jedd_kenobi
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Personally movie versions of half hour shows, animated or otherwise, never seem to work for me. South Park, The Simpsons and the Beavis & Butthead movies were all pretty poor IMHO, and the same goes for the feature adaptations of things like Rising Damp and Porridge. In fact the only TV adaptations of any sort that I can think of that worked were the Star Trek and Mission Impossible films.
pretty good point actually. i thought the movie version of The Thick of it (think it was called 'In the Loop') was alright but not as great as the tv series it was based on. However the movie version of the X Files i thought was really good and tied into the mythology of the series incredibly well (the first one that is, not seen the second one yet).
Thats the biggest problem with adaptions really, and books suffer from this the most. when you go see a film adapted from something, your going to see it with a impression already in your mind. when the version you see begins to differ from the version in your head, thats when the film begins to fail.