Cowboy Be Bop At His Computer / Animated Films

Instances of Cowboy BeBop at His Computer regarding animated movies.

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General

• A common error is to conflate Disney with Pixar. They are not at all the same; although Pixar is owned by Disney, they are an autonomous company within Disney, not a division thereof. This is particularly bad in the YouTube video Pixar Trivia, supposedly a compilation of "music clips from Pixar movies" — but one of them is from Planes. While Planes is a spinoff of the Pixar franchise Cars, it was made by Disney.^note In any case, a lot of the clips used are actually from trailers, and weren't used in the movies themselves.
• Cracked:
  • In "5 Endangered Species That Should Be Put Down", the author claims that an angler fish almost ate Nemo in the movie Finding Nemo. However, it was Marlin, not Nemo, who faced the angler fish.
  • The writer of "4 Disney Kids Who Should Have Been Traumatized for Life" must not have watched Frozen, because, well, he seems to think Elsa was locked away and completely isolated from human contact from birth: "Being without human contact until the age of 21, she should have been making grunting noises and building human-shaped statues out of her own poop." Elsa wasn't without human contact until she was 21; she didn't self-isolate until she was eight years old, and had a lot of social interaction in her early childhood. And she wasn't totally deprived of human contact either, as she is seen speaking with her parents and Anna, and presumably talked with a few trusted servants off-screen. That's not saying she wouldn't have had psychological problems (the movie makes it very clear that Elsa is not a happy or healthy person), but she wouldn't have been a feral child.
  • According to "5 Childhood Favorites That Did Not Age Well" by Erik Germ, "You might not have realized this while you were caught in the throes of sharing "WHAT 90S' DISNEY PRINCE ARE YOU?", but Disney hasn't had a hand-animated film since 2009's The Princess and the Frog." Actually, Disney did produce one more traditionally animated film: 2011's Winnie the Pooh.
• The book Disney Dossiers: Files of Characters From the Walt Disney Studios is chock-full of glaring omissions and mistakes. For example:
  • Aladdin's fact sheet says "Parents: None (orphan)", completely neglecting the fact that him finding out his father is alive is the main plot of Aladdin and the King of Thieves^note which the book also claims came out a year earlier than it actually did.
  • Donald Duck's filmography highlights are listed as including DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (which he isn't even mentioned in).
  • Timon's last name (Berkowitz) isn't mentioned.
  • Some of the voice actors for the characters are glaringly omitted, e.g. Cam Clarke for Simba and April Winchell for Cruella De Vil.
• When an ice sculpture company developed a Disney themed exhibit for Disneyland Paris featuring the Disney Princesses and their matching Princes, they ended up stumbling upon Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons Crossover Ship fanart of Merida and Hiccup and turned it into one of the ice sculptures, not knowing that Merida ended her movie single, or that Hiccup was from DreamWorks SKG and not Disney (or Pixar, as the case may be).
• Netflix has been inaccurate on the info of two of the movies in the Disney Animated Canon: Oliver & Company and Brother Bear. Respectively, Netflix says that Fagin was the villain when it's actually Sykes (probably they confused it with other adaptations of the same story), and that Kenai was avenging his father when Sitka is clearly his eldest brother.

Specific

• Aladdin:
  • The Disney Inside Blog falsely states that the Genie's Non-Singing Voice in Aladdin was Bruce Adler. Robin Williams actually did his own singing as the Genie. Bruce Adler filled in for Williams in his other role, the Peddler.
  • John Grant's The Encyclopedia of Disney Characters is a well-researched book, but does have one notable error; the article on Aladdin: The Return of Jafar misspells Abis Mal as "Abi Smal." Ordinarily, this would be just a normal typo, except the article on the Aladdin: The Series not only spells his name correctly, but both names are listed in the index, as if they were two separate characters.
  • During Aladdin: The Return of Jafar's initial release, a package of Trix yogurt offered quiz questions about the first film. One question asked to list off all three of Jafar's wishes, but listed the answers as becoming sultan, then a sorcerer, "and, finally, a snake." Jafar uses his sorcerer powers to become the giant snake; his actual third wish is to become a genie himself.
