The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

No. Just no. Hard pass on this stinkeroo.

It is very sad to do an "updated version" of a classic an animated series and then add NOTHING from the original series. Most paint fully different are the quality of the voice actors. The original series featured the greatest troop of voice Actors in classic animation . The new version is full of generic "cartoon voices".... not even close to the quality of the classic version.

The Classic version also had horribly good bad puns, and ongoing dashes of political humor. Adults could watch the episodes and chuckle along with their kids. The writing in the current version is bland and generic. I kept asking myself will this big steaming pile ever end?

The Producer of this series should be ashamed that this production fails do hard - and on so many different levels.

"Rocky & His Friends" was the first TV cartoon specifically tailored to adult sensibilities (though Jay Ward's preceding series, "Crusader Rabbit", had some of that ). Ward didn't care if some of the humor was built on jokes and references parents had to explain to their kids.

The focus wasn't primarily on R&B dealing with their adversaries, but with satirical attacks on American society and individuals. When the monstrous metal-munching Moon mice destroy Frostbite Falls' TV antennas, a crazed elderly woman (voiced by June Foray) runs around screaming "Our lives are ruined!"

Then there's the Kirwood Derby, which makes its wearer the smartest person in the world. This was a slap at Gary Moore's dense sidekick, Durward Kirby, who threatened to sue. Jay Ward's response? "Go ahead -- we'll pay you to sue."

The world is a lot meaner and nastier than it was 60 years ago. "Fearless Leader" is no longer a jack-booted Austrian with a fencing scar -- he's our disgusting, amoral, idiot President, who thinks he knows everything. * Will the writers be willing to confront him, and the thugs he's surrounded himself with? I doubt it.

Like any great work of art, the original R&B wittily reflected its times. The new version almost certainly will not. Sad.

* Bullwinkle sometimes did a "Mr Know-It-All" sketch. This could be recycled with Trump replacing the moose. Come on, guys, show some spine.

The original Rocky and Bullwinkle was fantastic. This is garbage. The animation is just terrible. It is an abomination. It has none of the charm of the original. Wish I could give it a zero.

"The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky" follows the typical trend. Why show respect for the original when we all know everyone who ever lived before this new generation dragged their knuckles in the dust?

I hate the animation (why does modern animation try to be ugly?) But, to be fair, the original Bullwinkle was pretty crude, inconsistent, and looked like what it was: farmed out to a cheapjack Mexican studio to keep costs low. Bullwinkle fans like to pretend the almost barbaric animation of the original is part of its charm, but it was cost-cutting and nothing else and is the weakest part of the old series, too.

What really made the old Bullwinkle come alive in the 1960s was the same thing that set Bugs Bunny and Co. Apart 20 years earlier: sharp, witty writing and the best voice work in the business. For Bullwinkle that included June Foray, Daws Butler, Walter Tetley, Paul Frees and notable legitimate actors Hans Conreid, Edward Everett Horton and Charlie Ruggles.

Also typical of moderns is, rather than coming up with something new they scavenge what's old like jackals, with the attitude that the old shows would have been like this had they been smart as we are. Rather than being witty they savage, and include unnecessary gross-out jokes.

Rocky and Bullwinkle may be dead but if they are R. I. P. Let them lie. Don't remake them in a modern image and kowtow to PC censors and the sort of claptrap that ruined the Muppets. Rather than marring the memory of the old why don't they come up with something brilliant on their own?

Because they can't.

People always expect reboots to be the same as originals because they're not very bright. The only thing I don't like is that they don't have all the other segments in this series. I love that even though they always say his name is Bullwinkle J. Moose, his family's last name is Winkle. Hate all you want, down voting won't make you right.