Gooby

Gooby (also known as A Ted Named Gooby) is a 2009 Canadian comedy fantasy drama film written and directed by Wilson Coneybeare featuring Robbie Coltrane as the voice of Gooby, a living teddy bear, and Matthew Knight as Willy, an 11-year-old child who is scared of his new house.

Plot
Eleven year old Willy's childhood toy, Gooby, comes to life as a real, live, six-foot tall monster who helps Willy through rough times. However, Gooby starts causing mischief, and Willy must hide him.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Gooby himself is supposed to be a good guy who helps Willy when he moves to a new house and is no longer safe, but he actually seems like kind of a jerk.
 * 2) Gooby does not act like a friend, as he is overly dependent yet picky. When Willy offers him the basement, he declines because it's too dark, and when Willy offers him food, he declines because he doesn't like them (with no signs of having eaten them).
 * 3) Gooby gets Willy in trouble when he shows up at school and distracts him, causing him to get detention. And Gooby is surprised when Willy comes home furious.
 * 4) When he starts eating things off the shelves at stores, he says that he can do whatever he wants because he isn't a human. Considering he acts like a human, however, the law would still apply to him, so he's not using logic and just committing a crime.
 * 5) Gooby's plan to have Willy's dad bond with his son is to lure Willy to his now-abandoned house and have him fall through the floor with nothing but a metal pipe to hang onto so that he can rescue his son. In short, he endangered a child.
 * 6) The plot is the stereotypical "Boy becomes friends with a mystical monster" plot, only the mystical monster in general is not very charming at all.
 * 7) It also uses many other cliches in kids movies, such as the kid not wanting to move, parents that are too wrapped up in business to pay attention to their kid, and a British nanny.
 * 8) Gooby's suit is unintentionally creepy, due to its never-changing and never-blinking face. And if you think that's creepy enough, wait until you see his face when he's angered. Get ready to sleep!
 * 9) The CGI for the Hoonies is blatant and not good-looking at all, both visually and in terms of blending in with its surroundings.
 * 10) The Hoonies are built up at the beginning as if they’ll be the main antagonist of the film, but when Gooby is introduced they never appear again aside from being mentioned.
 * 11) The film includes pointless gross-out humor twice:
 * 12) When Willy and Gooby bond with each other, they start burping together, and Gooby accidentally farts. He starts panning the smell towards Willy.
 * 13) When Gooby makes his previously mentioned nightmare face at Big Bruce, he's so scared he pees his pants.
 * 14) Mr. Nerdlinger's character is a rehash of Dr. Walter Kornbluth from Splash, a previous role of Eugene Levy, as they're both trying to get a picture of something interesting.
 * 15) When Gooby starts stealing cookies before Willy meets him, Mrs. Williams blames Willy for it, even threatening to beat him up over it, when Willy doesn’t even move in his seat. The scene is mean-spirited, especially when Willy’s mom doesn’t even try to hear Willy’s side of the story.
 * 16) The soundtrack, while not particularly bad, is unfitting since lots of it seems to be about romance. At one point, when Willy and Gooby are running around in the store, a song about heaven seeming to come closer when you look at someone’s eyes, which is very unfitting for the current situation.
 * 17) Not to mention that song is repetitive, since it says the same line over and over again.
 * 18) At one point, Willy seemingly protects Colin from being hit in the head with a soccer ball and takes the hit for it, but later reveals to Gooby that Colin got hit in the head and was hurt enough to have to be put in the office. This seems to implies that Willy pushed Colin into the soccer ball, and if so, is very mean-spirited on Willy’s part.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Eugene Levy has an entertaining role as Mr. Nerdlinger, even if its a rehash of his role in Splash.
 * 2) Great ending: Willy's parents stop putting work in the way of loving their son, and the three become a happy family.

Reception
The film was a total bomb at the box office, making only $3,234 dollars compared to its $6.5 million budget. Gooby got a 2.9/10 on IMDb and a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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