• The Facebook page for Alpha and Omega posted a photo captioned: "Happy #WolfWednesday! Could we interest you in this beautiful white wolf pup?" The image they posted◊ showed an arctic fox.
• The official website of An American Tail describes Tanya as "always getting her brother into some kind of trouble" (which he does just fine on his own), and implies that Tony Toponi is in love with Tanya, which is never even hinted at in the movies.
• A book adaptation of Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses mistakenly called Fallon "Finna", Janessa "Jocelyn", and Kathleen "Kate".
• The official Hungarian description of BIONICLE 3: Web of Shadows claimed that the villainous pair, Roodaka and Sidorak, are Makuta. While the name Makuta does refer to a whole race of beings, there is only one Makuta in the context of the movie, with Roodaka and Sidorak being his servants.
• Bolt:
  • Zap2it's listing reads: "Thinking he has real superpowers, the canine star of a hit TV show travels cross-country from Hollywood to New York to rescue his owner and co-star." While accurate to the plot, it flips the origin and destination of Bolt's journey; he starts in New York after accidentally getting stuck in a mail delivery truck, and has to travel back to Hollywood from there.
  • DVD Verdict's review calls it the first computer animated movie in the Disney Animated Canon, even though two CGI movies immediately preceded it, and Disney produced a CG/live-action hybrid even earlier. Becomes and even bigger fail due to the body of the review including a link to an article about Disney's actual first all-CGI movie, Chicken Little.
  • Impulse Gamer's review claims that Miley Cyrus was the voice of Mittens. Her voice was provided by Susie Essman, and the credits clearly state that Cyrus actually voiced Penny, a young girl who is the humanoid lead of Bolt's TV show.
• One of the cards in the Disney version of Trivial Pursuit shows a picture of Cinderella losing her slipper shortly after marrying Prince Charming, and asks what time it was when the scene occurred. The card says the scene occurred at midnight, even though Cinderella actually gets married at noon. Apparently, someone mistook this for a picture of the ball.
• Coraline: At the time of release, there was an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that Coraline was a Tim Burton film, due to the off-kilter art style, stop-motion animation, and the fact that the trailers hyped it as being by "the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas". This is referring to Henry Selick; Burton had nothing to do with Coraline. The blame here can be pinned on the In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It for Nightmare — while its full title is Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Burton was only responsible for the concept as he was busy directing Batman Returns at the time. Neil Gaiman, author of the original book, has expressed his annoyance with this, and it was mocked by several webcomics.

  "'Neil Gaiman:' It was irritating when people started asking me why the advertising said "From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"

• Build-a-Bear Workshop's description for their plush toy of Fluffy from Despicable Me starts with "Agnes, Gru's favorite unicorn, is totally adorable in furry friend form!" Fluffy is the name of the unicorn, and Agnes is the name of one of Gru's adopted daughters and the person who actually owns said unicorn, not Gru. It's possible this was a proofreading mistake; since Agnes is one of Gru's adoptive daughters, her full name is "Agnes Gru." Removing the commas makes the sentence correct.
• Finding Dory
  • The tie-in book "Fish Talk" claims that Hank turns pink when inking himself in the touch pond. He doesn't change color at all during this incident.
  • The description of a Coppertone ad based on the movie calls Hank "Frank".
• Frozen:
  • Elsa is often referred to as "Princess Elsa", especially in Brazil, even though her coronation and status as queen of Arendelle are major plot points. This is likely because of her prominence in the Disney Princess line, which lumps Elsa in with actual princesses for marketing's sake - something not unheard of for the franchise. Sometimes she's even called "Princess Frozen".
  • A review of the film in a French newspaper mixed up the names of the sisters, presenting Anna as having uncontrollable ice powers and Elsa the plucky sister who punches princes in the face.
• Back when Hotel Transylvania: Transformania was slated for theatrical release, the Vue Cinemas website claimed Adam Sandler would be returning as Dracula, when it had already been made public knowledge that his role would be taken over by Brian Hull.
• How to Train Your Dragon:
  • The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary of the movie: "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initiation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book series. Too bad the movie is an adaptation In Name Only: instead of a young boy going going through a rite of passage by capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them is wrong.
