Shitty animated movies. - Showcasing lazily-written cash grabs with mediocre CGI and washed-up voice actors.
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I used to see this movie at the rental place when I was a kid. I never rented it however and thanks to YouTube I'm glad I could tell it was terrible back then.
I know im late and everything but for pure curiosity and why I'm a disgusting furry I decided watch the full thing on YouTube:
Was pretty harmless and normal.
The only thing what surprise me was what this wasn't a total rippoff of the lion king. The plot has more in common with "The man in the iron mask" or the "Pauper and the Prince" at being: vain lion king is replaced in the throne for his more generous poor brother.
I have too say what the only thing what this movie copies to Disney is what the villain in a nutshell is simply Hyena Jafar with parrot minion; has crush with the main female character and plains take over the kingdom over stupid monarch he serves.
Last complaint its the soundtrack: You remember that lame song in the beggining of the movie? Its basicly the only original melody in the damn movie! The rest is evey piece of classic music in the common domain you can imagine.
Personally with just a few changes here and there and extending the plot for 26 episodes of a cartoon instead of be a movie, this thing could had be a pretty decent show.
I have too say what the only thing what this movie copies to Disney is what the villain in a nutshell is simply Hyena Jafar with parrot minion; has crush with the main female character and plains take over the kingdom over stupid monarch he serves.
Last complaint its the soundtrack: You remember that lame song in the beggining of the movie? Its basicly the only original melody in the damn movie! The rest is evey piece of classic music in the common domain you can imagine.
Personally with just a few changes here and there and extending the plot for 26 episodes of a cartoon instead of be a movie, this thing could had be a pretty decent show.
There's that. Obviously had it been done as a TV show, it might've had potential, but again, this was the direct-to-video boom of the 90's when all sorts of 'copycat' kid vids were just popping out of the woodwork. I will say I also felt it had shades of "Prince & The Pauper" as well with the main lion having a brother who takes over his reign temporarily, though I also find it interesting how there's human hunters going after animals that are on the same sentient level as them too!
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Going by the cheap animation I can't say I'm really surprised. That song was probably 99% of their music budget and the money would've been better invested in the animation (not that it would've paid for a lot, mind).
It is odd whatever choices the producers made when it came to cranking these vids out (I can't think of a "Golden Films" effort that was any better, and I see they used a Korean outfit on this one).
Whoever behind these is still around, hocking these vids online through multiple platforms.
http://goldenfilmsmedia.com/
EDIT: Ironically the Wikepedia entry for a "Diane Eskenazi", founder of Golden Films, of which the site links to when you click it turns up with a blank entry!
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Sausage Party yet
Oh right, the movie that broke Null in the movie night we saw it in. Fun times.
But let's be honest, it is trying way too hard to be funny and outrageously disgusting at the same time.
While the original Miramax trilogy was surprisingly good, even though it had some flaws (and spawned some memes), The Legend Reborn's still a sack of donkey shit... even after ten years.
Fun Fact: this movie was made by the exact same people who brought you Foodfight!.
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Fun Fact: this movie was made by the exact same people who brought you Foodfight!.
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Had that film when growing up. A shame the franchise had to have this as their finale when it came to the animated movies.
I'll give them this, the animation's nowhere near as shitty as Foodfight, though that could be because they got the overseas studio from the original trilogy back for this one instead of attempting it themselves.
I'll give them this, the animation's nowhere near as shitty as Foodfight, though that could be because they got the overseas studio from the original trilogy back for this one instead of attempting it themselves.
Buckle up, fuckers. I'm fucking bored, so I'm watching all of my shitty bargain bin/dollarstore movies. I have over a dozen of them, so I'm not reviving this thread for nothing.
