We Need To Talk About Gooby
So have you guys seen the trailer for this apparently-real weird independent children's movie, Gooby? About little boy's teddy-bear come to creepy life? I know I'm really late on this one -- FOUR tipsters sent it in going back to April, but for some reason I thought it was animated and I hate animated things so I never watched it until I saw it on Sarah Silverman's Twitter last week. (Ha, but true.) Anyway, I'm sorry I've failed you, because, seriously, Gooby, what the hell? And Eugene Levy is in it!
Everything about this screams "Fake! Parody!" to me, but there's even a website where your child can print out a Gooby coloring page, so it has to be real. (But for real, it's real!) (Thanks for the tips, Rand, Frank, Dustin, and David!)
Posted by Lindsay at 9:35 AM in Trailer
Tags: Bears | Gooby
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I recognize this movie from my absolute worst nightmares.
I don't care that it got the rating of FIVE DOVES. I'm terrified.
Score = 18
Not only does this scream fake, like you said - the voiceover narration is completely unnerving and way too close to the mic. It feels like the narrator is lying on his back in your ear canal, trench coat spread open beneath him, playing with himself while he mumbles 'Gooby'.
Or, I don't know, maybe that's just me.
Score = 33
I like how one of the only lines in the trailer starts with "...sometimes..." which is trailer short hand for THEMEZ... But then he says what sounds like a generic Shrek impersonation?
Score = 4
Of COURSE Eugene Levy is in it. Pretty sure he'd be in a missing child milk carton ad if the price was right. Also, seems Fozzie Bear is equally desperate.
Score = 26
It's a scientific fact that Eugene Levy LOVES to work.
Example: American Pie XII: Redux
Score = 9
that bear thing is gross. it is neither cute nor endearing... it is actually repulsive, and offensive to me, a 72 year old man. you guys want some butterscotch? it would have horrified my child self. that is as far as we need to go to see that this film completely fails.
Score = -15
Thats not a bear, thats Robin Williams!
Score = 22
Who doesn't love a movie where a bear who becomes real (what?) throws a child into a pile of leaves and then dives in after him. Also Comic Sans font. Didn't they ban that shit?
Score = 25
Hagrid! Also, why is this like a terrible version of Calvin and Hobbes?
Score = 11
Eugene Levy, have you no shame?
Score = 4
We've already established this.
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maybe it's about a boy who loses his mind...he's delusional and thinks he's in a terrible kid-oriented adventure featuring Eugene Levy? i'd give that 5 doves...
actually...that would be awesome.
Score = 6
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Ugh, Eugene Levy......can you please stop making terrible career decisions?
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Ugh, Eugene Levy......can you please stop making terrible career decisions?
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EUGENE LEVY: Refusing to Turn Down Any Role Since 1998
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Oh, Eugene Levy, are there any feces you won't fling at us?
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David James Elliott, third place in the 2006 Jason Bateman Lookalike Competition.
Score = 28
Yeah, i rewound the trailer twice to make sure it wasn't actually Jason Bateman PLAYING David James Elliott PLAYING the dad. Glad I read all the comments before posting one of my own because I was all like, "Haha, I'm totally gonna make a joke that it's Jason Bateman" but you beat me to it!
Score = 2
Gooby: Where The Worst Things Are
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No
Score = 6
It Premieres July 4th on Canadian Premium Movie Channel TMN. Plot synopsis from Movie Entertainment magazine (I'm a subscriber), " Convinced his family's home is inhabited by space aliens, Willy finds an unlikely ally in the form of Gooby, an odd but kind creature who seems even more frightened that Willy". So congratulations Canada, your tax dollars helped bring Gooby to life.
Score = 4
Let's discuss this creepiness
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This should be a Stone/Parker movie musical about Manbearpig.
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Why does Eugene Levy have the Wolverine haircut?
Score = 9
It certainly does appear as though something 'remarkable' is about to happen to that boy.
Score = 6
I guess I am the only one who thinks Gooby looks like any other kids movie. Predictable, harmless, moral re-enforcing and full of subtle sexual innuendo that only cynical 20 somethings would ever notice.
Score = 4
I wish that *I* had my very own Gooby.
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BAN COMIC SANS!
Score = 7
wow the kid spends most of this trailer looking absolutely terrified, despite the feel good music.
Score = 5
He had to be Scottish.
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"I love you Willy"
Don't bother introducing that random older male figure, marketing team. I mean he's only professing his love for a child in a parking lot.
Score = 4
The Christians probably made it, right Lindsay?
Score = -5
Eugene Levy's agent is your boyfriend.
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Yuck. Gooby looks like an overweight character actor with hirsutism (Gooby is an overweight character actor with hirsutism)
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oops sorry for the double post. I'm a little too trigger happy with the submit button. OK, off to print out some Gooby colouring pages.
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This has to be Canadian...that paper Levy's holding is Compliments™ brand!
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In Movie Entertainment magazine (there's a great article about Beauty and the Beach), the genre for Gooby is "Canadian".
Score = 4
What's with all of today's posts being about people on acid?
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Directed by Wilson Coneybeare.
Come on, really?
Finally a film for both kids and furries.
Score = 5
On a non Eugene Levy has no shame/wtf to this movie? note; I think the kid looks like Harold from Harold and Maude. Also the music transitions are so awkward and with that awful harsh narration. . ughhh. I think the editor/producer of that trailer is bffls with Eugene Levy's agent (get it, cause they both suck at what they do?!)
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Where the Wild Things Are: The Horrible Cut
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So it's like Bogus without the French accent and Eugene Levy as Whoopi Goldberg.
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