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| 9 | ->''"What world created this? Aside from just making NO sense... AT ALL, the animation's choppy, the characters are forgettable, the songs are crap, it's just a stupid, stupid, STUPID movie, with virtually nothing redeemable about it whatsoever."'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', on ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppiesAndTheLegendOfBigPaw'' |
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| 12 | Sometimes, no matter how many animators, computers, or cash injections they'll throw at a project, an animated film can still become such a gigantic mess of colors and lines that a group of monkeys locked in a room can draw a better film. Here are some of the worst animated atrocities categorized so far. |
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| 14 | To see horribly made cartoon shows from UsefulNotes/{{Television}}, check out the Horrible/WesternAnimation, Horrible/AnimeAndManga, and Horrible/AsianAnimation pages. |
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| 18 | # Merely being offensive in its subject matter, a BoxOfficeBomb, or a film you don't plain like is not sufficient. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy, no matter how small a niche it is. It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this. (If you're unsure whether it belongs here or not, visit the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Horrible.Film discussion page]] and give us your input. Otherwise, if it's something you just plain don't like, please don't shoehorn it in; this isn't a page for complaining about things that fail to you.) |
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| 20 | # It isn't a Horrible animated film just because ''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter'', ''WebVideo/PhantomStrider'', ''WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}'', ''WebVideo/SchaffrillasProductions'', and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, or because it was featured on WebVideo/IHateEverything's ''The Search for the Worst''. There needs to be independent evidence, such as reputable critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it (though once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review). |
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| 22 | # To ensure that the work is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''. This includes "sneaking" the entries onto the pages ahead of time by adding them and then just commenting them out. |
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| 26 | %% There are works that are disqualified from this trope for one reason or another, and should not be added to the list. They are: |
| 27 | %% ''Where the Dead Go to Die''. While it's true that the film has garnered extreme controversy for having very disturbing content, it also has a genuine cult following and it's from a company whose entire business model is to release these kinds of films. Being disturbing is not the same thing as being poorly-made on a technical level. |
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| 30 | !!Examples: |
| 31 | [[index]] |
| 32 | * [[Horrible/AnimatedFilmsStandaloneExamples Standalone Examples]] |
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| 38 | * '''Creator/TheAsylum''' is infamous for making terrible live-action [[TheMockbuster mockbusters]], and you can read all about them in the Horrible/LiveActionFilms subpage. Their ventures in animation have not been any better. |
| 39 | ** '''''Izzie's Way Home''''' is a flagrant ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' ripoff that was released suspiciously close to ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[='s=] theatrical release. The plot is similar to ''Nemo''[='s=] if it were done much worse. [[invoked]] [[IdiotPlot Characters frequently make stupid decisions just because the plot demands it]], like when Izzie goes towards a hook without any bait for no apparent reason and gets stuck on it. The film also ends with a blatant DeusExMachina, as Izzie's mother shows up out of nowhere to kill a snake threatening everyone. The characters are all either cardboard cutouts, incredibly annoying, absolutely awful, or some combination of the three, and some of them (including the closest thing the movie has to a BigBad) [[KarmaHoudini get no comeuppance for their actions]]. The animation is very lazy (so bad, in fact, that at one point, a man ''floats'' in a static position from one place to the other, and the fish characters often look like they're simply hovering in mid-air rather than in water), with camera perspectives so bad that they make it difficult to tell what's going on. The attempts at humor amount to nothing more than bog-standard ToiletHumour. The voice acting (which wastes the talents of [[Music/NSync Joey Fatone]] and Tori Spelling) is phoned in at best and horribly grating at worst. The film has a 1.6 on Website/IMDb. WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} also tore into this one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoFBET9lNok here.]] |
| 40 | ** '''''Trolland''''', a 2016 [[TheMockbuster rip-off]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' that has a beyond-amateurish take on perspective and animation. The characters themselves are animated worse than ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' characters (and mind you, most projects using that software do so [[StylisticSuck for comedic effect]]). Some of the shots are outright bizarre - there's no clear sense of scale, as most of the models and props are simply superimposed over the settings. Speaking of models, [[YouAllLookFamiliar recycling]] is so common that, multiple times throughout the film, the exact same model turns up ''twice'' in the same shot. And all of that is ignoring outright ''bizarre'' additions, such as a fake Platform/GameBoy early on and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment an actual photograph of Queen Elizabeth, which goes completely unmentioned]]. And all that aside, it's written as a ClicheStorm, just like any other mockbuster, and they even screwed that part of it up beyond a minute's span. It's rather clear that whatever budget the film had was spent on getting [[QuestionableCasting the likes of]] Creator/JerryOConnell, Ja Rule, [[Music/{{TLC}} T-Boz]], Chris Music/{{Daughtry}}, Creator/DebiDerryberry, Creator/GregCipes, and Creator/DickVanDyke to work on the film. WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYvzaJVpXc looked into this film in greater detail here,]] having once declared it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90_hfw2_P4s the nadir of animation,]] though until he saw The Misty Green Sky on Amazon Prime, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgyCHDTU5-E he still thought it the worst animated movie of the 2010s.]] |
| 41 | ** '''''Homeward''''' is a blatant copy of ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'', but lacks any of that film's quality or emotion. The characters (an elf and his orc stepbrother) are both unlikeable, with the former being a giant snobby JerkAss, while the second is a total idiot. The plot is devoid of originality and feels like a copy of ''Film/{{Bright}}''. Several of the characters resemble characters from other, more famous animated films. For example, the orc brother resembles [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph Ralph]] with fangs, while one of the girls resembles a recolored [[Franchise/HotelTransylvania Mavis]]. The animation, while better than ''Trolland's'', is still pretty bad, with [[SpecialEffectsFailure problems such as models clipping through each other]] being common. WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} reviewed it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrpXpzxNvik here]] |
| 42 | ** Then there's '''''[=CarGo=]''''', based on ''Franchise/{{Cars}}''. Despite coming out in 2017, the animation looks worse than in ''Series/VanPires'' (a product of the '90s) and the character designs are either ugly, bizarre, or just plain boring. The character's personalities are little better: One-dimensional rebellious son, one-dimensional love interest, cliché "Punk & bully who is actually a nice person deep down", cliché [[TheDon mob boss]] (yes, really)... The plot is slow and chock-full of {{Padding}}, even ignoring the characters' tendency to start musical numbers at the drop of a hat, and the whole movie seems little more than a [[{{Pun}} vehicle]] for the creators to make as many ear-burningly bad car puns as possible. Add onto that a heaping of truly ''disturbing'' FridgeHorror (seriously, Clunker Island is ''nightmarish'') and a BigLippedAlligatorMoment involving "The Spirit Of The Forest", and you have something that is truly ''awful'' to watch. WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} can be seen tearing into it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L997krZfww&t=9s here]]. |
| 43 | * '''Deos Video Inc.''', a very obscure animation studio under the now-defunct home video distributor Simitar Entertainment, is only known to have produced two animated direct-to-video Christmas specials, neither of which are anywhere near masterpieces: |
| 44 | ** '''''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasLight''''', made in 1995, could very well be considered the CGI counterpart to ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree''. The premise is that the North Pole's toy production is behind schedule, but two ChristmasElves, Isaac and Burton, present alternative and quicker ways of making toys. Burton, the {{Jerkass}} rival elf who gets rejected by SantaClaus, falls into his buggy toy-making machine and is inexplicably frozen, and swiftly after being shattered into multiple pieces, transforms into a giant snowman warlock [[DisproportionateRetribution who threatens to ruin Christmas with a massive snowstorm in retaliation]]. The already bizarre setup just gets worse from there, involving "[[TitleDrop the Christmas Light]]" guiding them to recruit Jennifer, where her only role is convincing Santa not to melt the Snowman and rescuing Burton (who now is redeemed). The premise and plot make absolutely no sense (How did Burton's toy machine turn him into ice? Why did he become a snowman after dying? What is the Christmas Light, and why did it guide them to Jennifer's house? Why didn't it just guide them to the Snowman in the first place?[[note]]Alledgedly, as Jennifer claims it's "a light of goodness" that's "inside us all", one could say it wanted to purify Burton, but it's very poorly explained.[[/note]]), the voice acting [[DullSurprise sounds bored and lethargic]] (even when [[ChewingTheScenery Burton's ranting against Santa]], this being difficult to tell it's also trying to be a song number), with narrator Dan Haggerty sounding drunk, and the characters themselves are either boring or downright unlikeable. One of the worst parts of the whole thing is the visuals and animations, which are absolutely atrocious (even for 1995) with stiff, robotic movements, [[UnintentionalUncannyValley vacant, expressionless faces]], and flat, washed-out, and occasionally ''non-existent'' textures. Comparing this movie to that of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' (which came out the same year and which the special's box cover has the gall to compare itself to), the earliest episodes of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' (which still have livelier animation even two years prior for how badly their animation has aged), and the unfinished CGI film ''The Works'' (which began production in ''1979'') just shows how inept everything about this special is. WebVideo/RebelTaxi [[https://youtu.be/z6Db1uUdM2A?t=917 briefly covers the special]] in a Top 4 Best and Worst Christmas Movie countdown and WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSqcvmLE0ek attempts to have some fun]] with it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a62dTyq4uYM as did]] WebVideo/{{Phelous}}, and WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF7PQaj_fqw does so as well]]. |
