10 Most Horrifying Changes Of Animated Characters To Live-Action
4. Yogi Bear (Yogi Bear)
Yogi Bear is one of the simplest, most iconic designs in all of animation. In the original Hanna-Barbera cartoons, he was simply a slightly rounded, friendly-looking brown bear with a collar, a green tie, and a green hat.
In the live-action iteration of the character, the design manages to keep all of the bare elements of the original while losing all of the magic in the process. Undoubtedly, a huge part of the problem is the fact that the CGI Yogi looks like he belongs in a CGI animated film.
He looks less like he should be in the same frame as real-life Anna Faris and more like he's an early bit of pre-viz from a mid-2000s Dreamworks animated film like Flushed Away. It also doesn't help that much like Scooby Doo and the Chipmunks before him, the work here kind of lazily defaults to being a mix of the character's animated roots and the live-action format without ever really committing to it.
All of this, paired with a performance from Dan Akroyd that sounds as if it was literally phoned in, results in a godawful version that disgraced the character's great legacy.