  • An advertisement for toy dragons based on the second movie showed and described someone making toy Toothless fight a Bewilderbeast...specifically, the white one that is actually good in the movie, not the black one that's under Drago's control.
• To this day, some people insist that the Pizza Planet Truck appears in The Incredibles — thereby asserting that they know better than Lee Unkrich and Brad Bird (a senior Pixar staffer, and the Pixar staffer who actually directed the movie).
• Inside Out:
  • Many people are confused as to what animals Bing Bong is supposed to be a combination of. For example, Time To Play Magazine's review of a stuffed animal of his says he is part dog due to his ears looking like those of a dog. Other people claim he is part cow and/or horse, due to his line "You gotta remember when Riley was three, animals were all the rage. The cow goes moo, the horse goes neigh. That's all people talked about." He's actually part cat, elephant and dolphin, but is mostly made of cotton candy. However, according to The Art of Inside Out, Bing Bong was originally supposed to be part-dog, which explains his floppy ears.
  • One review of the movie claimed that the collapse of Goofball Island led to the Train of Thought's derailment. It's actually Honesty Island's collapse that leads to this event. The reviewer might have been confused due to both scenes involving characters trying to escape from the catastrophic scene that's unfolding.
  • One CartoonBrew article called Bing Bong a girl in reference to the scene where he stubs his toe. This could be because he is pink and likes girly things like princesses and ponies, due to being a young girl's imaginary friend.
  • IMDB claims that the song "Take My Breath Away" played in this movie. It did not; it played in the Riley's First Date? short that is a bonus feature on the Blu-ray and DVD of the film, and was probably added because at the time, the short had no listing on the site yet.
• The Simpsons episode "A Star is Burns" has a TV announcer refer to The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones as "The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons".
• The Common Sense Media article for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius claims that one of Jimmy's friends is "Shane (a passionate fan of some action heroes called Ultra Lords)". The character's name is Sheen, and Ultra Lord is one character, not a group (though a case could be made for the latter referring to the action figures instead of any characters).
• Sometimes extremist Christian parties pick on cartoons that, according to them, send subliminal messages to children that are watching them. This is the case with Italian politician and activist Mario Adinolfi, leader of the "People of the Family"^note  a political party notorious for propagating fake news and libel about homosexuality, atheism and adoptive families who strongly bashed Kung Fu Panda 3 for its alleged "gender ideology propaganda" and "brainwashing children into homosexuality", based on the fact that Po - or rather "Kung Fu Panda" - has two fathers. This ignores the fact that Mr. Ping, Po's adoptive father, raises him by himself at the start of the series, with Po only finding his true father in the third film.
• IGN's review of the Lady and the Tramp Platinum Edition DVD lists that the DVD contains two versions of the film: one animated in CinemaScope, and one with characters and details re-arranged for Academy screens (which are shaped more like squares), offering "a sort of unofficial history lesson for folks who are interested in cinema's technological history." However, if the reviewer read the back cover more carefully, they would have noticed the DVD actually contains Lady and the Tramp in CinemaScope — its original, unedited format — and Pan and Scan. Instead of including the specially modified version (which would have had to be restored separately), Disney simply cropped the picture for 4:3 TV sets.
• When The Land Before Time IX was first released, there was a very bizarre review on Amazon, which somehow referred to the previous film, The Big Freeze, as "Time of Much Snow". Also, even more strange, the review talked about the death of Littlefoot's grandmother instead of his mother, suggesting that this user didn't do any research.
• Some articles about The LEGO Movie assert that the "a bunch of others we don't need to mention" joke, during which images from various canceled or somewhat controversial LEGO lines flash on screen, was a show of Self-Deprecation on LEGO's part, and that the lines in question (for example BIONICLE, Fabuland and LEGO Friends) were some of their biggest failures. While it is true that the LEGO fandom is seriously divided over these lines, most of them were far from failures. Fabuland and BIONICLE have devoted followings despite the former having been canceled since the '80s, and the latter was one of the company's most successful and top-selling non-licensed properties and a Long Runner among the action-oriented themes, having played a huge part in saving LEGO from going out of business during the early 2000s, the exact opposite of a failure — the series' reboot did fail, but that happened after The LEGO Movie had come out. The joke was really either the creators' way of acknowledging the franchises they didn't have time to cover in the movie, or a reference to how Finn can't play with them since he might not own any of the toys.
