I have long heard of the movie Titanic. The legend continues. You could say this is a cartoon of my childhood. As a child, I often saw his ads on VHS tapes from Soyuz studios. Initially, I thought it was a retelling of Cameron’s film and was indifferent to it. But many years later, after learning more about the cartoon, I found out that it was being scolded. I wondered what could be so bad in a harmless cartoon. After all, yes, the movie is terrible. He's so secondary, poor and hulking.
Animation. The cartoon is made in the style of Disney cartoons, which is not surprising. In the 1990s, Disney experienced the Disney Renaissance, the period when the most-most masterpieces were released (Aladdin, Mulan, Hercules, Beauty and the Beast, etc.) and this led to the fact that other studios began to copy Disney. Someone did it successfully (Anastasia, Dwarf Nose), someone mixed (Swan Princess), but the Titanic does it terrible.
It's very poor and cheap animation. In comparison with the local, even the cartoons of the Russian studio “Mill” are perceived as “Pixar”. All the characters are so angular that it feels like they were just painted in paint.
At the same time, the same frames are repeated several times in the cartoon. For example, at the beginning, we will see the sinking Titanic four times from the same angle with the same number of lifeboats next to it. At the time of departure, it is impossible not to notice that the creators made one figure of a fireman and simply reproduced it. When we evacuate, we are shown the same boat four times. And then there's this absolutely stupid scene where the dog raps and it's drawn in two dimensions, and five more times it's shown in one motion. So the animation here is certainly not like in "Children vs. Wizards" but also terrible.
Music. In the style of Disney, there are also songs. How are the songs? The whole movie sounds like a jazz tune. And then there's the moment when one of the dogs starts rapping. And it looks so stupid! A stupid song, a stupid performance, a stupid character.
Plot. It is a mixture of Cameron's Titanic and Cinderella. The main character is a girl – Angelica, who is raised by an aunt who has two ugly daughters. Angelica wants to go to America to find her mother, because in this family she is not favored and only loaded with work.
And someone will say, "It's not plagiarism of Cinderella, it's just the same plot model." No, the cartoon literally repeats Cinderella. At the same time, Angelica is incredibly annoying! She's all so perfect, kind, caring, sweet, she won't hurt anyone, takes care of every mouse. And it pisses! Such slick characters ("Mary Sue") nobody likes, they are not interesting and cause only irritation.
And no, Rosa Dawson in the Cameron movie wasn't. She was kind, but she could hammer, and drink beer, and crack and was not afraid to swim in cold water. She was a character, and Angelica is just infuriating.
There is one character that really pisses me off. This is her lover, William. I wanted to nail him down and say, ‘It’s hard to be so partial-perfect. People are not like that.” Seriously, what's wrong with his looks? Why does it look like a Ken doll? Why does he have a baby face? Why is he all right? He helps everyone, regrets every bug, smiles at everyone, waves at everyone. I was particularly infuriated by the scene where he was lying and thinking about the future life with Angelica: 'She's going to have everything she dreams of. She'll be happy."
And when these two meet, it gets even worse. Their love dialogues sound more delusional than those of Anakin and Padmé in the Star Wars prequels. And they fall in love at first sight and everything would be fine, but their relationship develops not that fast, but extremely quickly. The cartoon lasts only 54 minutes and so they just saw each other – fell in love; met for the second time – definitely fell in love.
By the way, there are other characters in the cartoon. The detective who is portrayed as Sherlock Holmes and who has absolutely no influence and cut him out, nothing will change. Some con artist Gaston, who resembles Gaston from Beauty and the Beast and Billy Zane, who wants to either steal Angelica's medallion or give it to someone... Why, really? There is also some scammer who does not particularly affect anything.
And then there are the characters of the beast: mice, cats and dogs. Well, it's a Disney copycat, so why not? The mice here help Angelica find the medallion, but in general their story is secondary and absolutely uninteresting. By the way, the local mice resemble mice from the American Tail, and the local Dalmatians, guess what, resemble dogs from which cartoon?
The same can be said about the story in general and the crash. Everything here is secondary and not interesting, only boring. Even the main characters are not interesting, but only infuriate with their ideality. So, in a nutshell:
William's nanny: It is good that we are on the high seas.
