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Small Wilderness Dude! “A Goofy Movie” (1995)
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Aladdin (1992) - Renaissance
Based on the Middle Eastern folktale from One Thousand and One Nights. Character designs were inspired by caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld. Elements for Aladdin were taken from Tom Cruise and Calvin Klein models. Robin Williams voiced Genie and Gilbert Gottfried voiced Iago. "A Whole New World" is the only Disney song to receive a Grammy for Song of the Year. The film also got two Academy Awards.
A Goofy Movie (1995) - Renaissance
Produced by Disney MovieToons and Walt Disney Television Animation. Based on the Goof Troop series. R&B artist, Tevin Campbell sings for Powerline. Jim Cummings voices Pete. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck make a cameo during "On the Open Road." The film was originally set to be released Thanksgiving 1994, but the monitor used to capture the animation had a dead pixel, so ¾ of it had to be recaptured. Domee Shi (director of Turning Red) said she was inspired by A Goofy Movie. (This poll runner also has a big soft spot for it. Although I don't expect it to beat Aladdin 😭)
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Tracking a Post-Walt Top 10 Box Office, Part 2
Part 2... Now looking at the animated movie grosses from 1998-2002... Here is the link to Part 1:
1998
The Lion King - $768m
Aladdin - $504m
A Bug's Life - $363m (NEW)
Toy Story - $362m
Pocahontas - $346m
Beauty and the Beast - $331m
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - $329m
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - $325m
Mulan - $304m (NEW)
Hercules - $252m
1998 is an overlooked year in feature animation, I think. While the early years of Disney's Renaissance (and the 2nd Golden Age of Animation in general) are prominent in discussion of this period in animation, it's worth noting that only Disney was succeeding. After his successes with Steven Spielberg, Don Bluth and his studio had a hard time finding hits with releases like All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-a-Doodle, and Thumbelina. Other distributors wanted in on animation, and found themselves making mere fractions of what Disney was easily collecting with nearly every new release of theirs. Whenever Disney didn't go big, they didn't collect much, either. (See: Feature Animation's The Rescuers Down Under, alongside MovieToons' DuckTales the Movie and A Goofy Movie.) There was very little in-between, either your animated movie was some kind of blockbuster or it made less than $40 million domestically. One notable exception here was The Nightmare Before Christmas, an offbeat production released through Disney’s “adult” Touchstone label. (Years later, due to its popularity, it has comfortably been rebranded as a Walt Disney Pictures endeavor. Believe it or not, that was the intention early on.)
Not only does Pixar's sophomore effort crack the Top 3 and Disney Feature has a slight rebound from Hercules with Mulan, but you also had a few notable entries outside the Top 10 that weren't from Disney: DreamWorks' double-debut of Antz ($171m worldwide) and The Prince of Egypt ($218m worldwide), and Paramount/Nickelodeon's TV-based hit The Rugrats Movie ($140m worldwide, first non-Disney release animated movie to crack $100m domestically). I feel that DreamWorks' success in particular showed that someone could share the space with big bad Disney in a post-Don Bluth world. Disney used to outright murder competition or at least attempt to do so (just ask The Swan Princess and Anastasia), here comes an animation studio from one of their former moguls with a chip on his shoulder... History made.
1999
The Lion King - $768m
Aladdin - $504m
Toy Story 2 - $485m (NEW)
Tarzan - $441m (NEW)
A Bug's Life - $363m
Toy Story - $362m
Pocahontas - $346m
Beauty and the Beast - $331m
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - $329m
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - $325m
And here we see Pixar really rising, not only making the first animated feature sequel that surpasses its predecessor at the box office, but also landing in the Top 3 once more, second only to those two Disney mega-hits of the early 1990s. Disney Feature scores their highest gross since Aladdin with Tarzan. Other than Toy Story 2 and Tarzan, 1999 was a sadly dry year, box office-wise. Outside of the Pokemon movie's notable success here, we saw Warner Bros. dump The Iron Giant while other films simply just come and go. The only other notable performance was the South Park movie, which collected a decent gross for a TV-show based animated feature, like Beavis and Butt-Head Do America before it.
2000
The Lion King - $768m
Aladdin - $504m
Toy Story 2 - $485m
Tarzan - $441m
A Bug's Life - $363m
Toy Story - $362m
Dinosaur - $349m (NEW)
Pocahontas - $346m
Beauty and the Beast - $331m
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - $329m
Only one movie cracks the Top 10 here, and a Disney hybrid spectacle kind of movie at that. However, this was also the year Aardman's Chicken Run (co-produced by, and released in the US by DreamWorks) became the domestic champion for a non-Disney release animated feature, and it also cracked $200 million worldwide. Great for a feature with its reasonable budget, for a stop-motion film, and for a non-Disney, even if it didn't make it into the Top 10. Otherwise? Most of the animated movies released in 2000 straight up bombed: Fantasia 2000, Titan A.E., The Road to El Dorado, The Emperor's New Groove, etc.
2001
The Lion King - $768m
Monsters, Inc. - $529m (initial release) (NEW)
Aladdin - $504m
Toy Story 2 - $485m
Shrek - $484m (NEW)
Tarzan - $441m
A Bug's Life - $363m
Toy Story - $362m
Dinosaur - $349m
Pocahontas - $346m
So now we have an animated feature that topped Aladdin and sits nicely in 2nd place, nearly a decade after that film was first released, and it was none other than the latest Pixar film. It looked like Pixar was seeing an upward climb, up a mountain of momentum, much in the same way Disney was in the early 1990s. Then you have DreamWorks' Shrek, a fairly edgy comedy that seems to scratch the itch of audiences who had gotten tired of Disney Feature Animation's way of telling stories - both familiar and unfamiliar (their action-adventure Atlantis: The Lost Empire bombed this same summer), in addition to just about everything else, even DreamWorks' own efforts. Pretty historic duo, and DreamWorks proves with this CG comedy that they are likely here to stay, despite some earlier struggles.
2002
The Lion King - $783m (2002 re-release total added)
Monsters, Inc. - $529m
Aladdin - $504m
Toy Story 2 - $485m
Shrek - $484m
Tarzan - $441m
Ice Age - $383m (NEW)
A Bug's Life - $363m
Toy Story - $362m
Beauty and the Beast - $362m (2002 re-release total added)
The new competitor, Blue Sky Studios, jumps right into the ring nicely with Ice Age, while re-release totals are added to the then-current record holder, and another as well. But the question remains, will The Lion King finally be topped?
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90 Movies in 90 Days: A Goofy Movie (1995)
Every day until March 31, 2024 I will be watching and reviewing a movie that is 90 minutes or less.
Title: A Goofy Movie
Release Date: April 7, 1995
Director: Kevin Lima
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures | Disney MovieToons | Walt Disney Television Animation
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There have been numerous cultural touchstones of the Millennial Generation that I initially missed out on by being a…
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This is what Disney Toon Studios HQ look like today after their shutdown in June 2018. it seems that Disney plans to make it the third studio for Disney Television Animation
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List of Disney Films
From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to our latest box-office smashes, here’s a complete list of Disney films. Click here find out more about all things Disney-from A to Z.

1. 1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (G)
2. 1940: Pinocchio (G)
3. 1940: Fantasia (G)
4. 1941: The Reluctant Dragon
5. 1941: Dumbo (G)
6. 1942: Bambi (G)
7. 1943: Saludos Amigos
8. 1943: Victory Through Air Power
9. 1945: The Three Caballeros (G)
10. 1946: Make Mine Music
11. 1946: Song of the South (G)
12. 1947: Fun and Fancy Free
13. 1948: Melody Time
14. 1949: So Dear to My Heart (G)
15. 1949: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (G)
16. 1950: Cinderella (G)
17. 1950: Treasure Island (PG)
18. 1951: Alice in Wonderland (G)
19. 1952: The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (PG)
20. 1953: Peter Pan (G)
21. 1953: The Sword and the Rose (PG)
22. 1953: The Living Desert
23. 1954: Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue
24. 1954: The Vanishing Prairie
25. 1954: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (G)
26. 1955: Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (PG)
27. 1955: Lady and the Tramp (G)
28. 1955: The African Lion
29. 1955: The Littlest Outlaw
30. 1956: The Great Locomotive Chase
31. 1956: Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
32. 1956: Secrets of Life
33. 1956: Westward Ho the Wagons!
