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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8953187" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>I don't think it was <em>bad</em> at all. It was was a perfectly fine movie for which no one was clamoring, with an advertising budget it couldn't hope to make up, and indeed put out in the wrong decade. It was trying to be the next Batman (all the Mystery Men movies of the 90s were), when it really would have done better alongside (and with a total budget equaling or being less than) <em>Superman II</em>. It was corny and knew it. It used bright primary colors (offset by shadows) instead of Batman black-in-shadow. It included a plucky kid who at one point saves the day. It features dueling female love interests for the male protagonist (a <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HighNoon" target="_blank">Helen and an Amy</a>). The special effects are almost exclusively in the makeup department, with limited fantastic physics using techniques that were used in the 50s. It was a nice, simple, late 70s/early 80s hokey comic book movie that would have worked just fine in a pre-<em>Batman </em>world (and pre-<em>Batman </em>budget). Especially if it was a property that people wanted to see remade. As to that, I have no idea how it works. The Adams Family was out of date and out of touch (not as much, being peoples' parent's IP, not their grandparents) when the</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 8953187, member: 6799660"] I don't think it was [I]bad[/I] at all. It was was a perfectly fine movie for which no one was clamoring, with an advertising budget it couldn't hope to make up, and indeed put out in the wrong decade. It was trying to be the next Batman (all the Mystery Men movies of the 90s were), when it really would have done better alongside (and with a total budget equaling or being less than) [I]Superman II[/I]. It was corny and knew it. It used bright primary colors (offset by shadows) instead of Batman black-in-shadow. It included a plucky kid who at one point saves the day. It features dueling female love interests for the male protagonist (a [URL='https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HighNoon']Helen and an Amy[/URL]). The special effects are almost exclusively in the makeup department, with limited fantastic physics using techniques that were used in the 50s. It was a nice, simple, late 70s/early 80s hokey comic book movie that would have worked just fine in a pre-[I]Batman [/I]world (and pre-[I]Batman [/I]budget). Especially if it was a property that people wanted to see remade. As to that, I have no idea how it works. The Adams Family was out of date and out of touch (not as much, being peoples' parent's IP, not their grandparents) when the [/QUOTE]
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