Woody Woodpecker

As a fan of the cartoon, one of my favorites of all my life, I expected more for the first live-action version of the Woody Woodpecker. The result is a bit disappointing. Woody Woodpecker's first movie resulted in a silly, uninspired film with very poor acting. The good things are just the funny situations created by Woody and his characteristic laughter that animated my mornings in childhood and adolescence.

I have no idea why the writers found it necessary to start the movie with a broken family plot. Rich dad divorces mom and hooks up with younger sex object who needs a "Xanny" at one point. Why?!

Dad is forced to take kid along on a vacation which really is dad trying to build a mansion in the forest.

I think a key aspect of writing for kids is that the writers have kids. Are we targeting ages 4 - 7? 8 to 10? up to 12 years old (because they won't believe a woodpecker drummed on soup cans to produce Jon Bonham-esque sound).

I feel sorry for anyone who had any role in this project, but mostly anyone who decided to watch it.

Why? Just why.

Everything about this movie feels lazy. Some of the actors did the best they could with the garbage they had to work with, but it's still hot garbage. Honestly, there's nothing redeeming about this movie. It's not cute, it's not funny, it's not endearing, it's not worth watching for free. My kids stumbled on this on Netflix and they giggled and asked to watch it again at some point. I'm deeply disturbed that they enjoyed this film. I'm not sure these are my kids.

....then as an adult, would i? she watched it for 10 minutes and she picked up her Lego toys,started playing with it,completely ignorant of the movie. sheesshhhh!!!!

I have seen a lot of bad movies, but this has to be the worst.