| 45 | ** '''''The Christmas Brigade''''' somehow fails to clear the above bar by a staggering amount. The visuals are only marginally better at first glance (the main difference being colored lighting), but thanks to the awful designs and lazy animation, this is the movie's detriment. The characters have even choppier animations than before, often spontaneously pop in and out of existence, hover in air and ''phase through surfaces, walls and ceilings, and even themselves'' in lieu of walk cycles, all of which the movie [[HandWave excuses]] via [[AWizardDidIt gadget belts invented by Isaac]] in the span of a time card (which are frequently used in this special, all just saying "Later"). [[TheOtherDarrin The voice actors who replaced the ones from the first movie]] somehow sound even ''more'' bored, and the horrendous dialogue is full of AccidentalInnuendo, outright-bizarre wording ("[Burton] reappeared as a frozen ice image of himself"?), and puns that don't even merit a pity laugh. The storyline is bland and generic, having the evil Dr. D shrinking world landmarks to display as trinkets (he doesn't even have much of a reason for doing so, beyond [[ForTheEvulz it being a Christmas present to himself and wanting to spread misery]]), and briefly brainwashes Isaac into serving him using an invisible ring (which conviently Dr. D can't tell when he's not under its influence). What's more, it makes up less than half the 70-minute runtime--and to take up that much, they had to draw shots and sentences out as long as possible and cram in all manner of pointless asides, such as having an entire song dedicated to the life-span of a beetle and a chase scene that goes nowhere (both in a figurative and literal sense). The remaining 40 minutes are recycled from the first movie ''nearly in full'' with the new voice actors narrating over it (even ''repeating the same lines'') through a flimsy framing device, and after that, are just are just them celebrating Christmas and singing carols. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QUUBhYcFlo Phelous]] and WebVideo/RebelTaxi [[https://youtu.be/yEyLB-uJ5e0?t=721 have taken a look]]--while WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} has gone on record as saying he'd much rather not. |
| 46 | * '''Digital-World''' was a German "animation" studio created in the early 2000s that makes Dingo Pictures look like they live up to their super-budget claim by comparison. There were only four known films (one appearing to be a sequel to a film they did) that they created (though all of them are actually available on [=YouTube=] to watch for both the German versions and the few English versions available, [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP5MlP5YxJ9s_Dj35dT3rfFC_GOXzzeen if you choose to do so at your own risk]]), and each film Digital World created has ugly character models, stiff movement, and mouth movements that make their characters go even further into the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]] than they probably should due to them talking either directly through their teeth or talking clearly without any teeth shown at all. Not only that, but two of their films had the unfortunate merit of having East West Entertainment dubbing their films to English, who also were the same people involved with a few of Dingo Pictures' most notorious dubbing flops around. They released their films in a two-year period from 2002-03, so it's likely their films would have forever faded into the ether of time itself had WebVideo/{{Phelous}} not encountered one of their films that he now considers the worst Christmas movie ever, a film that one must avoid going after... |
| 47 | ** '''Red Nose''' (a.k.a., ''WesternAnimation/RudiRotnase'' when translated in its native language or ''Rentier Weihnachten'' in the official German version) may have one of the better East West dubs around (if only because there's a little bit more of a vocal variety involved, including an actual woman for once), but not only are their dubbing issues still prominent even with a different company's films around, this film manages to make 43 minutes of time feel ''much longer'' than that, with Phelous arguing that its actual content fills only '''five minutes''' worth of story properly. Their conversion to DVD made the film darker and jumpier than it should be, but even if the quality conversion was done properly, it doesn't change the fact that the story goes by ''so slowly'' that it makes Deos Video's Christmas films feel naturally paced by comparison. This film tries to tell the classic story of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but the plot points they highlight are either completely irrelevant to the story or are told in a completely amateurish manner (to the point where the fade-ins and fade-outs aren't even implemented properly). Combine that with animation that somehow does choppy movement under a ridiculously slow pace, and you got a film that's so hard to sit through, you'll be more likely to fall asleep to it by how incomprehensible and ''boring'' it is. Phelous reviewed it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqJ6ExhH0tE here on Christmas Eve in 2021,]] and he felt it works better as an art-house piece to test your will through animated garbage than as a proper Christmas movie. |
| 48 | * '''Creator/DingoPictures''' was originally a German storybook turned animation studio created in the late 1980s or early 1990s tied to "[[SmallNameBigEgo super-budget]]" producer Creator/PhoenixGames (and Midas). It features animated rip-offs of (mostly) Creator/{{Disney}} films such as ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Their plagiarism is overshadowed by the films' animation, which is so colossally awful on every level that they make the animation for the ''Legend of Zelda'' [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames CD-i games]] look '''good'''. [[http://www.dingo-pictures.de/en/ Seriously, just look at their film trailers.]] And for some reason, their films were once sold as video games from the [=PlayStation=] era up until the Nintendo DS & Wii era, with a few generic mini-games being added to justify having the films be on Platform/PlayStation or Platform/PlayStation2 video game discs instead of [=DVDs=] (although some films would get English DVD releases later on anyway). [[ReclusiveArtist Their entire history is close to a hodgepodge of misinformation and pure mystery]] that seriously stumped WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}, a guy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo7jrQPxo0I who likes finding out information on companies with how they originated and how long they existed if they're defunct.]] (However, a future documentary released by the new owners of Dingo Pictures will help clear up some of the confusing history the original company's had.) It's not a surprise how they're constantly mocked on [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/dingo-pictures-cartoon.php parodies]] and reviews, sometimes being on worst animated films of all-time lists like with Saberspark saying [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oeWACXpBl0 the entire company's line was the second-worst animated film stuff he's ever seen]] behind only The Adventures of Açela. |
| 49 | ** '''''WesternAnimation/AnimalSoccerWorld''''' is one of the most notorious of their films. It's not easy to tell just by looking at it, but it's superficially based on an animated sequence from ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks''. What makes it particularly notorious, apart from its incomprehensible plot and laughable animation, is the voice acting, [[ActingForTwo performed entirely by one or two voice actors]] from East West Entertainment that were bored out of their skulls and [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent speaking with a ridiculous, impenetrable (presumably) Dutch accent]], who sound as if Creator/TommyWiseau started his own dub company, only less awesome. The short and [[SoundtrackDissonance rather unfitting]] jungle riff looping in the background nonstop ''over and over'' doesn't help either. Sitting through the film's 30-minute span is an excruciating experience; even the Phoenix Games/Code Monkeys opening logos to the game are more enjoyable. [[https://youtu.be/R3L2pPyYi5k Caddicarus has covered it and has declared it to be "The New Worst Game Ever Made",]] while WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} intended on reviewing this alongside two other films before giving up on it altogether after seeing only a preview of the film. It can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_PAuSnvHtQ here]]. |
| 50 | *** Interestingly enough, Phelous revealed in his own review of the movie that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIvjtfDoSlE this film was actually made back in 1998]]... which makes the idea of selling ''Animal Soccer World'' on the [=PlayStation=] 2 even more confusing when considering it came out almost a decade later. |
| 51 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKZQb-jH-7A Here]] you can see WebVideo/{{Caddicarus}}' takedown of '''''[[WesternAnimation/TheDalmatians Dalmatians 3]]''''', an atrocious train wreck obviously intended to [[TheMockbuster fool unsuspecting buyers]] into confusing it with ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. |
