Dude, Where's My Car? (I'll make it fit into the animation board, trust me!)

[Calhoun07]

I watched this today (pre street rental from work! DUDE, SWEET!) and dude, this movie is sweet! Not the most highbrow movie you will ever be required to see. In fact, some of it just makes NO SENESE at all, but you don't care, because this movie is just fun, and great fun at that. The commentary track is a blast too. I don't think I ever heard anybody have so much fun on a commentary track. There is one point where the director gets up to get beer and is gone for a while and they get up to take bathroom breaks and stuff, and never stop recording, and they just crack up the entire time, and have great stories. The commentary track is half the fun of the movie!

But, there is one comment they make in the commentary track that kinda got me thinking. They pointed out that this movie is like a cartoon. And I've noticed that about comedies like this lately. Take Freddie Got Fingered, for example. Of course, the main character is an animator in there, so it's understandable that the movie would be cartoonish, but here you have a character that gets hit by a truck and gets a house dropped on him and all this bad stuff that would kill anybody else, and Freddie just keeps on going along like nothing happened, just like a cartoon character. And I've noticed that in many movies lately, where it seems like the humor comes from antics happening to the characters that you would have seen normally in animation in the past. And there are several cartoonish moments in Dude, Where's My Car that is just so funny and great (THE DOG, man, THE DOG SMOKIN WEED! HAHAHAHAHA, gotta love that!).

So what did that get me to thinking? It got me wondering if there is still room for traditional animation in the mainstream cinema when you can make the antics once reserved for animation seem more real with CGI and good special effects and whatever in live action. And that also raises an issue when is a movie an animated movie with CGI (like Osmossis Jones) or a live action movie with ALOT of CGI animation in it (Phantom Menace, Pearl Harbor, you name it.) It strikes me that some of those latter movies that are considered live action could just as easilly be considered animated movies.

Well, sorry, I seem to raised two questions there in one post. Oh, well.

[mxyzptlk]

i loved dude wheres my car i saw it in the theatres and it was very funny while mot of it did not make sence it was just the stuff like when they get adidas suits and they day dream about being in a rap video that is just stuff you do not see as much in movies any more now days everything is horror, adam sandler humor, hard hitting movies, and hood movies its just nice see somthin that does not have to make sense

[Lonestarr]

I thought that I was the only one who liked this movie. "Dude, Where's My Car?" is stupid and funny at the same time, and funny triumphs in the end. Asthon Kutcher and Seann William Scott are terrific and the film is very much like a live-action cartoon. I hope to make a film like this (in the live-action cartoon sense).

[mxyzptlk]

well everyone i know liked it my brother and sister espescially(brother 18, sister 22)

[Calhoun07]

Everybody I know liked it, too. It is just a good fun film. It doesn't require you to think too much, and some things just don't make any sense at all, but that's all in the fun of the movie.