I love cartoon shows and I also love movies.  It's very rare that the two mix well together though.  I'm looking at you, Devastator's giant, wrecking balls!  I want to take a quick trip into fantasy land to imagine some shows that really deserve the live-action treatment.  By 'deserve the live-action treatment,' I, of course, mean that the shows are completely insane and would make for weird-ass films!  It's sheer randomness and insanity, people!  Robots, aliens and monsters- oh my!  This will be fun- at least for me..
 
12. Centurions: Okay- bear with me here.  Cyborg enemies are loose on the world and only one group can stop them.  Basically, it's a bunch of guys in Lego suits that have random hunks of armor that connect to them.  Their weapons are beamed in from a satellite in space that has one worker and an orangutan running the show.  I think Matt Damon could play Ace McCloud.  What about you?

 
11. Bravestarr: Indian cops in the future Old West?  Yes, the planet of New Texas is under martial law until the titular Indian cop arrives to set things right.  He fights alien outlaws, teams up with a Shaman and protects a town that literally morphs into an armored shell!  Get that guy who plays the lead Indian role in everything (Adam Beach, btw) and you're set!

 
10. S.W.A.T. Kats: Cartoon writers must get the best drugs.  Picture a city full of talking, anthropomorphic cats.  The place is constantly under siege, so what can they do?  Why get two auto mechanics to fight the villains in their super-jet, which nobody knows they have, of course!  Seth Rogen can take some time away from doing every random cartoon character (including the new Simon Pegg film) to do this one too.  You can pay him in weed!

 
9. The Herculoids: Old-school rules, bitches!  There's almost no real back-story to this show, so here's the parts they do explain.  A couple live on an alien planet with their son and a bunch of alien monsters.  Two of them are blobs of jelly with eyeballs, another is a dragon with bug-eyes, one is a rhino who fires rocks (that or his own waste) out of his broken horn and the final one is an ape made out of stone.  Give this to anyone other than M. Night and you're golden!

 
8. Samurai Pizza Cats: Do I even need to explain this?  No.  Good.  Moving on...

 
7. Street Sharks: Holy Ninja Turtles rip-off, Batman!  A group of 'extreme' teens are turned into mutated creatures, but that doesn't stop them from having fun.  Naturally, the evil scientist wants them back, leading to a series of battles.  Throw some of those High School musical kids into it when their careers die a sad death (you all know it will happen) and this one is an easy sell.

 
6. Eek the Cat/Courage the Cowardly Dog: Two animals face constant terror for our laughter!  The cat lives a life full of pain and injury, all while pursuing a fat cat (literally, not metaphorically).  I'd say Bobcat Goldthwait- thoughts?  Courage is a dog who faces a slew of crazy terrors, including evil cats in submarines, sand whales and alien ducks with Liverpudlian accents.  Simon Pegg would class this one up for us Yanks, I think.

 
5. Dinosaucers: Aliens are dinosaurs?  This silly show sells you on the idea that good aliens (not the Autobots) join forces with kids to battle bad aliens (not the Decepticons).  Yes, it's lazy, but it has a hook.  The aliens are all humanoid dinosaurs!  Sold!

 
4. Silverhawks: Why not?  Aliens (I guess) in silver armor fly around and fight evil robots/aliens.  They have a bunch of gimmicks, including two of them being siblings, one of them being a robot...thing and another being a space cowboy with a guitar.  Yes, he wears a cowboy hat with his super space armor.  Throw Matthew McConaughey in some blue armor and Michael Ironside as the voice of the villain & you're in business!

 
3. Space Ghost: This is kind of obvious, huh?  Space Ghost is a superhero who teams up with two teens and a monkey to fight evil.  He flies, shoots lasers from his wrist and can turn invisible.  Of course, the real reason to make this film is to establish whether or not he is in fact a Space Man who choked on a pretzel or not!  Seriously though, put a bankable star (or Josh Brolin) in the lead and you've got yourself a movie.

 
2. Mummies Alive: This one almost writes itself!  Mummies are resurrected in present-day to protect their reincarnated Pharaoh.  Of course, these guys are no ordinary mummies!  They have super-armor, laser guns and one of them even flies.  Oded Fehr can't escape the Mummy franchise anyways, so get him to be the lead mummy.  I'd see that- wouldn't you?!?

 
1. Thundarr the Barbarian: I love this show- no joke!  In 1994, a comet passed between the Earth and the Moon, splitting the latter in half and stealing the Ozone Layer from the former.  This caused disasters worldwide and plunged humanity back into the Dark Ages.  The titular barbarian (that dude from Thor) teams up with a Princess (anyone but Megan Fox) and Ooklah the Mokk (Ken Kirzinger) to battle wizards, robots and mutants.  Make this movie- now!

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