BEGINNING HIS LIFE as a backup feature in PEP COMICS # 22, dated December, 1941, ARCHIE had a meteoric rise in prominence and popularity. By November of 1942, there was an entire comic book of ARCHIE stories, with a seemingly endless line of titles*, an ARCHIE ANDREWS Radio Show and, much later, a succession of Animated Cartoons, all featuring the adventures of the teen-aged red head.
ALL OF THIS would surely seem phenomenal; which would certainly be an understatement extraordinaries. This is even more readily apparent when all of the elements that were in place at Young Mr. Andrews' conception and birth.
WHAT THE INCLUSION of a teen-age humorous strip in a Super Hero oriented anthology such as PEP was supposed to be as a filler, albeit a back-up with a purpose. Its look at teen-aged life and Love was combination Farce & Soap.
IT MAY WELL owe its very existence and direct lineage to the likes of THE ANDY HARDY movies and the HENRY ALDRICH Franchise; which stretched from the Broadway Stage, to the Radio Waves (later TV) and all the way to Hollywood. ARCHIE brought this teen genre to the comic book page and before long, to the Daily and Sunday Newspaper Comic Strips.
THE MOST POPULAR feature rode the top crest of comics for years; continuing right down to the present day. Largely unchanged, the strip is at once both a mirror of our world and an innovator to it.
NOW COMES THIS four minute movie "trailer"; actually a short (very short) film.
AS FAR AS production values go, the producer, director and the whole crew all get high marks. The sets, the color work and the casting is generally of more than adequate.
IT IS IN the selection, development and execution of the gags that are meant to lampoon the life of the citizens that we symbolically part company. The super-short subject has approximately 4 minutes and goes for the obvious and toss any smattering of the clever and originality down the drain.
INSTEAD, THE VIEWING audience, such as it may be, are left very much in every gag. They basically run the gambit by rapid fire dispatch of gags involving sex, narcotics, anabolic steroids, alcohol consumption, homosexuality, nymphomania and loud talking & giggling. (The last 2 are there to see if you're paying attention.)
IF ONE SERVES this up as the production team does here; that is with ample doses of sophomoric and juvenile attitudes, the end product will probably not be as well received as you had wished. How could it when you so obviously have such contempt for its source material.
NOTE * Comics Magazine Titles over the years seemed to be in-numerable. Some we remember, though certainly not all, would be: ARCHIE, PEP, LAUGH, JUGHEAD, BETTY & VERONICA, LITTLE ARCHIE, ARCHIE'S MADHOUSE, en ad infinitum................
ALL OF THIS would surely seem phenomenal; which would certainly be an understatement extraordinaries. This is even more readily apparent when all of the elements that were in place at Young Mr. Andrews' conception and birth.
WHAT THE INCLUSION of a teen-age humorous strip in a Super Hero oriented anthology such as PEP was supposed to be as a filler, albeit a back-up with a purpose. Its look at teen-aged life and Love was combination Farce & Soap.
IT MAY WELL owe its very existence and direct lineage to the likes of THE ANDY HARDY movies and the HENRY ALDRICH Franchise; which stretched from the Broadway Stage, to the Radio Waves (later TV) and all the way to Hollywood. ARCHIE brought this teen genre to the comic book page and before long, to the Daily and Sunday Newspaper Comic Strips.
THE MOST POPULAR feature rode the top crest of comics for years; continuing right down to the present day. Largely unchanged, the strip is at once both a mirror of our world and an innovator to it.
NOW COMES THIS four minute movie "trailer"; actually a short (very short) film.
AS FAR AS production values go, the producer, director and the whole crew all get high marks. The sets, the color work and the casting is generally of more than adequate.
IT IS IN the selection, development and execution of the gags that are meant to lampoon the life of the citizens that we symbolically part company. The super-short subject has approximately 4 minutes and goes for the obvious and toss any smattering of the clever and originality down the drain.
INSTEAD, THE VIEWING audience, such as it may be, are left very much in every gag. They basically run the gambit by rapid fire dispatch of gags involving sex, narcotics, anabolic steroids, alcohol consumption, homosexuality, nymphomania and loud talking & giggling. (The last 2 are there to see if you're paying attention.)
IF ONE SERVES this up as the production team does here; that is with ample doses of sophomoric and juvenile attitudes, the end product will probably not be as well received as you had wished. How could it when you so obviously have such contempt for its source material.
NOTE * Comics Magazine Titles over the years seemed to be in-numerable. Some we remember, though certainly not all, would be: ARCHIE, PEP, LAUGH, JUGHEAD, BETTY & VERONICA, LITTLE ARCHIE, ARCHIE'S MADHOUSE, en ad infinitum................