| 52 | ** The writing's about as terrible as the animation and voice acting. For example, their version of '''''[[WesternAnimation/DerGlocknerVonNotreDame The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''''' not only shows a heartless Esmeralda leaving Quasimodo to die in a dungeon, making it seem like the fact that he intentionally starved to death in [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original novel]] wasn't enough for them, but also has the gall to [[EsotericHappyEnding declare this a happy ending]] just because Quasimodo has proof that Esmerelda is still alive. |
| 53 | ** Over [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBYLeZG6EWE here]] you can witness the entirety of '''''Mouse Police''''', featuring commentary from [[WebVideo/GuruLarryAndWez Guru Larry]] and WebVideo/OctaviusKing. (Movie starts at 4:18.) It features all of Dingo's trademarks: sloppy voice acting from about three actors total, bad dialogue full of [[NonSequitur unintended non sequiturs]], horribly ugly art, recycled character designs (the two protagonists are the same character model in [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics gender-specific clothing]]), an utterly nonsensical plot, and animation that must be seen to be believed. [[https://youtu.be/6BHSg6opMT4 Square Eyed Jak's praise for it]] was limited to its [[{{Narm}} unintentional humor]] when he reviewed it via the [=PS2=] "game" published by [[Horrible/VideoGamesOther Phoenix Games]] and gave it a 1/10. |
| 54 | ** One of their earliest known film adaptations was '''''The Legend of Pocahontas'''''. Released back in ''1995'' (around the same time as [[WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} the Disney version]]), the Dingo Pictures version showcases them being a bit more ambitious back in the day with them trying to produce actual songs for certain scenes, having the film be longer than most other films Dingo made (being 52 minutes long uncut), showcasing their first character designs that they'd later repeat for most of their later films, and being the ''only'' film that lists who voiced which character instead of abruptly ending (with 14 different names involved, one of whom being related to someone else in the cast). That's not to say they were any better back then, since they still held the same problems found with their films, including the fact that everyone revels in harming each other, repeated character stills in different frames (even when they shouldn't be on there), and backgrounds that don't look like they should be taking place in the story that's being told. And that's not even mentioning its own unique problems like how the sage flora is an old bush named Old Bush that's considered pure NightmareFuel, how one scene didn't translate its transition effect at all for non-German speakers (for the DVD release), or even how one scene had [[SpecialEffectFailure an actual, living insect crawl up on the background when the animation was taking place]]. WebVideo/{{Phelous}} looked into the full, uncut DVD release of it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXiVttz6JU here.]] |
| 55 | *** As if that weren't bad enough, '''Wabuu''', the CaptainErsatz of the raccoon Meeko from the Disney film, as well as a good amount of screentime in other titles such as ''Countryside Bears'' and [[BreakoutCharacter becoming the de facto mascot of Dingo in general]], got his own spinoff film. It has one of Dingo's worst English dubs, and like the aforementioned ''Animal Soccer World'' said dub has an annoying background music track looping nonstop, this time being CreepyCircusMusic. It also doesn't help that this, ''Aladin'', and ''Animal Soccer World'' were all dubbed in English by someone's foreign-sounding father and his son from a different company for some odd reason instead (which results in even people watching Dingo for BileFascination jarred by the [[TheOtherDarrin absence of]] the familiar, bad-Creator/PeterLorre-impression-like voice that Wabuu had in his other appearances). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYTjTUZ_w4 Watch Phelous dissect it.]] |
| 56 | ** To call the English dub of '''''Aladin''''' hard to watch is NotHyperbole. On top of the common issues with the company's other works, such as very limited animation, [[TalkingToThemself very small amount of voice actors]], and unfitting music being looped through the entire film (including over other music), the voice acting is of even worse quality than usual, being recorded with very cheap equipment and often severely out of sync with the visuals (even ignoring [[HongKongDub the lack of any lip-syncing]], often one character will be shown speaking while another's voice is heard, and bits of the original German audio can sometimes be heard, also out of sync), not helped by the voice actors obviously having a poor grasp of English and mispronouncing several words. Judging by the presence of a "Play" symbol at the start of the movie, the dub was produced by putting a camera in front of a TV playing a VHS of the German version, sitting two kids in the room, and having them read scripts live in a single take as the movie plays (at one point, you can hear one of them turning a page, and they also repeat some words they misread). And there are some musical numbers, but [[TheSongRemainsTheSame all the lyrics are in German, even in the English dub]]. All of this makes the story almost incomprehensible unless you put in effort to make out what's being said. Not that it matters, since one edition of the movie just ends early, cutting out a third of the story. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG5rrSXQ5go See Phelous suffer through it here]]. |
| 57 | ** The real bottom of their barrel may be '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqmNluOt6g Perseus]]''''', an adaptation of the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek hero legend]] that was apparently so awful that [[EveryoneHasStandards Dingo themselves]] [[CreatorBacklash disowned it]], and nowadays is very rare. In fact, if it weren't for Phelous' review of the movie (even with it only having a proper Italian dub {with translated English subtitles done by a fan of his} at the time of his recording), it's likely their first ever real film they did would have remained in obscurity throughout all of time itself. As it was their first genuine, non-storybook-type film attempt back in ''1992'', Dingo managed to create everything with a program that Creator/ElectronicArts made at the time called Deluxe Paint, and it helps explain why most of the models they've made over the years were reused in their many later films. As for their backgrounds... let's just say that they might have had a genuine reason to resort to handmade backgrounds after this film instead, regardless of how worse some of their later films were in that end. Consider this film as the basis of everything Dingo Pictures had to work with moving forward. |
| 58 | ** As for their storybook-type films, the last one they released (as far as most people know of) was a 1994 "film" titled '''''Bunny the Rabbit'''''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQji9nwlNv0 The video itself is only 22 minutes long]] and like Perseus before it, [[EveryoneHasStandards Dingo also]] [[CreatorBacklash disowned it]] from their catalog, leaving Phelous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS-_1hxgGZQ to find an Italian dub to review it properly.]] This story has them back to their storybook roots (that is drawing each and every image with colored markers) just for an incoherent tale of Easter bunnies living in an insane world revolving around an apparent Easter egg hierarchy (with the antagonist saying that the eggs he wants to steal would get him out of egg painting duties) with a bevy of unlikable and unpleasant characters (one of the main characters is almost constantly angry and screams at her young niece and nephew over petty reasons), so one can see why it's easily forgotten about and how it's best to leave this one behind going forward. |
| 59 | ** '''''The Bremen Town-Musicians''''' is lazy even by Dingo Pictures standards, due to having many scenes reduced to just a live-action narrator talking about what happened so they wouldn't have to actually animate it. The English dub is done by one man (the narrator, who doesn't even try to [[HongKongDub match the actor's mouth movements or body language]]) and one boy (everyone else), with plenty of audio distortion to make the listening experience as unpleasant as possible, and also occasionally reverts to the German audio track (for NonDubbedGrunts, ''one'' instance of the narrator imitating the donkey's braying[[note]]but another instance has the braying done by the dub voice actor[[/note]], [[TheSongRemainsTheSame the band's musical performances]], and one scene where they just forgot to replace the dialogue), which is jarring due to the constant buzzing noise cutting out for these moments. |
| 60 | * '''Prevalant Entertainment''', run by Robert D. Hanna (not to be confused with William Hanna from ''Creator/HannaBarbera''). They have made two films, both of them written and directed by Hanna and both of them being terribly-written low-budget ripoffs: |
| 61 | ** Their ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' rip-off '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r797DehfxmI The Prodigy]]''''' is full of stock models, scary bad animation, {{Padding}}, terrible voice acting (the panda), and an eight-minute-long dance sequence. The animation is so bad that during the fight scenes, the arms ''move through'' the other characters. It has a 2.1 on Website/IMDb, and watch Cartoon Corner tear it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPDhQyJzJ5A here.]] What's more, the cover even ''lies'', as it says it's from the "[[Creator/DreamworksAnimation animators]] behind ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale''", which is [[BlatantLies obviously untrue]]. |
| 62 | ** Even worse is '''''WesternAnimation/LifesAJungleAfricasMostWanted''''', a very bad, low-budget [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] that takes certain elements from movies like ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'', and ''Animation/RoadsideRomeo'', and goes absolutely nowhere with it. The movie's filled with several unlikable, boring characters, slow animation, way too many StockSoundEffects, dull voice acting, and so much {{Padding}} and {{Filler}} that you won't be able to comprehend the overall central plot, if there is one. The animation's poor ''at best'', and even then [[LazyArtist it's easy to tell that most of the animators didn't try too hard]]. The film has a 2.0 rating on Website/IMDb, a 1/5 on Redbox, and the [[http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/lifes-a-jungle-africas-most-wanted only notable critic who reviewed the movie]] gave it 1/5 stars, criticizing the dull humor and unnecessary ToiletHumour amongst other things. To go even further, some reviewers on Amazon and Netflix not only admitted that they hate the movie, but that ''their kids'' (who are said to be able to watch ''anything'') got bored with it before the film was even halfway over. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSomn2KS2NE Analaser rips it]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6dchhvRlyI apart here.]] It says something when the ''opening scene'' is of the main character sitting on the toilet. |
