the author of I Spy also made a series of similar books called “can you see what I see”, one of the can you see what I see books is called “toyland express” and this is what this film mostly reminds me of
You sure this was made in 2009??? This feels more like some 1950’s fever dream that would have directly inspired that one line Roger Waters used as a metaphor for crazy in The Trial!
@@dylansmith5206 Cool as that film is...and much as I wanna see it....it IS mainly live action and... well he did review a bunch of godzilla films....and...ok yknow what forget all that GET ON IT STEVE DO PINK FLOYD THE WALL
You left out the best part of the film: the cake. The film has a great full circle moment with it. at the beginning Buttercup makes a cake to celebrate the birthday of one of the toys, which is decided at random by rolling dice. At the end, she bakes a very large cake for everyone because they were all "born anew"
I think it's about just a kid playing with their toys, using whatever they could find to make a story. The end symbolises maybe the passage of time, growing up, or even the kid just wrapping up certain things awkwardly because they can. That kinda explains some plot holes in my opinion.
@@sugarcrystals5649 Sayu! :3 I was wondering about maybe changing my pfp to NSR, but I've been lazy, LOL. XD I don't feel like image resizing and stuff. :p
Dude, Czech films are wild. You should watch “Alice 1988” and “Blood Tea and Red String” both wtf but beautiful art films. Also both from creators of Czech decent. :)
My dudes watch Little Otik (Otesánek) from 2000 There was a pretty known creepypasta back in the day that used scenes from this movie to give it more credibility
Another Czech animated film that I really liked is Kuky se vrací (Kooky) from 2010. It mixes stop-motion with live action in a pretty unique way, and it gets wild, but also rather emotional in parts. It's based on a picture book which was made by the same guy behind the game company Amanita Design (think of Machinarium, Samorost and Botanicula, among others) The closest thing to this film (for comparison) is the swedish game Unravel.
With the clock being near twelve o’clock it could represent the “doomsday clock”. The clock used to represent tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. It turning back would thus represent doomsday being reversed, and tensions dropping as if nothing ever happened. Clearly a bit of a stretch but thought I’d chime in
Its meant to be reminiscent of a kid playing in the attic right? Thus the weird plot, inconsistent texture and bin bag water. My guess it that the clock is showing that it’s bedtime when everything gets put away and the toy box is closed.
I remember seeing this film on Netflix when I was ten and getting freaked out by the scene with the clock. Honestly, I feel like this was one of those animated movies that's less focused on plot and more on visuals.
As a Czech person who saw the movie as a kid and later learned about the history of our country, I have two theories on the clock/black hole. As a kid, I thought it symbolized forgetting your childhood. You forget things like imaginary friends, you lose your toys, you forget the stories they went through in your imagination and that's just a part of growing up, hence it being a birthday present for Teddy. All things, good or bad will pass with time and are eventually going to be forgotten. As an adult, knowing what I know now, it makes sense it would be a metaphor connected with the communist regime that was prominent in our country. But I have to disagree with it symbolising returning the good ol' times. On the contrary, I think it symbolizes moving on and evolving from those hurtful times, mostly because turning the clock back before those times would mean going back to WWII (oof) and the nazi dictatorship (double oof). And if you want to go back even further, welcome to the time we were struggling to establish ourselves as an independent country shortly after WWI and splitting from the Austrian/Hungarian empire (triple oof). Since we don't really have the good ol' times to return to I would argue it symbolises healing and allowing yourself to grow without the fear of being watched or hurt. It symbolizes moving on from the pain and allowing yourself to be happy again. As for the clock actually turning back in the movie I would say it's more of a "leaving things in the past" as opposed to "turning back the clock". I hope this makes sense, I'd love to hear your response to this theory.
Thats an interesting theory. But the watch’s hands are turning backwards so seems like it wouldnt make sense for it to symbolize the future. Unless it rotating in reverse symbolizes a reeling back motion, pulling the corrupt toys back further and further into the past where they belong.
