Also, Jem sang original songs in the cartoon but in the movie it was all cover songs! The horror! The nerve! She's not Barbie, she is Jem and she is truly, truly, truly outrageous!
When I was a kid in the '80s, I never watched "Jem and the Holograms" because it was "a girl show" (hey, don't blame me, it was the '80s and gender-roles were still pretty rigid, plus I was like six years old). So imagine how surprised I was, after spending my high school days as a punk-rocker and metalhead, to find out in my 20s that Jem's nemeses were a band that had the same name as my favorite horror-punk band. I was reading some article about '80s cartoons, and was like "Wait... Jem and the Holograms fought Danzig???"
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is a movie that tries to be good but is so cheesy it is fun to watch. Plus the music from the Mc Guffen item(the Key) sure brings lots of great nostalgia memories back for me and a lot of people and I like the score for the movie too.
Fun fact: Someone at Nintendo didn't enjoy the Mario Bros movie because he said it was "too much like the game". Apparently he said it could've been like the Street Fighter movie, with the film having its own idea. Yeah, I know this has nothing to do with the video, but I wanted to throw it out there.
It's relevant in the sense that it's a comment about bad movie adaptions. That's the first I've ever heard anyone, let alone Nintendo reps, say the movie had anything to do with the Mario Bros games. Both the Street Fighter and Mario Bros movies may have been horrible movie adaptions to the games, they were actually kind of entertaining from a standalone movie perspective since they were so cheesy, weird and creative in some aspects.
What? But Mario Bros was nothing like the game and Street Fighter, cheesy as it was, was very similar to its barebones origin. Though Mortal Kombat was definitely the best of the trio.
The real problem with Jem the movie is that it basically ignored a lot of the elements of the show and the story is just another 2-bit life of a teenage pop diva. No wonder why this movie didn't last a week in theaters. Good thing my girlfriend didn't want to see it. I rather spend 2 hours getting a root canal.
+MrJohnnyOTGS Good!! Because let me tell you this. If you'd seen the live-action Josie and the Pussycats movie and compared it to the live-action Jem and the Holograms movie....yeah, you're basically getting a god-awful remake of Josie and the Pussycats meets Hannah Montana and Justin Bieber, minus the comedic tone of the movie and adding in the more "super serious", angsty, depressing tone, instead.
So what about the few movies based on 80s cartoons that end up good? Well, in the meantime... 10: This sort of plotline was later used in Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fat Albert, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs, even Enchanted. 9: I honestly felt this movie was so boring. Nothing ever stuck with me, and I can see some things stuck with me for most of these other movies. 8: Honestly, Dark of the Moon might be even worse. I feel like Michael Bay is getting more and more racist as time goes on, Bay takes interesting concepts and makes them underwhelming, and it focuses way too much on explosions that it's hard to care about any of it. Luckily Bumblebee was given a new director that made it heartwarming and pretty awesome. 7: Speaking of the high pitched devil. Like I said, it utilizes an overused plotline like another film I am sure will be on this list. The Chipmunks cartoon can actually be pretty intriguing; one episode even took on the death of a pet in a respectful way. 6: Excuse me... did you just say Turtles in Time?? I love that video game, but... was it based on this?? If so, they just got the X-Men Origins treatment, meaning that the game was much more awesome than the film. Speaking of the Bay films, I wonder if the 3rd one will involve Baxter Stockman. 5: Hmm, I think evil Matthew Broderick was more like the cartoon Gadget than good Matthew Broderick in this movie. He was over the top and goofy, at least. 4: They roped poor Bill Murray into getting involved. It's the cinematic equivalent of clickbaiting. And he did not like being in it, roasting his experience in Zombieland. 3: Called it! 2: They did not learn their lesson when making Death Note either. But like Dragonboring Degeneration, the Deaf Not movie had an entertaining actor; Willem Dafoe as Ryuk. 1: Not only was this film awful, but it is pathetic! It's pathetic that they made the plot extremely cliche, it's pathetic how they turned Synergy into something Radio Shack would make, it's pathetic that The Misfits were barely in it, it's pathetic how they use internet footage and software in such a shoddy way, it's pathetic how some of that footage was fan made exclusively for the movie to insult the audience, it's pathetic how the film had a pathetic five million dollars in budget which is barely a tenth of the budget for most great films, and it's pathetic that it only made two million dollars, meaning it became a box office bomb. Truly, truly, truly outrageous indeed!
All these movies are basically the same. They take fantastical characters from a fantastical world, put them in a generic american city (usually new york) and make them meet generic american people (usually teenagers). This is pretty much a recipe how to make a bad cartoon adaptation. If they haven't figured that out by now, i guess they never will...
I agree about both in America and the love of New York. Why not in a setting actually resembling where the cartoon is based off of. After a while, I'm starting to get sick of movies based in NY...
Another interesting fact....Rio in the cartoons is named Rio Pacheco. Meaning that he's Hispanic-American. But in the movie, he's Erica Raymond's son. What?!
I started watching this video at 2:47 P.M. and just finished it now after *35* minutes. Out of the movies that you discussed, I've only seen Alvin and the Chipmunks (#7), Garfield: The Movie (#4), and The Smurfs (#3).
One thing that may or may not been a good idea was to make the chipmunks closer to life size in the movie of course in the cartoons they were at least 4ft 4ins or the size of 10 year olds.
