If studios know how to do one thing, it's stretch a franchise — even if it means making a cartoon out of a pretty adult film.

Animated and cartoon titles used to often be classic Disney and Saturday morning staples, or raunchy adult counterpoints. Though there was some common ground, it was sparse (and dependent on a kid’s ...

The concept of mixing real-life and cartoon characters in a hybrid comedy world has lost much of its novelty since 1988's "Roger Rabbit" established it as a mini-genre, but Joe Dante's inventive, ...