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11[[caption-width-right:350:[-[[LittleKnownFacts Because it's common knowledge that the Titanic was just a "legend".]] [[ArtisticLicenseHistory And that there was a rapping dog on board.]]-] ]]
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13->''"You know there's something you should know, so I'm gonna tell you so! Don't sweat it! Forget it! Enjoy the show!"''
14-->-- '''Fritz''', opening the "Party Time" number
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16''Titanic: The Legend Goes On'' -- also known as ''Titanic: The Animated Movie'' or ''Titanic: The Animated Musical'' -- is a 2000 animated film written and directed by Italian director Camillo Teti.
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18The film follows the adventures of a WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} CaptainErsatz named Angelica, who boards the ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]'' with her wicked stepmother and her stepsisters. In a role-reversal of the romance from the better-known Creator/JamesCameron [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} film]], the poor girl falls in love with a rich young man ([[ContrivedCoincidence whose nanny happens to be]] [[LukeIAmYourFather Angelica's long-lost real mother]]).
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20Accompanying them on the voyage are a family of [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail immigrant mice]], a [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH thieving magpie]], a [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]] lookalike and her Cockney henchmen, a detective who dresses like Franchise/SherlockHolmes, a trio of Mexican mice, and an anachronistic rapping dog. [[RandomEventsPlot You will not be able to follow what they're doing or why they're doing it]].
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22The ship eventually hits an iceberg and sinks, [[ForegoneConclusion of course]] -- but in this LighterAndSofter fairy tale treatment of the ''Titanic'' story, nearly all of the characters we're introduced to in this film survive the disaster and live HappilyEverAfter.
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24There are two versions of the film: the original cut, and a more well-known ReCut which features completely different songs and a more coherent plot than the original cut. The latter version was bundled free with some cheap [=DVD=] player bundles in the early days of DVD technology.
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26Not to be confused with the '''other''' ''Titanic'' musical, which is about the actual people who were on the ship.
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28Nor should it be confused with another Italian film called ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic'', which is ''an entirely different'' animated ''Titanic'' movie with talking mice and a plot where nearly everyone survives the ''Titanic'' sinking.
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31!!''Titanic: The Legend Goes On'' proves examples of the following tropes:
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33* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The long-distance shots of the ship during the voyage are clearly computer generated, clashing with the normal 2-D animation.
34* ActorAllusion: Edmund Purdom, who voices Jeremy [=McFlannel=], had a small role in ''Film/Titanic1953''.
35* AdvertisedExtra: Most of the characters listed on the DVD are minor animals who only appear in the background of a few shots.
36* AllThereInTheScript: The names of a lot of the characters are only given on the back of the DVD.
37* AnachronismStew: Fritz the dog isn't only rapping in 1912, he also at one point carries a vintage wireless telegraph machine around like a boombox and wears a basketball jersey with a "T" (for ''Titanic'') on it.
38* AnimationBump: [[https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/188509 The scene]] in which Victoria gives Angelica her dress is probably the only scene in the movie where the animation is actually decent.
39* ArtisticLicenseHistory: ''[[ExaggeratedTrope In spades]]''. The rapping dog is just the [[IncrediblyLamePun tip of the iceberg]].
40* AwardBaitSong: Like the movie it's ripping off, it attempts to have a soulful love ballad, even played over the requisite ballroom scene.
41* BittersweetEnding: The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue indicates that most of the main cast are living happy lives, Angelica and William in particular getting married. That being said, 1,500 people still died tragically.
42* BrokenRecord: In the uncut version, some lines indeed sound like a broken record. Some sentences seem to somehow start mid-word and out of nowhere.
43** "You can't go through this way. Don't force me to resort to violence! You can't go through this way. Don't force me to resort to violence! Don't force me to resort to violence. Can't go through this way."
44-->'''Molly:''' I'm always a perfect lady with nothing to be ashamed of, so leave me alone.\
45(''several lines later'')\
46'''Molly:''' Oh thank you! Always a perfect lady with nothing to be ashamed of!
47** "The locket that her long-lost mother gave her." Said in two different scenes using the exact same audio footage.
48** [[CaptainObvious "WE'RE ON A SHIP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN!"]]
49** [[StayInTheKitchen "Out of the picture]], [[MadLibsDialogue she's/you're]] [[StayInTheKitchen about to present me with some heirs."]]