I'll start with the first of the two I've already watched: Trolland. Someone posted the trailer earlier in the thread. If you thought that was bad, then you'll hate the movie, because the rest of it is no better. The plot is kind of dumb, the lines don't sound natural, and the pacing is inconsistent. The real meat of the problem, though, is the animation. It makes the cutscenes in the recent Pokémon games look high-effort, when you put them next to this drawn-out animation error that they call a movie. The most noticable flaw would be how the characters appear to float above the grass instead of standing on the ground (it's hard to put in words, but you'll know what I'm talking about when you see it) - I'm pretty sure the forest they're in is just a video on the background layer while the 3d models of the characters are moved around on top of it, which is why their feet can't sink into the grass, or none of them can hide behind a tree. That being said,
the movie at least has a certain charm to it. It feels very genuine, like at least one person involved in the production actually tried (clearly not the animator). The same can't be said about the next one... I'm in the middle of watching yet another shitty CGI movie, so I'll type up something about them both once I finish. In the meantime, here's Trolland, if you feel like subjecting yourself to it: https://tubitv.com/movies/451637/trolland
I'm not 100% sure how this "Tubi" thing works, but I think it's free with ads.
the movie at least has a certain charm to it. It feels very genuine, like at least one person involved in the production actually tried (clearly not the animator). The same can't be said about the next one... I'm in the middle of watching yet another shitty CGI movie, so I'll type up something about them both once I finish. In the meantime, here's Trolland, if you feel like subjecting yourself to it: https://tubitv.com/movies/451637/trolland
I'm not 100% sure how this "Tubi" thing works, but I think it's free with ads.
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How about the Rankin/Bass adaptation of The Return of the King? The animation is... ok, but they really shit the bed on the plot and VA direction. Aragorn is in the movie maybe for thirty seconds, Denethor is portrayed as a cackling batshit insane old man, the Witch King of Angmar sounds exactly like Skeletor
And then there's this....
And then there's this....
God bless Brazil's ripoff animation industry. You died too soon Video Brinquedo, too soon.
They were also involved in a terrible Brazilian Power Rangers ripoff that only got 3 episodes. All of them are in YouTube too.
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I was made to shit through both this and their adaptation of The Hobbit when I was young. From this initial exposure I hated both The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Also I didn't understand the difference between orcs and goblins because of them.
You can imagine my dismay then in 5th grade when my teacher announced the next class book we'd be reading was The Hobbit. We didn't get very far before I was going "Oh my god! Why wasn't all this cool shit in the movie?!" A lot of people have nostalgia for their Hobbit adaptation, but really, an hour long movie made to the network TV broadcast standards of 1977 really didn't do the source material justice. Hell, the even their character designs weren't up to their usual animation standard.
Their Return of the King was definitely worse though, hands down.
WTF Man?! That's the best part of the whole movie! Not even kiddin' about that. Orcs marching to a full Disco song with a waka-chu-waka beat is as surreally irreverent to its source material as the Star Wars Holiday Special was to its source material. And it's damn catchy to boot...
That being said, I absolutely understand why people hate the Rankin-Bass LOTR TV specials. The Hobbit fared better of the two, because its source material was already aimed at kids, but the story suffered a lot of cuts, and even eliminated an important scene with the wood elves that the other characters alluded to on screen, leaving watchers confused about why the elves seemingly popped up out of nowhere. (Also confusing was the fact that the elves were green and looked like Keebler Elves or gremlins instead of the Tolkien elves that we're used to.) I will give the movie praise for using Tolkien's dialogue for Bilbo's confrontation with Smaug. That scene was genuinely terrifying (although it might have been more terrifying if Smaug hadn't looked like a deranged cat. Still, props for originality in dragon design.) I will also say that I love brother Theodore's voicework for Gollum. Andy Serkis was damned good in the role, but I found his Gollum voice to be a little too raspy for my tastes. Brother Theodore made his Gollum sound as if his every waking moment was pure agony, and his Gollum's froglike design made it seem as though his character had completely abandoned its humanity. I could believe that his Gollum was capable of killing and eating an unsuspecting Hobbit, even without the use of dirty tricks.
All in all, the Rankin Bass Hobbit is a decent adaptation of the story for kids, though it does lack much of the richness of the original story. (It also has technical problems so if you want to watch it, watch the remastered version on the Internet Archive as the DVD/VHS versions lack a lot of the sound effects.)
The Rankin Bass Return of the King is less defensible. It clearly was an adult story chopped up and presented for kids. Those who'd read the original books were probably just as confused as those who hadn't and the scenes at Mount Doom make it look as if Frodo (under control of the One Ring) is personally responsible for the death of King Theoden. Events in the plot get shuffled around to where the whole thing barely makes any sense. The Phial of Galadriel exists, but since we didn't get to see the scene where she gives it to Frodo, the movie has to conjure an explanation of it out of nowhere.
