The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut

After watching the review made by The Nostalgia Critic on the Miramax cut, I took the time to watch the Recobbled Cut start to finish. The scene of the war machine in particular already really stands out, as well as the impressive Rube Goldberg-esque destruction scenes, much of which I don't remember being in the bastard cuts. In Recobbled, I really like the characterizations of the two protagonists miles better than what the executive meddlers would give them (and I HAVE seen the Miramax cut long before, BTW), and none of this shoehorned musical bullshit.

In short, I could sum it up as a remastered unfinished What Could Have Been.

edited 25th Nov '10 9:08:04 PM by WartysNeryon

I agree. The Thief And The Cobbler is to go-to example for the bad side of Executive Meddling.

The Re-Cobbled cut is awesome, And I believe that before he died in 2009, Roy Disney Jr wanted the movie to be fully restored in the way it was intended.

edited 24th Nov '10 5:54:18 PM by PippingFool

Yes.

(spoiler alert: the following is the end of the movie)

Watch for the funny faces at 6:35 if you're not distracted by all the awesome machinery.

What happened to the thief's voice?

Most of the voices were taken out. They were not supposed to speak in the first place.

Speaking of voices:

"I. Love, you."

Sean Connery, what the hell are you doing.

I liked about half the thief's dialogue. The songs, not so much.

I have never seen the Miramax cut.

But I love Recobbled. I loves me some Thief.

Well excuse me if Narm Charm for the Miramax cut. >:c

I liked the thief's voice too for the Narm Charm. Especially the Going To Disney Land line.

edited 25th Nov '10 5:19:50 PM by Deboss

I just finished watching this video:

and I plan to see the rest of the movie later. I love the animation and I think the titular characters are cute, but what's up with the quality jumping from awesome to lame (NOT referring to the storyboard sketches, I've already heard about those)?

I found the end sequence to be a bit... well, boring, actually. Not that it wasn't stunningly intricate and all that; it just went on for so long, and I just got tired of watching the war machine slowly fall apart in spectacular ways and wanted to go back to the characters.

That video looks about as i remember the movie, confusing and strange. But that was years ago, and i paid little attention to things.

And look at those clouds at 3:00, all layery.

edited 22nd Apr '11 8:39:14 AM by EgregiousEric

The video quality changes because some scenes couldn't be found in higher quality - Lots of scenes were deleted in the Disneyfied versions. The Recobbled cut uses the visuals of a good quality DVD release of the Miramax verson (not the audio!), but the deleted scenes had to come from bootlegged VHSes.

Anyway, there is an upcoming documentary about the film:

edited 26th Apr '11 6:47:28 AM by Laukku

Interesting. Maybe Disney will release a fully-animated version in the future.

Just noticed that the Thief blog (made by people who worked on the flm) has been updated, after a long amount of inactivity: http://thethief1.blogspot.com/2011/11/into-city.html

The detail in the film and the effort put in it is just amazing.

edited 1st Dec '11 1:11:02 PM by Laukku

Bump. The post I linked to has been updated with an amazing pencil test of the scene on Youtube. The more finished versions near the end of the video look almost like Conspicuous Cg. O_O

Sorry for the triple-post... for anuone not following the "official" thread at orangecow, a new high quality copy of the workprint has been discovered, meaning a new improved version ("Mark IV") of the Recobbled Cut will be made.

edited 30th Dec '11 4:47:50 AM by Laukku

Really? That's awesome!

So I've been reading about this for a while, but is it true that Richard Williams has made peace with this movie after writing the Animator's Survival Kit?

Because if that is the case, then where's the source of that info?