Father of the Pride - The Complete Series
by Mark Risley
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Actor: Carl Reiner, Cheryl Hines, Danielle Harris, John Goodman, Orlando JonesDirector: Mark Risley
Brand: Paramount
Editor: C.K. Horness
Editor: Gian Ganziano
Editor: Harold McKenzie
Producer: Erin Scotto
Writer: Jeffrey Katzenberg
Writer: Jonathan Fener
Writer: Josh Bycel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 228 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Dreamworks Animated
DVD Reviews of Father of the Pride - The Complete Series
DVD Review: Fails on ALL possible levels.
Summary: 1 Stars
How bad was Father of the Pride? NBC tried to distance itself from the show by telling these jokes at a recent press gathering:
"The programmer responsible for putting Father of the Pride on NBC last year has now completed rehab."
"Roy Horn calls Father of the Pride the most painful experience of his life."
While FotP was still polluting the airwaves, Cartoon Network offered this suggestion to FotP's writers: "Try using comedy from 2004 instead of 1962."
And they added that there was no way they'd consider giving the show a second chance (like they did with Family Guy).
In fact, the only laugh the show was good for can be found here:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2576304B
I know a lot of people decided to check out this show because the characters were lions and other animals--but the sad fact is that they're really just typical network sitcom people disguised as animals. Emphasis on "typical". VERY typical. Oy, I was sick of characters like these years ago. Every aspect of this show is very tired, trite, and completely without any sense of humor or comic timing.
NBC at one time hyped the show for its computer-generated animation. Oh, boy, we should watch it for the technology. Sheesh. That's not a sufficient basis for a series, unless you are going to go all-out and dazzle people with what can be done on a computer. And they didn't.
At it's heart, good animation is about communication. In classic animation, you can tell a character's emotions, motives, and thoughts in an instant by the visuals: flying to pieces in excitement, turning beet red in embarrassment, or whatever. Have a look at master animator Bruno Bozzetto's online cartoons (http://www.infonegocio.com/xeron/bruno/italy.html is one example)--some of these feature simple circles and rectangles as the characters, but they are still very funny, because Bozzetto still knows how to create characterizations and his writing and timing are top notch.
The people who made Father of the Pride don't understand any of that. They might as well have been moving rubber dolls around the screen. There is no humor, no characterization in any of the visuals. Each image seems to be about, "Look! We can map hair all over their bodies!" The characters of Siegfried and Roy were downright scary looking, I guess because they didn't have any hair to keep the designers interested. From an animation point of view, the show was painful.
I did not find the content of the show as repulsive as some newspaper reviews had reported it--maybe the prevalence of puerile sex humor on TV has jaded me. But I didn't see one thing good in it, either. I was frankly bored by the whole thing. I could name a half-dozen web comics whose creators can draw a more interesting anthro-animal character than any in Father of the Pride (and I was far more impressed with the pencil sketches shown during the "making of" short [after the premiere show on NBC] than in the computer-generated final results).
It's just a sad, sad show. In terms of comedy, the writing and timing are never better than third-rate, on the rare occasions that it gets that good.
And in terms of the point they kept harping on in the promos ("IT'S THE FIRST PRIME-TIME COMPUTER ANIMATED SERIES") it fails to rise above amateurish. Dreck like this just adds to the pile of bandwagon-jumping product being thrown at us that makes me sick to death of anything bearing the label "computer generated".
Description of Father of the Pride - The Complete Series
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/05/2008 Run time: 228 minutes Rating: NrBestsellers in DVD
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