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''Twice Upon a Time'' is a 1983 mostly-animated comedy-fantasy directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson, and executive produced by GeorgeLucas. As with several other such animated films of the early '80s (''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'', ''TheSecretOfNIMH''), its theatrical distribution was such that it made virtually no impact...and unlike those films it didn't get much video/cable exposure either.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Ralph, Mum, Flora Fauna, and Rod Rescueman. The first two are actually referred to as "misfits" [[hottip:* :"And [[note]]"And dumb too!"]] too!"[[/note]] early on, but no one else in Frivoli is aware of what's going on save for the Fairy Godmother, and there's only so much she can do for Ralph and Mum (i.e., hiring Rod). Even she loses faith in the pair and fires them from trying to save the day. Their determination to prove they ''can'' do something right leads into the final act.
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* WritersSuck: Scuzzbopper yearns to write "the great Amurkian novel", but Botch does not care.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Literally, as Ralph and Mum end up accidentally breaking the Cosmic Clock with all their messing around
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Last seen in a few airings on CartoonNetwork, Creator/CartoonNetwork, the film is distinguished not only by its unique "Lumage" animation, but also by a story, screenplay, and vocal performances that are imaginative and witty throughout, making this another great example of early [[Main/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation renaissance-era animation]].
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''Twice Upon a Time'' is a 1983 mostly-animated comedy-fantasy directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson, and executive produced by GeorgeLucas. As with several other such films of the early '80s (''Film/TheLastUnicorn'', (''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'', ''TheSecretOfNIMH''), its theatrical distribution was such that it made virtually no impact...and unlike those films it didn't get much video/cable exposure either.
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Notable names among the crew, years before they became famous as directors, are [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} Henry Selick]] (sequence director) and DavidFincher (special photographic effects).
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chsYvlsqQtM&feature=related Watch it here.]] A "restoration cut" has been posted on YouTube [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np69QXcp3jQ as well.]]
Notable names among the crew, years before they became famous as directors, are [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} Henry Selick]] (sequence director) and DavidFincher (special photographic effects).
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chsYvlsqQtM&feature=related Watch it here.]] A "restoration cut" has been posted on YouTube [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np69QXcp3jQ as well.]]
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Last seen in a few airings on CartoonNetwork, the film is distinguished not only by its unique "Lumage" animation, but also by a story, screenplay, and vocal performances that are imaginative and witty throughout, making this another great example of early [[Main/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation renaissance-era animation]].
animation]].
Notable names among the crew, years before they became famous as directors, are [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} Henry Selick]] (sequence director) and DavidFincher (special photographiceffects).
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Notable names among the crew, years before they became famous as directors, are [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} Henry Selick]] (sequence director) and DavidFincher (special photographic
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->''It was a time in desperate need of heroes -- any kind of heroes.''
-->-- Opening narration
''Twice Upon a Time'' is a 1983 mostly-animated comedy-fantasy directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson, and executive produced by GeorgeLucas. As with several other such films of the early '80s (''Film/TheLastUnicorn'', ''TheSecretOfNIMH''), its theatrical distribution was such that it made virtually no impact...and unlike those films it didn't get much video/cable exposure either.
The land of Frivoli is where dreams are made, and the land of Din is where they are taken to for delivery to the sleeping Rushers, via the jolly old man Greensleeves and his helpers the Figs. They have an evil counterpart in Synonamess Botch, who runs the nightmare factory known as the Murkworks and sends vultures out to deliver nightmares to Rushers. (Frivoli, the Murkworks, and the residents of both are animated via illuminated cut-outs while Din is DeliberatelyMonochrome live-action -- the Rushers are humans.)
Now Botch launches a master plan: He has Greensleeves and company kidnapped, and then tricks innocent fools Ralph (an "all-purpose animal", so called for his shapeshifting abilities) and Mumford (a Chaplin-esque mime) into stealing the spring of Din's Cosmic Clock for him. They do and this stops time in Din -- at a moment when everyone is awake. Botch will send the vultures there to drop powerful nightmares everywhere, then restart the clock and detonate them, which will trap all the Rushers in ''waking'' nightmares...forever. It's up to Ralph, Mum, Greensleeves's niece/aspiring actress Flora Fauna, inept superhero Rod Rescueman, and a harried Fairy Godmother to put things to rights before it's too late.
