Home (2015): The Worst Adaptation You Didn't Know Was

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First half edited by: @Oziach

[Psychotimewizard]

This is like if you made the movie adaptation of "I have no mouth and I must scream" about a robot just trying to make friends

[vitraartist]

I ended up reading Smekday because of the movie. It's genuinely fantastic, I would reccomend it to both kids and adults. I still remember some of the jokes. Like that the human girl goes by Tip cause her mom named her Gratuity without knowing what that actually meant.

[chrise]

The character was named Jay-Loh, and then DreamWorks hired Jennifer Lopez to play the mom.

[BugsyFoga]

It’s funny how a good chunk of Dreamworks library were adaptations, and most people were completely unaware of that

[KaleRobertson-zb]

Braxton slowly transitioning into a book reviewing channel in front of our eyes

[zeldagameryt]

In my opinion, Home fails where Lilo & Stitch succeeded in making interesting yet somewhat marketable alien characters. Like Stitch may be marketable beyond belief but he did have a profound character arc of not being what everyone thought he was: a weapon of mass destruction. He learned that by experiencing the meaning of family through Lilo and Nani’s story and ultimately learning his place.

[thecybrd]

9:05 They actually do explain in the first Minion Movie that they get banished to the arctic by Napoleon Bonaparte and don't make it back to Europe until the 1960s, dodging both of the World Wars.

[troin]

Shrek was also an adaptation and was completely different from the book.

[z-beeblebrox]

And this is why, if you EVER have a great idea for a kids movie that's smart and thoughtful and has something to say - PUBLISH IT AS A NOVEL. Do NOT write a script and try to pitch it! Because if it starts as a movie treatment with nothing to preserve what you intended, the studio will rip it apart, turn it into mindless slop, and nobody will EVER KNOW WHAT YOU INTENDED.

See how we get to learn about the author's intentions here because The True Meaning of Smekday exists to be read and examined? Publishers dgaf about challenging content. They love it actually. It's the only way your creative vision is safe. Remember that.

[ImTooFew]

Canonically the minions lived in an ice cave so despite the many war crimes and murders caused by the minions they did not server y'know who

[broyongroffon]

Still can't believe this is the same studio that made Prince of Egypt and Road to El Dorado

[Deoxys_Used_Mimic]

No, I can’t recall a time where a movie didn’t leave an impact on me.

…probably the reason why I don’t remember it.
…because it wasn’t worth remembering.

[henryhere]

Bro made a poll for the video title, used what the audience voted for, then got yapped at by the audience for using that title, like what is he supposed to do 😭

[fionastirling]

I remember really liking The True Meaning of Smekday when I read it as a kid, and when Home came out it was so dramatically different in tone and style from the book that I couldn’t even recognize it was an adaptation.

[MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

Yeah, I never knew this was an adaptation, but I'm not surprised that the source material is WAY deeper and more meaningful than the movie. Because this is something they do a lot with adaptations of books/comics meant for kids. They smooth out the edges because they don't want kids thinking, either because they don't think the kids can handle it or because they don't agree with the meaning. That's one of the reasons why I love One Piece so much. Sure, the anime does smooth out some things (usually the more graphic depictions of violence), but the theming remains intact. Like, it's meant for kids, but it has some really dark stuff in it. It tackles themes like cycles of violence, genocide, human trafficking, slavery, the way racism is taught to younger generations, starvation, unfair persecution based on lineage, multiple interpretations of justice, and systemic oppression. Like, you'd never realize it by looking at it from the outside, but underneath the quirky art style, the world of One Piece is a straight up horrifying dystopia for the normal people that live in that world.

[koichidignitythief]

How did they think turning their villains, who steal people's homes, into immigrants was a good idea? What were they thinking?

[anthonybonetti]

27:25 It's honestly interesting how the original design has the same skin color as a lot of us but still feeling less human but ultimately being more human than the movie version

[Vulpes_Ailurus]

Jim Parsons’ career is one of craziest roller coaster rides in life. For every “The Normal Heart” and “The Boys in the Band” there’s a “Home” or “The Big Bang Theory”.

[Sharauni]

As someone who hadn't read the books at the time the movie came out, or even knew it was based on a book, I honestly enjoyed the movie for what it was: a goofy turn-off-your-brain animated flick to pass time. Tips name bugged me a lot (like for real, who names their kid Gratuity?) but now, after reading the book and finding out how much a mess her mom is, it makes sense. The book is indeed way WAY deeper and the message more intense than the movie, but I still think they can both be enjoyed for what they are.

[logan_rox]

I wanna know how many species the boove sent into extinction. There’s gotta be at least one right?