Friday 21 March 2008

Famous Five Follies

Disney has demonstrated that their bolderisation of Winnie the Pooh was not a one-off and is bringing back Enid Blyton's Famous Five-- or, at least, an "updated" animated version.

Unsurprisingly, one of the girls is now a Californian "shopaholic", the other is, in accordance with the 1975 Childhood Integration Act that requires that any gathering of more than two juveniles must include a member of an officially recognised ethnic minority, Anglo-Indian, one of the boys is a computer nerd and no doubt we will subsequently learn that the blond boy is homosexual.

What character atrocity is planned for the dog remains undetermined.

According to the BBC,
Producers say the animated tales remain faithful to the themes of storytelling, mystery and adventure central to the original books but add a contemporary twist.
That's "contemporary twist" as in looking like every other PC cartoon on television.

7 comments:

jayessell said...

Didn't Burger King have their own Five kids?

Wheels (Disabled)
Snaps (Paparazzi)
Jaws (Eating Disorder/Black)
IQ (Nerd)
Boomer ('Tomboy' but we know what that means)
KidVid (Gamer)
Lingo (Hispanic artist)
Jazz (Asian musician)


Oops. That's eight.

jabrwok said...

Scooby Doo, where are you?

Anonymous said...

You never know--maybe it'll be the dog that turns out to be playing for the other team.

Anonymous said...

PC cartoons=Pussy cartoons !
Bring back them pencils and rulers !!
And why doesn't that indian girl stand on a small national park ? That's where she should be !

Anonymous said...

What are you talking about?

Anonymous said...

I dont like computer generated cartoons, thats all.

Anonymous said...

Will there be lashings of ginger beer?