34. 1957: Johnny Tremain
35. 1957: Perri (G)
36. 1957: Old Yeller (G)
37. 1958: The Light in the Forest
38. 1958: White Wilderness
39. 1958: Tonka
40. 1959: Sleeping Beauty (G)
41. 1959: The Shaggy Dog (G)
42. 1959: Darby O’Gill and the Little People (G)
43. 1959: Third Man on the Mountain (G)
44. 1960: Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (G)
45. 1960: Kidnapped
46. 1960: Pollyanna (G)
47. 1960: The Sign of Zorro
48. 1960: Jungle Cat
49. 1960: Ten Who Dared

50. 1960: Swiss Family Robinson (G)
51. 1961: One Hundred and One Dalmatians (G)
52. 1961: The Absent-Minded Professor (G)
53. 1961: The Parent Trap
54. 1961: Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (G)
55. 1961: Greyfriars Bobby
56. 1961: Babes in Toyland
57. 1962: Moon Pilot
58. 1962: Bon Voyage
59. 1962: Big Red
60. 1962: Almost Angels
61. 1962: The Legend of Lobo (G)
62. 1962: In Search of the Castaways (G)
63. 1963: Son of Flubber (G)
64. 1963: Miracle of the White Stallions
65. 1963: Savage Sam
66. 1963: Summer Magic
67. 1963: The Incredible Journey (G)
68. 1963: The Sword in the Stone (G)
69. 1963: The Three Lives of Thomasina (PG)
70. 1964: The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (G)
71. 1964: A Tiger Walks
72. 1964: The Moon-Spinners (PG)
73. 1964: Mary Poppins (G)
74. 1964: Emil and the Detectives
75. 1965: Those Calloways (PG)
76. 1965: The Monkey’s Uncle
77. 1965: That Darn Cat! (G)
78. 1966: The Ugly Dachshund
79. 1966: Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.(G)
80. 1966: The Fighting Prince of Donegal
81. 1966: Follow Me, Boys! (G)
82. 1967: Monkeys, Go Home!
83. 1967: The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
84. 1967: The Happiest Millionaire (G)
85. 1967: The Gnome-Mobile (G)
86. 1967: The Jungle Book (G)
87. 1967: Charlie, The Lonesome Cougar
88. 1968: Blackbeard’s Ghost (G)
89. 1968: The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
90. 1968: Never a Dull Moment (G)
91. 1968: The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
92. 1969: The Love Bug (G)
93. 1969: Smith!
94. 1969: Rascal
95. 1969: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
96. 1970: King of the Grizzlies (G)
97. 1970: The Boatniks (G)

98. 1970: The Aristocats (G)
99. 1971: The Wild Country (G)
100. 1971: The Barefoot Executive (G)
101. 1971: Scandalous John (G)
102. 1971: The $1,000,000 Duck (G)
103. 1971: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (G)
104. 1972: The Biscuit Eater (G)
105. 1972: Napoleon and Samantha (G)
106. 1972: Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (G)
107. 1972: Run, Cougar, Run (G)
108. 1972: Snowball Express (G)
109. 1973: The World’s Greatest Athlete (G)
110. 1973: Charley and the Angel (G)
111. 1973: One Little Indian (G)
112. 1973: Robin Hood (G)
113. 1973: Superdad (G)
114. 1974: Herbie Rides Again (G)
115. 1974: The Bears and I (G)
116. 1974: The Castaway Cowboy (G)
117. 1974: The Island at the Top of the World (G)
118. 1975: The Strongest Man in the World (G)
119. 1975: Escape to Witch Mountain (G)
120. 1975: The Apple Dumpling Gang (G)
121. 1975: One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (G)
122. 1975: The Best of Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures (G)
123. 1976: Ride a Wild Pony (G)
124. 1976: No Deposit, No Return (G)
125. 1976: Gus (G)
126. 1976: Treasure of Matecumbe (G)
127. 1976: The Shaggy D.A. (G)
128. 1977: Freaky Friday (G)
129. 1977: The Littlest Horse Thieves (G)
130. 1977: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (G)
131. 1977: The Rescuers (G)
132. 1977: Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (G)
133. 1977: Pete’s Dragon (G)
134. 1978: Candleshoe (G)
135. 1978: Return from Witch Mountain (G)
136. 1978: The Cat from Outer Space (G)
137. 1978: Hot Lead and Cold Feet (G)
138. 1979: The North Avenue Irregulars (G)
139. 1979: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (G)
140. 1979: Unidentified Flying Oddball (G)
141. 1979: The Black Hole (PG)
142. 1980: Midnight Madness (PG)
143. 1980: The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark (G)
144. 1980: Herbie Goes Bananas (G)
145. 1981: The Devil and Max Devlin (PG)
146. 1981: Amy (G)
147. 1981: The Fox and the Hound (G)
148. 1981: Condorman (PG)
149. 1981: The Watcher in the Woods (PG)
150. 1982: Night Crossing (PG)

151. 1982: Tron (PG)
152. 1982: Tex (PG)
153. 1983: Trenchcoat (PG)
154. 1983: Something Wicked This Way Comes (PG)
155. 1983: Never Cry Wolf (PG)
156. 1984: Splash (Touchstone) (PG)
157. 1984: Tiger Town (G)
158. 1984: Country (Touchstone) (PG)
159. 1985: Baby…Secret of the Lost Legend(Touchstone) (PG)
160. 1985: Return to Oz (PG)
161. 1985: The Black Cauldron (PG)
162. 1985: My Science Project (Touchstone) (PG)
163. 1985: The Journey of Natty Gann (PG)
164. 1985: One Magic Christmas (G)
165. 1986: Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Touchstone) (R)
166. 1886: Off Beat (Touchstone) (R)
167. 1986: Ruthless People (Touchstone) (R)
168. 1986: The Great Mouse Detective (G)
169. 1986: Flight of the Navigator (PG)
170. 1986: Tough Guys (Touchstone) (PG)
171. 1986: The Color of Money (Touchstone) (R)
172. 1987: Outrageous Fortune (Touchstone) (R)
173. 1987: Tin Men (Touchstone) (R)
174. 1987: Ernest Goes to Camp (Touchstone) (PG)
175. 1987: Benji the Hunted (G)
176. 1987: Adventures in Babysitting (Touchstone) (PG-13)
177. 1987: Stakeout (Touchstone) (R)
178. 1987: Can’t Buy Me Love (Touchstone) (PG-13)
179. 1987: Hello Again (Touchstone) (PG)
180. 1987: Three Men and a Baby (Touchstone) (PG)
181. 1987: Good Morning, Vietnam (Touchstone) (R)
182. 1988: Shoot to Kill (Touchstone) (R)
183. 1988: D.O.A. (Touchstone) (R)
184. 1988: Return to Snowy River (PG)
185. 1988: Big Business (Touchstone) (PG)
186. 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Touchstone) (PG)
187. 1988: Cocktail (Touchstone) (R)
188. 1988: The Rescue (Touchstone) (PG)
189. 1988: Heartbreak Hotel (Touchstone) (PG-13)
190. 1988: The Good Mother (Touchstone) (R)
191. 1988: Ernest Saves Christmas (Touchstone) (PG)
192. 1988: Oliver & Company (G)
193. 1988: Beaches (Touchstone) (PG-13)
194. 1989: Three Fugitives (Touchstone) (PG-13)
195. 1989: New York Stories (Touchstone) (PG)
196. 1989: Disorganized Crime (Touchstone) (R)
197. 1989: Dead Poets Society (Touchstone) (PG)
198. 1989: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (PG)
199. 1989: Turner & Hooch (Touchstone) (PG)
200. 1989: Cheetah (G)
201. 1989: An Innocent Man (Touchstone) (R)
202. 1989: Gross Anatomy (Touchstone) (PG-13)

203. 1989: The Little Mermaid (G)
204. 1989: Blaze (Touchstone) (R)
205. 1990: Stella (Touchstone) (PG-13)
206. 1990: Where the Heart Is (Touchstone) (R)
207. 1990: Pretty Woman (Touchstone) (R)
208. 1990: Ernest Goes to Jail (Touchstone) (PG)
209. 1990: Spaced Invaders (Touchstone) (PG)
210. 1990: Fire Birds (Touchstone) (PG-13)
211. 1990: Dick Tracy (Touchstone) (PG)
212. 1990: Betsy’s Wedding (Touchstone) (R)
213. 1990: Arachnophobia (Hollywood Pictures) (PG-13)
214. 1990: Ducktales: the Movie, Treasure of the Lost Lamp (Disney Movietoons) (G)
215. 1990: Taking Care of Business (Hollywood Pictures) (R)
216. 1990: Mr. Destiny (Touchstone) (PG-13)
217. 1990: The Rescuers Down Under (G)
218. 1990: Three Men and a Little Lady (Touchstone) (PG)
219. 1990: Green Card (Touchstone) (PG-13)
220. 1991: White Fang (PG)
221. 1991: Run (Hollywood Pictures) (R)
222. 1991: Scenes from a Mall (Touchstone) (R)
223. 1991: Shipwrecked (PG)
224. 1991: The Marrying Man (Hollywood Pictures) (R)
225. 1991: Oscar (Touchstone) (PG)
226. 1991: One Good Cop (Hollywood Pictures) (R)
227. 1991: What About Bob? (Touchstone) (PG)