• Lightyear: After actress Patricia Heaton criticized Pixar for recasting Buzz with Chris Evans instead of Tim Allen, several right-wing news outlets claimed that Allen had been fired from the role due to his conservative beliefs, and that Buzz would be played by Evans in all future projects. Not only was Allen working on a The Santa Clauses with Disney at the time of Lightyear's premier, but director Angus MacLane had stated much earlier that Evans was chosen as Buzz because it would further differentiate the human Buzz from the toy Buzz. Plus, Allen himself was fine with the recasting, and even encouraged his followers on social media to give Evans (who himself gave heavy praise to Allen's original performance) a chance in the role.
• The Lion King:
  • In the book Disney: The First 100 Years, a screenshot from the opening scene of The Lion King is captioned as "Rafiki holds baby Simba while Mufasa and Nala smile proudly." Simba's mother is named Sarabi; Nala is Simba's childhood friend and love interest.
  • The infamous argument that The Lion King ripped off Kimba the White Lion is flawed on several levels, and most videos on the subject come from people who have never seen the show themselves. Many, if not most, comparisons involve footage taken out of context, sometimes from material released after The Lion King came out, and many "similarities" are either entirely superficial, predate them both, or are just made up. For those interested, YourMovieSucks.org did some research on the controversy and ended up making a a two-hour in-depth analysis that debunks most of the arguments made by the "Kimba Crowd". In a delicious bit of irony, a fan of Adam even discovered a pre-Kimba comic about a lion named Simba, and Adam then added a parody of the "Kimba crowd" videos by using the exact same arguments used in them.
• Madagascar:
  • A 2012 AFP article on the endangered status of lemurs refers to Madagascar as a Disney movie.
  • An article about in an issue of Disney Adventures magazine when the movie originally came out mentions "Johnson the lemur" as one of the characters. There is no such character in the movie.
• A lot of news stories about The Peanuts Movie either implied or claimed outright that it would be the first time the Peanuts characters would appear on the big screen. There were four theatrical Peanuts films made between 1969 and 1980: A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Come Home, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown.
• An article on depictions of tobacco and alcohol use in movies for children identifies Lampwick as Lampwit.
• A description from The Rock Podcast claims that Planet 51 is a Spanish animated film. It's actually an American-Spanish co-production that was animated in Spain.
• This review of the 1980 Rankin/Bass version of The Return of the King starts with the reviewer stating that they haven't read the original books. They nevertheless go on to complain about how the cartoon deviates from the original text such as having Sam tempted by the ring with visions of turning Middle-earth into a giant garden, Denethor possessing a Palantir and the presence of the Watchers (semi-alive giant vulture statues). All of these scenes are in the original book.
• This article about Guillermo Del Toro joining DreamWorks Animation claims that the studio's 2012 movie Rise of the Guardians is a sequel to Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians, which is a completely unrelated movie made by Warner Bros.
• Scooby-Doo
  • A lot of summaries of Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights make it seem like a regular Scooby-Doo! episode, only set in the Middle East, when it is actually a straightforward adaptation of the original story with Scooby and a Disguised in Drag Shaggy taking the place of Scheherazade.
  • Many early articles announcing the voice cast for SCOOB! mention Frank Welker voicing Scooby since the franchise's inception in 1969. While he's been voicing Fred since then, he only became Scooby's regular voice in 2002 with What's New, Scooby-Doo? (following the death of original Scooby voice Don Messick).
• The MovieGuide.org review of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut refers to Big Gay Al as being Black. It also claims that "the whole point of South Park is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see South Park, even though it is rated R. Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up." This is just about the opposite of what the film shows; in fact, the primary conflict of the movie is set up by the kids sneaking into Asses of Fire and copying its lowbrow Vulgar Humor in real life, upsetting their parents so much they declare war on Canada. (Interestingly, at least one earlier draft of the movie actually did have a message like that.)