50** "You can't come - You can't come, you have nothing to wear - nothing to wear, and no one's going - and no one's going to lend you anything."
51* CanineConfusion: One of the dogs sheds a single tear after seeing the Titanic sink with his human still on board. Though keep in mind, this is the same movie where a different dog suddenly becomes bipedal, starts rapping, and wears hip-hop clothes out of nowhere even though it's supposed to be 1912.
52* CaptainErsatz: Most of the cast are imitations of characters from well-known animated films.
53** Angelica, her stepmother Gertrude, and her stepsisters are obvious Cinderella knockoffs and Angelica herself has also been compared to Don Bluth's WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}. Likewise, fittingly enough, Gertrude's cat Jeffrey is quite similar to Lucifer.
54** The mouse family is clearly derivative of ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''.
55** The two dalmatians look a lot like Pongo and Perdita from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', and of course there's a Cruella de Vil lookalike with henchmen who resemble Jasper and Horace.
56** The Mexican mice look like refugees from a WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales cartoon.
57** And there's a bumbling detective who looks like ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes''.
58** Somewhat less obvious:
59*** A magpie vaguely resembles Jeremy from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''.
60*** The Lady knock-off from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' (except that the "Lady" is actually ''male'' with a Sam Elliot-like voice).
61*** Granny from ''Sylvester and Tweety'' (called "Victoria").
62*** The Girl, with whom Victoria is traveling, looks suspiciously like a young version of Belle, from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''?
63*** Fritz the rapping terrier looks very much like Jock, the terrier in ''Lady and the Tramp''.
64*** The geese from ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''.
65*** William looks quite a bit like Prince Charming of ''Cinderella'' (and his picture on the DVD looks eerily like Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's character in the James Cameron ''Titanic'').
66*** Winnie the gold digger's overall appearance seems to have been copied off Molly Brown as she appears in James Cameron's ''Titanic''.
67*** And to top it all off, they couldn't resist admitting in script that the chihuahua accompanying the cat was based on Batty from ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''. ("Stupid dog! What am I saying? You look more like a bat!")
68* CaptainObvious: In the uncut version, when the ship is sinking, someone says "We're on a ship in the middle of the ocean." The same line was used earlier, when the Nanny points out to William that the girl he is looking for can't just disappear as "we're on a ship in the middle of the ocean!"
69* CatchPhrase: "Sam to my friends, a threat to my enemies."
70* CatsAreMean: The stepmother's cat Geoffrey is a very unpleasant animal that threatens to eat the Mouse family at one point.
71* CinderellaPlot: Angelica is a girl mistreated by her wicked stepfamily, brought along on the Titanic journey mostly to act as their servant during the trip; when she's not with them, she lives in her own lower-class cabin. When doing the laundry, she bumps into the wealthy William, who falls in LoveAtFirstSight with her. At night, there's a party on the ship that she can go to after an old lady hands her a dress to wear, and she spends the night dancing with William for as long as she can. While the plot soon shifts to be about the iceberg, she and William do get to live HappilyEverAfter and escape with their lives.
72* CirclingBirdies: When Meanstreak's dog gets hit by a leg of chicken and flies against the wall, he gets some chicken legs spinning around his head.
73** When Gertrude's cat gets hit by the door after trying to catch the mice, he gets images of the mice spinning around his head.
74* CryingCritters: When they escape in rowboats, the animals cry the same as the humans.
75* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
76** Repeated dialogue in uncut version.
77** Also this gem from the uncut version: "Dressed in mourning, Gertrude Pickering is all broken up, though her tears are not tears of joy."
78* DerangedAnimation: The rapping dog scene. Everybody gains a weird plastic wrap texture, and become almost gelatinous.
79* DeterioratesIntoGibberish: Happens frequently, sometimes for no reason.
80* TheDoorSlamsYou: Happens during the medallion retrieval scene.
81* EekAMouse: Invoked. The Fievel lookalike deliberately scares away the stepsisters to defend Angelica and William.
82* EverybodyLives:
83** Despite being a movie about an event where over 1500 people died... the only character who is actually stated to have not made it off the boat is Molly the singer, and all because [[TooDumbToLive she was too busy singing]]. Everyone else lives [[HappyEnding happily ever after]], with no life-altering psychological damage at all. Even the dog made it!
