The makers of "Jem and the Holograms" (opening October 23) had their work cut out for them.
It's always challenging to turn a beloved old cartoon into a live-action movie. Will characters and universes that worked well in two dimensions look and feel better or worse in three? Will audiences too young to remember the cartoon even care?
Here are 10 movies that took on those challenges, with varying degrees of success.
Gary Susman has been covering movies and TV for more than 25 years and has been a Moviefone columnist since 2009. He is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, where he helped launch the award-winning PopWatch blog. He has written about entertainment for such outlets as Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, People, CNN, MSNBC, Life, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Boston Phoenix. He has been a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics since 1993. He is one of the authors of the 2011 book "LIFE 75 Years: The Very Best of LIFE."
