Underdog.

"A motherless boy, a graceless dog and a witless script propel Underdog, a live-action resurrection of the 1960s television series about a canine superhero who speaks in rhyme while fighting crime. (Sorry, it's catching)," apologizes Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times. "Underdog may have been originally created to sell cereal for General Mills, but this latest incarnation couldn't sell Frisbees at a dog park."

"It's the celluloid equivalent of sugar cereal: cheap, empty and headache-inducing," writes Sam Adams in the Los Angeles Tims.

Now then: Craig Phillips "got to sit on a conference call roundtable interview, with a few other bloggers, to chat with Joe Harris, the co-creator and lead animator for the original cartoon series. He's worked with some of the most renowned advertising agencies in New York - he is credited with creating the Trix rabbit - and teamed up with colleagues to develop the Underdog show, which debuted on October 3, 1964. The show ran for nine years (in syndication), with 120 episodes in all."

Posted by dwhudson at August 5, 2007 4:27 PM