| 63 | * '''Creator/SparkPlugEntertainment''', the American equivalent of Video Brinquedo. Exactly which one is worse is up for debate. |
| 64 | ** For example, if you watch the first few minutes of '''''WesternAnimation/SpidersWebAPigsTale''''', you get assaulted by a [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed]] Aesop about dishonesty, characterization which only serves to make it more shallow (hate those guys, like these guys, watch this guy get CharacterDevelopment, etc.), a nonsensical story, subpar acting, terrible CGI animation, a lot of repetition before anything happens (think of ''Goldilocks and the Three Bears''), and some stupid songs with talentless singers and a rhyme scheme that makes your ears hurt. This probably isn't even the worst thing they've done. To save you the trouble of watching it yourself, WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} [[https://youtu.be/dEapI2Elf08 does it]] [[https://youtu.be/rgHmZbQlTw4 for you]]. The Cartoon Hero also reviewed this in a marathon of some of the worst animation out there. WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} also looked at it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoqPqp7RHJE here]], calling it worse than ''WesternAnimation/JoshuaAndThePromisedLand'', ''Trolland'', and ''Ali Baba and the Gold Raiders'' (listed on Horrible/AsianAnimation). |
| 65 | ** '''''WesternAnimation/PlanBee''''' is an incredibly cheap cash-in on ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'' with animation so horrific the bees' wings just flicker rather than flap. The messages are forced and bizarrely represented (such as a superfluous picture of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington just to hammer in that the "queen" bee is bad). Adding to that, the plot has [[ClicheStorm no semblance of creativity]] and grating voices with one character being a ValleyGirl for no reason. Watch WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmD8iVxcdTU tear into it here]]. |
| 66 | ** '''''WesternAnimation/ACarsLifeSparkysBigAdventure'''''[='s=] ugly animation might be the least of its problems. The main characters are particularly unlikable: DesignatedHero Sparky loves to whine about his dad trying to "ruin his life" and is constantly rebelling, trying to prove that he can do things on his own while failing spectacularly. He doesn't figure out that Diesel is trying to destroy his life and potentially kill him, even though it's pretty obvious. His friend Speedy is even worse because of her loud, high-pitched voice and being borderline TooDumbToLive. There's also {{Padding}} and an {{anvilicious}} moral about listening to your parents. ''WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FuwW7X31fw tore into this one as well]] and WebVideo/SchaffrillasProductions gives his two cents [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBpIyP9fSE here]]. Oddly, it received two sequels that are [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel slightly less awful]] - they have passable animation and made Speedy's voice far less annoying, at the cost of adding more {{Padding}}. |
| 67 | * Once known for beloved series such as ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' and ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', [[note]](albeit under the names of Moonscoop and Mike Young Productions, respectively)[[/note]] '''Splash Entertainment''' has since worked on feature films. They aren't as good at telling compelling stories as they once were, to say the least. |
| 68 | ** Creator/RobSchneider hasn't been nearly successful in film as he was in ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', but he reaches a new low with '''''WesternAnimation/NormOfTheNorth''''', which does not pass the SoBadItsGood test by a long shot. The plot consists of Norm traveling to [[BigApplesauce New York City]] in order to stop a developer from building a housing complex in the Arctic. The story is as [[ClicheStorm clichéd]] as it is unbelievable, the pop songs are shoehorned in, the jokes (almost all of which rely on ToiletHumour) are completely unfunny, the animation (while at least still better than Video Brinquedo and Spark Plug Entertainment's animation) is bad enough to warrant asking how the film made it to theaters (it was actually originally scheduled to go DirectToVideo), the characters [[FlatCharacter have as much depth as a piece of paper]], and it hammers down an environmental message of [[GreenAesop "Save the Arctic"]] so hard that [[{{Anvilicious}} the hammer ends up breaking in two]]. All this combines to earn an embarrassing ''9%'' score on Website/RottenTomatoes, a score of 3.7/10 on IMDB, and a 22% score overall on Metacritic. It can't even hide behind the justification that [[ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars "it's made for kids"]] because, according to some reviews, even ''they'' were bored by it. For those curious, you have the opinions of WebVideo/AniMat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOFkFdyFog here]], WebVideo/BlackCriticGuy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4zgaPeVVUY here]], WebVideo/ChrisStuckmann [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA4rmv5gvyo here]], WebVideo/DoubleToasted [[https://youtu.be/igsRlhnK1VY here]], Jamboreeqi [[https://youtu.be/9MFLLVdrpJQ here]], Joey Tedesco [[https://youtu.be/ckUI5E7bUaE here]], and [=LewToons=] [[https://youtu.be/6lYZ3hMljFM here]] to enlighten you. Many of these same critics would [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=6grUhXLD6T0#t=7m put it at]] [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=9864sdvwIK8#t=15m11s the top of]] [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=esF9SfGi6AE#t=6m18s their lists of]] [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=qws64zubxmY#t=25m17s the worst films]] [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=ExG-W8SUvrM of the year]] with WebVideo/RebelTaxi calling the film [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=NU8k4r3FBZY#t=3m32s the 8th "WORST Animated CARTOON Moment of 2016"]]. %%% Only reviews released when the film came out in theaters go up here. |
| 69 | *** WebVideo/MediaHunter [[https://youtu.be/s542-pmY8ck went on to do the first full-length review on it]] and declared the film to be worse than ''Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back'' in terms of plot and humor, ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' in terms of original story execution, ''Doogal'' in terms of abusing pop-culture references (as well as not using them correctly) and ''Tentacolino'' in terms of writing. He also despised the characters of the Lemmings so much that he decided to defend [[Franchise/DespicableMe the Minions]] (whom the Lemmings are clearly ripping off) in order to show people who are the real annoying ones. The film also caused him to [[spoiler: [[JustForFun/TheUglyBarnacle accidentally destroy the world]]]]. |
| 70 | *** [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter Mr. Enter]] [[http://mrenter.deviantart.com/journal/So-I-watched-Norm-of-the-North-610074627 went into further analysis on the film here]]. In it, he points out that [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot the conflict wouldn't have happened]] if Norm had just stayed put and done nothing because the only reason the villain's plan got so much public support was because [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Norm had gone to the city to stop it from happening]] and [[UnwittingPawn only ended up helping it]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTWEHIDk-E His video on the film explains it even further]] and eventually shows that he's gone mad from the flagrant stupidity of the film to the point where he's starting to feel like a ''{{WesternAnimation/Captain Planet|AndThePlaneteers}}'' villain, which is saying something considering that none of the bad films he reviewed so far made him be like that. |
| 71 | *** Other people who've given this film a review for being horrible include WebVideo/CellSpex [[https://youtu.be/Gzbbtgry9eQ here]], ''WebVideo/CinematicExcrement'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtZFmGWYO4g here]] (who states that the only reason he didn't include it in his list of worst films of 2016 is because he hadn't seen it at the time), Loudmouth [[https://youtu.be/pCnx3qjGxxo here]], and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqyBIhmbuh0 here]]. %%% All future full length reviews of Norm of the North will go here. |
| 72 | ** Strangely enough, two sequels to ''Norm of the North'' started production in 2018, despite its critical and financial failure. They were released in 2018 (2019 in the US) together under the title '''''Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom''''' with a last-minute limited theatrical release. Indeed, it's two different sequels stitched together so that the film could be feature-length. [[note]](The first sequel was originally called "Back to the City", while the second sequel that got merged here was originally named "The Arctic All-Stars".)[[/note]] This sequel could be considered even ''worse'' than the first. Assets from the first film are constantly reused (for example, Norm's son reuses his younger model from the first movie and his other children have the exact same model but with different eye colors, and there are only three different car models in the entire film), and the first plot about finding an impersonator of Norm that stole from a bank is solved by Norm realizing that the stolen money smells just like the mayor's cologne, never mind that [[IdiotPlot Norm has been carrying the money with him throughout the whole film and could have smelled the bag earlier, or that there are probably other people in New York that wear the same brand]]. After that, the film just degrades into 45 minutes of hockey and vague Russian stereotypes, connecting the sports idea with the prior story from earlier with the absolute loosest connection possible. It should say something that they couldn't even get Rob Schneider back as Norm. Watch Mr. Enter tear it apart in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_yH_u9pP50&t=511s two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iySc6Kon_Kg&t=81s parts]]. WebVideo/MediaHunter, Joey Tedesco, and Paleosteno alongside WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} also review the film in [[https://youtu.be/pleM_6bGD0U their own]] [[https://youtu.be/iggEPAlK7FI respective]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMSJfsjIs9I&t=407s reviews]]. To make things worse, Splash plans to make [[https://www.splashentertainment.com/norm-of-the-north-2 even more]] [[https://www.splashentertainment.com/norm-of-the-north-3 direct-to-DVD sequels]] beyond this one, with the third film, ''Norm of the North: King-Sized Adventure'', released in 2019 to a bit warmer reception. |