Maybe their is no deep historical symbolism and it is more turning back time to before the adventure happened and no consequence exist Think of a child putting their toys away. Everything just resets. This session is over now put every thing away and it resets to how it was in the beginning
Dude! I've seen this film before! I found it at my local library in the kids section while volunteering to shelve books. It looks interesting and weird so I checked it out! It didn't strike me as too scary when I watched it, but I was about 17 years old, so that's not too surprising. It's got a relatively unique style with clever use of stop motion and other animation techniques which is fun to watch! Edit: Oh my god, how did I forget the cannibals!? I genuinely forgot the cannibals and I'm not sure how. Maybe I stepped out during that scene or the disk skipped, but I would probably have remembered them otherwise, I would think.
Kind of a significant mood changer near the end of the video that it all went from horrifyingly gritty with *said movie* being reviewed to an innocent and warm to the heart trip down to memory lane with Old Bear Stories that I watched a lot when I was little. I swear, stop-motion is arguably the most emotionally mind-altering form of animation that there has ever been in the whole medium. Whether it all be wholesome, creepy or everything in-between, it never holds back the punches of heightening the viewers senses to the nth degree.
I had this exact same experience with Osmosis Jones' TV series. Fascinating, I wonder how many more thought dreams but actually real media stories are there.
@@Zancibar I saw this one random day while watching Netflix, the only line in the entire movie I actually remembered was 'the head is dead!' Needless to say I had nightmares
Oh goodness this is quite a gem. I remember finding “Krysar” or “The Pied Piper” by Jiri Barta about 2 years ago and loved him since. I think another one of his best films was “The Last Theft” no words or anything just tons of surrealist imagery and music. Great job Steve!
Well, there's this argentine movie I grew up with "el arca de Noé" or "Noah's Ark". It was fine for me and my parents but later on I came to find out that it was a little too sexual for international audiences taste so I would find it interesting if you reviewed it.
0:49 Perhaps they thought horror was a given since stop-motion has an infamous track record of being unintentionally creepy. 2:27 Somebody's got jokes! XD 9:45 That might just be the most macguffiniest MacGuffin I've ever seen.
If we can suggest more Czech stop motion films with creepy imagery: I remember being disturbed as a kid by the Czech movie "Alice" from 1988, a stop motion movie based on Alice in Wonderland.
How about reviewing the Korean animated movie: Leafie, A Hen into the Wild. Its s beautiful and sad movie, it makes me cry every time. Ps, the movie had 2 endings. The original and a more..censured/happy ending.
They change her name to daisy in the dub and cut out her basically sacrificing herself to a predator after watching the duck fly away i haven't seen it only seen that clip and another review on it, they pretty much 4 kids it
My theory is that the watch represents time to grow because we see that the attic is full with toys ,houses and other equipment to play with .Which means that maybe they were all control by other children than the girl that play in the attic since its huge where they build their figure town , but i think thw watch shows that the kids grew up to the age of not playing anymore that they had to get to clean up and get rid of everything in the attic making it empty. Thats my guess
You know the song from the Charlie and chocolate factory musical? The jazzy, upbeat tune about making fudge while a mother screams in horror as her son is drowning in boiling chocolate? That’s what the cannibal scene reminds me of.
"Steve, please review Toys In The Attic!" Steve: "I assure you, I am very familiar with the works of Aerosmith." (Cut to animation of Steve's avatar playing air guitar to Walk This Way)
There's this movie called "Jack and the cuckoo clock heart" I think its pretty good and it has an interesting aet style. It's not necessarily scary but it's still pretty good in my opinion and i'd like to see what you think about it
14:26 that is a scene from a story book I very much liked as a child. It was a collection of stories for children and I never knew they made a animated short about it. I believe it was called “old bear”
Not to mention that the movie features a little badger who contracted radiation sickness and the film also shows what can happen when humans litter like what we see with the guy in the car who carelessly throws a beer bottle which pops the tyre of a tanker transporting some kind of toxic gas the film also shows human development and how it can affect the environment
To be honest I watched this when I was around five or six and I remembered the cannibal scene and the name of the movie but until now i thought it was a weird nightmare
This is a creative beutifle film with a great ending all the heroes, the bear, puppet, clay figure, the original buttercup, the mouse, a bunch of pegs, a schoolboy, a pig lady, and a black figurine having a dinner after the magic watch sucked all of the evil.