228. 1991: Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (G)
229. 1991: The Rocketeer (PG)
230. 1991: The Doctor (Touchstone) (PG-13)
231. 1991: V. I. Warshawski (Hollywood Pictures) (R)
232. 1991: True Identity (Touchstone) (R)
233. 1991: Paradise (Touchstone) (PG-13)
234. 1991: Deceived (Touchstone) (PG-13)
235. 1991: Ernest Scared Stupid (Touchstone) (PG)
236. 1991: Billy Bathgate (Touchstone) (R)
237. 1991: Beauty and the Beast (G)
238. 1991: Father of the Bride (Touchstone) (PG)
239. 1992: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Hollywood Pictures) (R)
240. 1992: Medicine Man (Hollywood Pictures) (PG-13)
241. 1992: Blame It On The Bellboy (Hollywood Pictures) (PG-13)
242. 1992: Noises Off (Touchstone) (PG-13)
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Ducktales: The Treasure of the Lost Lamp Movie Reviewcap! (Patreon Stretch Goal)
Hello all you happy people! And we have a special review today for two reasons. The first is that this is my second patreon stretch goal review, having hit the 15 dollar goal back in march thanks to my wonderful friend Emma, the same patreon whose responsible for the Green Eggs and Ham Reviews, who helped me hit the 15 dollar goal. As a result you fine people are getting three movie reviews each based on a Disney Afternoon Movie with Treasure of the Lost Lamp today, a goofy movie at the end of the motnh for a weeklong tribute to my favorite dogmandadguy. Extremley was going to be part of it but the length of this review convinced me otherwise, but I will be doing it this summer so keep an ear out. If you want to help me hit my next stretch goals do yourselve a favor and zip on over to my patreon YOU CAN FIND MY PATREON HERE. My next stretch goal at “OH Look 20 Dollars” would give everyone patreon and not, a monthly review of Darkwing Duck as decided by my patrons, reviews of BOTH season 2 mini series from Ducktales 87, introducing Fenton to the world and blighting it with Bubba before the 2017 series fixed him, and as a brucey bonus added last month a review of Danny Phantom the Ultimate Enemy. And if that wasn’t enough if you help me get to the goal after that at 25 unlocks another trilogy of disney film reviews, this time for the proud family and recess movie and the best kim possible movie, and dcom period, so the drama as well as Bryan Lee O’ Malley’s two stand alone graphic novels, lost at sea and seconds for you Scottaholics in the audience.
The other reason now the shilling’s done. is that the plan WAS to review this back to back with Treasure of The Found Lamp, to the point the orginal review had a whole thing about that, why it was delayed etc... but now that review’s been scrapped all together as something sudden and wonderful happened. After just kinda giving up someone came through with a translation of Della’s first apperance so presumibly i’ll be doing that as part of the build up to mother’s day, and since I still want ot do maternal instincts too, and already had to let the Floyd Gottfredson birthday special slide away as well... it had to go as I want to leave the only open space on the schedule for the lovely person who found the story for me. But this review is still done, i’m very proud of it so join me under the cut won’t you?
Behind The Scenes:
Before I get into it i’d just like to note this article from SyFy Wire. It , along with articles I found via wikipedia citations, was an invaluable resource.
The film was an experiment: It was an experiment to see if one of their tv properties could bring in theatrical money, to see if a movie made on a cheaper budget and still rake in decent money, to see if a film could be made being outsourced to several diffrent places, and to see what one of those places, their recently aquiried french stuido, could handle this kind of work.
The film, if succesful would be the first of Disney’s MovieToons line, a series of films based on their shows. As you can tell by the fact only this movie and Goof Troop happened and the Movie Toons label wasn’t applied to that one it very much failed. While the film was warmly recevied by people who liked the show general audiences didn’t turn out for it. As a result the MovieToons label was scrapped, future projects with it were canceled.. but the stellar work put in by the french stuidio lead to it perserviering for several more decades and lead to them working on the Goofy Movie, which we’ll get to later this month but needless to say was a MUCH bigger hit with a much bigger budget.
As for why the film failed... I have two theories. THe first is that parents were stupid back then and didn’t want to pay to see something on the big screen they could see on tv’s. This is a stupid mentality to me as generally a movie of a tv show puts in a ton of extra effort and usually goes bigger and dosen’t go home. It’s a likely theory given most liscened films of the era didn’t do quite well, with all three hasbro films tanking. And look I get Transformers the Movie is cheesy and killed a lot of people’s childhood toys, but damn if it ain’t aweosme.. and also something I need to cover at some point. Thankfully this died out by later in the 90′s with Rugrats getting a hugely succesful if flawed film, a better sequel and a third one that was also a crossover with the wild thornberries.
And even now in 2020 we’re getting the Loud House and Rise of the TMNT movies sometimes this summer, we were SUPPOSED to have gotten the bobs burgers movie this summer but arne’t because Disney is being a dick about it.
And we got a phineas and ferb movie last year. With this trend hopefully thsi means we’ll get a Ducktales 2017 movie at some point since season 4 left a huge sequel hook laying right there to grab for a feature film.
One final note: The film was conceptually thought up as a 5 part serial like “Treasure of the Golden Suns”, “Catch as Cash Can”, “SuperDucktales” and “Time is Money, something that DOES show as the movie weirdly has act breaks. In a feature film. Yup.
The Guest Cast:
I won’t go into the full cast since I’ve sung Alan Young and Russi Taylor’s praises PLENTY on this blog before, and I plan to go into Beakly and Launchpad’s actors when they show up in the pilot movie. But i’d be remiss if i didn’t talk about our three guest actors for our three new parts.
First up is Merlock voiced by legend and if I had a hall of fame, hall of famer Christopher Lloyd.. I need to get me one of those. Lloyd is of course known for playing Doc Brown in back to the future but has done countless other films, voicework, and other good stuff. Among his MASSIVE filmography includes The Back to the Future Trilogy (Already mentioned it but it bears repeating), Star Trek III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the pants destroyingly terrifying Judge Doom, The Addams Family duology as fester, a role rip torn would ironcially play for the animated series made to captalize on said movie, Hey Arnold! The Movie, The Oogieloves in The Big Ballon Adventure (Look everybody needs money sometimes okay?), and Art of the Deal: The Movie, which was not, thankfully an ego filating nightmare made by trump himself but a film made by funny or die parodying his terrible book and having Llloyd return as Doc Brown. TV Wise he’s known for Taxi, Back to the Future the Animated Series, Cyberchase and he most recently popped up on Big City Greens. How I missed that ep I.. do know as I haven’t watched season 2. Gonna fix that later this month. Lloyd is utterly awesome, a great guy and thankfully still alive at the time of this writing, so I was happy to have him here.