Well, except you're in the ocean!
William with a child in the water: Don't worry, we're safe.
Well, yeah, considering you're in the icy ocean water, which was only two degrees, and in which most of the passengers died. You're wearing the same shirt.
Angelica berates the helmsman that he does not want to turn the boat to the drowning. The helmsman says people will turn over the lifeboat, but Angelica accuses him of cowardice. Dumb, he told you on the case, the lifeboat could turn over and everyone, including you, would go to the bottom to look for Jack Dawson.
With all this, the cartoon has one big plus. "Hold me. Never let me go." The song is really chic and very sad, causes warm associations. I would put it on a par with the famous hit Celine Dion. It's even strange how such a good song got into this cheap "Disney copycat"?
Conclusion: I’m sure you could make a good children’s cartoon about Titanic, but the creators of this opus couldn’t. The cartoon is squalid, hulking, cheap, faded, with stupid main characters.
Only for the song "Holding Me."
2 out of 10
P.S. I wonder when the mouse at the end says, "Bye, see you again," was he really hoping for a sequel?
It seemed to me that this film was created by a company of 10-year-old children according to the following scheme: they took James Cameron’s Titanic, someone saw it, stuffed all their favorite cartoon characters there, drew it all from memory, attached a fiery rapper and a beautiful love song, and voila! Everything in this film says that it was shot by children who already want to shoot, but do not yet know how, but certainly not an adult man, who, by the way, this is the seventh film in a row.
Does this work have any positive aspects? Well... The beginning of the crash, the very beginning - panic, running - well, at least somehow put. And the scene with the rich bankrupt and the lady with the dog, with their mutual confessions. I even wanted the movie to be about this couple.
Well... no more bright spots are remembered, and the ones I called liked only for lack of better.
The plot is individual stories thrown into a bunch. Poor girl and rich guy, love-love, she has lost her mother, she has an evil stepmother and evil step-sisters, a missing medallion, a bunch of animals that are looking for this medallion, a funny running, a thief and her two accomplices, successful and not so attempted robbery, singer ... iceberg, wreck, happy ending. Seriously! It's a story! Guys, well, the stories don’t make sense at all, but you have a movie about Titanic, and even the most random storylines could justify themselves if you at least showed how the crash affected people. How humans (and other creatures) can manifest their best or worst qualities in mortal danger. No shit, they were saved and that's all... but more on that later. Hell, even in the phimous Cat Felix, the creators, in my opinion, did not care as much about the development of events as here. The only thing missing is the caption at the bottom of the screen: “We don’t care, we just had to stretch the screen time to at least one hour.”
I have already written about characters from other films. In addition to Cameron’s Titanic, I can casually call Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians, Cats-Aristocrats, Oliver and Company. People who are a little bit more into the subject call it American History. Well, a detective in a double visor, winged and with a pipe - I wonder who it could be?
Visually, this is definitely one of the ugliest cartoons I've seen, crooked and crooked characters, twitchy movements (they're not even just twitchy - in my opinion, in some places left only key shots), conditional background, rough perspective ... and repetitive pieces of animation - God, how infuriating! ... Separately, I want to note the installation - it's just something beyond good and evil. Have you ever watched fan videos in which frames from films are chased under the plot invented by the author? Just recently I saw a video in which pieces collected one book scene from “Harry Potter”, taking shots from the film, of course, not related to each other. This movie is made in the same way. But we're not making fan videos, are we?
How do we actually see the crash? The main character and her boatmates row with expressions on their faces, “Lord, how I was finished by these screaming people, even if they shut up at last.” I think I even saw the nanny of the main character smile when he fell into the water. There is a feeling that they were involved in the sinking of the ship... no, don’t be afraid, there will be no sharks or octopuses. But there will be a final speech, which tells us that all our heroes live happily ever after. Like how worn out everyone’s memory, what they had to go through ... but after the words “but the Dalmatians, who took to themselves Angelica and William after they lost their mistress”, honestly, I wanted to give the director in the face. And they lived happily ever after, and someone else died there, yeah.
