Woody Woodpecker (2017)

Woody Woodpecker is the main protagonist of the critically panned 2017 film of the same name. Sadly, his character was badly butchered.

Why He Sucks
(NOTE: This will focus exclusively on the 2017 live-action film)


 * 1) He was flanderized from being a comedic slapstick animal into an unlikable sadist who makes everyone's life a living hell.
 * 2) * Woody may have been a mischievous screwball prankster in the original cartoons (especially in the earlier 1940s cartoons), but not to this extent of being malicious and sadistic, making this out of character for him.
 * 3) He wasted the talents of Eric Bauza, who voiced The Banana Splits, but unlike The Splits, Eric does not do a good job voicing Woody. Sorry, Eric, you're a good actor, but you don't do very well as Woody.
 * 4) He shows no remorse at all for making Vanessa and Lance break up. But then again, Vanessa was no better.
 * 5) He provides too much toilet humor as he farts out his signature laugh, poops on a guy's chocolate ice cream and the guy eats it (which, when he does, Woody is disgusted), and poops on Lance's girlfriend.
 * 6) He even strips two underage boys to their underwear and threatens to go further. This could be viewed as pedophilic.
 * 7) He never got any comeuppance for his actions.
 * 8) He is basically Jerry from Tom and Jerry, But if you take away everything likable about Jerry, you get Woody in a nutshell.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) He got better later on, even trying to help rebuild.
 * 2) To be fair, he didn't purposely cause the house to burn down.
 * 3) He is much more likable in all the other incarnations of the franchise, including the earlier 1990s version and the later 2018 version.

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