In response to the resurgence of all the great 80s cartoons in Hollywood, we decided to put together another list. We have compiled what we believe to be the 10 best and the 10 worst 80s cartoon movie concepts. First we give you the cartoon, a brief description (for anyone who isn’t familiar) and then OUR movie pitch. We have worked day and night to give you some great and terrible movie ideas! Keep in mind, that just because something is in the “bad idea” section, it doesn’t mean we don’t love it. This is about whether it is a good idea for a movie or not.

So let’s get started! In NO particular order….

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Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears

Cartoon:

Set in medieval times, seven Gummi Bears live secretly. Their main nemesis is Duke Igthorn, who aims, with the aid of ogres, to rule Dunwyn Kingdom. The Gummi Bears gain a temporary ability to bounce by drinking Gummiberry Juice. It also serves as fuel for various Gummi devices, especially flying machines.

Eric’s Concept:

This film will deal with the dangers of addiction as Sunni Gummi learns the harsh reality of Gummiberry Juice. An inside look on a culture of bears completely dependent on a performance enhancing substance. In a modern setting, Dunwyn is now a filthy industrial harbor town where Sunni must deal with the horrific sins of her family and the lengths they will go to get a fix. Can she find a way out before the crooked Narcotics Detective Igthorn sets into motion his plan to extinguish the Gummis forever?

Shot live action with CGI bears in black and white, shaky-cam documentary style. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.

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Filmation’s Ghostbusters

Cartoon:

Based on the 1970’s live-action show The Ghost Busters. The Ghost Busters followed Jake Kong, Eddie Spencer and Tracy the talking Gorilla, a group of inept ghost detectives. The cartoon features Jake Kong and Eddie Spencer’s sons taking up the family business. Tracy the talking Gorilla continues to help in the family trade. Their inept abilities seem to be genetic as Jake and Eddie Jr. try to solve mysteries and fight ghosts. The Ghostbuster’s main villain was a 5th dimensional evil wizard named Prime Evil.

Chris’s Concept:

The world is laid to waste, billions are dead and the dead walk the Earth. Not mere brainless zombies but thinking, scheming powerful ghosts and creatures of the dark worlds rule the Earth with the extinction of all life their only goal. Prime Evil has opened a permanent portal to the 5th dimension that allows dark creature to move freely between worlds and grants the dead of Earth unnatural powers. Earth’s only hope are the Ghostbusters. A small team with the power and skill to stop Prime Evil and close the portal. Too bad for Earth this team consists of two inept men and a talking Gorilla. Stumbling from one encounter to the next this slap slick side splitting comedy pokes fun at death and the dying. Never has genocide and extinction been so funny. Some how though sheer dumb luck the team of Ghostbusters find themselves face to face with Prime Evil for a final battle to save what is left of mankind. In the pinnacle of mirth, the Ghostbusters are slaughtered and Prime Evil wins the day.

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Rainbow Bright

Cartoon:

An orphan girl named Wisp is magically transported to a land of no colors. She must rescue the Color Kids and find the Color Belt to return color to the land by defeating the Dark One. Once victorious, Wisp is renamed Rainbow Bright. Rainbow Bright and the Color Kids now live in Rainbowland and are in charge of all the colors on Earth. The Color Belt requires the mining of Color Crystals from the Color Caves to continue working. Rainbow Bright also has a egotistical talking horse named Starlite.

Chris’s Concept:

In the style of a documentary the movie follows a mother and father dealing with a delusional daughter who seems to be living in a world centered around color. The parents try all combinations of medications and specialist to find a way to break through their daughter’s dementia. The daughter has glassy eyed one sided conversations regarding a complex world were the most important industry is the mining of ‘color’. The girl seems to feel that it is her life quest to gather color and use it in a device called a Color Belt to bring color to Earth. The girls delusions seem complex and detailed which seem to confound doctors even more. After several failed attempts of different drug cocktails and therapies the parents decide to do a risky new operation. The movie ends with the girl being wheeled into surgery and the mother and father crying. Epilogue of white text on black tell of the girl never recovering form surgery and passing away two weeks after the procedure.