@@thegoldengamer9315 I'm just messing with you. I saw your comment and that your profile picture is Bart Simpson. It reminded me of the Simpsons episode where Homer forgot to pick up Bart from soccer practice. Millhouse says "Trab pu kcip" which is "Pick up Bart" backwards.
From just looking at the thumbnail and preview I immediately went "this movie is SO turning out to be czech" And twelve seconds into the video, whaddya know, the movie is czech :D We have an incredibly long and rich history of creepy children's stop motion. EDIT: Real life human characters breaking the reality/immersion make perfect sense. That's how the world works if you're a 7-ish year old kid (or a dissociating adult of any age) whose play time is interrupted by having to do a chore. The film makers clearly tried to reconstruct that experience.
Toys In The Attic is slang for crazy or insane. Which may explain the really out there bits of the film. Its also given me a bit of Manedala Effect because I'm pretty sure I heard chat on the radio in the 90s about a novel by the same name that was about abucted children.
Seeing this review reminded me of an old scary story TV show I used to watch - Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. I remember watching it when I was 10 and let me tell you it messed me up more than courage the cowardly dog at the time. It has some of the most disturbing topics and absolutely no happy endings. I hope you find it interesting enough to review it one day :)
Oooo, I'd love to see you do a review on the old French animated movie 'Fantastic Planet'. It's very strange and right up the alley of movies you normally review
It’s Czechoslovakia what do you expect they have lovely characters like Ratafák Plachta to haunt your fever dreams I died 3:20 at “Washing up and cooking dinner Wives wives wives” You’ve made me a Sean lock fan now Also Rest In Peace to Sean lock man will go down as one of the greatest comedians in history I’m still sad now with the loss of Norm Macdonald
@@lemmythebulldog8812 you said it is, that means you are talking about it now, yes it was Czechoslovakia but now it's Czech, sorry if I'm being rude, I'm from Czech Republic and it makes me mad when people still call Czech Republic Czechoslovakia. Also sorry if I miss read
8:54 -Its like the clapping scene in Peter Pan. Its all your childhood innocence cried out in the tears you shed during the viewing and condenced into one single droplet. Your participation brought Buttercup back to life eveyone! 😂😢😅
Child: Mom, can we have Toy Story? Mom: No sweetie sorry but We already have Toy Story at home. Toy Story at home: Edit: you should also review Twice Upon a Time to it’s just like Toys in the Attic to
I remember watching Song of the Sea, it was beautiful! (I think it's Irish?) And I have vague memories of Azur and Asmar, I think I watched it a long while ago, when I was a little kid?
dude i remember watching this film in my grandma’s house at around the age of 3-5 and happened to forget literally everything that happened (including the horrifying buttercup kidnapping scene) EXCEPT for a vivid image of the scene where the teddy bear is being baked alive in a nightmare by some evil chef. i’d been trying to find this film for ages since and happened to stumble upon your review. if you hadn’t shown it in the first few minutes of the vid i would’ve thought i made it up!! great review by the way!
I agree with ur theory, specially since the clock goes backwards. But honestly. I think they just wanted to add as many cool scenes as possible. Ya know. Like they did with Spy Kids 3D. Lots of added scenes that were just to show how cool 3D was.
oh my god I've seen this movie once and was trying to find it again but my searches brought up NOTHING. Thank you for putting a name to this film!!! I was starting to think I'd just made the whole thing up.