Last seen in a few airings on CartoonNetwork, the film is distinguished not only by its unique "Lumage" animation, but also by a story, screenplay, and vocal performances that are imaginative and witty throughout, making this another great example of early [[Main/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation renaissance-era animation]].
Notable names among the crew, years before they became famous as directors, are [[Film/{{Coraline}} Henry Selick]] (sequence director) and DavidFincher (special photographic effects).
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chsYvlsqQtM&feature=related Watch it here.]] A "restoration cut" has been posted on YouTube [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np69QXcp3jQ as well.]]
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!!This animated film contains examples of:
* BadBoss: Synonamess Botch (and he's aware of it where the vultures are concerned).
* BigRedButton: Labeled "The Big Red One", it will detonate all the nightmares in Din.
* BooksThatBite: Seen during Ralph and Mumford's nightmare.
* CartoonCreature: Ralph's default form.
* CharacterAsHimself: Mumford.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mumford, again.
* DeadpanSnarker: The Fairy Godmother.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Din.
* DerangedAnimation: Very much so.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Played straight with [[spoiler: Ratatooie]], and subverted with [[spoiler: Botch, who falls out of his tower but is caught and carried off by his vultures. Given how poorly he treated them, [[TheDogBitesBack this is probably not going to turn out well...]]]].
* DistressedDamsel: ''Heavily'' spoofed. Flora gets a job at the Murkworks playing this role in various nightmares, and Rod Rescueman's test for whether he's appropriate for being hired by the Fairy Godmother is rescuing her from her flaming desk. [[spoiler: Flora subverts the trope when Ibor captures her -- Rod ''tries'' to rescue her, but in the end she destroys the robot herself.]]
* DoingItForTheArt
* TheDragon: Ibor the video gorilla (a TVHeadRobot). Via one of the [[Main/ShoutOut shout outs]] below, a clip of quintessential dragon Darth Vader appears on it at one point.
* DramatisPersonae: After the opening credits and prologue, the main characters are introduced to us in this manner.
* DreamLand
* EmbarrassingSlide: Synonimess Botch accidentally puts a photograph of a half-naked woman in his slide show. ("That's an old actress I used to know.")
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Murkworks.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Botch's pet armadillo... thing Ratatooie -- most spectacularly when he eats ''all'' the garbage that Ralph and Mum were gathering up. His regular diet consists of nuts and bolts.
* FairyGodmother
* HappilyEverAfter
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Scuzzbopper.]]
* {{Lilliputians}}: The residents of Frivoli and the Murkworks.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Of torrents, in this case.
* NeverLearnedToRead: PlayedForLaughs -- this applies to the Chef Justice of Frivoli, which is why he just tosses away Greensleeves's letter (which is a plea for help). Luckily, Flora Fauna has noticed that ''all'' letters sent to him get tossed away in this manner, and decides to retrieve it and see what it actually says...
* OnceUponATime: The phrase is used in the opening narration (naturally).
* PunchClockVillain: Scuzzbopper; with his jester outfit and status as an unappreciated lackey (he's the head nightmare writer) he also has aspects of the VillainousHarlequin.
* PunnyName: "Synonamess Botch" is a pun on (painter) Hieronymus Bosch.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Ralph, Mum, Flora Fauna, and Rod Rescueman. The first two are actually referred to as "misfits" [[hottip:* :"And dumb too!"]] early on, but no one else in Frivoli is aware of what's going on save for the Fairy Godmother, and there's only so much she can do for Ralph and Mum (i.e., hiring Rod). Even she loses faith in the pair and fires them from trying to save the day. Their determination to prove they ''can'' do something right leads into the final act.
* RogerRabbitEffect
* ShoutOut: Among the clips seen on Ibor's screen are ones from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', apt for a movie George Lucas executive produced.
