey. X |
If it literally took 9 months for one episode it would take nearly 10 years to do 13 episodes. |
I think your expectations have been to high. This is a tv series not a movie. They aren't making millions of dollars off of it so its going to come off half assed. For a tv show I thought it was amusing and I really enjoyed it. I will be recording the whole series since I know it wont make a second season.
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NBC Primetime? They certainly are making millions of dollars off of it if it lasts more than the first season. My expectations were that the writing wouldn't be a pile of crap like the first episode was. I'm guessing the only people that are working on this that also worked on Shrek are the animators.
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