| 73 | * '''Vanguard Animation''' is an American Animation studio founded by John H. Williams (of ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' fame). While ''WesternAnimation/{{Valiant}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps'', and ''WesternAnimation/GnomeAlone'' can be considered [[SoOkayItsAverage mediocre at best]], they have created films that fall into this spectrum. |
| 74 | ** In wake of the successes of the [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 first two]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek|2}}'' films and ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', [[FollowTheLeader they decided to make their own fantasy parody]], '''''WesternAnimation/HappilyNEverAfter'''''. The problem? It lacked the charm that made the aforementioned three popular. Despite featuring the talents of Creator/PatrickWarburton, Creator/SigourneyWeaver, and Creator/GeorgeCarlin (in his final film role, no less) it suffers from a cliched plot, bad writing, bland characters, unfunny and dated jokes, poor animation, and having more holes in its plot than Swiss cheese. It became a BoxOfficeBomb and it [[MedalOfDishonor holds the record]] as the lowest-rated ''theatrically released'' animated film on Website/RottenTomatoes holding a mind-blowing 4%, as well as having a 4.5 rating on Website/IMDb. To make matters worse, this film was mostly responsible [[GenreKiller for killing the fantasy parody genre]] and (along with ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'') [[StarDerailingRole effectively killed]] whatever Freddie Prinze Jr. had left of his career until ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' came out. [[https://youtu.be/swj_J2Ad8QY The film later became the subject of]] the first episode of WebVideo/InfamousAnimation. |
| 75 | *** Surprisingly, despite bombing at the box office, there exists a direct-to-DVD sequel known as '''''Happily N'Ever After 2: Another Bite [[Letters2Numbers @]] the Apple''''', though the [[InNameOnly only things connecting the two]] are the presence of the two PluckyComicRelief characters and a minor villain. It's otherwise just as bad writing-wise, and has horrendous animation that would've been considered primitive over a decade before it came out. |
| 76 | ** While ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps'' was a mediocre but still watchable film, the straight-to-DVD sequel '''''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps2ZartogStrikesBack''''' is ''downright horrendous''. [[OffModel Horrid animation]], unfunny cliché jokes, [[IdiotBall idiotic characters]], and a near-nonexistent plot are what make this film atrocious. Even the great talents of Creator/PatrickWarburton, Creator/JohnDiMaggio, Creator/LauraBailey, and Creator/TomKenny couldn't save it. To make it clear how terrible this movie is, Website/RottenTomatoes gave it a '''0%''' rating and its Website/IMDb score is 2.7. It effectively killed Vanguard Animation, which dissolved after releasing only four poorly received duds, and over ''9 films'' that they were planning on making instead were seemingly cancelled forever until [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2097333/ one of them]] was finally released in 2015 in several countries (the American release didn't come until November 2016) and ''WesternAnimation/GnomeAlone'' in 2018. WebVideo/MediaHunter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajIk72J7zw took a crack at reviewing this movie]], and regrets doing so. |
| 77 | * In Brazil, '''Creator/VideoBrinquedo''' was to Creator/{{Pixar}} (and to a lesser extent, Creator/DreamWorksAnimation) what Creator/DingoPictures was to Disney. Essentially, most of what they did [[TheMockbuster were rip-offs]]. |
| 78 | ** '''''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatoing}}''''' is a very dull ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}'' knock-off with poor animation, lots of {{Padding}}, and an unlikable "[[DesignatedHero hero]]". Some aspects of it ''might'' be SoBadItsGood,[[note]](the awkward food innuendo, the terribly animated cat appearing about 35 minutes into the film, especially the very bizarre way it runs, and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_Neb9tlfc&t=1m6s bizarre scene]] whose English dub features random grunts that were absent from the original and sound quite... suggestive)[[/note]] but as a whole, the film is just boring and painful to sit through. ''WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}}'' tears it apart [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J78ohnPKar4 here]]. ''WebVideo/FilmBrain'' reviews [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTYLmrADxPI here]], and WebVideo/SchaffrillasProductions checks it out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWkUPcjX4-8 here]]. If you want to burn your eyes more, watch the whole thing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDGyi_J97w here]] (in Portuguese, apparently uploaded by the company itself for some reason) or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnN7umMgNG0 here]] (an unofficial upload of the English dub). |
| 79 | ** The trailers for '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZg0RNGPFJs Gladiformers 2]]''''' look like trailers for an unreleased Platform/Nintendo64 game, when the film was made '''in 2008'''. And the sad thing is, that one is their ''least'' eye-gouging work... At least the soundtrack by Music/{{Angra}} [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic is pretty good]], and there are some decent textures on the characters, unlike their other works. As he does with many of their movies, WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_FG730cY3A has a review here.]] |
| 80 | ** How bad can the rip-offs be? Check '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tJsAuG2TR8 The Little Cars]]'''''. WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiJGw9ER2VE the Cinema Snob]] have done [[https://youtu.be/su9LIDeEIr0 several]] [[https://youtu.be/8UoVvTMJHo4 reviews]] of it and its '''seven''' sequels. Dumbsville harshly and overeditedly castrates all the installments [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOL-WNEbBYU throughout]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpBm9h-MWEE four]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCaXoHO7Vg separate]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW-lymFe0hA videos]], with a complation of all four parts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQj0Z7WycGA following suit.]] |
| 81 | ** Then there's their ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' ripoff, '''''What's Up? Balloon to the Rescue!'''''. The animation and camera movements are uncannily stilted, with the camera only moving after a character finishes talking. Despite featuring Creator/YuriLowenthal (whose role as Amanda's Chinese boyfriend Chin-Lin is uncredited), Creator/MikePollock, and Creator/LisaOrtiz, the voice acting and dialogue are abysmal, with the main villain going unnoticed despite talking about his evil plans in front of the protagonists. In addition, the film features a multitude of stereotypes and racist jokes, with the main villain Jean-Pierre being a FrenchJerk and Chin-Lin being a shameless Chinese stereotype. WebVideo/{{Bobsheaux}} talks about it [[https://youtu.be/tR4DrFofkRs here]]. 24 Frames of Nick also talks about it [[https://youtu.be/LqUuJIqBYJU here]], as well as WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEf8ATynvvs here]]. |
| 82 | ** Their most heinous work is '''''WesternAnimation/TheLittlePandaFighter'''''. It's a rip-off of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' in the worst form. The CGI is stiff, [[ClicheStorm there's little to no creativity in the story]], there's so much padding it's not even funny (no, really, there's an entire scene of the main character just walking to his boss' desk), the facial expressions can be downright terrifying, the English voice actors have done better work elsewhere (and Creator/MaddieBlaustein is [[QuestionableCasting among them]]), and worst of all it has a '''massive''' BrokenAesop at the end. [[http://theherooftomorrow.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-cartoon-hero-vs-little-panda-fighter.html The Cartoon Hero]] kicks off a marathon of horrible animation with this travesty. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4AwnrevSV4 I Hate Everything]], [[https://youtu.be/p4Ecc-mpU40 AniMat]], [[https://youtu.be/EmUbPw4QwWA Bobsheaux]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPBguRwRers Schaffrillas]] also tore this to shreds. And even though the movie is called ''The Little Panda Fighter'', the main character doesn't actually fight until the final five minutes of the movie. |
| 83 | ** They have even done 2D films, which are even more brain-frying. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7wL_cJyf9o Here]] is their Mockbuster of Disney's '''''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''''', which features incredibly flat and un-detailed animation slapped together in MediaNotes/AdobeFlash that makes the versions put out by [[WesternAnimation/PinocchioAndTheEmperorOfTheNight Filmation]] and [[WesternAnimation/Pinocchio1992 Golden Films]] look like Creator/StudioGhibli in comparison. It has no respect whatsoever for [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the original book]] (that could be conceded to [[Film/{{Pinocchio2002}} Roberto Benigni's film]]), both the plot and writing are digressive, and the pacing is tedious. And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O9-zA2xO5I here]] is '''''The Frog Princess''''', their version of ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', for good measure. |
| 84 | ** Even the naming of the films is horrible. When not going for some obvious ripoff of the movie they are trying to rip off, they usually just go with the diminutive form of whatever creature the movie's about (which translates to English as "The Little [creature]".) |
| 85 | * Besides the sexual abuse scandals surrounding one of its founders, '''Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany''' was notorious for its bad track record with animated films, having been involved with the production and distribution of many stinkers, including: |