84** It's also implied that the gold digger Winnie and Jeremy [=McFlannel=] die as well. They are last seen on the boat, willing to stay with each other to the end, and aren't mentioned in the epilogue.
85** Funnily enough, the part about the singer dying on ''Titanic'' due to being busy singing may in fact be some sort of reference to how the orchestra decided to stay behind on the ship and play one last tune of "Nearer My God To Thee." No word on whether attractive female singers were part of the group, though. [[spoiler:They weren't.]]
86* FallingInLoveMontage: A brief one when [[spoiler: Angelica and William dance at the party, unintentionally highlighting how little screen time the two romantic leads have shared together]].
87* FanDisservice: The homely stepsisters are seen in their undergarments at one point.
88* FanserviceExtra: Molly, the woman who sings "Hold Me" has a dress that exposes her cleavage a bit.
89* FlashbackWithinAFlashback: The recut version makes the majority of the story happen within a flashback. This also means that flashbacks during that time occur in a flashback.
90* FourLinesAllWaiting: We've got the thieves, the love story, the detective, the mice, the bankrupt banker, and the search for the mother. Oh, and the boat thing. Dubiously justified in that the movie makers seemed to want to concentrate more on the lives of the passengers, taking it for granted that the viewers would already know about the iceberg thing.
91* FriendToAllLivingThings: Angelica.
92%% * FryingPanOfDoom: Ship's chef attempts to use one, but fails.
93* FunnyAnimal: There are a ton of them in this movie but especially the mice family.
94%% * {{GASP}}: Angelica on a boat.
95* GorgeousPeriodDress: Probably the one part of the movie that comes close to accurate, aside from the setting. All the fancy hats, [[PimpedOutDress expensive dresses]], and [[PrettyInMink fur wraps]] were at least mostly done right. The one exception is Molly's gown, a strapless, backless number that looks more suitable for a modern cruise ship than anything from a century ago. There's also the rapping dog, who wears a jersey (with the letter T on it, even) and a baseball cap.
96* GratuitousRap: The infamous dog rapping about party time, with no context or justification for doing so.
97* GratuitousSpanish: The song "Mucho Gusto". Most of it is ElSpanishO, and the little bit of actual Spanish is totally mangled. ''Fiesta'' is strictly the noun form of "party" (''festejaremos'' is "we will party") and ''mucho gusto'' (literally "very pleased") is the Spanish equivalent of "pleased to meet you" ("much gusto" would be translated as ''mucho entusiasmo'').
98* HappilyEverAfter: If there was ever a film where a HappilyEverAfter ending could be considered a problem, it's this. One of the mice even uses the quote happily ever after verbatim.
99* HeroicDolphin: The dolphins who help save people from the sinking ship.
100* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: First Officer Stockard is vaguely a JerkWithAHeartOfGold (or at least the movie makers seemed to intend for that) in an earlier scene, when Molly thinks that Angelica stole her locket (in reality, Gaston found it and gave it to Molly, without knowing who the real owner was) and the officer implies to her that the necklace was Angelica's to begin with. After that, though, he becomes a snide JerkAss who, among other things, shoves another crew member out of the way to get a spot on the lifeboats. The real first officer, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McMaster_Murdoch Murdoch]], went down with the ship after helping evacuate about ''three quarters'' of the survivors, and is generally regarded as a hero.
101* HollywoodCostuming: Molly wears a strapless, backless dress with a low neckline that's 1930s at the absolute earliest, and sticks out like a sore thumb when compared to the far more period-accurate (for the most part; Fritz wears a ''very'' anachronistic outfit during "Party Time") clothes of the other characters.
102* HongKongDub: The English dub has a whole bunch of instances of oddly-translated lines that don't even attempt to match up with the MouthFlaps of the characters, suggesting that they just went for a literal translation of the Italian in the original and hoped for the best. "If it hadn't been for you, I would be now in someone else's digestion" is probably the standout example.
103* IntentionalMessMaking: In one scene, Angelica's stepfamily intentionally smash some china, for the sole purpose of forcing her to clean it up.
104* IWasQuiteALooker: Victoria claims to be this, explaining why she'd have a party dress in Angelica's size. We never actually see evidence of this, though. And of course this brings up some major FridgeLogic: why would Victoria, who looks to be quite elderly, have a dress from her youth (presumably the 1880s) that's very much in keeping with 1912 styles? Or more, why would she have brought this dress in a cruise trip if she was too old to even wear it?
