We had a piano put in, in case the muse struck us, and Jean Aberbach - he and his brother (Julian) owned Hill & Range Songs and they had to deal with Colonel Parker but created Gladys Music and Elvis Presley Music-handed us a script for a movie. We threw it in the corner with the tourist magazines that you get in hotels.
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On a Saturday morning- we'd been there about a week - Jean knocked on the door and said, in a very Viennese accent, 'Vell boys, you vill haf my songs for the movie.' Jerry said, 'Don't worry Jean, you'll have them' Jean said, 'I know.' And he pushed a big chair in front of the door and sat down and said, ' I'm going to take a nap and I'm not leaving until you have my songs.' So we wrote four songs in about five hours and then were free to go out." We were having a ball in New York, going to the theatre, going to jazz clubs to hear Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, doing a lot of drinking.
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Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1958.Stukka63 from St.augustine,fla.Never ever a huge Elvis fan, but this song rocks.Pete from New South WalesI gotta say i like the choreography, the boys did a great job.The four songs the duo composed were "Jailhouse Rock," "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care," "Treat Me Nice" and "I Want to Be Free." ROCK DOG FULL MOVIE SONGS FREE A Summit release.Ukiah from Sidney, BcI don't know if I should do this song for a leadership group in my school in front of the whole school should I do it.Tickets for the Vancouver show ranged from $1.50 to $3.50 and the attendance was 26,000 fans. Simmons, Lewis Black, Mae Whitman, Jorge Garcia, Kenan Thompson, Sam Elliott, Matt DillonĬredits:Directed by Ash Brannon, script by Ash Brannon, based on the comic book. Only Lewis Black, doing a few of his trademark meltdowns, comes close to finding a laugh.Īnd he’ll be a lot funnier telling the story, in stand-up routines or on talk shows, of how he took Chinese cash and giggled all the way to the bank making this made-by-a-committee-of-market-analysts disaster.Ĭast: The voices of Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard, J.K. Kenan Thompson and Jorge Garcia do two sidekick voices, in the interest of diversifying the cast. You can’t really tell it’s Owen Wilson doing Bodi’s voice. The music? Sort of a Chinese market research idea of “rock.” The animation is generic, but pretty enough. Not a one-liner, not one single sight gag pays off. But along the way, he runs afoul of a competitor guitarist (Matt Dillon) who owns him in a shredding contest, a fighting bear and the wolf mob boss (Lewis Black) who longs to get his paws on every thing Bodi holds dear, especially that village of sheep where the young dog comes from.ĭirector Ash Brannon (“Surf’s Up”) and a slew of credited co-writers could not uncover a laugh in this material. He sets out to study under the master, Angus. “Find the passion, the fire inside,” Fleetwood Yak counsels. He wants to be just like his new hero, a cat named Angus Scattergood (Eddie Izzard). He wants to develop some chops, visit the city, go to Rock and Roll Park where the rock buskers play and form a band.
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And the moment a portable radio drops into his life, he has his own dream.
Simmons) has figured out the best way to keep the wolves at bay - train the village of sheep to wear armored dog suits.īut the moment Bodi picks up a stringed instrument, he has other interests.
Sam Elliott takes on the same role he played in “The Big Lebowkski,” as the drawling sage narrator, here named Fleetwood Yak (Haw!), telling us the story of Bodi (Luke Wilson), whose dad (J.K.
But those conditions, considered an anti-trust violation here in the States, and the fact that they threw a lot of money at a “Toy Story” director and International voice talent for the English language release, don’t save it.īecause there isn’t a laugh in it. It’s one of the most expensive movies ever made in China, wholly financed by one of the Chinese studios that also owns Chinese movie theaters. How do we know it’s Chinese? Bodi, the strumming/singing Tibetan canine of the title, doesn’t quote the Dalai Lama or wear “Free Tibet” t-shirts. A sheep dog abandons the family business - protecting the flocks of his Tibetan village - to seek fame and power chords in the Big City in “Rock Dog,” a Chinese cartoon based on a Chinese comic book.
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