| 86 | ** '''''Doogal''''', the 2006 [[SameLanguageDub American English]] {{gag dub}} of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Magic Roundabout|2005}}''[='s=] feature film. It's baffling enough that this exists--but even more baffling in that it's an outright {{Macekre}}. It's chock full of banal jokes, awful dialogue, jarring pop-culture references, and frustrating affectations of self-awareness, [[LipLock none of which sync up]] [[HongKongDub with the original animation]]. Only [[Creator/IanMcKellen two]] [[Music/KylieMinogue members]] of the original English actors reprised their roles, the rest replaced by the likes of Creator/ChevyChase, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/WilliamHMacy, Creator/KevinSmith (whose character was silent in the original), and Creator/JonStewart ([[CreatorBacklash who broke out laughing]] when this came up on ''Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart'' and [[StarDerailingRole has since stopped doing movies, outside of]] AdamWesting and directing) Creator/JudiDench NarratingTheObvious, and a pre-CareerResurrection Creator/JimmyFallon. The film was panned in Entertainment Weekly and numerous aggregators, and set a record (since broken by ''Happily N'ever After 2'') for the ''worst [[BoxOfficeBomb Opening Weekend]] in Animated Film history''. Watch WebVideo/MediaHunter's [[https://youtu.be/HvdvIIjA7QI scathing review here]]. You can also watch the infamous ''Daily Show'' clip [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/j7z4hk/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-roger-ebert here]]. Even WebVideo/PhantomStrider [[https://youtu.be/9J0vXvrdSc4#t=10m11s said some words about this movie]]. WebVideo/RebelTaxi [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzeHbflF6lc trashes it here]] (Though he does note he'd actually watch this version over the original just for the sheer BileFascination). WebVideo/AniMat watches the movie [[https://youtu.be/NffijhjyQUI here]] in preparation for his ''Classic Reviews'' series which was posted [[https://youtu.be/UGAVmCX33Pg the following day]] where he inevitably gave it the "Seal of Garbage". [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LfK58z9KA3w Dazz]] compares it side-by-side to the [[SoOkayItsAverage Average]] ''Roundabout'' dub, while WebVideo/LSMark compares and contrasts the two versions [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKM6J2_WXqs here]], concluding that the American version is much worse. |
| 87 | ** While the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' is generally considered to be a CultClassic whose shortcomings ([[NoFlowInCGI particularly in the animation department]]) are considered to be [[NarmCharm more charming than anything else]], the sequel, '''''WesternAnimation/HoodwinkedTooHoodVersusEvil''''', took everything that was well-liked about the first movie and wrung it out until there was nothing redeeming about it left. The animation, despite looking somewhat better than the first, has a very bland direct-to-DVD feel that manages to look even more hokey than the first movie, and not in a charming way (remember, this was a movie released in ''theaters''). For just one out of many glaring examples, the dialogue [[HongKongDub often doesn't even remotely match the characters' mouth movements at all]] throughout the movie. The returning characters have had everything that made them likable in the first film removed in favor of either {{Flanderiz|ation}}ing them or writing completely out of character for no reason,[[note]]for just a couple of examples, Red herself goes from a sweet girl [[LittleMissBadass who can still kick butt and take names]] to a generic no-nonsense tough girl; Wolf has [[TookALevelInDumbass taken a couple of levels in stupid]]; Twitchy talks slower, ruining his character's joke; and [[RecurringExtra the singing billy goat]] has been turned into a hapless [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] for no real reason.[[/note]] and that's if they appear at all. The new characters aren't much better, as they're either uninteresting, pointless, or annoying. The RashomonStyle plot that made the first movie interesting is gone in favor of a [[ClicheStorm straightforward]] action-slash-{{Buddy Cop|Show}} plot that lacks any of the charm and wit that made the first movie a classic, and it even dares to recycle the big twist of the first movie. Due to being generic, boring, and pointless, the movie ended up a shining example of {{Sequelitis}}, earning a paltry 11% on Rotten Tomatoes and making [[BoxOfficeBomb just over half of its $30 million dollar budget]]. WebVideo/AniMat reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HzA9VcBaVM here]], wherein this movie was the first one he ever gave his "Seal of Garbage" to. |
| 88 | ** '''''WesternAnimation/LeoTheLion'''''[[note]]Not to be confused with the 1994 DirectToVideo ''Leo the Lion: King of the Jungle''[[/note]] is a 2013 CGI Italian film that was distributed in America by the Weinstein Company and put on Creator/{{Netflix}}, and quickly gained infamy due to just how big of a colossal mess it was. The story involves a [[VegetarianCarnivore vegetarian lion]] named Leo as he sets out to escort a gaggle of young animals to a hidden paradise called "the heart of the jungle" while being pursued by an evil white elephant named Maximus. There are a buttload of problems with how nearly everything is executed, however: the character designs are amateur at best and [[UnintentionalUncannyValley completely hideous]] at worst.[[note]](the eponymous character himself has a malnourished appearance that, while befitting his character, is very unappealing)[[/note]] The editing is sloppy, and some scenes are slowed down with little rhyme or reason. The story itself is a RandomEventsPlot of the highest order, featuring many plot elements that either amount to little or are just outright ''bizarre'', and has many moments and characters that are derivative of, if not borderline plagiarizing, those of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''.[[note]] (for some examples, the villain song features a moment where the BigBad is overlooking [[PuttingOnTheReich suspiciously marching elephants]] in a scene that looks almost indistinguishable from a certain scene in "Be Prepared", there are hyenas that are voiced by someone doing a very bad Cheech Marin impression, and a scene where Leo's OlderSidekick appears to have died and Leo runs around panicking and crying for help in a scene that seems to be attempting to will itself into being like Mufasa's death scene)[[/note]] The characters are either [[FlatCharacter bland]], obnoxious, [[TheLoad useless]], or some combination of the three. The attempts at humor all fall flat, and many moments in the plot are just off-putting. The few songs the movie has are dull with uninspired lyrics and unnatural rhyming. The acting (the Netflix English dub of which wastes the talents of familiar names such as Creator/DebiDerryberry and Creator/MatthewMercer) is either [[DullSurprise wooden]] or ear-shattering, and the dialogue doesn't seem like it's even trying to be clever. One of the most infamous scenes revolves around the heroes subduing a terrified mother zebra and convincing her into providing milk for their young, and the way it's executed is so horribly botched that it almost plays out like a ''rape'' scene. In the end, Leo marries a female elephant who gives birth to hybrid babies that are ''[[UnintentionalUncannyValley absolutely hideous]]''. The movie was quickly torn down by those who bothered to review it, getting an abysmal 1.7 on IMDB and a [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/leo-the-lion 1/5]] on Common Sense Media. Matthew Mercer [[https://twitter.com/matthewmercer/status/938681064494579712 regards his role as the film's main antagonist]] as [[CreatorBacklash a mistake]]. Brian Feldman of ''New York Magazine'' rips the movie to shreds [[http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/08/the-nightmare-world-of-leo-the-lion-netflixs-worst-movie.html here]]. WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} likewise [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fmxmvFLPAE had no kind words for it]], explaining why it's considered the worst animated film on Netflix (although he took it back after viewing the even more dreadful ''[[Horrible/AsianAnimation Mustafa and the Magician]]''). |
| 89 | * '''Wolf Tracer Studios''' was founded by Colin Slater, who only has a minimal presence on the Internet yet [[SmallNameBigEgo boasts about his talents as a music and television producer]]. The studio is only known to have made two animated projects, both of which were previously lost and only uncovered in the mid-2010s. Both were made with homemade software that allowed faster production time... and it ''shows''. Slater even foolishly hoped to make franchises of these films. Also, there were rumors that the studio had ties with Scientology, which could explain how they got high-profile voice actors and Creator/NancyCartwright, who is a Scientologist herself, as a lead producer and actor. |
| 90 | ** '''''WesternAnimation/RapsittieStreetKidsBelieveInSanta''''', a musical ChristmasSpecial marred by problems such as flat to the point of being stereotypical characters (e.g., two of the kids are a [[TokenMinority hip black kid]] and [[FatComicRelief a short fat kid with a sandwich in his hand]]), an emotionally manipulative ClicheStorm of a plot, ''exceedingly'' abysmal animation with [[UnintentionalUncannyValley downright-ugly character designs]] even for 2002 that puts Creator/VideoBrinquedo to shame (in fact, it actually makes them look like Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic by comparison), and to top it all off [[QuestionableCasting the wasted talents of actors like]] Creator/MarkHamill, [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Jodi Benson]], and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Paige O'Hara]] (this might be an indicator of where most of the budget went). Publicity for the special even had the gall to compare the characters with the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' gang. How this ever made its way onto network TV is anyone's guess. [[https://vimeo.com/139049545 Watch the whole abomination here]], and be sure to check out [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160228002054/http://www.promarktv.com/believe.htm its website]] for more cruddy Christmas cheer. |
| 91 | *** Curiously, there is ''one'' trait that is universally agreed to be pretty good: The voice acting, which is actually pretty decent. However, it's universally acknowledged that this is only by virtue of having the aforementioned voice-acting legends in it, and it's ''far'' from enough to save the special. |