* SmoochOfVictory: Rod expects/wants this as payment for "saving" Flora from the Murkworks. [[spoiler: At the end, he finally gets one out of her, and she also gives this to Ralph, Mum (twice) and Scuzzbopper.]]
* SplashOfColor: A balloon in Din turns yellow in the final shot.
* SugarBowl: Frivoli is a PlayedForLaughs example.
* ThatsAllFolks: Parodied via the trope namer [[spoiler: as the last thing we see on Ibor's screen before he blows up]].
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* TimeStandsStill
* {{Undercrank}}: Used to portray the waking world of Din. "Rushers" are so named because they're literally rushing through their lives, thanks to what Botch explains is a lack of time -- he tells the heroes his plan is to give them more via fixing the too-quickly-ticking Cosmic Clock. When Ralph and Mum search the Cosmic Clock for the spring, they cause time to run even faster, much slower (via [[Main/{{Overcrank}} overcranking]]), and even in reverse until it stops outright. [[spoiler: At the end, when time restarts, it's at a normal pace at last.]]
* UnwantedRescue: Rod's rescue of Flora from the Murkworks (he thought the ''KingKong''-inspired nightmare she was filming was real).
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ralph.
* WritersSuck: Scuzzbopper yearns to write "the great Amurkian novel", but Botch does not care.
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->''It was a time in desperate need of heroes -- any kind of heroes.''
-->-- Opening narration
''Twice Upon a Time'' is a 1983 mostly-animated comedy-fantasy directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson, and executive produced by GeorgeLucas. As with several other such films of the early '80s (''Film/TheLastUnicorn'', ''TheSecretOfNIMH''), its theatrical distribution was such that it made virtually no impact...and unlike those films it didn't get much video/cable exposure either.
The land of Frivoli is where dreams are made, and the land of Din is where they are taken to for delivery to the sleeping Rushers, via the jolly old man Greensleeves and his helpers the Figs. They have an evil counterpart in Synonamess Botch, who runs the nightmare factory known as the Murkworks and sends vultures out to deliver nightmares to Rushers. (Frivoli, the Murkworks, and the residents of both are animated via illuminated cut-outs while Din is DeliberatelyMonochrome live-action -- the Rushers are humans.)
Now Botch launches a master plan: He has Greensleeves and company kidnapped, and then tricks innocent fools Ralph (an "all-purpose animal", so called for his shapeshifting abilities) and Mumford (a Chaplin-esque mime) into stealing the spring of Din's Cosmic Clock for him. They do and this stops time in Din -- at a moment when everyone is awake. Botch will send the vultures there to drop powerful nightmares everywhere, then restart the clock and detonate them, which will trap all the Rushers in ''waking'' nightmares...forever. It's up to Ralph, Mum, Greensleeves's niece/aspiring actress Flora Fauna, inept superhero Rod Rescueman, and a harried Fairy Godmother to put things to rights before it's too late.
Last seen in a few airings on CartoonNetwork, the film is distinguished not only by its unique "Lumage" animation, but also by a story, screenplay, and vocal performances that are imaginative and witty throughout, making this another great example of early [[Main/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation renaissance-era animation]].
Notable names among the crew, years before they became famous as directors, are [[Film/{{Coraline}} Henry Selick]] (sequence director) and DavidFincher (special photographic effects).
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chsYvlsqQtM&feature=related Watch it here.]] A "restoration cut" has been posted on YouTube [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np69QXcp3jQ as well.]]
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!!This animated film contains examples of:
* BadBoss: Synonamess Botch (and he's aware of it where the vultures are concerned).
* BigRedButton: Labeled "The Big Red One", it will detonate all the nightmares in Din.
* BooksThatBite: Seen during Ralph and Mumford's nightmare.
* CartoonCreature: Ralph's default form.
* CharacterAsHimself: Mumford.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mumford, again.
* DeadpanSnarker: The Fairy Godmother.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Din.