OMG I LOVED THIS MOVIE. My mom got it in Netflix mail while scouring the site for any animated movie we hadn't seen. Before I knew officially who Laika was, I would say this movie buried itself in my subconscious as a stellar stop motion--which it still is imo. The way they animated stuff here was really inventive and creative! I should give it a rewatch...
I think the bad movements add to the creepiness. I’ve since I was I child, for some reason thought stop motion is really scary. Especially badly done ones
When I was a child me and my family would have "sleepovers" where we would bring the mattresses into the living room and basically fall asleep watching movies. This movie came on when I was the last person awake, i just remember feeling uneasy as I sat in the darkness watching the tv. it felt so surreal and I was so disturbed that the imagery has not left my memory as an adult.
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You should review bird boy the forgotten children
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it's like the new raid shadow legends
I see that movie on doma tv
The aesthetic of this film screams “I spy book”
Yes. I can’t unsee it now.
You meant to use the word aesthetic. Ascetic is a different word.
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Ahh yes, thank you
Hey, I guess it does! ^^; I love those books.
the author of I Spy also made a series of similar books called “can you see what I see”, one of the can you see what I see books is called “toyland express” and this is what this film mostly reminds me of
You sure this was made in 2009??? This feels more like some 1950’s fever dream that would have directly inspired that one line Roger Waters used as a metaphor for crazy in The Trial!
yes 2009
Did NOT expect to see a Pink Floyd The Wall reference in the comments
@@YoFace567 Don't know if Steve will ever do this!!
But he should see about talking about Wall Film at some point!!
@@dylansmith5206 Cool as that film is...and much as I wanna see it....it IS mainly live action and... well he did review a bunch of godzilla films....and...ok yknow what forget all that GET ON IT STEVE DO PINK FLOYD THE WALL
@@avosmash2121 At least Steve would do a better job at reviewing than one other UA-camr who made a video about The Wall.
8:22
Better line:
"I guess you could say this relationship was a bust."
Wordplay on 3 levels.
=> comedy
not as great as HASHTAG but almost there
Hahaha!
@@errorname_not_found7740 I gotta say, steve's joke there had one of the best setups, and that payoff was great
The bust was busted
"Pretty terrifying blanket"
There's some words that I never thought I'd hear together
me too
You left out the best part of the film: the cake. The film has a great full circle moment with it. at the beginning Buttercup makes a cake to celebrate the birthday of one of the toys, which is decided at random by rolling dice. At the end, she bakes a very large cake for everyone because they were all "born anew"
the cake is what i remember most from the movie
I think it's about just a kid playing with their toys, using whatever they could find to make a story. The end symbolises maybe the passage of time, growing up, or even the kid just wrapping up certain things awkwardly because they can. That kinda explains some plot holes in my opinion.
Kids can lose concentration whist playing, ether they get distracted or bored or even just get called by their parents for dinner/ school
You make a rlly good point but also- nice pfp 😳
@@iDIOTSOFOz Yooo! NSR!
Yeah I agree
@@sugarcrystals5649 Sayu! :3 I was wondering about maybe changing my pfp to NSR, but I've been lazy, LOL. XD I don't feel like image resizing and stuff. :p
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That...works way too well.
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"Directed The Pied Piper of Hamlin"
*Shows a drowning family of rats in clothes*
...I'm listening
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@@the_person_that_playz_game8515 No, Deathclaw was an unfortunate coincidence.
@@Deathclaw-lh5tl interesting, but are a fallout fan?
@@the_person_that_playz_game8515 No
@@the_person_that_playz_game8515 this is so sad,alexa play smash mouth
I am a fallout fan tho
This is a movie that deals with stalking, kidnapping, imprisonment, attempted murder amongst a group of Toys.
Steve Reviews: Yep _Family Film._
Yeah lol........🤔😑.
I was 6 years old when I watched this. up until now, I believed the whole movie was a nightmare or fever dream
@@flower2223 I watched it when I was like 10 or something and it scarred me
A FAAAAAAMILY PICTURE!
