Ratchet and Clank Movie Reviews and Boxoffice performance

[DivinePaladin]

mountaindewslave said:

Teeqoz said:

But what I'm saying is that you have to consider some of that budget was shared between the movie and the video game. Those cutscenes would've been made for the game, even if the movie wasn't made (but maybe not quite at this quality). The story etc. would also have been written for the game either way, so some costs would've been incurred either way, thus this movie will have a lower budget than what is normal. They also borrowed models and assets from Insomniac, further reducing costs.

 

Also no way it had a 80 million budget. The last full theatrical release Rainmaker Entertainment (the company behind this) made (Escape from Planet Earth) seems like it had a similar budget to this, and that had a budget of 40 million $. No way this is far above that, if at all.

you have no idea how much CGI animated films cost. Even the most terrible ones (that look awful) often can cost 10s of milions. if this were a drawn cartoon film or claymation MAYBE it would be much lower, but anyone downplaying the investment in this is not being realistic.

We're talking about an hour and a half film. the video game will use nowhere near that many cutscenes, nor is it likely that the scenes are exact duplicates. Sony will lose money on Ratchet & Clank if it performs at all based on its reviews

http://www.awn.com/animationworld/kevin-munroe-talks-ratchet-clank

Stop.  Just stop.  It's been confirmed SEVERAL times that the combined budget of the game and film was $40 million.  There have been other confirmations of the budget anywhere from $12-25m for the film.  This is a VERY low budget animation, and I'm sorry but your posturing isn't going to change the facts here.  Your knowledge of animation and the production costs of it may or may not be substantial, I don't know, but Rainmaker is known for doing insanely low-budget projects.

 

OT: It's still tracking at something like $10m first weekend even after critic reviews.  Most of the reviews are INSANELY over-critical and coming from those with no background of the games.  I've seen reviews saying it's bad simply because it's got guns in it, saying it's bad because it's based on a game, and even saying it's worse than Norm of the North just to be critical.  But those reviewers that are at least somewhat familiar place it at a solid 6/10, which is about what I expected after reading the novelization.  Because of this, as a wide-audience movie it won't succeed, but as a game movie it'll do fine.  I'd be more concerned about the likely-dead-in-the-water Sly movie than the performance of this one.