And there is no desire to choose which of the Italian "visions" of this tragedy is more terrible - they are both terrible, each in its own way. No talent, no respect for those who died in this disaster.
Write to former classmates, offer them to mount in the film crafts that we drew in Adobe Flash on computer science? Since in our world this is done easily, it is also available for rent ...
2 out of 10
They just sat there waiting. Waited for life, waited for death, waited for the absolute, which never came.
The quote chosen for the review is not accidental: this comparison is, of course, ugly, but the viewers of this animated ... would not say anything superfluous ... "masterpiece" experience similar feelings - when you wait for life, death, that suddenly there will be an unprecedented absolute of animation - whether plot, artistic, comedy, in the end ...
Fuck you! Suffer from the pain and misfortune that you cause to your eyes when watching this movie!
Actually, this is the second Italian animated film on the Titanic: the first, "The Legend of the Titanic" was released a little earlier, in 1999. The nostalgic Critic (it is not good to refer to other names, but still) called it the worst adaptation of this tragic story, but I will allow you to disagree with him: the script in it is, of course, terrible, but, firstly, it is at least perceived as a film, and secondly ... well, it is stupid and conditional. But its creators did not aim to create a complete and detailed picture of the crash of this liner, and if I had to choose which is worse: a deliberately implausible story that all the victims of the Titanic actually survived, or an animated film in which the deaths of thousands of people seem to be, but this fact is not reflected completely ... I personally believe that the second is much, much worse.
The plot of the film was clearly created under the inspiration of the legendary film: it seems to be all the same, all the same countless storylines, but, firstly, absolutely inharmonious and often leading the story to nowhere, and secondly, freely interpreted. In the image of mice, the characters of the American Tail are easily guessed, in the family of the main character - the Cinderella family, and the crooks are frankly drawn from Cruella de Ville and her accomplices. And there are also Dalmatians from "One Hundred One Dalmatians" ... rapper dog from "Oliver and Company" - for no reason that the coloring is different ... The Raven from The Rat Secret... Rival of the main character and her boyfriend, Sherlock Holmes with a dog, a cat and a Levretress, the captain, Mexican mice - and hundreds, thousands of unnecessary, superfluous and flat characters, whose presence does not play at all for the benefit of the plot. A lot of them don’t even do anything – they don’t create comedic situations, they don’t affect the relationships of the main characters, they create atmosphere and color... they just are, for no reason, a crowd of unnecessary characters. Why?!
But come on, the plot: this is Cinderella-Cinderella - a choice, of course, primitive, but not the stupidest of all. “Titanic” strikes, rather, with its God-fearing, terrifying, disgusting, crooked, godly, vile – bad animation. It hurts to watch only the footage from the film - it is also drawn, by the way, very mediocre - but animation!!! Animation!!! Features less than even in the anime, and there is an abundance of personnel is not necessary purely stylistically! The movements are twitchy, the editing is terrible - what happens, how the characters are located relative to each other (Oh, yes, I haven't said about the perspective of the drawing: it just doesn't exist, all the objects in the drawing are piled on top of each other, as in a poorly clean room). All right, it's absolutely terrible, but you can put up with it - but animation!!! Did not at least the phasers participate in the work? ... colorists? And about the repetition of the same shots in different moments of the film, I will not say at all: this is just the apogee of madness.
And -- back to the story -- personally, I really think this movie is worse than the namesake that came out in 1999. A direct happy ending with an octopus, dancing mice and a gypsy baron-footfetishist is still better than a wrong reaction to terrible events. The fact that right before my eyes die, freeze, drown in the icy water hundreds of people are not reflected. And why, this is just a plot circumstance to bring the main characters together! Well, someone dies there, there, the rival of the main character stands on the deck and sings to the last - well, Tony, stupid fool, the heroes will still adopt your Dalmatians! In my opinion, this is worse than an outright fairytale lie: there this nonsense can still be attributed to conditionality, and here how can one justify emotional bastardism in relation to the dead?
And this stuff was even advertised: I remember when I was a child, I saw the trailer for this “animated masterpiece” (direct quote) on the cassette with the film “Napoleon” (not about the French emperor, but about the dog). How is that possible?! It's not even funny, as it happens with ridiculous movies!