Less familiar to me but still known is Rip Taylor, a comedian known for his flamboyant unique way of speech and his marvelous mustache. He showed up in things occasionally and always seemed like the nicest guy and his passing in late 2019 truly is sad. He does a terrific job here but more on that in a moment.
Finally we have Richard Libertini, a comedian I never really saw in anything besides this who according to IMDB was most famous for his ablility to do a foreign accent. I REALLY hope all of them aren’t as horribly racist as this one. We’ll.. get to that in a sec as it’s time for the plot!
A Treasure Uncovered:
We open our film gorgeously. The animation is great in the film, having some rough edges I chalk up to the film’s hectic production, the studio being new at working at disney properties, and the film not being meant for HD. That being said a few rough spots here and there aside.. the film looks ungodly gorgeous. Like most theatrical films based on a cartoon it takes an already great style and makes it look great. It feels like a more fluid evolution of the cartoons look and it’s a shame we didn’t get more movies in this style for both this show and others, ESPECIALLY Darkwing Duck. Can you imagine a Darkwing Duck movie with this lush animation? Hopefully we’ll get one eventually.
So our heroes are going to somewhere in the Middle East. That’s.. that’s all wikipedia gives me and all the film gives me. As usual Scrooge is after treasure in this case the Treasure of Collie Baba, the greatest thief there ever was based obviously off Ali Baba from 1001 nights and that one Beastie Boys song.
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It’s here we find the WORST thing about the film, the thing that makes this a hard one to watch depsite otherwise being pretty good, and that makes my skin crawl knowing i’m a white man and a BUNCH of white guys, Ducktales series creator who did the voice casting for this character, the writers who wrote him, the direector disney them fucking selves who thought this was okay.
The film has some horrible steroytping. It starts with a bunch of backgorund guys surronding Scrooge, with crooked teeth and steotypical voices. This on it’s own is odious.
It somehow gets worse. Then we meet one of our antagonists. We meet Dijon.
This Fucking Guy
Djon is horribly offensive reminding me of other such luminaries in being ungodly offensive yet somehow getting put to film as Jar Jar Binks (With all respeect to his poor actor Ahmed Best, this is not his fault), Rob Schinder as a Sterotypically asian preist, Skids and Mudflap, Rob Schinder as a sterotypically mexican bandit, The Whitewashed cast of The Last Airbender, and Rob Schinder as a stereotypically asian preist. What i’m saying is Djon is an AWFUL, horribly offensive character.. and that Rob Schinder should be shot up into space, not to watch cheesy movies, he’s not funny enough for that, but instead to be sent to a satlitie that’s liveable, but also filled to the brim with spring loaded boxing gloves. Just tons of boxing gloves that feel like getting punched by a heavewight boxer all hidden... they could hit his legs, his face, his nuts, his face and his nuts, the point is he’s in constnat pain unless he moves carefully.
And lest you think i’m exaggerating for starters this is his design.
It just screams “vaugely but sterotpyically middle eastern” along with cowardly. The fact he’s also a literal rat is just the icing on the cake made of broken glass, shrapnel and broken DVD’s of Transformers; Revenge of the Fallen. They say if you eat a reveng eof the fallen dvd John Tutoro appears at the foot of your bed and watches you while you sleep.. and by they I mean me. It was a bad bet. I got rid of him with some insese and a bribe of five dollars.
Oh but that’s just design.. when he talks it’s MUCH worse. His voice is like if they took Apu from the simpsons and said “This but MORE offensive”, and his perosnality is WORSE. He’s a thief.. and not in the endearing loveable rogue way but he’s a pick pocket and a running “Gag’ is that he’ll often grab eveyrthing within reahc. As the deisgn shows he’s a coward running at every opportunity. Oh and to top it all off he’s the willing servant of the white coded, given all ducks in this series are white coded and voiced bby white actors, big bad. And the actor is naturally VERY white to make this cocktail of offensivness so complete that if Disney ever got rid of this film I GUARANTEE the republcian party would be running in with accusations of cancel culture gone amok and never shutting up about this like they did the muppets. Which for the record THEY DIDN’T CANCEL THEM, YOUR POINT IS ILLEGITMATE, THEY JUST WANTED TO BE SENSTIVE YOU GHOULS.
I do have a reason for bringing up Disney’s content warnings... most damming of all given just how DEEPLY uncomfortbale this character is.. there isn’t one for this movie. I double checked: There isn’t even wanring notes on the website. It’s just.. on there. And given just how ghastly a sterotype Djon is.. that’s not right. Seriously they DID put them on certain episodes of the show, theyk now this sort of thing is wrong and they done wrong.. but for NO reason they haven’t done so for a film released 31 years ago. Around the same time as the series and just offensive as that show at it’s worst if not more so. This is flatly inexcusable.. par for the course for Disney’s incompetence but still horribly furstrating, disgusting and shameful.. which has been the theme of the last three days really. I expect better because when it comes to putting that warning label on this stuff, they usually are better. First the scheduling mixup and now this. You already do a handful of things wrong Disney why add this to the list?!
It’s just draining not only to run into another Disney Fuckup after a weekend of dealing with one of their worst in recent memory, but just to watch Djon. To see this horrible caractrure saunter onto the screen and go on with his harmful schtick, to see that THIS is what Ducktales 87 reduced non white people to more often than not. It’s remarkable just how throughly and awesomely Frank and Matt completely and totally reversed this. Instead of horrible sterotypes in the reboot, we got TONS of loveable people of color, an endearing latino hero, a smart african american buisness woman who takes no shit but is still a consumate professional, and an egyptian HERO with an intresting story and a strong moral code instead of this horrible reminder that racisim in media was such an afterthought not ONE person brought this up during the scyfy wire stuff or in any inteview i’ve seen. No one cared. Djon was POPULAR enough that he got three episode sin the series. THREE FUCKING EPISODES. This film could be GOOD.. but it’s just so bogged down EVERY FUCKING TIME this artists interpreitation of what Tucker Carlson sees when he looks at a middle eastern person I had to pause to compose myself and had to take a break writing this review to avoid tyiping this in all caps and using the phrase YOU RACIST MOTHERFUCKERS every other sentence. And again i’m white, I get this is second hand offensiveness.. I do... but it dosen’t mean I can’t be offended other white people were so callous about other cultures behaviors this happened.
And what makes me feel worse.. is that I just sorta... never thought about white people voicing non white characters. Things like this I noticed sure, I realize now part of the reason I didn’t like this movie the first time I saw it was this alex jones version of a looney tune, but I do feel shame for not noticing or caring long before this. Sure I loved it when a character of color got played by a person of color.. but I didn’t realize just how deep that problem was and how LONG it went on for before the outcry post george floyd and the call to action lead to most shows still going course correcting. It’s why stuff like this extra botehrs me: because THIS was just as okay at the time. No one blinked twice about this and odds are the creators involved still haven’t. And that.. that’s just terrible and it hurts to think about and I still have most of the movie to go.
The Pyramid of Peril:
So we do get a gorgeous unvewling scene of a box Scrooge found out about from Collie Baba’s horde that should lead them to the treasure. This scene reminds me of Indina Jones.. and I bring this up because the poster was specifically made to mimick an indinia jones poster, to the point of getting drew struzan to do it. THe creator of Ducktales objected..l but I do not get WHY. While I”m not sure if he had yet, Speilberg flat out admits the Carl Barks comics were an inspiration for Indina Jones, with the iconic bolder chase coming from a similar scene in one of Barks Stories. Gotta cover that too. So yeah I don’t get not wanting an indina jones style poster when both were inspiried by the same work and it’s just simple logic and it looks so neat. Thank you.