Bill Murray as Garfield? The german translation got a new voice for him that fit neither the cartoon nor the move. Was a real letdown. I liked his cartoon voice. And can we please forget that Dragonball movie exists?
you forgot to mention that the chipmunks had another movie out in 1987 called the "Chipmunk Adventure" it was more decent than the new gci (garbage) movies. plus they did have their own songs in it.
+MrTopTenList Oh, about the Smurfs. i know that this is a hanna-barbera 80's cartoon, but you haven't realize that Smurfs is not owned by Hanna-Barbera, it's owned by Studio Peyo, a belgian studio. it's a comic book that was introduced in the 50's. i always wanted to make a CG Smurfs film for Disney, well, after Smurfs: The Lost Village
Hey, I Love Everything. Remember when i said about making a Smurfs movie for Disney? I decide to change that. I was thinking of making a similar creature. i got to Plan B. Disney getting Winx Club. Here's the thing. it would be harder to get the rights to The Smurfs and people, including Animation fans are afraid that The Smurfs ended up in "Wrong Hands".
10. I just laughed how bad it got. 9. you'll hate the second G.I. Joe much more than the first one. 8.again you'll hate the four film much more than the second or third film. 7. The original was harmless, but the live action made me not care about the films. 6. I hate the Michael bay product movies more than the third film at least there was an attempt. 5.I used to like this as a kid, but now I hate this film so, much and the sequel did not make it any better, but still passable 4. love the cartoon and the comic stript, but the movie suck even with Bill Murey in the film. 3. I really did not care for this film no matter if there was a sequel to it. 2. Oh boy! I hate this film so much! 1. I hated it so much I'm glad this movie bombed at the box office.
There was a Chinese version of Dragonball before the U.S. version. It sucks too. Also if they would have based the GI Joe movies on the comics of the 80's, it would have been a lot better. They were really good. One of the cool things about the Joes, was their individuality. Everyone in the movie was wearing the same thing. Masters of the Universe, should have been in Eternia. I guess they didn't have the budget for that. And lastly, Transformers should have taken place in the 80's. With the classic looks of the characters.
Honestly, most of these movies were cash grabs. All the kids that watched the original cartoon were now adults with jobs and money to spend so they banked on nostalgia. They didn’t have the best scripts or casting but they were enjoyable and did indeed reach new audiences. They also relit the fire for older fans that were caught between the two generations that were the target. I remember watching a lot of the reboots for some of these ( in the case of Dragon Ball I watched Z first) and fell in love with the characters first. These were mostly just a way to imagine what those characters would be like in real life. They were “good enough”. At least after #1 and #2, those ones sucked as adaptations. On their own they would be fine but NOT as adaptations of beloved properties
Bowman Linecaster first off its a joke, second off I'm not the first to do it and surely won't be the last an third off I don't even know where the guy lives
Would anybody happen to know what cartoon and/or movie it was that had a TV movie or TV pilot or something of that nature? The cartoon was 1 of those Defenders of the Earth type team of heros cartoons and the movie was based on 1 of the characters, a big jock type. Also, Garfield and Friends was 1 of the last great Saturday Morning Cartoons. They didn't get taken off the air, they quit! And it was after several seasons (even the most famous cartoons rarely lasted more than 2 seasons).
So...DBE wasn't number one and I get why. But you overlooked the main reason it sucks and DB/DBZ fans' hate of it burns hotter than Kaio-ken × Infinity: When asked, the (final) director said he really didn't know much about the franchise when he helped finalize the script. WTF? Imagine LOTR or HP made by someone operating off half assed Cliff Notes af😑
I can think of a few canon-faithful live action cartoon movies, even though some aren't from the 80s. The Flintstones George of the Jungle (Great film!) The first TMNT movie (Great film!) Scooby-Doo (I was never a fan of this movie though.) Pop-Eye movie (Aside from the awful musical parts, its still fairly enjoyable and they could not have picked a more perfect cast.)
Scooby Doo is not a faithful adaptation. They made Scrappy the villain, and had the heroes kick him out of their van (even Scooby turned against him, his own family!). He may have been annoying to viewers, but Scrappy was always treated well and loved by the heroes on the original cartoons.
Ambush Hey....I never believed that any of the movies are in continuity with one-another. Not that Bay was even aware that really should be continuity in all four Transformers movies. XD
The Smurfs missed several opportunities, especially including other characters from the comics and show (such as Baby, the Smurflings, Grandpa and Nanny, having Hefty as main character (I hate Gutsy), non-smurf characters) and having it take place in Medieval times Europe (where it’s supposed to take place)
I liked Masters of the Universe because of, yes, nostalgia. And I agree that Skelator was pretty scary. Watching the movie as a kid and seeing him pop out of the water at the very end.... O.o Also, it was fillmed where I live :) :)
Bumblebee could be good and I look forward to seeing more from Masters of the Universe, even though I don't expect it to be campy like the old show, which is what I liked about it. I never watched M.A.S.K., so I have no opinion of it.
this video reminds me: how much of a piece of shit was the new Ghostbusters trailer? not an 80s cartoon but still 80s related. they made a highly successful cartoon of it. movie studios need to step off 80s nostalgia. it results in horrible movies.