@Caleb Burns perhaps not to this extent I think. Some of their innocence should remain.
Dude, Czech films are wild. You should watch “Alice 1988” and “Blood Tea and Red String” both wtf but beautiful art films. Also both from creators of Czech decent. :)
Can't explain how much I love this nation for creating such beautiful masterpieces
My dudes watch Little Otik (Otesánek) from 2000
There was a pretty known creepypasta back in the day that used scenes from this movie to give it more credibility
@@CaptainDrinkalot Yessir
Another Czech animated film that I really liked is Kuky se vrací (Kooky) from 2010. It mixes stop-motion with live action in a pretty unique way, and it gets wild, but also rather emotional in parts. It's based on a picture book which was made by the same guy behind the game company Amanita Design (think of Machinarium, Samorost and Botanicula, among others) The closest thing to this film (for comparison) is the swedish game Unravel.
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this is one of my favorite movies ever and i never really thought it was scary but now i see it lmao
Same
Same here Roosevelt
Yeah I did see it had scary moments but in a way the was made was beautifully done
Same
I remember this movie but don't know were I watched it
Dude should’ve quit while he was....a head.
That's amazing, thank you
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Jermiah Alston No need to.....go to pieces over this.
your slowing...breaking my sainity
With the clock being near twelve o’clock it could represent the “doomsday clock”. The clock used to represent tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. It turning back would thus represent doomsday being reversed, and tensions dropping as if nothing ever happened. Clearly a bit of a stretch but thought I’d chime in
Its meant to be reminiscent of a kid playing in the attic right? Thus the weird plot, inconsistent texture and bin bag water.
My guess it that the clock is showing that it’s bedtime when everything gets put away and the toy box is closed.
I love how The Simpson's George Harrison actually resembles Steve.
Steve? From minecrap?!??
@@saitama_stillchill6787 Steve... from Steve Reviews.
L. Z. Whats that? Never heard of that game only now minecrafts and boobie.
I just now realized that
@@saitama_stillchill6787 how DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT MINECRAFT !?!?!?!?
“Shows ms buttercup getting kidnapped by the blanket”
Rated E for everyone
She got kidnapped by a blanket. That is not scary.
@@ethairnyx_books apparently you didn’t see the blanket
@@wildhunter939 Coming from getting kidnapped, this movie is not at all scary.
@@fluffyunicorn6908 I've been watching that movie since I was one. My mom said it was one of the only things that put me to sleep.
@@ethairnyx_books How tf does that put a 1 year old to sleep
I remember seeing this film on Netflix when I was ten and getting freaked out by the scene with the clock.
Honestly, I feel like this was one of those animated movies that's less focused on plot and more on visuals.
As a Czech person who saw the movie as a kid and later learned about the history of our country, I have two theories on the clock/black hole.
As a kid, I thought it symbolized forgetting your childhood. You forget things like imaginary friends, you lose your toys, you forget the stories they went through in your imagination and that's just a part of growing up, hence it being a birthday present for Teddy. All things, good or bad will pass with time and are eventually going to be forgotten.
As an adult, knowing what I know now, it makes sense it would be a metaphor connected with the communist regime that was prominent in our country. But I have to disagree with it symbolising returning the good ol' times. On the contrary, I think it symbolizes moving on and evolving from those hurtful times, mostly because turning the clock back before those times would mean going back to WWII (oof) and the nazi dictatorship (double oof). And if you want to go back even further, welcome to the time we were struggling to establish ourselves as an independent country shortly after WWI and splitting from the Austrian/Hungarian empire (triple oof). Since we don't really have the good ol' times to return to I would argue it symbolises healing and allowing yourself to grow without the fear of being watched or hurt. It symbolizes moving on from the pain and allowing yourself to be happy again.
As for the clock actually turning back in the movie I would say it's more of a "leaving things in the past" as opposed to "turning back the clock".
I hope this makes sense, I'd love to hear your response to this theory.