105* KickTheDog: One of the wicked stepsisters intentionally drops a cup and the stepmother orders the young heroine to clean it up, calling her "clumsy" in the process.
106* LargeHam: The voice actress who does the voice of Meanstreak when she says "IT'S A FAAAAKE!"
107* LighterAndSofter: Than the live action film, as the back cover blurb explains.
108-->"As it happened in the real story, the ''Titanic'' will hit the iceberg but only to determine the beginning of a new life full of hope for everybody!!"
109* LimitedAnimation: In fact, the animation has been compared to the VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames.
110* LoveAtFirstSight: One of the most extreme examples, as William falls head-over-heels for Angelica within seconds.
111* MaleGaze: The film pays a lot of attention to Angelica and Molly's chests.
112* TheMockbuster: Of James Cameron's ''[[Film/{{Titanic1997}} Titanic]]''.
113* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: "Meanstreak".
114* NoFourthWall
115** "Wait a minute, wait a minute, where are you going? The movie isn't over yet!"
116** Fritz the rapping dog's "Don't sweat it! Forget it! Enjoy the show!"
117* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: You wouldn't know William was Scottish unless you [[AllThereInTheManual read the back of the box]].
118* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Hector, the magpie, steals a pin out of a mouse's hat when he first appears, and whistles while averting eye contact when the mouse turns around. He gets away with it.
119* ParentalAbandonment: At the start of the film Angelica is in the care of her [[WickedStepmother stepmother]], the only explanation given about her biological parents is that they left her behind as a small child and then seemingly disappeared. Conveniently Angelica's mother just happens to be on the ''Titanic'', the caretaker to the male love interest (who by the way has no parents to speak of either), and ends up the same lifeboat as her long-lost daughter. When the pair reunite, all that is revealed is Angelica's parents were forced to give her up for unstated reasons; in the uncut version, it's (somewhat) clarified that her parents were allowed to return for Angelica at any time - but when they did so, the girl's caretaker (the stepmother) had taken off, leaving only a bank account for money that they were likely sending to her behind.
120* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Sam Bradbury has to be the worst undercover detective ever to live. The fact that he managed to get an award for solving a crime he did bugger-all to solve at the end of the movie is baffling. There's even an instance where a woman's valuables have disappeared (or more likely stolen) and he pops up saying "Not to worry, I saw everything." There's also the fact that he clearly sees the two thieves reaching into the gold digger's purse at one point and seems to freak out for no good reason when they start to put their hand in the dog's mouth instead. Wouldn't that have been reason enough to catch them? On the other hand, this might also apply to the Captain, who was told he had a ring of notorious thieves on his boat ''and didn't do a thing to help catch them''. No warnings to the passengers, no extra security, no worrying, nothing.
121* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: It's considered a happy ending because all the main characters survived. Special note of the scene where Angelica finds a man in the water and is vocally disappointed because he's not William instead of just being glad to save his life.
122* RecycledInSpace: Creator/JamesCameron's ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', as a Disneyesque cartoon with the main characters' genders reversed. And a rapping dog.
123* ReReleaseSoundtrack: In the uncut version, Fritz's rap is sort of a PatterSong with a slight beat, sung by his voice actor in a monotone, while the Mexican mice perform a mariachi song in Spanish. For the more famous recut, they get replaced respectively by the more in-your-face "Party Time" (with a different vocalist) and a cheesy English song that desperately wants to sound Mexican, called "Mucho Gusto".
124* SequelHook: At the end, the kid mouse telling how everyone lived happily ever after says "See you soon!", even though there was no sequel made.
125* SeriesContinuityError: The movie can't agree whether Hortense and Bernice are Gertrude's daughters or nieces.
126* SheCleansUpNicely: Angelica in the dress Victoria lent her.
127* SherlockHomage: Sam is clearly based on Franchise/SherlockHolmes, being a detective who wears a deerstalker and smokes a pipe.
128* SingleTear: A dog sheds a teardrop when the ship sinks.
129* SkewedPriorities: While EverybodyLives, the rescue boats had no problem filling some of the empty seats with animals.
130* SpaghettiKiss: Sort of. We see the Dalmatians sharing link sausage in the "Mucho Gusto" scene. We don't actually see them kiss, but it's pretty obvious it was meant to invoke this trope.
131* SparedByTheAdaptation: In real life, first officer William [=McMaster=] Murdoch went down with the ship. But First Officer Stockard in this movie survives.