| 92 | *** As it was being broadcast, viewers took to the internet to express their surprise that something of that quality made it onto TV. WebVideo/KyleNorty [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZmt1V7cerA reviewed it]] in December 2015, saying it had the worst CG animation he had ever seen. The next year in 2016, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AHySNgZlc Bobsheaux threw in his two cents]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJaLdQMw87I Pan Pizza calls this the 7th Worst Cartoon (In No Particular Order) in his usual hilarious way]]. And to complete the 2016 trifecta, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9avSn-bqE3U witness Mr. Enter endure this mess]]. |
| 93 | *** On the first Tuesday of December 2017, a remarkable coincidence resulted in ''three'' Internet connoisseurs of terrible animation discussing ''Rapsittie Street Kids'' on the same day. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic [[http://channelawesome.com/rapsittie-street-kids-believe-in-santa-nostalgia-critic/ covered this trainwreck]], saying that it and ''The Christmas Tree'' are tied for "worst Christmas special ever". Blog/TheIslandOfMisfitChristmasSpecials' Peter Paltridge [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/darkvault/misfits/misfit60.html called it]] "...an unholy mess that it's mindboggling it could air on commercial TV", plausibly predicting that it could reach a mainstream level of ironic fame. WebVideo/{{Phelous}} [[http://phelous.com/2017/12/22/phelous/and-the-movies/rapsittie-street-kids-believe-in-santa/ deemed it]], to quote ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', "...A world of someone's nightmarish delusions come to life." |
| 94 | *** In December 2020, Webvideo/{{Saberspark}} [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=oDnWxbzIe-g reviewed it]] as one last screw-you to the year that was. |
| 95 | ** '''''Dinosaur Island''''' is an adventure where three explorers wash up on [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an island populated by dinosaurs]]. Still sporting the stilted and hideous animation of ''Believe in Santa'', this film also has a premise ripped off from Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1912}}'', bland characters with weak attempts at [[CharacterDevelopment development]], and an abundance of {{Exposition}}. Sadly, this island of dinosaurs isn't even remotely worth exploring. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LExrzJtRMs4 The entire trainwreck can be seen here]], and WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHqG1BEwUa8 reviews it here]]. And no, not even Mark Hamill can save this film. |
| 96 | * '''[[http://wownowentertainment.com/ WowNow Entertainment]]''' is a low-budget American-Canadian animation studio (first thought to be in Hawaii before things mentioned mixed sources relating to Delaware, Ontario, and even Michigan) that might as well be the modern Creator/VideoBrinquedo in terms of valuing quantity over quality. All of their animated movies (they also do live-action horror films, by the way) have terrible animation, nonsensical and boring plots, stolen assets, reused footage, and godawful voice acting, audio, and dialogue. Some of their movies are nothing but characters dancing. They also use BlatantLies on their website, such as saying to be quickly establishing itself as a high-quality animation studio and claiming ownership of the popular-in-China ''Animation/BoonieBears'' franchise and other Fantawild shows when in reality, they are owned by Fantawild itself. Not only that, but there's also a possibility of them inflating the ratings for their movies on IMDB. And for good measure, [[IHaveManyNames sometimes under different names like]] '''Dream Machine Animation''', '''Brainy Pants''', '''Toe Jamz''', '''Family Entertainment.TV''', '''[=DocTV=]''', '''[=PupTV=]''', and '''[=FreeMoviesAndTV=]''' (the last name is for [=YouTube=]). They have made multiple mockbusters of different popular films that Disney and [=DreamWorks=] made, like ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. Not only that but they've also made movies meant for Christian families to pick up (or even both on rare occasions). Despite all of that, they were bought up in 2022 by International Media Network. |
| 97 | ** '''''Bible Town''''' is a "movie" released in 2017 where three teenagers hop in a hot air balloon that takes them to the titular Bible Town. Along the way, [[AsTheGoodBookSays they each tell stories that are directly from]] Literature/TheBible before they meet an old lady in the town who tells ''her story'' from the Bible to them before they leave the Bible Town to end the movie right there and then. While the film really doesn't sound like anything special on the surface, the things that devolve it into horrible schlock that makes you wish you were reading the Bible instead of watching ''Bible Town'' are the computer graphic modeling of the people that have eyes, teeth, and lips that make them part of the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]], awful voice acting and lip syncing (with one of the teens even having lower quality to her sound over every other character), and the fact that when they do tell the stories from the Bible... they're just showing ''standard 2D art pictures being panned all over the place'' from the beginning to the end of these stories! The fact that the dialogue spoken by the teenagers makes a standard person think they're ''mocking the Christian viewers for picking this film up'' (due to a condescending-sounding tone to some of the actors) and that they only stay in Bible Town (which inconsistently went from a farm setting to an actual town setting going from the air to the ground) for about 10 minutes made WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} think this is the worst Christian-based animated film he's ever seen now. So much so, in fact, that he not only believes he could make a better Christian-focused movie by a week's time, but he actually considered studios like the Asylum, Video Brinquedo, and even Dingo Pictures to all be better than [=WowNow=] Entertainment [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmyFH8ab4Ho to the point where they're now his most-hated animation studio out there.]] WebVideo/PhantomStrider also saw it as one of the worst religious films he ever saw in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iGBcSyIMpM this list here.]] |
| 98 | ** '''''Día of the Dead''''' is what happens when you try and turn the setting of ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' into an exposition dump that results in absolutely nothing of merit happening throughout the entire movie. How do they do that, you might ask? Simple: Take a story that arguably takes 15 minutes to complete into over an hour and 20 or so minutes long via tons of exposition said and animations repeated throughout, have a climax that's more ridiculous due to how it does its concert, and concludes it with the luchador mother (Julieta) admitting that the concert that she spent '''two years''' preparing for was ultimately pointless on her end. Despite the mother being absent for said two years, though, the young child named Chiqui (who looks like a baby ripped from Cocomelon wearing a luchador mask regardless of whether he's supposed to be 6, 8, or even 10 years old) only recently misses his mother after she's been in "The Beyond" for two years, with the father being able to know how to get him and his son there like the mother apparently knew how to do two years beforehand as well. Once there, Chiqui and his father need to do two good deeds while out in "The Beyond" to help support Julieta in the "Greatest Singer Beyond the Beyond" legally (which leads to Chiqui and Julieta dancing after Julieta doing her song, while the father dances the Gangnam Style dance) to beat a 10,000 year-long championship streak held by a skeleton woman that sings very awkwardly herself. Even ignoring how all over the place and absolutely pointless the actual plot is, the actual character designs are weirdly inconsistent in terms of designs (notably the skeletons that talk with only the top of the skulls talking sometimes and the aforementioned baby child model), and they repeat things so much that it'd earn its place here through that alone. Saberspark covered this film and lost his shit through it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s62Tec2WfOE here.]] |
| 99 | ** The '''''Fishtales''''' franchise is a series of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' rip-offs. The first film was just a group of poorly animated sea animals floating over live-action footage of sea animals with an excuse of finding a lost octopus and had an opening that resembled a worse version of the [[Memes/{{Music}} "Crab Rave"]] music video. The sequels have nothing to do with the first movie. The franchise as a whole is animated in 100% eye-scorching CGI and focuses on a female fish named Fifi and her friends, consisting solely of her and a bunch of characters staring at you as they swim and talk about random crap. The series claims to be an educational series of films about marine biology, but they can't even get the characters represented right, like the sequels having dolphins and whales having tail fins that go from side to side instead of up and down. WebVideo/{{Saberspark}} discusses it and other ''Finding Nemo'' rip-offs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPXcVmUQ68 here]]. |
| 100 | ** In addition to ''Fishtales'', they also made a full-blown [[TheMoralSubstitute Christian]] {{Mockbuster}} of ''Finding Nemo'' titled '''''Finding Jesus'''''. The way the film is titled makes you think it's a coming-to-Jesus-type story, but in reality it's a series of incoherent short stories that are vaguely related back to the Bible, feature little-to-no conflict, and any conflict that actually has stakes involved is quickly resolved off-screen. The dialogue feels like it was written by an AI, and lines are repeated ad nauseam, sometimes [[BrokenRecord in the same scene by the same character]], by the unenthusiastic voice actors. The animation consists solely of models idling in one place with the same repeating animations, and all characters have a perpetual smile even when it doesn't match what emotion they're supposed to be expressing. If that wasn't bad enough, the film even features Japanese racial stereotyping in the form of a talking sushi roll aptly named [[ADogNamedDog Mr. Sushi]]. One dubious source claims the Vatican financed $20 million towards the film, said source also claimed that Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger were supposed to be in the film. Even still, one must wonder where all the money went as ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' was produced with a similar budget to much better results. Saberspark also looked into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pioeLm4OI this film here,]] as did Brad Jones & Rob Walker [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqH1et9vMU here.]] Creator/MoBrosStudios (under his Enigmatic Mr. Exit character) also reviewed the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaVFurw1wb8 here]]. |