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Duck Tales

Cartoon:

The adventures and misadventures of Scrooge McDuck and his 3 grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. Scrooge is the riches duck in the world and has a huge vault full of money, gold and various treasures that he enjoys swimming in. A wide array of supporting characters passed through the show to provide the additional abilities and elements needed to move the stories along from one adventure to the next. Scrooge’s arch-rivals consist of Magica De Spell, Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys. All want all or part of Scrooge’s vast fortune.

Chris’s Concept:

Live action world with the cast in animatronic masks and suits in the style of Howard the Duck. Scrooge McDuck is no longer a businessman but a crime lord. Now that Donald Duck has received the chair for his part in the crimes and murders committed in the name of McDuck, Scrooge has taken in his three grandnephews to teach the family business. Always one step ahead of the police and his criminal rivals, Scrooge rules the city of Duckburg with an iron fist acquiring as much wealth as possible and leaving his foes bleeding in the street. As the Police and the super-hero Darkwing Duck close in on Scrooge he makes one last stand taking as many of his enemies with him in a blood bath of violence and profanity. Scarface meets Grand Theft Auto in a gritty crime action triller. When the smoke clear at the end of the movie Scrooge and two of his grandnephews are dead with only Dewey escaping to keep the family business going and a guaranteed sequel.

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Pound Puppies

Cartoon:

A group of owner-less dogs in a pound take it upon themselves to try to return lost animals that find themselves in the pound to their owners. Led by the dog Cooler the small group of dogs deal with the obstacles of the owners of the pound to accomplish their goals of helping lost pets.

Chris’s Concept:

Live action animals with CG lip-sync and full CG animals. This dark and gritty look at the underbelly of dog fighting follows a small group of skilled and lethal fighting dogs. Cooler is the reigning champ of the ring and has spilled the blood of many opponents. But what he truly wishes for is freedom for his cruel and brutal owners that train and torture him to be even more vicious. The movie moves from one bloody fight to the next until Cooler’s mate, Bright Eyes, falls in the ring and is brutally put down by their human owners. Seeing his mate murdered is the last straw and Cooler knows what he has to do. Cooler leaks the location of the next fight to a dirty Police Dog he had been paying off to look the other way. When the police storm the fight Cooler sees his chance to act and attacks his owners, killing them in a bloody orgy. Cooler is shot by the police. In the last moments of his life Cooler sees the rest of his pack escaping to freedom and he knows it was all worthwhile. Fade to black.

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Jem

Cartoon:

With the help of with the help of Synergy, a holographic computer designed to be the ultimate entertainment synthesizer, Jerrica Benton transforms into Jem and rocks out with her band The Holograms! Show follows her adventures and she deals with her double life. Antagonists are rival band The Misfits, led by the spoiled Pizzazz. Jerrica/Jem must also deal with her boyfriend Rio, who is attracted to both Jerrica and Jem while not realizing that they are actually the same person. Dumbass.

Eric’s Concept:

Naturally, this would star any one of the latest teen actresses and most likely be the beginning of a terrible downward spiral of Hollywood parties and drug abuse. Film would follow a girl that has used the Synergy synthesizer to create her own music career. Rival Pizzazz would discover her secret and try to steal Synergy for her own personal gain. Blah. Blah. Blah. This is just too damned horrible to continue. Next!

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Talespin

Cartoon:

A spinoff of the animated Disney classic The Jungle Book, Talespin takes many of the characters of the Jungle Book and randomly places them in a semi-modern 1930’s era setting, while also anthropomorphizing them ditching any human characters. Starring Baloo as a cocky delivery pilot who must always be on the lookout for evil air pirates, King Louie as a bar owner and Shere Khan as an evil corporate mogul, Talespin appears in tone to be a more logical spinoff of Duck Tales than The Jungle Book.