Scrooge finds seemingly just clothes.. and a map. Jeff Dunham’s Most Racist Puppet reports to his master, Merlock. Merlock is a.. meh villian. Christopher Lloyd does try.. but Lock is your standard evil overlord wants to take over the world type. He dosen’t have much depth, or personality and only his style saves him from dragging the film down along with Dana Carvey’s most racist disguise in master of disguise. He does have a deent shape shifting gimick and being played by Christopher Lloyd means he’s acted TREMENDOUSLY. Alan Young was apparently in awe watching him work and that’s wonderful to hear. The guy did his best. Weirdly Merlock would show up in tons of other works, mostly video games.. but even weirder he NEVER showed up in ducktales 2017. Both Djon and Gene would, Djon thankfully renamed we’ll get to all of that tommorow thank god. I need it after this. But Frank has outright said they didn’t use Merlock because there simply wasn’t anything they could do with him they couldn’t dow ith magica. My likely guess is the might of found a way to revamp him EVENTUALLY, it’s not like radical revamps weren’t there thing come on, they just had way more stories with Magica and didnd’t get around to it before the show was canceled. Just make him some sort of evil god or something. it’s what I might do. There’s a lot of angles with him. Though I would’ve still gotten christopher lloyd back. I mean most of the recasting is good but he’s still alive and deserved a better shot at things.
So Merlock sends Djonn to go with scrooge as his guide to find the treasure, as there’s something of imense power within it. And I gotta ask WHY does Merlock need a minon. No really. This isn’t a situation like reboot magica where he’s trapped in another realm. He can shapeshift into any animal. We only see him use falcon, rat, cockroach and bear but theoritically he can become anything and bear alone is still a LOT. Why does he need this sterotype even other sterytopes ar eashamed of? The film dosen’t NEED Djonn. Just let Christopher Lloyd monologue and leave this post 911 propogranda cartoon at home.
So our heroes nad rejected jar jar prototype head into the desert, and seemingly find nothing before finding a small pyramid all while Merlock follows desecretley as a mighty hawk.
Scrooge makes the boys and Djon dig... because they clearly forgot the “work hard” part of his ethos.
Our heroes unveil the pyramid... and while Merlock SAYS he searched the desert and I get it’s hard to see thourgh all of that.. the dude is immortal, had decades to search and had Mickey Rooney there on standby to force him to go comb the desert. I have an artist rendering of that hang on
So our heroes enter the pyramid and it goes.. really how you’d expect: there’s a bunch of traps our brave explorers have to pass, the boys minintpret a juinor woodchuck saying about loosing your marbles to mean using the ones they actually have which geninely comes in handy as they trip the traps and Rob SChinder as a carrot stumbles into one. Also launchpad is wearing a hawaiin shirt and shades. This has no baring on the plot, but it does bring the movie up a notch in my book and I question why the reboot never used this outfit. Then again they also never properly used Donald’s Quack Pack Outfit (Which bad show or not, is objectively awesome), or his Quack Shot Indiana Jones Riff Outfit, so it’s not like there isn’t a presdecnt for not giving a character a cool costume change from a previous medium. I really should do a top 12 missed opportunities list for the 2017 cartoon.. the ideas for stuff are really piling up.
OUr heroes eventually find the treasure which has insidiously clever security the more I think about it: at first I thought it had none, just a pit with some... scorpions? I mean their supposed to be but they look like they crawled out of the same stygian hole in the sky Doofus crawled out of. And if your asking me “wait which Doofus” the answer is both. Both these abominations crawled out of a stygian hole in the sky.
But the treasure is on a platform surrounded by scoprions with the only way out being the trap filled way they came in. Unless someone comes in with a full team and a bunch of lootin sacks, they aren’t getting out with EVERYTHING. They can steal SOME of the treasure but there’s no way to get any signifigant portion... and the team thing itself is an issue, something Collie defintely predicted being a thief himself: while some thieves can work well as a team, hence why we have four oceans movies 3/4 damn good, and for the record 12 is the bad one, 8 is how you do a soft reboot and a female led reboot right, a good chunk of professional crooks will turn on each other or try and swinldle... and tha’ts dangerous in a trap filled temple but hey some criminals ain’t so smart.
If they all were Rudy Gulliani wouldn’t have two razzies for preparing to pull his pants down, and have waved his phone around on tv like a dare for future adminstrations to arrest the shit out of him would he?
But Scrooge has his family so they get loading. But not before Webby finds the lamp. Not knowing about it Scrooge has no intrest in it, but Webby does. We also get a really simple but hilarious gag where SCrooge dickers over the idea for a second.. before Webby picks up a Jeweled tiara to possibly take instead. The best gags to me are often the ones that just let the character’s perosnalities take the lead and bounce off each other. It’s why when I reviewed the four lilo and stitch crossovers recently I harped on character interaction as their biggest weakness: it’s what MAKES a good work for me. It’s why my faviorite comics and shows often follow a loveable group of disfunctional misfits. I like a group of big personalities who despite in theory should NOT be able to work making it work anyway. And it’s honeslty what’s made Scrooge last so long: Scrooge on his OWN is awesome.. but iwth the boys, donald, and in the case of this series and the reivival Webby and Launchpad, with people to bounce off of who he contrasts heavily with, from Launchapd’s buffonery to Webby’s inehrent sweetness in both versions, to the boys genuine honesty and sense of adventure.... it makes him truly stand out. He’s a great character on his own, don’t get me wrong.. but it’s the people around him that give him chances to show WHY. A good character on it’s own is fine and dandy.. a good character with other good characters around them is where it gets truly special.
Merlock naturally bursts in and in a VERY Black Heron move needlesly outs what micheal bay sees when he closes his eyes as a bad guy... no really he grabs the guy with his talons as he captures the treasure and reveals he’s a bad guy. I don’t even get why keep Djonn alive. He’s done all Merlock possibly could’ve needed and Merlock is ruthless... this makes no sense and only happens because they need Djonn for later in the plot.
Our heroes barely escape, rafting out on the platform itself in a thrilling sequence.. but it’s the one right after that catches my attention. Scrooge utterly defeated, having searched for this treasure for forty years and unresponsive to everyone else. The anmation, coupled with the incomprable Alan young’s acting makes this the highlight of the film for me. Beneath the armor of wealth and skill.. is only a poor old man who just lost something he’s been chasing after most of his life. Scrooge tries his hardest not to be vunerable and both shows and the original comics all use that so when he truly is devistated like this, and i’ts belivible since this treasure is a personal goal of his and as someone who has had things that they seek out specifically, loosing them always hurts. It hurts to ALMOST reach a goal only to have it crumble out under you
But while this alone is good.. what’s next makes it great. Webby sweetly offers up the lamp. Scrooge turns it down, and her genuine gesture reinvgorates him and reminds us of who he is “I’ll find it if it takes another 40 years”> Scrooge may be bitter, mean and selfish a lot of the time.. but deep down, he’s a good man and one who will not give up, and a momentary setback can only stop him so long as long as he has his family to remind him of who he truly is.. and what’s truly important. It’s genuinely sweet and to me is also a reminder of why 87 Webby is a good character: Shes’ not perfect, her main personality trait is often Girl Sterotype”.. but she’s a genuinely sweet small child with a huge heart. It’s telling that while 17′ Webby is almost completely diffren,t and far better, that heart remains her biggest strength. Sure her reboot self could kill a man nad no one would ever find the body, but it’s her heart and empathy that makes that possible and makes her Webby. That inherent loving nature is what makes Webby webby wether she’s a toddler having a tea party or a tween getting ready to intergoate a guy with a meat tenderizer while saying ‘Cute girl stuff”.
Gene Genie Let’s Himself Go:
It’s a few days later and this is the point where it REALLY becomes obvious this was written as a bunch of episodes. Though to the film’s credit while it does ake this feel like a compliation movie as a result... it dosen’t hamper the film’s quality, condiment from Rush Limbaghs’ hot dog stand does that just fine, but once you notice it it’s impossible to unotice it. Weirdly though it seems chunked up into four episodes rather than the usual five, likely cutting down an episode, though I can’t see where they cut out material frankly if they did and i’ts just as likely they woudl’ve had to make one to fill in the space.