I knew Dragonball Evolution was gonna suck as soon as I heard what the budget was. The reason... well... the movie "The Producers" explains it all pretty well. If you've seen the movie, The Producers, you know what I'm talking about. And that's what Dragonball Evolution is... Hitler In Springtime!
IG2 Was better then the one with Mathew Broderick? Garfield was boring? The Smurfs was a Disaster? Damn I'm glad I'm for fr4ee will right now, I'm boing to exercise it by not clicking that like or subscribe. goodbye.
I actually kind of like Inspector Gadget 2. I mean, I don't understand why so many people hate it, but whatever. If this isn't what they wanted to see in a live-action Inspector Gadget movie, then that's their loss. Me?! I'm actually glad that this movie did its' best to stay true to the original source material and the director should've gonna a huge "thank you!" from the true fans of the original Inspector Gadget cartoons.
Well, speaking as a "true fan" of the original cartoon, I can say that movie is an insult to the character. They couldn't even get the colour of his trench coat right. I would rather watch the Pink Panther/Inspector Clouseau movies, since those are more faithful to the tone and humour of Inspector Gadget than the Disney movie.
If there were a list of worst movies based on board games, it'd be a very short list; *Battleship* disappointed me with their cookie cutter "alien invasion" plot.
It did. TMNT was the name of the 2007 CGI one, but since it wasn't live action, I didn't count it in the 20+ year time gap when we didn't see any new live action TMNT movies.
ISAIAH BARR This is just a list of live actions movies based on cartoons whose run was in the 1980s. Mr. Magoo ended before the 1980s and The Last Airbender started in the 2000s, so they were not eligible for this list. They would be very eligible for a list the covers all live action movies based on cartoons since neither movie was good.
Yep. Cannon Films. They made a career out of legendarily schlocky movies full of sex and violence, before imploding spectacularly. I recommend the documentary about them on Netflix ("Electric Boogaloo") to anyone with 90 minutes to kill.
They also made excellent movies like Highlander, Bloodsport, and Cobra. It's unfair to say they only made schlocky films, or to judge them on the poor quality of Masters of the Universe movie, since the company was near bankruptcy when it was being filmed.
The First TMNT Live Action Movie Was Great And Outstanding And A Great Film The 2nd Film The Secret Of Ooze I Thought It Was Good Too Yeah It Went Down With The Turtles Not Fighting With Their Weapons But I Still Liked The Movie The 3rd Film Was Worst It Was Not Great Or Good As The First Two Are Great
In defence of Jen and the holograms some of the technology needed to make it shot for shot like the cartoon doesn't exist, the creator of the original cartoon wasn't even involved in making the movie. They sould have done like James Cameron did with avatar and wait for the technology to get advanced enough to do the job properly.
Oh don't defend that piece of shit, especially with such a shoddy excuse. Look at the cool tech super hero and sci-fi movies get to play with. They were doing holographic type things in films and tv shows even before now. Star Trek and Star Wars come to mind. You can't tell me they couldn't have done any of Synergy's holographic tech when people were doing it decades before, and even in this day and before that nameslap atrocity darkened theater doors.
Nonsense. Jem is not a fantasy that takes place on an alien world with blue creatures, is about a rock band on Earth. It is basically a teen soap opera, very similar to Hannah Montana. Most of the hologram tech on the Jem cartoon was only used to disguise Jerrica as other people, or to make her change costumes instantaneously. That could easily be done with simple filmmaking techniques. Even the computer AI Synergy would be very easy to create, since she resembles Jerrica's mother, so they could reuse the same actress for both characters. They even released a doll of her in the 80s. Just put an actress in a costume with purple face paint.
Ten Since U made movie reviews 4 Heman, Inspect her Gadget,GARFIELD Micheal Bay Transformer and Jam and the holograms do U plan on doing reviews for recently made shit like Logan, the F8 and the Furious Guardians of the galaxy spiderman Homecoming RAGNAROK: A Hulk vs Thor Movie and the new seasons 00 of TV SHOWS like better call saul Ray donovan Rick and Morty and Samurai Black? cuz that would B dope if you did that
Putting fantasy-themed stuff in the modern era is the kiss of death. They only do it for budgetary reasons (fewer sets to build). This is also why so many 80's TV series were set in Los Angeles, because that's where the studios were. Always cheaper to film on your own doorstep.
the Jem movie did not get a fair shake. the studios did not promoted enough and the critics bashed it so much that people started believing what they were reading and went in to the movie with a negative mind-set. I personally loved it so what if it didn't stick to the source material all that much not many movies do and what they did was try to make it more modern to fit today's more tech savvy social media oriented times and it did a great job
Haha, I guess I was thinking of the arcade game with that name when saying the title since there is time travel in the movie, too. I could've sworn that was the subtitle for the movie, but I see how I probably got that subtitle in my head.
It Confused Alot Of People That The Movie Was Not Titled Turtles In Time When It Was When It Travelled With The Time Septer The Video Game Snes And The Arcade Version Came Out 1991 Two Years Before The Film And Same Year As The 2nd Movie Came Out
I actually like them as well, but the only one i hate is Road Chip, mainly because of all the celebrities, lesser lack of Chipettes (I didn't mind them not being in the first, but still...), And fart and butt jokes, the last one goes to the other ones in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd as well.