Thats an interesting theory. But the watch’s hands are turning backwards so seems like it wouldnt make sense for it to symbolize the future. Unless it rotating in reverse symbolizes a reeling back motion, pulling the corrupt toys back further and further into the past where they belong.
Maybe their is no deep historical symbolism and it is more turning back time to before the adventure happened and no consequence exist
Think of a child putting their toys away. Everything just resets. This session is over now put every thing away and it resets to how it was in the beginning
I saw this film as a kid, and loved it. The stop motion, the creativity with the train, its a underated gem.
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2:34 Teddy has the face of someone who realised his wife for 3 years got pregnant the same time as his 2 month business trip while on holiday
LMAO
Dude! I've seen this film before! I found it at my local library in the kids section while volunteering to shelve books. It looks interesting and weird so I checked it out! It didn't strike me as too scary when I watched it, but I was about 17 years old, so that's not too surprising. It's got a relatively unique style with clever use of stop motion and other animation techniques which is fun to watch!
Edit: Oh my god, how did I forget the cannibals!? I genuinely forgot the cannibals and I'm not sure how. Maybe I stepped out during that scene or the disk skipped, but I would probably have remembered them otherwise, I would think.
My kids randomly picked this out at our library one time and it's all they wanted to watch for a good month or two
Same! Here
Steve Reviews: Toys in the attic is about toys living in an attic
Me: Hmm yes, this floor here is made of floor
No floor is made of concrete and baby is also made of sperm
Every time Steve smiles I just see a person who looks like they are in undeniable pain and screaming for help.
Me: Can we have Toy Story
Mom: We already have Toy Story
Toy Story at home:
Kind of a significant mood changer near the end of the video that it all went from horrifyingly gritty with *said movie* being reviewed to an innocent and warm to the heart trip down to memory lane with Old Bear Stories that I watched a lot when I was little.
I swear, stop-motion is arguably the most emotionally mind-altering form of animation that there has ever been in the whole medium. Whether it all be wholesome, creepy or everything in-between, it never holds back the punches of heightening the viewers senses to the nth degree.
5:24 Can we just take a moment to appreciate these edits he makes? They always make me laugh!
"Family film" made me laugh every time lol!
Lmao 😂
@@teddybearkiller5271 so did "comedy"! Lol!
@@lunabearsong2043 xD
It's hilarious
I KNEW THIS MOVIE EXISTED! MY MOM ALWAYS TOLD ME IT WAS A DREAM! THANK YOU!
Since when
I had this exact same experience with Osmosis Jones' TV series. Fascinating, I wonder how many more thought dreams but actually real media stories are there.
@@Zancibar what is tham mean?
@@Zancibar I saw this one random day while watching Netflix, the only line in the entire movie I actually remembered was 'the head is dead!' Needless to say I had nightmares
Its real. Im just trying to find a dvd of it.
I got two clay animations for you. The Adventures of Mark Twain and Morris goes to school.
I would have ended the movie with everything being sucked into the clock and the child picking it up to symbolize it was all just her imagination
I legit read the title as "Flowers in the Attic" and almost had a heart attack. Like, who the holy hell would animate that?
I'm scared to ask what Flowers In the Attic is :)
OMG noooooooo!!
@@jomichan8920 Why!?
@@FeralFelineFriend 2 words: abuse and incest
@@jomichan8920 oh... oh no 😶
Oh goodness this is quite a gem. I remember finding “Krysar” or “The Pied Piper” by Jiri Barta about 2 years ago and loved him since. I think another one of his best films was “The Last Theft” no words or anything just tons of surrealist imagery and music. Great job Steve!
I absolutely love when common household objects are used as different things in a tiny world. The creativity of this movie is so lovely 😍
I laughed so hard when he said “but that’s just a theory.... a FiLm ThEoRy”
The march of time destroys all despots, and erases any trace of their tyranny
Huh that's actually a pretty cool take on it, a lot like Ozymandias actually!
Steve: *Does MatPat impersonation*
Me: "Don't... ever... do that again."
lmao
What's bad about matpat?