So Scrooge is in a mood, being grumpy with his secretary Mrs. Featherly, quackfaster in all but name, and having to be sent home. So while Duckworth goes to fetch him Webby polishes her treasure at long last readying for a tea party, something the boys roundly reject because their sexist little twits and swo were the writers or executies who assumed all little boys act the same. It’s easily my biggest pet peeve with the series as a whole: anytime this crops up with the boys it turns them into the worst dicks imaginable. It’s telling this, being mean about her wantin ga tea party with her surrogate brothersi s TAME. Normally they’ll say she can’t do things because she’s a girl or mock her hobies outright instead of just be mildly dickish. And while she dosen’t look much younger Webby is VERY CLEARLY, in this series anyway, supposed to be say 5 or 6 to the boys 8-10. 7 at most. SHe’s a small child and while it is realistic for older kids to bully younger ones, it’s not fun to watch. It’s why I get annoyed at all the big sibling bully characters.. some work, but most aren’t fun to watch because there’s nothing funny or intresting about it. It’s the same deal here.
Thankfully that quickly goes away as the lamp moves when Webby rubs it and does so again to prove it did move. Huey finishes it and we’re introduced to Gene, the best part of the film.
Gene is a Genie and he takes a second to dart around before messing with the appliances in the kitchen, as he was last around during the time 1001 Nights Came About. Cleverly though, and so we thankfully don’t have 80 dozen fishout of water jokes that have already been done before. As you can probably guess i’m not a huge fan of time travel fish out of water stuff. Now from another dimensoin or planet, i’m on board with with Star Vs, Steven Universe and Sym-Bionic Titan being great examples of this, as is the comic resident alien. (Despite having the wonderous Alan Tuduk the show sounds way more mean spirited and misses the entire point of the comic as given by the author in the credits, i.e. that the alien is supposed to NOT be a threat and just be gently waiting for a ride) The inverse is also good with Amphbia and owl house, taking a human and plopping them into our world. But time travel stuff just usually runs the same beats of “look at the shiny thing” and what not. The only time i’ve sene something SIMILAR work is with thor where their society is SIMILAR to vikings time but still it’s own thing.. it also gave us a classic gag in..
So yeah i’m glad they dropped this and instead had a clever way around it: Gene reads the encylopedia at the mansion. Granted it’s Scrooge so I don’t know how current it is and given this came out in 1990 thus HOW racist it is. It’s not a questoin of IF it was, but how much.
But having caught up the kids confront him with the fact he has to grant wishes. This lamp runs on what I now realize are Aladdin rules: Whoever currently holds the Lamp is the Genie’s master, they only get three wishes, and that dosen’t reset if it changes hands. The only big diffrence from the usual is Gene dosen’t have to TELL them about the wishes like Genie did, and Gene very begrudginly agrees to it. He also seem’s phsyically pained when doing so.
So since all 12 know about him, each of the kids gets a wish though it seems unfair with HDL. Their one person, they shoudln’t get 9 wishes just because their brain is spread out over three bodies.
This film continues the weird simliarties to Aladdin by attaching rules though they instead come up as a result of our heroes talking rather than the Genie just flat out tleling them: both share the “you can’t wish for more wishes” thing, a common rule in these stories and usually only broken nowadays as a clever twist as the rule is SO common place, not having it is a twist. But it is there for a reason: to limit the sheer power of a reality warping wish. The wishes can also only go so far. In a nice line, when Huey, Dewey or Louie suggests wishing for peace one earth, Gene says “No pipe dreams’ He can’t bend people or reality on THAT scale. He can bend reality as we find out, but it’s smaller scales like turning someone’s possesions over ot someone else, warping the bin into a castle, or bringing inanitamte objects to limited life. Still HUGE feats worth of a genie, so Gene’s power isn’t so nerfed it’s unusuable, but it does explain why his evil pervious ownder Merlock, more ont hat in a bit too, didn’t just wish to have eternal dominon over the earth or something. Gene can do just about anything but he can’t change the world on a fundemental level.
And I do LIKE having rules in wished based stories like this, I chalk it up to growing up with Fairly Odd Parents... though they eventually went too far in the oppsoitie direction, pulling rules out of their ass to suit the episode, instead of simply having some very standard, very understandable rules that still pose challenges but don’t outright cheat so the episode can happen.
So Webby does her first wish.. and wishes for a Baby Elephant, something Gene is against as he prefers they keep the wishes small: otherwise he gets found out, and the fight over him begins. So one of the boys wishes him away. Or Webby does. Point is it’s gone though not before Beakly sees it and Scrooge smells something is up. Our heroes try to hide gene, but gene thankfully simply dresses up like a modern kid and thus is able to pass as a friend of there staying for the night.
So with the rules established and what not the kids find a clever solution: they simply go a ways away from the mansion into the woods, far enough from town to avoid any suspcion, and same iwth the mansion and just wish for all kinds of stuff: a giant bunch of ice cream toys, standard kid wish fufillment but it’s nice... in part because the kids treat Gene like one of them. Wihle they STARTED asking him about the wishes, this starts the bonding process. Soon he will be part of the hive mind.. SOON.
Until then though after using another wish to make scrooge not mad at them for coming home late and missing dinner, that night we find out Gene’s backstory.... and it’s an utter tearjerker. As it turns out Merlock wants him back because he’s Gene’s former master and as you’d guess.. it was NOT a happy existnace, used contstnatly to do horrible things with no power to stop himself. Pompeii and Atlantis were both directly Merlock’s fault and it was only Collie Baba stealing the lamp that put an end to his hell. He also answers the two obvious questions botht he audeiince and the boys have: How the hell is Merlock still alive and shoudln’t he be out of wishes then? The first is simple. Unlike pretty much every DBZ Villian whose WANTED to do so, Merlock wished for immortality first chance he got, taking the Zamasu route instead and thus leaving him free.
As for the wishes thing it turns out his amulet, in adition to shapeshifting, also gives him extra wishes becuase fuck it.
But the boys sweetly offer to protect him.
The next day, Apu’s Cousin let’s Merlock know the maps in the mansion and Merlock has him help sneak in with Merlock taking rat form. This backfires as Mrs. Beakley notices the form and chases after him with a broom
Meanwhile Webby has her tea party with Gene after he and the boys played cops and robbers earlier, and he’s bored.. though nicely not because it’s a girly thing, but because the stuffed animals aren’t alive and she naively has him fix that. This leads to
Which sadly is jsut scrooge vs a duck toy but admit it, you want that movie for Disney Plus yesterday. Call Charles Band Disney. CALL CHARLES BAND!
Whelp Scrooge Still Sucks:
Scrooge takes for a turn for the obnoxious in the next part, but i’ts fine by me as it’s part of the plot. Naturally this reinactment of Cult of Chucky has lead to Scrooge finding out about the Genie. To his credit, Scrooge is tactical about his wishes. As said by the Duck himself
“I could wish for a diamond, no the world’s biggest dimaond, no ten world’s biggest diamond, no a diamond mind, no the MINING INDUSTRY!”
The sheer power this gives him is TERRIFYING, both because of his status.. and because unlike the kids who all wished for simple kid stuff and used up their wishes quickly, he both gets how much he can do with this and could conquer the world economy if he truly wanted to.
The obnoxious part comes in as he treats Gene as not a person, figuring he’s just there and forces him into the lamp despite the kids protests after Gene grants his first wish: Collie Baba’s treasure. It also dosen’t feel like the wishing nor him using the lamp to get the tresure back goes against his hard work ethos: for the former while he is getting all this magically, he’s still having ot use his wits to get the most out of it, and he did earn the lamp itself square. For the latter, he already earned the treasure square too and had it stolen. He’s onlyg etting back what’s by all rights HIS. Granted he plans on giving most of it up for a tax break but still it’s his by right.
However the reason his assholery works is twofold: first it’s Scrooge. While he’s not a TERRIBLE person, in the comcis and this cartoon he isn’t a GOOD person either. He DOES have a good heart and will usually do the right thing, but his first instnct is always to get more money and to be a cantakerous old bastard to eveyrone and everything. While he’s subtly grew out of “I hate eveyrone and everyone hates me” as his guiding principal, it’s still his defualt reaction to most situations. But he first relents by letting Gene attend the party, part of why the Collie Baba thing stung so bad was that he’s told the historical society he’d get the treasure for years only to come back empty handed, if shrunken. But he still manages to have a good time while Asok and Merlock infiltrate.. well I’mRunningOutofINsultingNIcknamesCanYouTell steals the silverware. Yes... that.. that really happens.
