Okay, so maybe if I’d paid more attention to cartoon sites on the Internet I’d have known about these cartoons. But, looking through the IMDB, I’m amazed at what I’ve found: A New Fractured Fairy Tale (1999) – June Foray even does voices!
** Another Froggy Evening (1995) ** A Sequel to “One Froggy Evening”! Directed by Chuck Jones!!! Howcum I never heard of this before? Thumbelina – http://us.imdb.com/Title?0111419 Our 5-year-old daughter MilliCal had to clue us in on this one. Directed by Don Bluth, with songs and music by Barry Manilow, and a stable of voices that appeared in a lot of recent Disney hits. I don’t recall hearing about this one at all.
I remeber the review to thumbelinia on siskel and ebert , but it was in and out of the movies in a week or so
The video commericial played up the barry mainlow aspect but as many cheesy fairy tales or faux fairy tales that come out on video for kids most people shrug when a new one comes out
Perhaps it was buried out of mercy for Jone’s rep? It’s terrible.
A caveman finds Michigan J. Frog. He has visions of making $$$. Michigan won’t sing in public. Caveman, beaten, throws Michigan in a river(?).
Roman finds Michigan He has visions of making $$$. Michigan won’t sing in public. Roman, beaten, throws Michigan in a river(?).
Revolutionary war-era guy finds Michigan He has visions of making $$$. Michigan won’t sing in public. Revolutionary War-era guy, beaten, throws Michigan in a river(?).
Marvin Martian finds Michigan and sings a duet with him.
The end.
A prequel nobody wanted. A totally unnecessary celluloid.
You know a creator is out of ideas when they have nothing to contribute but the strip-mining of their earlier art.
The guy who reviewed **Another Froggy Evening ** for the IMDB really loved it. (He spoiled it, too). De Gustibus non disputandum est, but from what I’ve seen of his opinions on this Board, I suspect I’m more likely to agree with Fenris.
Another vote for AFE being bad, bad, bad. Saw it projected in a theater with other (older/better) WB shorts and the place was like a tomb for those painful 6-odd minutes.
Keep in mind, there’s not all that much to spoil. There’s three or four limp little repetitions of the original cartoon*, then Marvin shows up and sings with Michigan. :: Shrugs :: It’s not there’s a shock ending. Or even a punchline.
Fenris
*There’s a bit in Heinlein’s Moon is a Harsh Mistress where Manny is trying to explain to Mike (the sentient computer) how some jokes are “funny every time” and some jokes are “funny once” Most WB cartoons are “funny once”. Can you imagine how bad a sequel to “The Dover Boys at Pimento University” would be? :eek:
The Phox, The Box, and The Lox was released with the live-action Dudley Do-Right. Makes sense, as they’re both based on Wardian ideas.
Another Froggy Evening hasn’t seen the light of day over here, except for various screenings. I think you can request a screening of it when you visit Chuck Jones Film Productions. CJFP did a number of shorts in the late 1990s. Cartoon Network US doesn’t have the rights to them, though some have been released on video. The other shorts done were From Hare To Eternity, starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam (and dedicated to Friz Freling), Chariots of Fur, starring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pullet Surprise, starring Foghorn Leghorn and Pete Puma, and Superior Duck, starring Daffy Duck. I’ve only seen one of these, From Hare To Eternity, when Cartoon Network US showed it as part of the June Bugs marathon. Most of these shorts were released with live action WB movies. Jones’ last work before his death was a series of Internet cartoons, Timber Wolf, which featured Thomas T. Wolf, a wolf who tried to live his life in the forest while avoiding pesky hunter squirrels and the trees that would inevitably fall on him whenever he said his middle name-Timber.
Thumbelina was released with an Animaniacs short called I’m Mad. It fell to the same curse most of the recent Warner Bros. animated movies fell too-bad box office gross. Quest for Camelot, The Iron Giant, even the live-action/animation mix Osmosis Jones-they all never made the money Warner expected it to. This was before Dreamworks muscled in to be Number Two in the animation game. The Mouse is still on top, with The Ogre right behind…and The Rabbit dead last.