Disney Does Blyton
Submitted by mwilliams on Mon, 2008-03-24 16:46.GONE are the lashings of ginger beer, sensible sweaters and rubber bands to ensnare villains. The Famous Five have undergone a radical 21st-century makeover for a new Disney cartoon series. But instead of crawling through secret tunnels with nothing more than a penknife and a ball of string, the iPod-wearing children fight off their enemies using mobile phones and other modern-day gadgets.
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Now this sounds like it's doomed to fail. I read several Five books as a kid and I loved them, especially the 40's feel and the small town "back to basics" when there was no TV and all you had was your imagination. If they bothered so much about modernizing the characters, why turn them into such terrible stereotypes? The characters as described in the story sound like textbook examples of marketing people who get paid too much and don't have the slightest idea about what they're doing or whom they're doing it for.