Personally, I think it boils down to a matter of audience sophistication. It feels like they assume that we need to be hit with a sledgehammer to be able to grasp a concept, or embrace an idea that might be outside of our comfort zone.
This is really rather unfortunate for us, because it means that OWI probably feels it has to test the waters before turning out anything more unfamiliar than a very well-rehearsed genre. The names, the idea, and the blatant hit-over-the-head message might be things they feel are necessary evils in order to get the clear for marketing anything more risky than that.
While I totally understand why Lorne Lanning would like to feel out the market before releasing anything Oddworld into Hollywood, I wish that we as a public audience would have come off a bit more favorably in his eyes. I know I can understand the disgust he has with the current government, but as I was discussing this with somebody the other day, we realized that, if this film is released in three years, the topic may not be as fresh as he had hoped it would be. Not only that, but you'd be alienating a good chunk of your potentially receptive audience.
I highly agree with the idea that somebody mentioned about the seriousness of the idea clashing with the sarcastic names. It worked so well for Oddworld because their entire culture was like that. Not only that, but it was funny because the mudokons seemed like they were just THAT thick that they could receive blatant advertising like that and only absorb the positive slogan out of it. (Hmm...sounds familiar...a culture that needs to be hit over the head with a message to understand it...)
So, yeah. My random collection of thoughts at 3 in the morning.
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