I would say that it's worth a watch, though. Not just for the Disco Orcs, but for the art and character design. The animation was done by Topcraft, a Japanese movie studio whose animators later went on to form Studio Ghibli. If you squint, you can see the proto beginnings of a Miyazaki heroine in the design and animation of Eowyn, and the scene where she confronts the WitchKing has some strong Tolkien dialogue. (It's sad that the Witch King looks and sounds like a Scooby Doo villain, and it's sad that we don't get to see more of Eowyn, as she's awesome.) The backgrounds were of high quality, and when I finally got around to reading the LOTR books, (years after I watched the cartoon,) the vision of Mordor presented in the Rankin Bass version was exactly as I pictured the place in my head. I also liked the version of Barad-dur presented in the Rankin Bass version. The Eye wasn't cartoony and it rested atop an uncannily high tower. The laser beam was a little too on the nose, but the whole thing had an unsettling appearance overall.
I thought Roddy McDowall and Orson Bean were good as Sam Gamgee and Frodo, and I'm happy that the film included a scene where Sam gets tempted by the One Ring. Dark Lord Samwise is absolutely adorable and it's funny to imagine the One Ring getting frustrated because it has absolutely nothing to tempt Sam with, he's so damned pure of heart. I also liked how Sam had a vision of the Orcs being redeemed and becoming friendly. Tolkien struggled with the idea of making the Orcs Always Chaotic Evil, and it's nice to think that, cut off from the influence of the Dark Lord, they might turn to the light and become just another race. It's nice that Merry and Pippin were actually easy to tell apart in this movie since Merry was portrayed as being much taller than the rest of the Hobbits. He was also voiced by Casey Kasem, which adds another layer of Seventies Cartoon Cheese to this already cheese-laden version of the story.
I wouldn't recommend any of the Rankin Bass Tolkien specials for purists, and they have problems aplenty, but they do have entertainment value, if only to see how strangely interpreted the source material can be. They also have that dark, Seventies grittiness and aren't afraid to scare children. That's a rare quality in entertainment these days.
All in all, the Rankin Bass Hobbit is a decent adaptation of the story for kids, though it does lack much of the richness of the original story. (It also has technical problems so if you want to watch it, watch the remastered version on the Internet Archive as the DVD/VHS versions lack a lot of the sound effects.)
The Rankin Bass Return of the King is less defensible. It clearly was an adult story chopped up and presented for kids. Those who'd read the original books were probably just as confused as those who hadn't and the scenes at Mount Doom make it look as if Frodo (under control of the One Ring) is personally responsible for the death of King Theoden. Events in the plot get shuffled around to where the whole thing barely makes any sense. The Phial of Galadriel exists, but since we didn't get to see the scene where she gives it to Frodo, the movie has to conjure an explanation of it out of nowhere.
I would say that it's worth a watch, though. Not just for the Disco Orcs, but for the art and character design. The animation was done by Topcraft, a Japanese movie studio whose animators later went on to form Studio Ghibli. If you squint, you can see the proto beginnings of a Miyazaki heroine in the design and animation of Eowyn, and the scene where she confronts the WitchKing has some strong Tolkien dialogue. (It's sad that the Witch King looks and sounds like a Scooby Doo villain, and it's sad that we don't get to see more of Eowyn, as she's awesome.) The backgrounds were of high quality, and when I finally got around to reading the LOTR books, (years after I watched the cartoon,) the vision of Mordor presented in the Rankin Bass version was exactly as I pictured the place in my head. I also liked the version of Barad-dur presented in the Rankin Bass version. The Eye wasn't cartoony and it rested atop an uncannily high tower. The laser beam was a little too on the nose, but the whole thing had an unsettling appearance overall.
I thought Roddy McDowall and Orson Bean were good as Sam Gamgee and Frodo, and I'm happy that the film included a scene where Sam gets tempted by the One Ring. Dark Lord Samwise is absolutely adorable and it's funny to imagine the One Ring getting frustrated because it has absolutely nothing to tempt Sam with, he's so damned pure of heart. I also liked how Sam had a vision of the Orcs being redeemed and becoming friendly. Tolkien struggled with the idea of making the Orcs Always Chaotic Evil, and it's nice to think that, cut off from the influence of the Dark Lord, they might turn to the light and become just another race. It's nice that Merry and Pippin were actually easy to tell apart in this movie since Merry was portrayed as being much taller than the rest of the Hobbits. He was also voiced by Casey Kasem, which adds another layer of Seventies Cartoon Cheese to this already cheese-laden version of the story.
