Woody Woodpecker (2017)

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

Why He Was "A-A-A-Awful"
(NOTE: This will focus exclusively on the 2017 live-action film.)
 * 1) He was severely flanderized from being a comedic slapstick animal into an unlikable sadist who annoys and tortures Lance and his family and 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 characters like Stimpy, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, The Banana Splits, and a few others, but unlike those characters, Eric does not do a very good job voicing Woody.
 * 4) * His singing is very bad, unlike in the original cartoons, thanks to Eric Bauza's rather underwhelming voice performance as the character. This is very notable when Woody sings a pop rendition of his signature song "Everybody Thinks I'm Crazy" as originally heard in the Woody Woodpecker cartoon short "Woody Woodpecker" (1941).
 * 5) He is very poorly-animated in CGI to the point that it looks unbelievable for a Universal movie, even by 2017 standards.
 * 6) * To begin with, the lip-syncing for his speech is completely off-track, which is unbelievable and unacceptable for a major big-budget Hollywood feature film production.
 * 7) * When he flies, he seems to stretch strangely, and feathers often enter inside the character's head. Not to mention the animation that has been reused countless times.
 * 8) * In a scene from the movie, when Woody is poking Lance Walters in his bed at night, it looks like a Photoshop clipping too light for the scene, giving a very amateur touch to the animation.
 * 9) * In addition, not only does Woody fly, but floats in the air without flapping his wings.
 * 10) * On that topic, since none of the Woody Woodpecker cartoons' supporting cast whom are anthropomorphic animals like Wally Walrus, Buzz Buzzard, Chilly Willy or Andy Panda ever appear in his film, he is the only character in the entire film whom is computer-animated, hence making his appearance in an entire live-action-based environment look incredibly out-of-place in this film, not helping is the poor quality CGI animation used on the character as mentioned above.
 * 11) Some of his dialogue is incredibly poor and laughable as well, mainly due to how he tries too hard to be "hip" and "modernly" using outdated slang and bad marks, as well as references to pop culture. Such as when he outsmarts the hunters at the beginning "Okay boys, you got me fair and square. NOT!!!", or even when he calls Lance's son Tommy as his "BFF" which he refers to as his "Bringer Of Free Food".
 * 12) He shows no remorse at all for making Vanessa and Lance break up. But then again, Vanessa was not much better.
 * 13) He provides way too much toilet humor, something which is never found in any of his original cartoons, such as when 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.
 * 14) Most of the injuries that he conflicts on Lance and Vanessa in the film are more lifelike and hurtful rather than being cartoonish and funny, most notably the scene where he gets both of them covered in wet cement and getting their caravan house burned down, the latter being the reason why Vanessa decided to break up with Lance (see WIS #5).
 * 15) He even strips two underage boys to their underwear and threatens to go further with his infamous line "Get ready to go commando!". While this is meant to be funny, but instead it could be viewed as pedophilic.
 * 16) Because of his actions as described above, he comes off more like the main antagonist rather than the main protagonist of the film. Not helping is the fact that despite being called Woody Woodpecker, the first half of the film focuses on Lance and his son, and none of any of his animated co-stars like Wally Walrus or Buzz Buzzard appear in the film.
 * 17) He never got any comeuppance for his actions.
 * 18) The only reason why he stops abusing Lance and his family in this film is because they keep bribing him with his favorite peanut butter biscuit, which can convey a bad lesson about family and the environment and automatically cancels the film's lesson about tree felling.
 * 19) He is basically a bad combination of both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck from Looney Tunes and Jerry from Tom and Jerry, but without any of their likable traits.
 * 20) His design, while it closely resembles his modern character design from the early-1950s Walter Lantz cartoons, is made creepy because of his overly detailed eyes, especially in his green irises circling around his eyeballs.
 * 21) He is one of the main reasons why the 2017 live-action adaptation of Woody Woodpecker was very poorly received by critics and audiences alike.
 * 22) * Consequently, he even severely destroyed, damaged and ruined Woody Woodpecker's overall reputation as well, especially in Brazil where Woody is very popular over there, since his film was so poorly received critically and commercially there that it brought Woody's popularity in Brazil down to zero.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) He got better later on, even trying to help rebuild, only because they keep bribing him with peanut butter biscuits (see WIS #11).
 * 2) To be fair, he didn't purposely cause Lance's newly built blue house to burn down.
 * 3) He is much more likable in all the other incarnations of the franchise, including the earlier 1990s version.
 * 4) * He redeemed himself in the later 2018 version.
 * 5) His design is at least faithful to how it looks like in the cartoon.
 * 6) Eric Bauza at least did a good job at voicing him, even though the pitch of his voice shifted.