Look we’re almost done, i’m almost free of this racist mummies curse. Let’s continue. Gene sees melock and freaks and drags SCrooge with him and while at First Scrooge is cranky...
No but now I want a Donkey Kong Country crossover too dammmit. And to talk about those games. Another thing for the list. But Scrooge is righ tot be a bit surly...
Okay now your just pushing it. As Gene whisked him away without telling him anything other than vauge worries... but then he gets a full idea of why Gene’s so terrified when Merlock shapeshifts into a bear and starts breaking the door down. Eh, could be worse.
Gene shrinks them to escape and Merlock leaves thinking they fled but leaves Skids Minus Mudflap to go look for them. Scrooge sneaks out but bumps into a cart running from the photo you see when you look up stereotype on google.
I mean I assume.. let’s try it.
Huh you know I HOPED but I never expected...
So Google Proving My Point plans to give his lamp to the master because of his weird Torgo-Esque obession with helping a man who clearly wants to murder him but takes his sweet time doing so because plot, and Gene figuring this COULDN’T POSSIBLY go as bad as Melock getting him urges the dummy to keep him and make his own wishes.
This goes about as well as you’d expect....
Wiped Out With A Wish:
Scrooge returns home to find Watto has wished to take his poessions, fortune, everything and Scrooge gets thrown in jail for breaking into his own house.
We get two great moments back to back. The first is Scrooge lamenting loosing his fortune in jail, and realizing the sheer power and risk of the lamp, especially since he worked hard to earn it, every bit of it.. and Sam Wilson’s 70′s Backstory came in and took it all in an instant.
The second is Scrooge’s family coming for him, including Launchpad , Beakly and Webby obviously and bailing him out. Though Beakly is UNGOLDLY annoying in this scene, sobbing hysterically and adding nothing and it’s not nearly as funny as the film thinks. Turns out Goliath getting buried wrapped in chains threw them out.
Scrooge takes a bit to rebound from all this.. but eventually realizes something: he knows the security of the bin inside and out. He had it put in after all. So it’d be easy enough to break in. So they gotta break in to break out the lamp, undo this nightmare, and END THIS MOVIE. Seriously this review has taken two days as is I do NOT want to miss my invincible review.
So they break into the bin, and it’s a tightly paced Scene, scrooge going in one way while the kids go the other and we even get a nice callback as the marbels come in handy to get past one of the traps. It’s just a good scene. it’s only real flaw is that Launchapd just sorta disappears as does Duckworth despite the fact their in a plane, and the bin later gets turned into a floating castle. Kinda a plot hole to not have Launchpad crash in to save htem just saying.
Scrooge eventually does get to Djonn, whose been ignoring the imminent threat of Merlock while Gene sweats it out... and this backfires horribly as Merlock hitched a ride as a roach (Though there was a hilarious scene of him getting fried constnatly by lasers when Louie went through a laser hallway, as while Louie had the directions, it dind’t take into account passengers on your head.
So Merlock remanifests in full gets the Lamp and unleashes his wrath on Tin Tin in the Congo and turns him into a wild pig.
Not you sweetie. He then forces Gene to turn the castle into a fortress and float it back to his home in parts unknown. It’s a DAMN cool scene with impressive and horrifiing animation as the bin melts and crumbles into thte castle and the kids barely make it up the stares as they shift and disolve. Really top notch stuff.
Scrooge stands up to Merlock... and this naturally goes poorlyw ith Gene begging Merlock not to respond.. and Merlock having him blow scrooge off the top of the forgtess storm eagle style, though scrooge understands. And this is the true reason why scrooge being a dick didn’t bother me so much. Because it helps create a great contrast between him and Merlock. Both thought of Gene as a tool rather than a person.. but Scrooge grew to realize he was wrong and what he was dealing with wasn’t some magical goodies creator.. but a child forced to constantly grant wishes, in sheer agony to do so no less, likely so sick of it because again and again and again people used him as a slave to get what they wanted and to hell with what Gene wanted. He realized he was terrible for making this poor boy into his slave simply because that’s his job. In contrast Merlock could give no shits and is a malevolent monster who glefully uses Gene despite the pain the wishes put him through and his protests. It’s why Gene is the best part.. he’s athroughly likeable, throughly inncoent character with tons of personality and a truly tragic and horrifying backstory and Rip Taylor acts the hell out of every scene with the guy.
Thankfully the marbles come in handy one last time and Huey, Dewey or Louie snipes the lamp away and a struggle for it insues between Scrooge and Merloc mid air. it’s fucking awesome.. and it get sbetter in how scroogewins. He simply gets rid of Merlock’s amulet, taking it then throwing it. Grante dhe COULD’EVE used it for unimited wishes.. but it was too risky to do that and as we’ll see in the ending , Scrooge realized the Lamp was too powerful to keep around for much longer and too much of a tempting target for his rogues.. not that we see them this movie as the crew wanted it to bea ccesaible and thus kept hte cast to the main cast from season 1 and just made new vilians and a new supporting character, but still.
He does use his second wish though to undue the damage Merlock had done and the bin and clan mcduck are returned to duckburg in good condition.
Time for our ending, which is genuinely and wholly touching. With the lamp too dangerous to use Scrooge considers just sending it to the earth’s core, which horrifies the kids as it’d mean Gene would be trapped there forever... if the molten lava iddn’t just outright destory the lamp and probably kill him. But Scrooge.. isn’t the bastard he likes to potray himself as. Instead he makes Gene into a real boy. He gives the poor kid HIS wish, which designrates the lamp and undoes all the spells... so Merlock is PROBABLY dead but he does return for some games so maybe not?
And so we end on two things: Gene happily playing cops and robbers with the boys finally free.. and Birth of A Nation grabbing all the loot he can in his patns and running off. Ha ha ha thank god i’m done with this prick. And no I will not be looking at his ducktales episodes unless I have to.
Final Thoughts:
This movie is OKAY. It has a solid plot, gene is a wonderful chacter, the animatoin is pretty prettay pretty good, and the voice acting as usual is excellent, with Rip Taylor being the standout.
But as my paragraphs of rage shoud’ve made Clear Djonn is just BAD. Easily the worst character i’ve encountered in my year of reviewing and some of the worst writing i’ve ran into. And that writing includes a goblin man voyerstically forcing two teenagers to make out, making jokes about santa renaming himself Clem the sceneafter he tearfully confessed to letting the elves and ms. claus die, accidental transphobia via the u-men, and Bryan Lee O malley thinking we needed more than one volume of Julie Powers being around.
This was disgusting, even by 1990 standards and especially by 2021 standards and it drags the film down considerably. Without it the film is okay.. with it the film is just VERY hard to watch any time he pops up. He made getting through the movie a nightmare and while I pause a lot becaue it’s a bad habbit I did so more simply because as I said earlier in the review I could not stand him.
It makes it a hard film to recommend. If you can stomach the racisim, then it might be worth it, but be aware of what your putting up with going in. But if you can’t.. there’s no shame in that, it’s carbombya levels of bad. Which yes was a real fictoinal country. It was so bad Casey Casem quit transformers over it. True story. So yeah, it’s an okay film, on par with the series at it’s best for the most part.. but Djonn just spoils it for me.
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DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure Of The Lost Lamp, 1990
MovieToons began as part of Disney’s television animation studio and later became DisneyToon Studios, which was responsible for many of the direct-to-video sequels. The division closed in 2018.
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The new pin celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Ducktales The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp! The movie was released on August 3, 1990. It was the first Disney Animated film to not be released by the Walt Disney Feature Animation and was instead produced by Walt Disney Television Animation under Disney MovieToons and was animated under the France division of Walt Disney Animation. I will always have such a special place in my heart for this movie and the series as a whole. I’m glad to see the film get such a special pin.