@@nucleardino61 nothing, think they just mean his impression was bad.
@@irkenpony17 ooh, I thought you where talking about how matpat
Nice 69 likes, would be bad if someone ruined it
Well, there's this argentine movie I grew up with "el arca de Noé" or "Noah's Ark". It was fine for me and my parents but later on I came to find out that it was a little too sexual for international audiences taste so I would find it interesting if you reviewed it.
stop you are giving me ptsd flashbacks
Saberspark reviewed that movie
I will always remember it for awakening everyone their furry form thanks to a certain panther girl.
Isnt that the film with the sexy panther?
You mean the one with anthro characters and black/tanned god?
Me: mom can we get toy story
Mom: we have toy story at home
the toy story at home:
Funny enough Madame Curie the mouse was actually Voice by Joan Cusack the actress who voiced Jessie in the Toy Story films
10:56 Every FNaF fan simultaneously lost their minds.
0:49 Perhaps they thought horror was a given since stop-motion has an infamous track record of being unintentionally creepy.
2:27 Somebody's got jokes! XD
9:45 That might just be the most macguffiniest MacGuffin I've ever seen.
If we can suggest more Czech stop motion films with creepy imagery: I remember being disturbed as a kid by the Czech movie "Alice" from 1988, a stop motion movie based on Alice in Wonderland.
If he's gonna do Švankmajer, I recommend Alice, but I'd recommend Little Otik over that one. At least Otik has a discernable plot.
yes! I got major "Alice" vibes from this too
Yes yes yes!
I can reccomend Daisies (Sedmikrásky) as well ! Even tho its not stop motion
@@WobblesandBean Jesus Christ, "Little Otik" scared the hell out of me with its visuals, and I'm an adult.
How about reviewing the Korean animated movie: Leafie, A Hen into the Wild. Its s beautiful and sad movie, it makes me cry every time. Ps, the movie had 2 endings. The original and a more..censured/happy ending.
I love that movie! It makes me cry everytime. It's just so sad. 😭
I suppressed that movie so long ago oh gosh
@@thelove-dragon7039 I know right, just the thinking of the last scene, makes me tear up!
I've been recommending this on this channel for a year now!!!!!! It's such a beautiful masterpiece but so underrated it hurts!!!!!!!!!
They change her name to daisy in the dub and cut out her basically sacrificing herself to a predator after watching the duck fly away i haven't seen it only seen that clip and another review on it, they pretty much 4 kids it
My theory is that the watch represents time to grow because we see that the attic is full with toys ,houses and other equipment to play with .Which means that maybe they were all control by other children than the girl that play in the attic since its huge where they build their figure town , but i think thw watch shows that the kids grew up to the age of not playing anymore that they had to get to clean up and get rid of everything in the attic making it empty.
Thats my guess
You know the song from the Charlie and chocolate factory musical? The jazzy, upbeat tune about making fudge while a mother screams in horror as her son is drowning in boiling chocolate?
That’s what the cannibal scene reminds me of.
"that talking head from art attack"
*Wait, HE WASN'T A PALM TREE?!*
"Steve, please review Toys In The Attic!"
Steve: "I assure you, I am very familiar with the works of Aerosmith."
(Cut to animation of Steve's avatar playing air guitar to Walk This Way)
Lmao i was thinking that right now
There's this movie called "Jack and the cuckoo clock heart" I think its pretty good and it has an interesting aet style. It's not necessarily scary but it's still pretty good in my opinion and i'd like to see what you think about it
i dont know what this movie is
I read the book, the concept is interesting.
@@user-ow9uo8mc4f It’s about a boy, who has a clock for a heart and if he falls in love, he’ll die.