• Shrek 2:
  • The Christian Review website complained in their review that Donkey having children with Dragon implied that he was a "Freewheeling playboy" despite the fact that Dragon is the only romantic partner he has and that two people who love each other having children is something that's gone on for ages untold.
  • There was a tie-in board game that adapts the climax of the movie — players must travel around Far Far Away while collecting enough Gingerbread Man-themed tokens to let them storm the castle and win the game. While this much is accurate to the movie, the game refers to these pieces as "Gingy Tokens." Gingy is the nickname of the normal-sized Gingerbread Man; the giant one that Shrek and company use to break into the castle is named Mongo.
• A video game version of Jeopardy! for the NES asked which Disney princess fell under the spell of "Queen Malificent". Maleficent was the villain in Sleeping Beauty, but the game claims the answer is Snow White (whose villain is usually just called "The Evil Queen", but was named Grimhilde in concept).
• This article falsely lists that the Steven Universe: The Movie came out in 2001, when it actually came out in 2019. Steven Universe itself didn't start until 2013.
• Some online sources, when reporting on the announcement of the voice cast for The Super Mario Bros. Movie and showing the actors next to pictures of their characters, mistakenly believed Sebastian Maniscalco was voicing a Spike, the green, spike ball-throwing enemy Mook introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3, instead of Foreman Spike from Wrecking Crew. This is understandable since the reveal refers to him simply as "Spike" and the latter character is quite obscure, but the official reveal had each actor shown next to a small icon of their character, with Spike represented by his sprite from Wrecking Crew
• Common Sense Media's review of Teen Titans Go! To the Movies uses a screenshot from an episode of the series it adapts, "The Fourth Wall".
• Dr. Ted Baehr's MovieGuide put out a review of the 2007 TMNT film that is riddled with errors and bizarre extrapolations, alongside a healthy dose of Everyone Is Satan in Hell. For starters:
  • Leonardo and Raphael's fight, two thirds midway through the movie is described as a battle between Leo and Michaelangelo — at the film's beginning.
  • "Stories went nowhere..." This implies that nobody at MovieGuide had ever heard of the 2003 animated series or the original comics. The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers an insight into the film's world, just on the bleak chance that someone going to see it had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material.
  • The thing with those stars aligning to unleash a beam of energy on Earth that unlocks monsters from another world is merely modification of a common plot device seen in many other movies. But somehow, this is an evil tactic by Satan to get us addicted to looking for answers in... astrology. Not one single constellation in the Zodiac (Eastern or Western) is ever mentioned on-screen.
  • Contrary to Baher's assessment of "a confused view," the movie actually has no problem with vigilantism per se. What it does have a problem with is Punisher-style vigilantism. The Foot Clan and monsters are what they are and are deemed as "worthy to die." Yet, ordinary criminals are not to be killed. They are to only be subdued and left for the police. That is the code of battle honor the Turtles fight with, and is very similar to Batman's. The problem Leonardo has with the "Night Watcher" is because the media has led him to believe that this vigilante actually kills the criminals. Those who know the Backstory will know that the Turtles once believed this about Casey before befriending him. They know of Splinter's code of honor, similar in some ways to Bushido, and they don't trust vigilantes who are not trained in any known code of honor.
• Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of Tom and Jerry: The Movie that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were nominated for fifteen awards, but only won seven.
• Toy Story 3: To quote Armond White's review: "The toys wage battle with the daycare center's cynical veteran cast-offs: Hamm the Piggy Bank pig, Lotsa Hugs and Big Baby." Hamm is not from the daycare center - he's one of Andy's toys, and he appeared in the previous two films. The biggest error here, however, is that Hamm is not, nor has he ever been, a villain; he can be a bit of a jerkass when upset, but is usually rather mellow. Possibly, he saw Hamm being portrayed as the Evil Doctor Porkchop in young Andy's Fantasy Sequence in the beginning, and somehow conflated this with the rest of the movie. Also, the villain's name is Lotso Huggin Bear, not Lotsa Hugs.

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