There is a word we have in my home country for movies like transformers movies: kusokame a "shitfilm". parts of the first transformers were decent! The plot became shitty during Transformers 2 when they teleport to egypt by opening a space brigde (????) and then Transforerms 4L Ageof the dinosaurs! Convoy/Optimous Prime throws a grenade that blows up all of China at the end of the movie??? Why blow up China? Just because they are communists? Why not save that for the North Korean regime>.?? ?
I've actually been planning a list like that for some time. There aren't that many live action fighting game movies, but if I include some animated ones or OVAs, it'll be done. no idea when I'll actually get to making that video, though.
+MrTopTenList That's good too if you add some worst animated movies based off fighting games Ok. I would prefer top ten worst movies based off fighting games ;)
Drixenol86 Even if the movie was a huge clusterfuck because of the studios' constant interference and multiple rewrites of the original draft that would mess with the director's vision?! Yeah!!! I'm not kidding, the higher-ups at Fox actually interfered with the production of the movie and it completely ruined the director's vision. I mean, it was also like that with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Aliens 3 and most recently...."Fant4stic".
Thanks! I do plan to cover movies like this again. Maybe I'll do a specific type of bad sequel since there are a lot of bad sequels to things I like out there!
Also, Jem sang original songs in the cartoon but in the movie it was all cover songs! The horror! The nerve! She's not Barbie, she is Jem and she is truly, truly, truly outrageous!
When I was a kid in the '80s, I never watched "Jem and the Holograms" because it was "a girl show" (hey, don't blame me, it was the '80s and gender-roles were still pretty rigid, plus I was like six years old). So imagine how surprised I was, after spending my high school days as a punk-rocker and metalhead, to find out in my 20s that Jem's nemeses were a band that had the same name as my favorite horror-punk band. I was reading some article about '80s cartoons, and was like "Wait... Jem and the Holograms fought Danzig???"
THANKS FOR INCLUDING JEM AS #1. *TRULY TRULY TRULY OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!*
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE is a movie that tries to be good but is so cheesy it is fun to watch. Plus the music from the Mc Guffen item(the Key) sure brings lots of great nostalgia memories back for me and a lot of people and I like the score for the movie too.
Fun fact: Someone at Nintendo didn't enjoy the Mario Bros movie because he said it was "too much like the game". Apparently he said it could've been like the Street Fighter movie, with the film having its own idea. Yeah, I know this has nothing to do with the video, but I wanted to throw it out there.
It's relevant in the sense that it's a comment about bad movie adaptions. That's the first I've ever heard anyone, let alone Nintendo reps, say the movie had anything to do with the Mario Bros games. Both the Street Fighter and Mario Bros movies may have been horrible movie adaptions to the games, they were actually kind of entertaining from a standalone movie perspective since they were so cheesy, weird and creative in some aspects.
+MrTopTenList Agreed.
What? But Mario Bros was nothing like the game and Street Fighter, cheesy as it was, was very similar to its barebones origin. Though Mortal Kombat was definitely the best of the trio.
I feel that The Jem movie was in the same vein as Reboot: The Guardian Code. A vanity project with a nostalgia cover.
Love, love, LOVE Jem and the Holograms (the cartoon) so much, that when I saw the ad for the movie it already made me angry
Me too. I was like "what the fuck are these people on?" The Jem cartoon is great, but the movie is just another version of the awful Hannah Montana.
Me too.
The real problem with Jem the movie is that it basically ignored a lot of the elements of the show and the story is just another 2-bit life of a teenage pop diva. No wonder why this movie didn't last a week in theaters. Good thing my girlfriend didn't want to see it. I rather spend 2 hours getting a root canal.
+MrJohnnyOTGS Good!! Because let me tell you this. If you'd seen the live-action Josie and the Pussycats movie and compared it to the live-action Jem and the Holograms movie....yeah, you're basically getting a god-awful remake of Josie and the Pussycats meets Hannah Montana and Justin Bieber, minus the comedic tone of the movie and adding in the more "super serious", angsty, depressing tone, instead.
@@xgray2012 Josie is a comic based movie. It was actually really dull.
So what about the few movies based on 80s cartoons that end up good? Well, in the meantime...
10: This sort of plotline was later used in Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fat Albert, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs, even Enchanted.
9: I honestly felt this movie was so boring. Nothing ever stuck with me, and I can see some things stuck with me for most of these other movies.
8: Honestly, Dark of the Moon might be even worse. I feel like Michael Bay is getting more and more racist as time goes on, Bay takes interesting concepts and makes them underwhelming, and it focuses way too much on explosions that it's hard to care about any of it. Luckily Bumblebee was given a new director that made it heartwarming and pretty awesome.
7: Speaking of the high pitched devil. Like I said, it utilizes an overused plotline like another film I am sure will be on this list. The Chipmunks cartoon can actually be pretty intriguing; one episode even took on the death of a pet in a respectful way.
6: Excuse me... did you just say Turtles in Time?? I love that video game, but... was it based on this?? If so, they just got the X-Men Origins treatment, meaning that the game was much more awesome than the film. Speaking of the Bay films, I wonder if the 3rd one will involve Baxter Stockman.
5: Hmm, I think evil Matthew Broderick was more like the cartoon Gadget than good Matthew Broderick in this movie. He was over the top and goofy, at least.
