{"id":24089,"date":"2017-02-02T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=24089"},"modified":"2017-02-02T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T03:46:28","slug":"the-trouble-with-terkel-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/the-trouble-with-terkel-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Terkel (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An animated re-release\/recycling of a hit Danish animated film, \u201cThe Trouble with Terkel\u201d was released in 2004, and rather than remake the original animated movie, this new version is re-released with a new title, and a hastily recorded American dub was slapped on to the film. There\u2019s no update to the animation, no re-editing, or anything of the sort. 2004 feels like a whole other century ago, so it\u2019s not surprising \u201cThe Trouble with Terkel\u201d watches like a painfully outdated mess. It also doesn\u2019t help that the producers kept all of the country\u2019s background signs and whatnot. So when our characters are in the candy store buying \u201cSukkerfryd Slik\u201d with \u201cFedt Nuder!\u201d it\u2019s impossible to not get pulled out of the paper thin narrative.<\/p>\n

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The titular Terkel is an awkward boy in a dysfunctional family who is friends with a violent kid who carries a pipe\u2014for some reason. When he accidentally rises to popularity in school, his life becomes worse than ever, and there\u2019s a psycho on the loose\u2014for some reason. \u201cThe Trouble with Terkel\u201d assumes that it can just shove a bunch of crude, violent and random humor, see what sticks to the wall, and hopefully bring all the \u201cSouth Park\u201d fans flocking. Push in a lot of offensive humor, and audiences will gasp and faint, but so many other people have beaten them to the punch by now. The height of offensiveness is that Terkel\u2019s teacher is named Dick Balsac (Ballsack). Get it? He\u2019s also constantly hit on by three underage girls in his class. Shield your eyes!<\/p>\n

One of the things I hate about the rise in popularity of \u201cSouth Park\u201d (despite loving the show) is that everyone assumed that since the animation looked cheap, and the humor was crude, that anyone and everyone can copy its success and formula. \u201cSouth Park\u201d is crude, violent, and disgusting, but it also manages to be hilarious, and sneak in a lot of very relevant humor about social themes, political themes, and taboos that no one talks about or are too scared to confront. This is why \u201cSouth Park\u201d is still on and discussed in the media, while \u201cBeavis and Butt Head\u201d isn\u2019t<\/strong><\/em>. Eventually the audience will outgrow poop humor and want more. Most of them, anyway. Even in 2004, \u201cThe Trouble with Terkel\u201d would have been outright dismissed by folks that appreciate adult animation. It\u2019s a miserable, long, abomination and a contender for the worst movie of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An animated re-release\/recycling of a hit Danish animated film, \u201cThe Trouble with Terkel\u201d was released in 2004, and rather than remake the original animated movie, this new version is re-released with a new title, and a hastily recorded American dub was slapped on to the film. There\u2019s no update to the animation, no re-editing, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[70,71,99,219,835],"class_list":["post-24089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adult","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-remake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24093,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24089\/revisions\/24093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}