* DerangedAnimation: Very much so.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Played straight with [[spoiler: Ratatooie]], and subverted with [[spoiler: Botch, who falls out of his tower but is caught and carried off by his vultures. Given how poorly he treated them, [[TheDogBitesBack this is probably not going to turn out well...]]]].
* DistressedDamsel: ''Heavily'' spoofed. Flora gets a job at the Murkworks playing this role in various nightmares, and Rod Rescueman's test for whether he's appropriate for being hired by the Fairy Godmother is rescuing her from her flaming desk. [[spoiler: Flora subverts the trope when Ibor captures her -- Rod ''tries'' to rescue her, but in the end she destroys the robot herself.]]
* DoingItForTheArt
* TheDragon: Ibor the video gorilla (a TVHeadRobot). Via one of the [[Main/ShoutOut shout outs]] below, a clip of quintessential dragon Darth Vader appears on it at one point.
* DramatisPersonae: After the opening credits and prologue, the main characters are introduced to us in this manner.
* DreamLand
* EmbarrassingSlide: Synonimess Botch accidentally puts a photograph of a half-naked woman in his slide show. ("That's an old actress I used to know.")
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Murkworks.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Botch's pet armadillo... thing Ratatooie -- most spectacularly when he eats ''all'' the garbage that Ralph and Mum were gathering up. His regular diet consists of nuts and bolts.
* FairyGodmother
* HappilyEverAfter
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Scuzzbopper.]]
* {{Lilliputians}}: The residents of Frivoli and the Murkworks.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Of torrents, in this case.
* NeverLearnedToRead: PlayedForLaughs -- this applies to the Chef Justice of Frivoli, which is why he just tosses away Greensleeves's letter (which is a plea for help). Luckily, Flora Fauna has noticed that ''all'' letters sent to him get tossed away in this manner, and decides to retrieve it and see what it actually says...
* OnceUponATime: The phrase is used in the opening narration (naturally).
* PunchClockVillain: Scuzzbopper; with his jester outfit and status as an unappreciated lackey (he's the head nightmare writer) he also has aspects of the VillainousHarlequin.
* PunnyName: "Synonamess Botch" is a pun on (painter) Hieronymus Bosch.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Ralph, Mum, Flora Fauna, and Rod Rescueman. The first two are actually referred to as "misfits" [[hottip:* :"And dumb too!"]] early on, but no one else in Frivoli is aware of what's going on save for the Fairy Godmother, and there's only so much she can do for Ralph and Mum (i.e., hiring Rod). Even she loses faith in the pair and fires them from trying to save the day. Their determination to prove they ''can'' do something right leads into the final act.
* RogerRabbitEffect
* ShoutOut: Among the clips seen on Ibor's screen are ones from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', apt for a movie George Lucas executive produced.
* SmoochOfVictory: Rod expects/wants this as payment for "saving" Flora from the Murkworks. [[spoiler: At the end, he finally gets one out of her, and she also gives this to Ralph, Mum (twice) and Scuzzbopper.]]
* SplashOfColor: A balloon in Din turns yellow in the final shot.
* SugarBowl: Frivoli is a PlayedForLaughs example.
* ThatsAllFolks: Parodied via the trope namer [[spoiler: as the last thing we see on Ibor's screen before he blows up]].
* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation
* TimeStandsStill
* {{Undercrank}}: Used to portray the waking world of Din. "Rushers" are so named because they're literally rushing through their lives, thanks to what Botch explains is a lack of time -- he tells the heroes his plan is to give them more via fixing the too-quickly-ticking Cosmic Clock. When Ralph and Mum search the Cosmic Clock for the spring, they cause time to run even faster, much slower (via [[Main/{{Overcrank}} overcranking]]), and even in reverse until it stops outright. [[spoiler: At the end, when time restarts, it's at a normal pace at last.]]
* UnwantedRescue: Rod's rescue of Flora from the Murkworks (he thought the ''KingKong''-inspired nightmare she was filming was real).
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ralph.
* WritersSuck: Scuzzbopper yearns to write "the great Amurkian novel", but Botch does not care.
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