4: They roped poor Bill Murray into getting involved. It's the cinematic equivalent of clickbaiting. And he did not like being in it, roasting his experience in Zombieland.
3: Called it!
2: They did not learn their lesson when making Death Note either. But like Dragonboring Degeneration, the Deaf Not movie had an entertaining actor; Willem Dafoe as Ryuk.
1: Not only was this film awful, but it is pathetic! It's pathetic that they made the plot extremely cliche, it's pathetic how they turned Synergy into something Radio Shack would make, it's pathetic that The Misfits were barely in it, it's pathetic how they use internet footage and software in such a shoddy way, it's pathetic how some of that footage was fan made exclusively for the movie to insult the audience, it's pathetic how the film had a pathetic five million dollars in budget which is barely a tenth of the budget for most great films, and it's pathetic that it only made two million dollars, meaning it became a box office bomb. Truly, truly, truly outrageous indeed!
I know the Smurfs came out in American during the 80's but the franchise actualy dates back to the late 50's. Jut sayin'
I agree
I like the sound of commentators voice. has funny a humorous tone to it. Great Commentary, well thought out.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
All these movies are basically the same. They take fantastical characters from a fantastical world, put them in a generic american city (usually new york) and make them meet generic american people (usually teenagers). This is pretty much a recipe how to make a bad cartoon adaptation. If they haven't figured that out by now, i guess they never will...
+Bolek Lolek I agree!!!
Or generic nyc street vendors with thick accents sayin pointless shit.
Or the Doctor Who Movie
I agree about both in America and the love of New York. Why not in a setting actually resembling where the cartoon is based off of. After a while, I'm starting to get sick of movies based in NY...
Applauds
Good commentary. very thoughtful, intelligent, and insightful. Hollywood needs take some serious notes.
Thanks!
Another interesting fact....Rio in the cartoons is named Rio Pacheco. Meaning that he's Hispanic-American. But in the movie, he's Erica Raymond's son. What?!
if they put jem and holograms more to the storyline like the songs, the outfits, the hair, basically everything! it would be better
I think Fox should stop with the live action Chipmunks, and start acquiring Viacom so Aaahh!!! Real Monsters can be a purely computer animated movie.
That was a Nickelodeon cartoon.
The live-action movies based on a cartoon show of the 1980's that are on this list which are Inspector Gadget, Jem and the Holograms and that's it.
I started watching this video at 2:47 P.M. and just finished it now after *35* minutes. Out of the movies that you discussed, I've only seen Alvin and the Chipmunks (#7), Garfield: The Movie (#4), and The Smurfs (#3).
First off, Enchanted is 10x better than any Smurfs movie. :)
No it sucked
One thing that may or may not been a good idea was to make the chipmunks closer to life size in the movie of course in the cartoons they were at least 4ft 4ins or the size of 10 year olds.
Bill Murray as Garfield? The german translation got a new voice for him that fit neither the cartoon nor the move. Was a real letdown. I liked his cartoon voice. And can we please forget that Dragonball movie exists?
you forgot to mention that the chipmunks had another movie out in 1987 called the "Chipmunk Adventure" it was more decent than the new gci (garbage) movies. plus they did have their own songs in it.
That was a good movie and beautiful as well
+MrTopTenList Oh, about the Smurfs. i know that this is a hanna-barbera 80's cartoon, but you haven't realize that Smurfs is not owned by Hanna-Barbera, it's owned by Studio Peyo, a belgian studio. it's a comic book that was introduced in the 50's. i always wanted to make a CG Smurfs film for Disney, well, after Smurfs: The Lost Village
You do realize you would have to contact the current copyright holders and pay some money, right?
thebringer665 yeah, i know. getting the rights of The Smurfs from Sony.
Hey, I Love Everything. Remember when i said about making a Smurfs movie for Disney? I decide to change that. I was thinking of making a similar creature. i got to Plan B. Disney getting Winx Club. Here's the thing. it would be harder to get the rights to The Smurfs and people, including Animation fans are afraid that The Smurfs ended up in "Wrong Hands".
10. I just laughed how bad it got.
9. you'll hate the second G.I. Joe much more than the first one.
8.again you'll hate the four film much more than the second or third film.
7. The original was harmless, but the live action made me not care about the films.
6. I hate the Michael bay product movies more than the third film at least there was an attempt.
5.I used to like this as a kid, but now I hate this film so, much and the sequel did not make it any better, but still passable
4. love the cartoon and the comic stript, but the movie suck even with Bill Murey in the film.
3. I really did not care for this film no matter if there was a sequel to it.
2. Oh boy! I hate this film so much!
1. I hated it so much I'm glad this movie bombed at the box office.
Why is "adaptation" so hard for so many people to say?
There was a Chinese version of Dragonball before the U.S. version. It sucks too. Also if they would have based the GI Joe movies on the comics of the 80's, it would have been a lot better. They were really good. One of the cool things about the Joes, was their individuality. Everyone in the movie was wearing the same thing. Masters of the Universe, should have been in Eternia. I guess they didn't have the budget for that. And lastly, Transformers should have taken place in the 80's. With the classic looks of the characters.
