Wizards was just… weird. It didn’t make sense to me that there was a script writer out there who thought what they were writing actually made sense. Because it’s just a very strange mishmash of bad timing and incompletely thought out concepts. I very much got the vibe from it that it was written by someone who had burnt out on psycadelic drugs, and was triyng to make a go of things sober, with their destroyed mind.
My top pick for worst animated movie is one I only recently became aware of: Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School. None of the Scooby-Doo movies are particularly good, but this one is simply interminable. It’s like two hours in Hell, only it seems more like two years.
Other than that, I agree with many of the direct-to-video Disney sequels, which all seem to find stupid ways to rehash the plot of the first movie. Specifically:
Hunchback of Notre Dame II (continuing the madness!) Little Mermaid II Pocahontas II Cinderella II Lady and the Tramp II Lion King II The Jungle Book II (much as I love John Goodman, even he couldn’t save it) 101 Dalmatians II (the animated one, not live-action) Pooh’s Grand Adventure
Horrid, horrid, one and all. Bad animation, bad stories, bad ideas.
I will point out, however, that I thought that the sequal to Alladin (with Dan “Homer Simpson” Castalanetta as the voice of the genie) was adequate, and the third one (which again featured Robin Williams) was actually reasonably good.
Good Lord. The stuff being mentioned is Citizen Kane compared to
*The Fox and the Hound
Scoby Doo Goes Hollywood
Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island
Flintstones Go to France (or something like that)
Jetsons Movie
Pokemon: The Movie
Pokemon: 2000
Snoopy Come Home
Tom and Jerry and some Damn Sorcerer’s Ring
*
Well, I would like to note that “Little Mermaid II” is one of the few animated films that I can think of that features a caucasian female heroine who has black hair. That’s all I can say for it.
And Fox and the House…gads, that was a lousy movie.
Even if that Lion King article is true, so what? 10 similarities? That doesn’t account for all the material inbetween the similar scenes and it certainly doesn’t negate it being an amazing movie.
But you see, Duderdude2, when you do a remake or reinterpretation or an “inspired by” piece, you don’t then loudly wail and scream and swear you did not. And yes, it is a very good movie.
All I learned about gun safety I learned from Fox and the Hound…
Whatever crap Disney puts out as sequels, the problem is not the quality, but the expectations. Little Mermaid II is a piece of crap from Disney - poorly animated, lousy script. But it is still a work of art compared to the “Disney-esqe” rip offs you buy for $3.00 and other straight to video releases (and remember - Little Mermaid II was straight to video). You can get a ton of animated crap on tape.
Any Land Before Time movie after the first (gotta echo The Onion article that said something like “Land Before Time 4 released Straight to Landfill”), the new Scooby Doo movies with Scrappy in 'em, and *Twilight of the Cockroaches*.
Anything by Ralph Bakshi. His movies are technically strong, but there’s something in Bakshi’s worldview that’s just … rotten … and it corrupts all his films. And I’m a fan of hentai, so my sensibilities are hardly delicate.