132* StepServant: Angelica is basically a Cinderella {{expy}}, complete with the evil stepfamily. It's not made entirely clear how they became her stepfamily since her father is never seen [[spoiler:and her mother is still alive]], but they definitely treat her like Cinderella; in one scene, one stepsister even deliberately smashes a teacup just to make her clean up the mess.
133* StockAudioClip: The original English dub, by virtue of simply being a dub, didn't leave out anything from the native Italian version...but this leads to an utterly bizarre issue where they have to resort to repeating dialogue whenever the scene runs too long and the new dialogue runs too short to compensate. A particularly bad case is when a guard at one point says "You can't go through this way! Don't force me to resort to violence!" ''three times'' in exactly the same way in the span of less than a minute.
134* StockFootage: The edited version is especially guilty for this.
135** A large part of the footage in that version is shown at least twice. In one scene, there's water breaking through the hull shown ''4 times straight''.
136** Most of the musical sequences use the same short shots of characters repeatedly.
137** The North American edit's notoriously long closing credits recycles scenes from throughout the movie.
138* TemptingFate: One old man boards the boat and says "Let's hope it's a ''smooth crossing''" to Angelica while [[EyebrowWaggle moving his eyebrows in a mysterious way]].
139* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The aforementioned rapping dog song "Party Time" and the Mexican mice's "Mucho Gusto."
140* ThievingMagpie: Hector, with the most important thing he appropriates being Angelica's locket.
141* ThoseTwoGuys: The thieves are always seen working together whenever they are on screen.
142* TotallyRadical: Fritz's ''very'' modern rap number has a lot of rap lingo despite this being the 1910's. However, this is not shown outside the rap number.
143* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Anthropomorphic animals, to passengers.
144* UptownBoy: William is this to Angelica, who feels unfit to be in a relationship with him because of her station. She even tells him she doesn't belong in his world and couldn't compete with the young ladies that surround him.
145* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The actual Titanic didn't have anthropomorphic animals, for starters.
146* ViewersAreGoldfish: The movie tends to repeat things that happened less than three minutes ago.
147* ViewersAreMorons: During Fritz the dog's rap, there's a sign on the wall that helpfully reminds us that the genre of the song we're listening to is "RAP MUSIC".
148* VocalDissonance: You'd expect the [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Dopey-esque]] bellhop to have a silly-sounding voice, but no. He speaks with a perfectly normal-sounding one instead.
149* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Literally, with the Mexican mouse band. During and after the sinking disaster, they are never seen nor mentioned again, but it’s implied they were among the 1,500 victims.
150** Jeremy [=McFlannel=] and Winnie are also implied to have perished as well, as they do not appear in the epilogue.
151* WhatSongWasThisAgain: The song sung by the Mexican mice in the uncut version (apparently called "Mexicana") has rather poetic Spanish lyrics talking about a "big party with friends" and a "magical night", but the refrain is grimly ironic given the ForegoneConclusion about what's going to happen to the ship--"On a night like this, nothing can go wrong; Everything will be perfect...we will never forget this night." In contrast, the recut's English equivalent "Mucho Gusto" is a much more frivolous ElSpanishO-laden number about how you should "dust off your dancing shoe-sto and fiesta with mucho gusto."
152* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The littlest mouse. Supposedly meant to be Swedish, but it sounds Irish and even Jamaican (!) at times.
153* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: {{Lampshaded}} by the youngest of the mouse family at the very end of the film.
154* WickedStepmother: Gertrude. Although she's technically Angelica's adopted mother, she plays the role of a stepmother, and treats her as a servant.
155* AWildRapperAppears: "PARTY TIME! IT'S PARTY TIME!" Especially glaring since a) the movie had no songs up to that point and b) [[AnachronismStew rap music hadn't even been invented yet]].
156* WorldOfBuxom: The film [[MaleGaze pays a lot of attention to Angelica and Molly's chests]], and Gertrude, Hortense, and Bernice are also very well-endowed, though that may be FanDisservice.
157* YouAreWorthHell: In the full uncut version, there's a scene as the ship is sinking where the old man and the fat lady reveal that they were both lying to one another; they each have nothing of value. The woman then embraces the man saying how at least she has him. It's the closest thing to an actual emotional scene in the movie. [[UncertainDoom And we never see them again.]]

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