…Inspired by this thread, what would you consider to be the WORST ten animated films, ever made?
I’m very tired, so I can’t think of any suggestions myself. Sorry.
Leaving aside all the crap produced for toddlers with no pretensions to quality, my picks are:
[ul][]Yellow Submarine[]Heavy Metal[]Heavy Metal 2000[]Lord of the Rings[]Wizards[]Eight Crazy Nights[]Walt Disney’s Alice In Wonderland[]Fritz the Cat (Unless viewer is between the ages of 12 and 16, and has never actually read any Crumb.)[]The Jungle Book*[/ul]Sure it’s only nine. If it makes you feel any better, I’ll say Space Jam, although it wasn’t an animated film, strictly speaking. Still hurtful, though.
Just pick ten Disney d-t-v animated sequels at random.
The Care Bears movie.
Nuff said.
Anything I’ve seen by Ralph Bakshi:
Lord of the Rings
Wizards
Cool World
By Disney:
Robin Hood
Black Cauldron
By Don Bluth:
Anastasia (only because it’s so obviously rotoscoped)
By others:
Anything by Hanna Barbera that was forced into feature length.
It’s hard to come up with bad stuff as I block it out of my mind if possible.
In no particular order:
Gumby:TM
Fritz the Cat
Thumbelina
All dogs go to heaven
Sword in the Stone
Rock-A-Doodle
Pokemon:TM
X/1999
Yellow Submarine
Care Bears:TM
Dishonorable mentions:
Ferngully
HB Jetson,Flinstone TV movies
Treasure Planet
Heathcliff:TM
Cool World
Dinosaur
Oliver and Company
Johnny Appleseed
Good Memories, Bad Movies:
Goossens’ Asterix and Tin tin movies
The Black Cauldron
I’d have to disagree with Heavy Metal and Yellow Submarine.
Heavy Metal is a precursor to Liquid Television and the independent animation studios of today. It may not be especially amazing, but it is fairly historically significant. Also, the soundtrack rocked.
Yellow Submarine is, besides an inspired piece of psychadelia and pop culture, technically interesting, being animated based on rectangles and not circles and ovals like normal drawings. It also has direct influences on much modern post-anime drawings. See the Gorillaz music videos for a more direct example.
I’m also surprised so many people have such a low opinion of Yellow Submarine. Maybe it hasn’t aged well…did you guys see it recently, or years ago.
In addition to what E-Sabbath said about the animation some people have found the music to be timelessly classic.
that should be:
…did you guys see it recently, or years ago**?**
I saw it recently on DVD
As a period piece it may be interesting, heck, I could even call it a decent collection of music video’s but as a sum of it’s parts I consider it a bad movie. The story is slow, disjointed and the whole thing starts to drag after about 30 minutes.
Ahead of it’s time but a little too far back for me, I guess.
more or less everyone in the top 10 animated films will disagree, but I hated Toy Story 1 & 2. I turned the first one off after 30 minutes because it was bugging me, and against better judgement gave the 2nd one a try, and did the same after 15 mins. bad films IMO, although theres nothing wrong with the animation from an aesthetic POV.
oliver & co I hated too, when my mum took me to the cinema way back when. aside from that, i tend to like most cartoons/animated films. i’ll even watch Ferngully if its on.
I can’t believe these choices – many of these flicks were technically excellent, and the stories well told. Give me bad Disney over, say, The Last Unicorn anyday. I find Rankin-Bass (“Rank and Base”, I say) cel animation (as opposed to their dimensional animation) to be particularly bad, and The Hobbit and Return of the King are good examples. The Japanese/American co=production (under Sanrio, makers of “Hello Kitty”) Metamorphoses (aka Winds of Change is pretty bad, too, which is a shame. It coulda been great, and should have been – a re-telling of myths from Ovid, they had top animators lined up (some of whom worked on “Fantasia”), and a rock score by major talent. But it’s slow-moving and awful.
There were a lot iof foreign animated films dubbed into English and run at kiddie mayinees when I was little. Some of these might be relatively good, but the poor dubbing stays in my mind:
**Alakazaam the Great
The Adventures of Pinocchio Beyond the Moon ** (no fooling!)
Although it has a lot of great stuff in it (and the animation is top-notch), I have to admit that the generally depressing atmosphere of Bruno Bozzetto’s Allegro Non Troppo really got me down.
You haven’t seen truly bad animated movies until you’ve seen any animated movie that came out of the USSR. I was subjected to this crap by having the misfortune of living in a communist country, and truly, give me your Yellow Submarines, your Heavy Metals, your Pokemon. Ok, maybe not your Pokemons.
There’s nothing quite as bad as a bad amimated movie discussing the communist dialectic.
Both treasure Planet and the upcoming Brother Bear a great candidates for being the Waterworld of animated films.
Uninspired ideas, badly-written scripts, and boring overall, they were also expensive to make.
And then there’s the Lion King debacle.
Go here–
To read about some very shady stuff at the House Of Mouse.
Sure the USSR had it share of lousy (propoganda) animation but I have to speak up for russian animators like Norstein, Khitruk and Nazarov who have created some of the best (short) animation there is.
If Cool World counts as an animated feature, it’s up there.
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Sentou Yuusei Yukikaze. Don’t ask. Just don’t ask. shudders
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Any Warsaw Pact animation. Ever. Cheap animation–makes Pokemon or Clutch Cargo seem high-budget. Incoherent stories. Humor so far beyond “lame” as to render the Smurfs funny by comparison.
[Krusty]
“What the hell was THAT?”
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Spirit
Pocahontas
Beauty and the Beast
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
The Little Mermaid
Song of the South
Star Wars Episode Two
Star Wars Episode One
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Well, after reading Bosda’s links, I gotta put The Lion King near the top of my list.