I wouldn't recommend any of the Rankin Bass Tolkien specials for purists, and they have problems aplenty, but they do have entertainment value, if only to see how strangely interpreted the source material can be. They also have that dark, Seventies grittiness and aren't afraid to scare children. That's a rare quality in entertainment these days.
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After finishing "Dehli Safari" last night, I realized that, being literal PETA propaganda, I'd need a bit longer to collect my thoughts and write something up on it. However, in the meantime, here's a summary of "Easter Bunny Adventure", which I didn't even bother finishing (even though it was just background noise anyway)
Here's the fucking movie. Don't watch it. https://youtu.be/a1NzFG0Z67Q
I appreciate Trolland more after watching this. It sucks, but unlike this load of garbage, it can still be called an actual movie.
Edit: I still have many, many more shitty kids' movies to get through. Here's a bit of foreshadowing...
It's 3d cgi animals with some stock 2d clipart background. The Easter Bunny, with an incredibly annoying voice, is going on an adventure to find an "EXTWA-SPESHUW EASTEW EGG! WOOOOO HOOOOO!". He(?) brings along a chicken, because she'd naturally be an "egg expert" or whatever. Their """""adventure""""" takes them to Fairy-Tale Valley. You'd think, "oh, this must be interesting, it's a valley full of fairy-tale characters, right?"
WRONG.
It's just a few normal barnyard animals, who all know a few fairy-tales. Our pair of adventurers stops literally every single time they see anybody at all, asking them to tell them 2-3 stories. These stories are all old fables, with no effort made to edit them for kids. References to death, fancy words like "adorned" that nobody in the single-digit age bracket would know, calling donkeys "asses", it's obvious they clearly copied them word-for-word from whatever dusty old book they found them in. They don't even animate the stories - clip art of easter eggs rolls across the screen as whatever poor sap they demanded a story from tells it to them.
Every non-fairytale interaction in the movie (I'm not even sure if more than 2 such interactions exist) is incresibly drawn-out, to pad out the run time. I skipped ahrad to the ending, it's nothing special. He proclaims that he found the egg, and the camera pans over a hill with jelly beans and easter eggs. The end. Nobody put any effort into making this movie. I only paid $1 for this, yet I still feel ripped off.
WRONG.
It's just a few normal barnyard animals, who all know a few fairy-tales. Our pair of adventurers stops literally every single time they see anybody at all, asking them to tell them 2-3 stories. These stories are all old fables, with no effort made to edit them for kids. References to death, fancy words like "adorned" that nobody in the single-digit age bracket would know, calling donkeys "asses", it's obvious they clearly copied them word-for-word from whatever dusty old book they found them in. They don't even animate the stories - clip art of easter eggs rolls across the screen as whatever poor sap they demanded a story from tells it to them.
Every non-fairytale interaction in the movie (I'm not even sure if more than 2 such interactions exist) is incresibly drawn-out, to pad out the run time. I skipped ahrad to the ending, it's nothing special. He proclaims that he found the egg, and the camera pans over a hill with jelly beans and easter eggs. The end. Nobody put any effort into making this movie. I only paid $1 for this, yet I still feel ripped off.
I appreciate Trolland more after watching this. It sucks, but unlike this load of garbage, it can still be called an actual movie.
Edit: I still have many, many more shitty kids' movies to get through. Here's a bit of foreshadowing...
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I remember being genuinely fucking terrified of that damn film. That and Nimh
MysticMisty
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Was it the taffy pit scene? I remember it being very unsettling even with the taffy pit/monster singing (because of course he got a song too like everyone else). I mean, he was self-cannibalizing himself constantly. NIMH doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as it's actually quite good, however I found the scene with the tractor upsetting the first time I watched it. Classic Bluth was terrifying but beautiful and it was amazing. He respected that his young audience could handle what he threw at them, so long as there was a happy ending.
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