Honestly, most of these movies were cash grabs. All the kids that watched the original cartoon were now adults with jobs and money to spend so they banked on nostalgia. They didn’t have the best scripts or casting but they were enjoyable and did indeed reach new audiences. They also relit the fire for older fans that were caught between the two generations that were the target.
I remember watching a lot of the reboots for some of these ( in the case of Dragon Ball I watched Z first) and fell in love with the characters first. These were mostly just a way to imagine what those characters would be like in real life. They were “good enough”. At least after #1 and #2, those ones sucked as adaptations. On their own they would be fine but NOT as adaptations of beloved properties
THANK YOU! Agree wholeheartedly with #1 and 2...
I love ❤️ the Alvin and the chipmunks live action remake!
there was a chipmunk animated full length movie in the i want to say 80s early 90s
I say Scooby Doo's live adaptation
It's sad that the third TMNT movie was the first thing I saw of them.
If it got you to go and watch the first live-action TMNT movie, than it at least served some purpose.
In Dragonball Evolution, why are they all white and why does Bulma have brown hair and a blue streak?
I have a suggestion, top 10 wrestlers in fighting games ( and if you don't include King, I will kill you in your sleep.jk)
If I were to make that video, King would have to be high up. That Jaguar mask is too iconic to leave off!
Don't talk about killing people. Highly inappropriate
Bowman Linecaster first off its a joke, second off I'm not the first to do it and surely won't be the last an third off I don't even know where the guy lives
Bowman Linecaster oops...triggered
Would anybody happen to know what cartoon and/or movie it was that had a TV movie or TV pilot or something of that nature? The cartoon was 1 of those Defenders of the Earth type team of heros cartoons and the movie was based on 1 of the characters, a big jock type.
Also, Garfield and Friends was 1 of the last great Saturday Morning Cartoons. They didn't get taken off the air, they quit! And it was after several seasons (even the most famous cartoons rarely lasted more than 2 seasons).
There needs to be a Thundercats movie already; but all Avatar style!
Nooo. Hollywood has ruined enough.
So...DBE wasn't number one and I get why. But you overlooked the main reason it sucks and DB/DBZ fans' hate of it burns hotter than Kaio-ken × Infinity:
When asked, the (final) director said he really didn't know much about the franchise when he helped finalize the script. WTF? Imagine LOTR or HP made by someone operating off half assed Cliff Notes af😑
Oh, you mean like Avatar: The Last Airbender movie.
+adnelg319 I think Shamalamadingdong honestly thought he knew what he was doing. Making it a slightly different flavor of sad.
-_-
I love over the top! That's why I like Jojo man bizarre adventure
um...... all nostalgia hits a sweet point about 30 years away, ever since the 1950s were the rage in the 80s with the baby boomers
What a specific title
I love the Alvin & The Chipmunks movie.
TheCristianCraft im sorry
I havnt seen a movie based on an 80s cartoon that wasn't absolute shit.
I can think of a few canon-faithful live action cartoon movies, even though some aren't from the 80s.
The Flintstones
George of the Jungle (Great film!)
The first TMNT movie (Great film!)
Scooby-Doo (I was never a fan of this movie though.)
Pop-Eye movie (Aside from the awful musical parts, its still fairly enjoyable and they could not have picked a more perfect cast.)
Scooby Doo is not a faithful adaptation. They made Scrappy the villain, and had the heroes kick him out of their van (even Scooby turned against him, his own family!). He may have been annoying to viewers, but Scrappy was always treated well and loved by the heroes on the original cartoons.
@@Rocket1377 I agree with you on that. It was pure bullshit on their part.
Top Ten Internet Web series videos that Macaulay Culkin has been appeared in.
Am I the only one who thinks Micheal Bays transformers aren't canon
+Ambush No, no you are not.
+Neo-Xgray87 Good there are still sane people left on this planet
Ambush Hey....I never believed that any of the movies are in continuity with one-another. Not that Bay was even aware that really should be continuity in all four Transformers movies. XD
@@xgray2012 I don't think that man is remotely aware that continuity, or well written plots even exist.
The Smurfs missed several opportunities, especially including other characters from the comics and show (such as Baby, the Smurflings, Grandpa and Nanny, having Hefty as main character (I hate Gutsy), non-smurf characters) and having it take place in Medieval times Europe (where it’s supposed to take place)
I liked Masters of the Universe because of, yes, nostalgia. And I agree that Skelator was pretty scary. Watching the movie as a kid and seeing him pop out of the water at the very end.... O.o Also, it was fillmed where I live :) :)
I love ❤️ the transformers movie 🎥 series!
Love Smurfs! Have not seen the movie. Dont want to. I was a huge Smurf fan as a kid. A lot of these cartoons were great. Who cares about the movies?
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What do you think about the upcoming movies like
Bumblebee
M.A.S.K
He-Man
@MrTopTen ?
Bumblebee could be good and I look forward to seeing more from Masters of the Universe, even though I don't expect it to be campy like the old show, which is what I liked about it. I never watched M.A.S.K., so I have no opinion of it.
this video reminds me: how much of a piece of shit was the new Ghostbusters trailer? not an 80s cartoon but still 80s related. they made a highly successful cartoon of it. movie studios need to step off 80s nostalgia. it results in horrible movies.
I doubt it'll make bank. It's possible that the proposed tv show will be canceled after a few episodes.