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Disney's MAD MAX: Fury Road! • Featuring Furiosa's show stopping solo number: Redemption: "🎶who killed the world?🎸🎶" • Some say Furiosa's heart is cold! Cold as ice... In a word FROZEN! Frozen and searching for a place to call home. In the end our heros will learn that sometimes.. just sometimes "home" is back the way you came. Like, right back where you started. Like exacley where you started. Like just go back the way you came and take over. BOOM! problem solved. Sheesh. Ya know? • • #matthewart #madmax #furyroad #furiosa #furiosacosplay #frozen #furiosafanart #imperatorfuriosa #frozen2 #charlizetheron #matthewarmstrong #cartoonists #childrensillustration #movietoons #masterblaster #sketchbook #matthewsarmstrong #funnyanimals #animationart #characterdesign #madmaxmemes #madmaxanimated #characterdesign #animation #characterconcept #animated #madmaxbeyondthunderdome (at Outback Imports) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9-Dm8ZHEWh/?igshid=n0r0s3baap26
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Disney Associated Movies
Even in a blog series where every movie is unique in one way or another, this movie is particularly unique. But to get into what makes it unique, we first need to take a brief look at DisneyToon Studios.
DisneyToon Studios, which started as Disney MovieToons, was a division of Disney Animation Studios. It was originally founded in 1990, and was eventually closed in June of last year. In that time…
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Assembly Interruption “A Goofy Movie” (1995)
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Disney laid off 75 employees in the process of shutting down Disneytoon Studios, the Walt Disney Company’s third animation studio.
No news yet if any of these animators or staff will be transferred to Walt Disney Animation or Pixar, the company’s two remaining animation groups.
Many sequels to Disney classics through the years were produced at this often direct-to-video studio, plus a few original films. Some films, including the “Planes” franchise, received theatrical release.
Beginning with the 1990 “DuckTales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp” under the title of Disney MovieToon Studios, Disneytoon created 47 features total, which also include the Tinkerbell “Disney Fairies” series and “A Goofy Movie.”
This closure also cancels a “Planes” spinoff previously scheduled for 2019.
- Courtney ( @harmonicacave )
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There's a lot of talk lately about THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, given that it has reached its... Ya know... 30th Anniversary? And a re-release is currently rolling in theaters? Which I just caught recently!
There's questions on whether a sequel of sorts could ever be made, and it sometimes that gets me thinking...
Thinking of an alternate history where... Pixar wasn't Disney's second powerhouse animation producer opposite the now 100-year-old Walt Disney Animation Studios...
But instead, Skellington Productions...
Skellington Productions, sadly, only made it to two movies. NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS was a small success in 1993, making about $50m off of its $19m budget. (Compare that to ALADDIN, which cost $28m, and THE LION KING, which cost $45m.) I feel the involvement of Tim Burton - hot off the success of BEETLEJUICE, BATMAN and BATMAN RETURNS, the novel concept, Disney's marketing machine (releasing it as a Touchstone film back then), and its innovative stop-motion animation made for a film that people were a little curious about.
This movie's box office circa 1993 wedges it firmly between Disney's mega-hits like BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and ALADDIN, and... Everything else. Off the top of my head, I think FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST was the highest-earning not-Disney animated movie (yes yes I know, Disney owns it now, you know what I mean) of the immediate post-LITTLE MERMAID/ALL DOGS stretch. Most films missed the double-digits, even, that's how... Rough it was out there from 1990-94.
And lightning did not strike twice for JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, despite it being directed by Henry Selick and produced by Tim Burton, just like NIGHTMARE. I'm guessing GIANT PEACH's problem was it not having that hook NIGHTMARE had, again, that really cool premise of a Halloween creature taking over another holiday. This, instead, was a Roald Dahl story with icky gross bugs. So GIANT PEACH lost money, Skellington Productions withered away, and so did their planned film based on the Carol Hughes book TOOTS AND THE UPSIDE DOWN HOUSE.
If you think about it, in the early 1990s, not only was Walt Disney Feature Animation enjoying their "Renaissance", but the larger Disney enterprise was trying to get other animation projects off the ground. Multiple studios making multiple animated movies. Seemed like a dream come true amidst American animation's 2nd Golden Age, right?
It all began with WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, whose animation was done by Richard Williams' studio and Dale Baer's studio (the unsung, often not-talked about other heroes who were involved with the film's dazzling and rich animation).
ROGER RABBIT was a reverberating smash when released in 1988. A follow-up movie was immediately on the boards, short films were made, Roger was everywhere circa 1988-90, even sharing the stage with Mickey Mouse on his 60th Anniversary, theme park expansions were on the way... But then things deflated once a rift developed between Steven Spielberg (producer of the film, owned a significant stake in the franchise) and then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner, and Roger faded slowly away by the end of the 1990s...
Then you have Skellington, who, to reiterate... Had a small sleeper with NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and a flop with GIANT PEACH... That one found its audience on VHS after the fact. My family and I had the VHS growing up, but not NIGHTMARE for some reason.
So, the ROGER RABBIT project, Skellington Productions... 2 strikes, it seemed... Three if we throw in the Disney MovieToons pictures; the DUCKTALES movie didn't do great, and A GOOFY MOVIE barely doubled its smaller budget. They too found their audience on video, GOOFY MOVIE *especially*.
It seemed like only Disney Feature Animation had the golden touch, and even that was starting to fade a bit, when POCAHONTAS landed a bit below the previous three pictures in the summer of 1995...
Enter Pixar...
TOY STORY was a big hit upon its Thanksgiving 1995 release, A BUG'S LIFE was a big hit upon its Thanksgiving 1998 release, TOY STORY 2 came after those two in Thanksgiving 1999 after being bumped up from mere direct-to-VHS movie to theatrical event, rest is history...
But, imagine for a second, an alternate history where it was Skellington Productions that became Disney's other big animation house... Not Pixar...
In this timeline... TOY STORY is a fluke, a huge hit but a one-time deal...
A BUG'S LIFE (funny how both studios' second movies were about insects) flops in 1998, for whatever reason...
TOY STORY 2 doesn't ascend to being a theatrical movie, and is instead the direct-to-video movie it was originally planned to be. And made by that satellite studio set up for it, no less...
And that's what Pixar amounts to in this timeline, one single successful movie that spawned some sequels not made by them that went straight to VHS/DVD. Maybe they sign a contract with a whole other studio after this goes over so badly...
Whereas Skellington... They make TOOTS AND THE UPSIDE DOWN HOUSE and it comes out around 1999/2000 and does well, possibly a sequel to NIGHTMARE for good measure, and who knows what else in the far future...
It's funny to consider this, when Henry Selick - after completing CORALINE - nearly collaborated with Pixar in the early 2010s for his ill-fated THE SHADOW KING. An adaptation of Neil Gaiman's THE GRAVEYARD BOOK could've followed, too. Fitting, right? Gaiman wrote the original CORALINE novella. THE SHADOW KING was a film that was relentlessly micromanaged by - no shock - John Lasseter, til its budget ballooned... Right around the same time Disney's film division changed chairmen, and the then-new guy (Alan Horn) looked at SHADOW KING and had the plug pulled, and all the props and materials made for that movie were destroyed thereafter. Selick was able to shop the concept elsewhere, but it never got off the ground since then. He ended up doing WENDELL & WILD instead.
In another timeline, ROGER RABBIT gets its sequel/prequel in 1992/93, maybe even another, and keeps going. Roger remains as ubiquitous in the Disney empire as Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Winnie the Pooh, and everyone else.
In a really cool timeline, all three of them are mainstays. But as is often the case in the world of movies, in Hollywood, in the capitalist system... sometimes things get wrecked and washed away in the storm, and a few survive...
How it all didn't work out is to be studied for years to come, for sure. Skellington Productions should've continued being a thing, and the world of Roger Rabbit should've been more than just one big successful movie and a couple of short films/theme park attractions...
Alternate history animation stuff is fun to ponder...
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Can you think of any other films as improbably good as A Goofy Movie, which was working against issues ranging from 'Being made by Disney MovieToons who normally do direct to video stuff,' 'recasting one of the two leads from the show it was based on' (To be fair, the original voice for Max was cast to play a 10 year old boy, rather than a... 16? year old), 'film based on a tv show,' all the way up to the premise of 'a musical staring Goofy without toning down any of his vocals'?
Nothing comes to mind, no.
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This will forever be one of my favorite ending scenes in any movie. The sheer hilarity of it and that glorious remix of the theme song make it an amazing way to end a criminally underrated movie.
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