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8. Archies in: Jugman, The
Holy Christ this was just boring. And it wasn't even the first time I'd seen it.
Before I got hired here, I ran a review blog in my free time where I looked at the kids movies of the 2000s and this was one I looked at. And it's a weird artifact of that. It reuses the cast and designs from the DIC animated series Archie's Weird Mysteries, which I have some nostalgia for thanks to my brother's love of it. But it isn't officially connected. In the film, Archie and friends encounter a frozen caveman who looks a lot like Jughead. He gets unfrozen and wacky hijinx ensue. And it's incredibly boring. It really does feel like someone took an episode of a cartoon and stretched it out to feature length without adding anything to the plot. The characters are interchangeable, the world feels confusing and the film stretches on and on and on.
How Does It Compare to The Comics?: I mean, it's less interesting. It washes out all the characters. And the Archie cast aren't really built for big stories. They're wacky comic book characters who are built to motivate jokes. Nothin' more. And trying to make it into something bigger without deepening them lands it at"¦