Yeah, the 2016 reboot was a flop. Thankfully the Afterlife movie got the franchise back on track, and was far more successful financially.
I watched all of these shows and movies faithfully a lot of these movies don't deserve to be on this list....facts
I knew Dragonball Evolution was gonna suck as soon as I heard what the budget was. The reason... well... the movie "The Producers" explains it all pretty well. If you've seen the movie, The Producers, you know what I'm talking about. And that's what Dragonball Evolution is... Hitler In Springtime!
IG2 Was better then the one with Mathew Broderick? Garfield was boring? The Smurfs was a Disaster? Damn I'm glad I'm for fr4ee will right now, I'm boing to exercise it by not clicking that like or subscribe. goodbye.
Although some people outside of Japan have probably never heard of Dragonball. I never heard of the cartoon of Dragonball. And I live in Ireland
Its a good list. I haven't seen all of these, but quite a few of these were Dreadful. Or at least dull.
I actually kind of like Inspector Gadget 2. I mean, I don't understand why so many people hate it, but whatever. If this isn't what they wanted to see in a live-action Inspector Gadget movie, then that's their loss. Me?! I'm actually glad that this movie did its' best to stay true to the original source material and the director should've gonna a huge "thank you!" from the true fans of the original Inspector Gadget cartoons.
Well, speaking as a "true fan" of the original cartoon, I can say that movie is an insult to the character. They couldn't even get the colour of his trench coat right. I would rather watch the Pink Panther/Inspector Clouseau movies, since those are more faithful to the tone and humour of Inspector Gadget than the Disney movie.
If there were a list of worst movies based on board games, it'd be a very short list; *Battleship* disappointed me with their cookie cutter "alien invasion" plot.
You'd think it would be a war movie, or a hunt for red october clone at least.
jem is Josie and the pussycats (live action) mixed with Hannah Montana and some UA-cam starter
Misfits are at the end of the movie as an easter egg
Nope, it's always money.
u forgot the last airbender
it's not an 80s cartoon
or should I say the cartoon the movie is based on is a product of the mid 2000s not of the 80s
@@metagross9092 Yeah but on the other hand, he did include Dragonball, which is a 90s toon.
bezoticallyyours83 Dragon Ball was technically released in 1989 so it scraped by.
Honestly I have watched only 9 of those 10 movies, I will never ever watch the 10th movie.
I thought TMNT had another movie before the Michael Bay movie.
It did. TMNT was the name of the 2007 CGI one, but since it wasn't live action, I didn't count it in the 20+ year time gap when we didn't see any new live action TMNT movies.
+MrTopTenList Oh, okay.
+MrTopTenList no mr Magoo The Last Airbender
ISAIAH BARR This is just a list of live actions movies based on cartoons whose run was in the 1980s. Mr. Magoo ended before the 1980s and The Last Airbender started in the 2000s, so they were not eligible for this list. They would be very eligible for a list the covers all live action movies based on cartoons since neither movie was good.
Tmnt movie wasn't that bad tbh
Did you know that Masters of the Universe was produced by the same company who made Superman 4? I'm not kidding.
Yep. Cannon Films. They made a career out of legendarily schlocky movies full of sex and violence, before imploding spectacularly. I recommend the documentary about them on Netflix ("Electric Boogaloo") to anyone with 90 minutes to kill.
They also made excellent movies like Highlander, Bloodsport, and Cobra. It's unfair to say they only made schlocky films, or to judge them on the poor quality of Masters of the Universe movie, since the company was near bankruptcy when it was being filmed.
Check out Tooth Fairy 2. Its actually pretty good. Then again, Its predecessor was awful.
Is all about making $$$$!
5:25 NO! TF2 WAS THE WORST OF THE SERIES BY FAR!
Hank azaria and the cat were at least pretty funny in the smurfs
can you do top ten best life action Disney movies
Potentially. I'll need to do some research on older Disney movies, too.
OMG This video is a viral hit!
there was a second tooth fairy? I think I'm gonna be sick.....
jacksparrowismydaddy larry the cable guy....haha
You forgot the gawd awful Josie and the Pussycats.
I loved smurfet !!I think that was her name .
Jingle all the way 2, was okey....for a (direct to tv movie) standarts
top 10 just dance songs
The First TMNT Live Action Movie Was Great And Outstanding And A Great Film The 2nd Film The Secret Of Ooze I Thought It Was Good Too Yeah It Went Down With The Turtles Not Fighting With Their Weapons But I Still Liked The Movie The 3rd Film Was Worst It Was Not Great Or Good As The First Two Are Great
In defence of Jen and the holograms some of the technology needed to make it shot for shot like the cartoon doesn't exist, the creator of the original cartoon wasn't even involved in making the movie. They sould have done like James Cameron did with avatar and wait for the technology to get advanced enough to do the job properly.
Oh don't defend that piece of shit, especially with such a shoddy excuse. Look at the cool tech super hero and sci-fi movies get to play with.
They were doing holographic type things in films and tv shows even before now. Star Trek and Star Wars come to mind. You can't tell me they couldn't have done any of Synergy's holographic tech when people were doing it decades before, and even in this day and before that nameslap atrocity darkened theater doors.
