History WesternAnimation / SamsonAndSally

A mildly obscure movie, animated in Denmark in [[TheEighties 1984]], ''Samson And Sally'' is a (mostly) quiet, maudlin ComingOfAgeStory centering around a naive, young, white sperm whale named Samson. He and his herd inhabit in the Arctic Ocean, eating octopi, hiding from the Iron Beasts (whaling ships) who hunt them, and dealing with the destruction that [[HumansAreBastards mankind]] has wreaked on their ocean. Shortly after a run-in with one Iron Beast, the herd comes across an orphaned whale named Sally, who they take in. The two young whales grow closer, eventually leading to a FallingInLoveMontage. Shortly afterwards, Samson leaves the herd to search for his hero, the legendary white whale, Literature/MobyDick. Based on the much darker novel "The Song of the Whales" by Bent Haller.

A mildly obscure movie, animated in Denmark in [[TheEighties 1984]], ''Samson And Sally'' is a ComingOfAgeStory centering around a young, white sperm whale named Samson. He and his herd live their lives in the Arctic Ocean, eating octopuses, hiding from the Iron Beasts (whaling ships) who hunt them, and dealing with the destruction that [[HumansAreBastards mankind]] wreaks on their ocean. Shortly after a run-in with one Iron Beast, the herd comes across an orphaned whale named Sally, who they take in. The two young whales grow closer, eventually leading to a FallingInLoveMontage. Shortly afterwards, Samson leaves the herd to search for his hero, the legendary white whale, Literature/MobyDick. Based on the much darker novel "The Song of the Whales" by Bent Haller.

* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler:It's implied throughout the movie that mankind is on its last leg and has stopped trying to protect the environment.]]

** The turtle who shows Samson the entrance to the hidden city does a 180 turn inside her shell,sticking her head out the hole her tail was in before. Real turtles’ shells are fused to the spine.

* CartoonWhale: While an otherwise-savvy movie about the lives of sperm whales, the art style simplifies them into having rounded, teardrop-shaped bodies with no dorsal fins, and they can appear as a bluish-black color, albino white, and some sort of black-and-white variant. While piebald whales can technically exist, it's rarely to neatly-organized, easily-repeatable patterns like the white mask-like facial markings over Sally's and Samson's pod leader's face.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: Initially, Samson hates eating octopuses. It ends up being a phase, though.

* HumansAreBastards: Over the movie, the whales have to deal with two oil spills, radiation dumping, and whalers.

* LetsMeetTheMeat: During the [=BLAM=], one of the walruses comes across a can of sardines, who dance down his arm and dive into his mouth.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Samson and Sally's FallingInLoveMontage involves lots of cuddling, nipping, and tail pulling, and ends with Sally pushing Samson behind a rock. A heart drifts up from behind the rock and proceeds to swell larger and larger, beating faster and faster, before finally bursting. The next scene opens on a sunny day, a blissfully sleeping Samson, and a knowing-eyed Sally.

* BittersweetEnding: Over all [[spoiler:has a happy ending for Samson, who ends up with a family of his own. But he feels let down by his idol who wasn't able to help him, and it's implied humanity is done for]]

* SpaghettiKiss: Done with an octopus tentacle

* UnderwaterRuins: [[spoiler:The City Man Built, a.k.a. a Sunken New York]]

* AtlantisIsBoring: Pretty much averted. Lots of interesting events occur in this movie. On the other hand, while "The City Man Built" (a sunken New York City) is not uninteresting, it seems to be devoid of much life aside from [[spoiler: the aging Moby Dick]].