Marty26
05-02-2009, 12:26 AM
Well, curiosity got the best of me, and I watched Titanic: The Animated Musical in its entirety. The film is, of course, terrible but oh so entertaining to watch. Kind of like watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 rip on Manos: The Hands Of Fate (and I KNOW that, if they were still on the air, they would or would've eventually railed on this movie).
The opening credits alone are an indication of bad things to come. They basically look like the opening credits for one of those cheesy short-films you'd find at a Junior High School film festival. Once the movie's intro comes in, the first thing you'll notice is that the animation is quite poor. In fact, in many cases, the characters are just "talking heads." And let's not even get into those aerial shots of the Titanic (one of which looks like a cheap and totally out-of-place CG clip). Sometimes, the artstyle even changes at random points in the movie. Which makes you wonder if this whole film was produced on an animation assembly line. Even the camera work, which you'd think would be impossible to screw up with a cartoon, is awful. The voice dubs aren't any better. Angelica's is waaaaaaaaay over-acted, the mice can't seem to decide whether they're Mexican or French, and the less said about the Jeff Bridges-esque dog that catches those two thieves, the better.
The film basically has no real plot. You see a group of people boarding the Titanic, along with a crew of Mexican mice (it's never quite explained what those mice were doing in England, or is it explained why they're even boarding the Titanic, since it's technically supposed to be traveling to New York rather than Mexico). Angelica and Will exchange may be two sentences with each other and immediately fall in love (there's even a "flashback" chronicling all two times they've been together). And Angelica, despite only passively mentioning her mother, just randomly "finds her" on the Titanic. Don't expect any depth, chemistry, etc. Basically just a bunch of random actions between boarding the Titanic and the Titanic sinking (which, in and of itself, is pretty unexciting in this movie). The animals, meanwhile, serve little purpose in the film. Except one of the mice gives Angela here necklace back. Otherwise, they're completely useless. The ending is not only an obvious cop-out, but surprisingly happy being that 1500 people were just killed (oh, but as long as Angelica and Will got together, it doesn't matter!). And even though it's called an "animated musical", it has only about two or three songs in it. Oddly, that "Hold me" song is still being sung even as the ship is sinking.
And, of course, there's the character of all characters: The Rapping Dog (named Fritz). I think his rap number has already been pretty well lampooned, so I'll just say that aside from that, he's actually a pretty mundane character. Which, once again, begs the question of where that "rap" actually came from.
The moral of the story? Stay far away from this movie. Even though it's under 45 minutes, it's still a waste. An easy 0/10. And one of the worst films I've ever seen.
The opening credits alone are an indication of bad things to come. They basically look like the opening credits for one of those cheesy short-films you'd find at a Junior High School film festival. Once the movie's intro comes in, the first thing you'll notice is that the animation is quite poor. In fact, in many cases, the characters are just "talking heads." And let's not even get into those aerial shots of the Titanic (one of which looks like a cheap and totally out-of-place CG clip). Sometimes, the artstyle even changes at random points in the movie. Which makes you wonder if this whole film was produced on an animation assembly line. Even the camera work, which you'd think would be impossible to screw up with a cartoon, is awful. The voice dubs aren't any better. Angelica's is waaaaaaaaay over-acted, the mice can't seem to decide whether they're Mexican or French, and the less said about the Jeff Bridges-esque dog that catches those two thieves, the better.
The film basically has no real plot. You see a group of people boarding the Titanic, along with a crew of Mexican mice (it's never quite explained what those mice were doing in England, or is it explained why they're even boarding the Titanic, since it's technically supposed to be traveling to New York rather than Mexico). Angelica and Will exchange may be two sentences with each other and immediately fall in love (there's even a "flashback" chronicling all two times they've been together). And Angelica, despite only passively mentioning her mother, just randomly "finds her" on the Titanic. Don't expect any depth, chemistry, etc. Basically just a bunch of random actions between boarding the Titanic and the Titanic sinking (which, in and of itself, is pretty unexciting in this movie). The animals, meanwhile, serve little purpose in the film. Except one of the mice gives Angela here necklace back. Otherwise, they're completely useless. The ending is not only an obvious cop-out, but surprisingly happy being that 1500 people were just killed (oh, but as long as Angelica and Will got together, it doesn't matter!). And even though it's called an "animated musical", it has only about two or three songs in it. Oddly, that "Hold me" song is still being sung even as the ship is sinking.
And, of course, there's the character of all characters: The Rapping Dog (named Fritz). I think his rap number has already been pretty well lampooned, so I'll just say that aside from that, he's actually a pretty mundane character. Which, once again, begs the question of where that "rap" actually came from.
The moral of the story? Stay far away from this movie. Even though it's under 45 minutes, it's still a waste. An easy 0/10. And one of the worst films I've ever seen.