Did anyone get what Delgo was supposed to be about? Apparently not because it had one of the worst opening weekends ever taking in 511, 920 in box office receipts. Freddie Prinze, Jr., must be having a heart attack. Or maybe he already saw it coming.

The frog-like things with leopard skin decorations failed to interest anyone and the economy is not to blame. If anything it was the marketing of the film.

When I saw the trailer I immediately hated the character designs. I can’t explain it and it’s not fair to say when you can’t pinpoint an exact reason–but I hated the character designs. And the story, only going by the trailer, seemed to be a hybrid of Romeo and Juliet mixed with Lord of The Rings and Narnia. A rehash of everything we are growing tired of.

The lack of interest might have to do with humanoid frogs being main characters in the first place. Plenty of testing should have been done to see if an audience could relate to them and if parents would take their kids to see them. The problem being that either you’re going to aim a 3d fantasy film at the kiddies or you’re going to take the riskier approach and go for sci-fi and fantasy adult fans.  If the producers were going for the adult fans they got it all wrong.

First of all we don’t want Freddie Prinze, Jr., as the hero. Just putting his name on a character waters down the personality to that of Fred from Scooby-Doo. And then Jennifer Love Hewitt? She has the same taint–sorry Ghost Whisperer fans but her talent is either crying or cleavage.

The only saving grace was Anne Bancroft who passed away before having to experience this bomb dropping.  

To be fair, if a movie bombs this badly it is not the actors fault but the marketing department. They failed to define the film in the minds of the public. If ticketgoers don’t know what they’re going to see, why are they going to pay to see it? Looking at the trailer you’ll feel the confusion already.

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