Canimals...

BLOT: (28 Aug 2013 - 10:03:28 PM)

Canimals...

Imagine the pitch meeting...

When I heard about Canimals earlier today, I wondered if it was exactly what it sounded like, because it sounds like a show about animals that are cans or cans that or animals, or, um, both. And it was. It is cute, and it doesn't seem too bad as long as you accept the "ask no questions" premise. Made by Vooz, so I guess it has some mild genetic code linking back to Pucca.

Unfortunately, every time I think about it, I flash to that scene in the movie Big* where pre-statutory-raped Tom Hanks is shown a toy that turns from a building into a robot and he talks about how lame it is. And part of me thought, at the time when I watched it, that a toy that's a building that turns into a robot is kind of cool, because anything that turns into a robot is kind of cool, even a building. You'd have like a medical clinic that hides out in different places around town, fighting the bad-guy building-bots with his partner, a fire station.

Except instead of robots and buildings, flash to animals and cans, and you know that either there is a tie-in toy, or there will be, and whatever adult and/or adult-shaped-kid sat in on that product meeting, it got the thumbs up. Which is kind of neat and weird all at the same time.

* If you haven't seen Big, it's about a little boy who wants to be all grown up. He casts a wish that puts him in an Tom Hanks body but with a kid mind, which we know because he goes and demonstrates over and over how he thinks like a little kid even though he is a big boy Tom Hanks, and then a woman screws him and he goes to his happy place and becomes a kid again [spoilers]. It's pretty much an allegory about statutory rape. With jokes.

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