Nonsense. Jem is not a fantasy that takes place on an alien world with blue creatures, is about a rock band on Earth. It is basically a teen soap opera, very similar to Hannah Montana. Most of the hologram tech on the Jem cartoon was only used to disguise Jerrica as other people, or to make her change costumes instantaneously. That could easily be done with simple filmmaking techniques. Even the computer AI Synergy would be very easy to create, since she resembles Jerrica's mother, so they could reuse the same actress for both characters. They even released a doll of her in the 80s. Just put an actress in a costume with purple face paint.
Ten Since U made movie reviews 4 Heman, Inspect her Gadget,GARFIELD Micheal Bay Transformer and Jam and the holograms do U plan on doing reviews for recently made shit like Logan, the F8 and the Furious Guardians of the galaxy spiderman Homecoming RAGNAROK: A Hulk vs Thor Movie and the new seasons 00 of TV SHOWS like better call saul Ray donovan Rick and Morty and Samurai Black? cuz that would B dope if you did that
Putting fantasy-themed stuff in the modern era is the kiss of death. They only do it for budgetary reasons (fewer sets to build). This is also why so many 80's TV series were set in Los Angeles, because that's where the studios were. Always cheaper to film on your own doorstep.
the Jem movie did not get a fair shake. the studios did not promoted enough and the critics bashed it so much that people started believing what they were reading and went in to the movie with a negative mind-set. I personally loved it so what if it didn't stick to the source material all that much not many movies do and what they did was try to make it more modern to fit today's more tech savvy social media oriented times and it did a great job
It was still a shit movie. You could see that, even if it was its own thing it was no good.
i own the dvd and i love the movie and the cartoon is better then the movie.
Ninja turtles 3 doesn't have turtles in time in the titles, it's just ninja turtles 3
Haha, I guess I was thinking of the arcade game with that name when saying the title since there is time travel in the movie, too. I could've sworn that was the subtitle for the movie, but I see how I probably got that subtitle in my head.
***** dont worry mate, I use to do it all the time, gotta admit the game is definitely better than the movie
It Confused Alot Of People That The Movie Was Not Titled Turtles In Time When It Was When It Travelled With The Time Septer The Video Game Snes And The Arcade Version Came Out 1991 Two Years Before The Film And Same Year As The 2nd Movie Came Out
The Video Game Ninja Turtles Turtles In Time Is Alot Better Than The Movie
I Wonder How Many Played The Snes Game And Arcade Game Before Before Seeing The 3rd Movie In Theaters
I actually like the Alvin and the chipmunks movie.
mee 2!! I thought it was a very cute movie.
Amanda Koerner Especially the 2nd and 3rd one.
Yes I like them all!!
I actually like them as well, but the only one i hate is Road Chip, mainly because of all the celebrities, lesser lack of Chipettes (I didn't mind them not being in the first, but still...), And fart and butt jokes, the last one goes to the other ones in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd as well.
Feesuka Minudaka Same here the 3rd one was my favourite it had so many great songs and character development.
I loved Gem and Holograms cartoons!!and the movie .But I'm also a girl.
No no no no no dragonball de-evolution should have been #1 on the list
awesome video, but I feel like it's too slow paced
Some of my videos are more mellow than others based on the subject matter, but still, I'm glad you liked it.
There is a word we have in my home country for movies like transformers movies: kusokame a "shitfilm". parts of the first transformers were decent! The plot became shitty during Transformers 2 when they teleport to egypt by opening a space brigde (????) and then Transforerms 4L Ageof the dinosaurs! Convoy/Optimous Prime throws a grenade that blows up all of China at the end of the movie???
Why blow up China? Just because they are communists? Why not save that for the North Korean regime>.?? ?
Rise of cobra was great it's Retaliation that was Fucked.
Can you do top ten worst live action movies based off 90s fighting games? because MK3 live action movie is like bullshit
I've actually been planning a list like that for some time. There aren't that many live action fighting game movies, but if I include some animated ones or OVAs, it'll be done. no idea when I'll actually get to making that video, though.
+MrTopTenList That's good too if you add some worst animated movies based off fighting games
Ok. I would prefer top ten worst movies based off fighting games ;)
top 10 megaman robot masters
I like Bill Murray as Garfield . But the movie is not that good.
Tbh, I always preferred the Garfield comics to Garfield and Friends, even as a kid.
I just came for jem
I basically made this video because I wanted to talk about the Jem movie, so we had similar mindsets.
truly truly truly outraging
I got a Ruth young last one Jem live action who is pretty bad
The only movies on this list I liked were The Smurfs and Dragonball Evolution. Masters of the Universe was okay, The rest are pure garbage.
+Drixenol86 Can I ask you an honest question....have you ever seen the original Dragonball anime series or have read the manga at all?
+Xaviergray87 Yes I have. I know the source material. I know how bad the film is, but I still enjoyed it.
Drixenol86 Even if the movie was a huge clusterfuck because of the studios' constant interference and multiple rewrites of the original draft that would mess with the director's vision?! Yeah!!! I'm not kidding, the higher-ups at Fox actually interfered with the production of the movie and it completely ruined the director's vision. I mean, it was also like that with The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Aliens 3 and most recently...."Fant4stic".
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great review can you do worst movie sequels next. frankie holtzmann smales.alienbugstomperfan
Thanks! I do plan to cover movies like this again. Maybe I'll do a specific type of bad sequel since there are a lot of bad sequels to things I like out there!