The kids loved “Creech” so much in the trailers, they kept asking to see the movie, which is basically Prehistoric Subterranean Creature Surfaces When Big Oil Company Drills Too Near Its Nest….
Supposedly this movie was made from the inspiration of Paramount pictures former president Adam Goodman’s 4yr old son, and intended to be a franchise movie, but it became a USD 115 mio “embarrassment” to Paramount pictures. They spent serious technology (CGI – Computer Generated Imaging) et al bucks making it. It even tested better than Spongebob, but because it grossed under USD 65mio to a budget of USD 125mio (and I guess maybe it was a bit embarrassing for people there to admit a doting dad in a top position got this done – it looks as though they tried to walk back from the initial “A top executive’s 4yr old son inspired all this,” in later press) it was still labelled a box office “bomb”.
Umm, ok if they say so, and it’s not like we have USD 115mio to say otherwise, but we still loved it. Hamster Ninja (who turned 5 in June) loved Creech, was hoping for some time after she first watched it that one of these things would show up at the SPCA, and Rockstar loved the truck stunts. It’s still an inspiration for original kiddie ideas to us. If you have little kids you might still want to check it out, it’s available online for cheap as well as on NowTV. We’d watch any sequels or mini series too, if they ever came back to make more, we watched this movie repeatedly and it was a lot better than all the High School Musical, Mickey Mouse Club tween pop star stuff.
Though nowhere is safe from Selfie Culture 😀 pic from kidzworld.com
ps: Former Paramount pictures President Adam Goodman is now President of China-backed Le Vision Entertainment in charge of English language original-content entertainment, and reporting to Le Eco Vice Chairman Zhang Zhao…