Vince’s Concept

Baloo, a washed up former fighter pilot turned delivery pilot gets called out of hibernation and back into action for one last mission, to rescue the daughter of President Khan, who has been kidnapped by evil air pirates while on vacation in the utopian land of Panda-La. Filled with grief over the death of his former navigator and protégé Kit at his own hands, Baloo is reluctant to lift himself out of his drunken haze. Even the knowledge that it was self defense and that the rabid bear he had put down was no longer really his friend, was little solace. However, when contacted by a mysterious member of the underground militant group al-Bagheera, and informed that the rabies that Kit contracted while on a secret mission was in fact a plot of then Senator Khan, Baloo springs into action, suspecting that more might be going with his selection for this mission than meets the eye. A mixture of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Talespin: THE MOVIE would be a globe-trotting adventure filled with talking animals and special effects, as well as special effects and then if time and lack of plot allows, more special effects. Special effects.

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Care Bears

Cartoon:

A group of bears from the Kingdom of Caring that go forth in on missions of caring to help people. Each bear had a symbol on their belly that indicated their name and motivation. Various villains would stand in the way of the Care Bear’s missions. The Care Bear’s held a secret weapon of the ‘Care Bear Stare’, which was a focused ray of light, love, and good cheer that a group of Care Bears would launch at the heart of their target.

Chris’s Concept:

Live action world with cast in suits with possible CG elements. The Care Bear Bunch would tackle gay and lesbian issues and try to bring love, understanding and most importantly, caring to the hearts of those who stood in the way of equal right for homosexuals. The Care Bear’s arch enemy, Professor Coldheart was in a constant search for the cure to the Gay Gene and a way to destroy the Care Bears forever. The Care Bears are pushed to their limits of caring as Coldheart claiming to have found the cure he has so long searched, plans to immunize the gay and lesbian populations of the Kingdom of Caring. When all seems lost, the ‘Care Bear Stare’ is used on Coldheart to stop him once and for all… (imagine the end of Raider of the Lost Ark). Once Coldheart is defeated, the Care Bears finally realize their dreams of equality for all in a caring and loving world.

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My Little Pony

Cartoon:

The Little Ponies live peacefully in Ponyland. Between frolicking and singing, they must defend themselves against various evils. In the animated film, the wicked witch Hydia and her two nasty daughters, Reeka and Draggle threaten to flood Ponyland with the gooey Smooze. Yeah, that’s right. The ponies are aided by a strange race called the Grundles whose home had already been flooded by the Smooze.

Eric’s Concept:

In this animated film, the Mother Hydia Glue Company comes to Ponyland. Armed with machetes, Reeka and Draggle begin to systematically slaughter the ponies. While fleeing for their lives, the ponies encounter the Grundles, creatures created by lost pony souls possessing the glue they were used to create. The remaining ponies and Grundles return to Ponyland to face the evil witch and her daughters, only to be mowed down by their giant mechanical pony-harvesting machine.

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The Smurfs

Cartoon:

The Smurfs are a race of tiny blue creatures that live in a mushroom village located somewhere in the forests of medieval Europe. They have various adventures, often dealing with the evil alchemist Gargamel and his equally evil cat Azrael. We all know the Smurfs, right?

Eric’s Concept:

Smurfette is stunned to learn from Brainy Smurf that juice of the Smurfberries is the only substance keeping the all male Smurfs’ sexual urges at bay. That if there were ever a shortage of the Smurfalicious fruit, there would be sexually crazed chaos. Naturally, the nefarious Gargamel is eavesdropping. Gargamel proceeds to burn the entire supply of Smurfberries, but quickly realizes that he has made a mistake. It seems that sexually insane Smurfs have increased strength and are not gender or species specific. Leaving Gargamel and Azrael to be sexually assaulted by a mob of Smurfs, Brainy and Smurfette escape with Brainy’s potted Smurfberry bush. Smart guy gets the girl, and evil guy gets it in the end. Heh.

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written and compiled by Eric, Chris and Vince.