| 101 | ** What's even worse is that there's actually a sequel to it. If you thought ''Finding Jesus'' even existed was bad enough, try watching '''''Finding Jesus 2'''''! This film came out in May 2021 after the first film was released in November 2020, so this feels like a combination of crunch management and just plain not caring about everything they've done for it. Some of the voice actors sound less enthusiastic with their line readings than they did in the first film (and it's not like their acting was a positive either), with the scripting being a bit more mean-spirited for a Christian film than the original film was (including weird lines of the fish characters being "therapists for Jesus"), and the general tone almost feeling more like a poor man's attempt at ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' humor or satire than anything serious. Regardless of whether this is meant to be serious or not, it fails to separate itself from appealing to either possible scenario. Saberspark considers only its existence worst than the worst film he's ever watched (in terms of a technical level, at least) in ''The Adventures of Açela,'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSpXc94VDPk to the point of even destroying the DVD and its casing.]] |
| 102 | ** '''''Zoo Wars''''' is what you'd get if Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg made a Creator/DreamWorksAnimation wannabe kids movie for Creator/VideoBrinquedo. Allegedly a ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody, the movie has the same problems that plague most of their movies, and most of the "jokes" consists of random references, characters saying names of sauces, and random insults. Most characters spend a good chunk of the movie sitting on chairs, to the point where ''Film/ANewHope'''s Death Star trench run has more action than this entire movie. What's worse is that it even got a sequel. |
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| 106 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnVL1Y2src 1967 adaptation]] of '''''Literature/TheHobbit''''' produced by William L. Snyder and animated by Creator/GeneDeitch constitutes an animated film only in the sense that it's voiced (by Herb Lass, who narrates everything) and has drawn images moving around a screen. (Said images are poorly drawn and only moving because of TheKenBurnsEffect.) Add that to the short run time (12 minutes, due to some LoopholeAbuse in its production) and [[InNameOnly its lack of fidelity to the source material]], and you've got something that will make even the worst aspects of Creator/PeterJackson[='s=] [[Film/TheHobbit take on the series]] seem like small potatoes in comparison. In fact, it was initially planned to be a ''Hobbit'' feature film; after a botched distribution deal with Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, this short was hastily made as an AshcanCopy so Snyder could retain the film rights to Creator/JRRTolkien's stories and sell them back after "release" (in a small projection room, on the last day Snyder still had the rights), explaining the total lack of effort. Deitch himself [[CreatorBacklash regretted how the end product turned out]]. You can watch [[WebVideo/TheAnnotatedSeries the Annotation crew]] tear it apart [[https://youtu.be/XDH9OiJjXUg here.]] You can watch Dominic Noble talk about it [[https://youtu.be/XsHGQptDJ2Y here.]] |
| 107 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' is widely considered to be among the most influential cartoon series ever produced. However, they were not without their growing pains: |
| 108 | ** After Creator/HarmanAndIsing quit Creator/WarnerBros for [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] in 1933 and took their star character [[WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid Bosko]] with them, the newly-formed Leon Schlesinger Productions rushed out two cartoons directed by former Creator/{{Disney}} animator Tom Palmer, '''"Buddy's Day Out"''' and '''"I've Got to Sing a Torch Song"'''. Palmer's inexperience as a director was evident; not only did the former introduce the infamously [[FlatCharacter nondescript]] Buddy, but both cartoons featured poor animation, sluggish pacing, cloying tones, and paper-thin stories. The worst part? Both cartoons are utterly devoid of humor, with very few (uninspired) gags. And that was ''after'' Creator/FrizFreleng was called back in to rework these cartoons once Warners rejected the (even less funny) original versions. Palmer was sacked by Schlesinger after the cartoons were originally rejected, and the series was stuck with Buddy as its lead character until 1935, when Freleng's "WesternAnimation/IHaventGotAHat" introduced the far more successful WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and sent Buddy into an unceremonious retirement. ''Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie'' rips into [[http://likelylooneymostlymerrie.blogspot.com/2011/12/67-buddys-day-out-1933.html both]] [[http://likelylooneymostlymerrie.blogspot.com/2011/12/68-ive-got-to-sing-torch-song-1933.html cartoons]]. |
| 109 | ** The "[[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy]] vs. [[WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales Speedy]]" series of cartoons[[note]](in which Speedy Gonzales is pitted against Daffy Duck, whose {{Jerkass}} qualities [[{{Flanderization}} were exaggerated]] [[TookALevelInJerkass to villainous degrees]])[[/note]] and the "Larriva Eleven"[[note]](eleven [[NoBudget shoestring budget]] [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner]] cartoons outsourced to television animation studio Format Productions and directed by ex-[[Creator/ChuckJones Jones unit]] animator Rudy Larriva)[[/note]] from the series' AudienceAlienatingEra in TheSixties are of [[BrokenBase debatable quality]]. However, even fans of this era generally regard Daffy and Speedy's final classic short, 1968's '''"WesternAnimation/SeeYaLaterGladiator"''', as the absolute nadir of the ''Looney Tunes'' franchise. This cartoon is riddled with an uncharacteristic plot (in which Daffy and Speedy are accidentally sent back to Rome in 65 A.D. and try to evade Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}), sloppy artwork, [[LimitedAnimation half-assed animation]][[note]]even going so far as to [[RecycledAnimation use the]] ''[[RecycledAnimation exact same background twice]]'' for Daffy looking out of a window, even though he was in a completely different room both times[[/note]], bland, forgettable music (including a [[Horrible/MusicSoundtracks horribly off-key version of the already-bizarre 1960s rearrangements to "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"]]), overuse of Creator/HannaBarbera's StockSoundEffects, lame and/or borderline-nonexistent gags, corny writing, and Daffy's nastier qualities returning in full swing even after prior shorts tried dialing them back. Probably [[TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou the one good thing about it]] is Creator/MelBlanc's [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously top-notch voice acting]]. WebVideo/PhantomStrider had a [[http://youtu.be/kb37Zx7onDw few words to say about this mess]]. Strangely enough, despite its negative reputation, it retains a 5.0/10 rating on [=IMDb=]. |
| 110 | ** While Cool Cat (the star of ''Looney Tunes'' during its twilight years in MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation) wasn't as popular as past characters such as WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, he still has his fans. However, his last outing, '''"WesternAnimation/{{Injun Trouble|1969}}"'''[[note]][[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with]] [[WesternAnimation/InjunTrouble1938 the 1938 cartoon]] by Creator/BobClampett.[[/note]], is generally agreed to be a ''very'' undignified end for the classic run of Warner Bros. cartoons. Beyond the [[ValuesDissonance rampant use of Native American stereotypes that were barely acceptable even in 1969]], this cartoon relies on a [[RandomEventsPlot nonexistent story]] full of bad puns, pointless or repetitive scenes[[note]]For example, several of the gags simply consist of Indians stopping Cool Cat on the road.[[/note]], and groan-worthy "comedy", lacking much of the franchise's trademark slapstick; the animation and artwork are very lazy, LimitedSoundEffects are abound[[note]]One scene even [[SoundDefect uses a "poof" noise for a tipi being painted]].[[/note]], Creator/LarryStorch's talent is wasted, and William Lava's music score is still unremarkable. Tragically, it was also the final Warner Bros. cartoon series veteran Creator/RobertMcKimson directed before his death in 1977. Due to the Native American stereotyping and it being produced during the series' unpopular Seven Arts era, Warner Bros. [[CreatorBacklash has given this short minimal exposure or acknowledgment]]. On [=IMDb=], it is the lowest-rated ''Looney Tunes'' short on the site at 4.0. Blog/UnshavedMouse [[https://unshavedmouse.com/2016/09/26/injun-trouble-1969/ covers this dreck]], as do [[Creator/Wileyk209zback Zak Wolf]] [[https://wile-e2005.livejournal.com/243978.html on his blog]] and [[https://filmthreat.com/uncategorized/the-bootleg-files-injun-trouble/ this]] ''Film Threat'' article. |
| 111 | * How bad is '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADCizPuW4U The Magic of Oz]]''''' (an animated short based on ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'')? It's absolutely irredeemable, as it has virtually no plot, terrible sound quality, and laughably ugly and dated animation. Background information about the film is also scarce. A Google search for many of the names featured at the beginning will bring up little results, and the cartoon studio that produced it is [[AlanSmithee never stated]] - all it says at the end is "A Cartoon Film Presentation". No date is even known for when this cartoon was released; the only approximate guess is about the early 1960s, according to [[http://animationsmears.tumblr.com/post/19251801213/smear-frame-from-the-magic-of-oz-1962-1964 this Tumblr post]]. The film contains a lot of LimitedAnimation, and there's also a very out-of-place three-second shot of Dorothy bending down that's done, rather incompetently, in Rotoscope, even though the rest of the cartoon has none of it at all - clearly, just drawing Dorothy performing the action would've been too difficult. Despite being under ten minutes, it moves at a snail's pace and is incomprehensible, and the very poor sound makes it difficult to hear even with the volume on a computer turned up to its maximum level. All of this makes it a contender for the worst animated short of all time. Creator/TheAutarch (or rather, [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Hades]]) has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZpK9a8AD98 this]] to say. |
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