Oohh, I've seen it. It's actually pretty good
Once he said "it's just a theory" I immediately thought about matpat, then I knew somehow Steve was going to reference that 😂
14:26 that is a scene from a story book I very much liked as a child. It was a collection of stories for children and I never knew they made a animated short about it. I believe it was called “old bear”
Omg I am so glad you are talking about this movie!!! For years I thought I was just hallucinating or something
Once Upon a Forest was a dark cartoon from my childhood. Haven't seen it in years but I've heard a lot of people say it was a pretty underrated.
Not to mention that the movie features a little badger who contracted radiation sickness and the film also shows what can happen when humans litter like what we see with the guy in the car who carelessly throws a beer bottle which pops the tyre of a tanker transporting some kind of toxic gas the film also shows human development and how it can affect the environment
To be honest I watched this when I was around five or six and I remembered the cannibal scene and the name of the movie but until now i thought it was a weird nightmare
I watched it when I was about the same age too, I think I repressed it for years because of how bad it scared me when I was little x)
Me: *watches this video with my cat*
Steve Reviews: 13:34
Me: *hugs my cat* ;-;
This is a creative beutifle film with a great ending all the heroes, the bear, puppet, clay figure, the original buttercup, the mouse, a bunch of pegs, a schoolboy, a pig lady, and a black figurine having a dinner after the magic watch sucked all of the evil.
I love how you put in " It's just a theory. A Film Theory"
This is “from” Czech Republic? I’ve never heard about this movie before, and I live here. Damn
I feel ya, my czech brother xd
me neither
Neither do I
Despite being Slovakian 🤔
I watched it when i was and i feel completely fine
*Mom come pick me up im scared*
Trab pu kcip! Trab pu kcip!
@@baronvongott7879 ? I havent finished the review yet
@@thegoldengamer9315 I'm just messing with you. I saw your comment and that your profile picture is Bart Simpson. It reminded me of the Simpsons episode where Homer forgot to pick up Bart from soccer practice. Millhouse says "Trab pu kcip" which is "Pick up Bart" backwards.
From just looking at the thumbnail and preview I immediately went "this movie is SO turning out to be czech"
And twelve seconds into the video, whaddya know, the movie is czech :D We have an incredibly long and rich history of creepy children's stop motion.
EDIT: Real life human characters breaking the reality/immersion make perfect sense. That's how the world works if you're a 7-ish year old kid (or a dissociating adult of any age) whose play time is interrupted by having to do a chore. The film makers clearly tried to reconstruct that experience.
I like the effort you go to find meaning behind seemingly random events. A lot of times there is an explanation but reviews play them up for laughs.
2:27 bro, stop it, I'm already dying, bro
Hell yeah! Another one of Steve's legendary videos. This saturday has officially become the best!
1. I've never been so early
2. The Film Theory reference made me chuckle
Steve saying "Bin bag" is something I never knew I needed.
Toys In The Attic is slang for crazy or insane. Which may explain the really out there bits of the film. Its also given me a bit of Manedala Effect because I'm pretty sure I heard chat on the radio in the 90s about a novel by the same name that was about abucted children.
I feel like a good way they could have solved the extra buttercups and the cannabals running around is kinda self explanatory...
4:06 OMG I THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST A DREAM!!!!
Seeing this review reminded me of an old scary story TV show I used to watch - Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. I remember watching it when I was 10 and let me tell you it messed me up more than courage the cowardly dog at the time. It has some of the most disturbing topics and absolutely no happy endings. I hope you find it interesting enough to review it one day :)
I always thought this movie was a weird fever dream I had, now i know I'm not crazy.
I can see the watch meaning, the kids grew up and the toys were lost to time
I need more stop motion film with this style.
6:32 man... when I see babyhead from the original toy story, I still get freaked out...
Welp, this gonna haunt my nightmares for days
This movie freaked the shit out of me as a kid
3:14 omg this is so hilarious and terrifying at the same time 🤣 😂
I'm literally crying I used to watch this movie all the time when I was younger and seeing this was a major nostalgia trip
Oooo, I'd love to see you do a review on the old French animated movie 'Fantastic Planet'. It's very strange and right up the alley of movies you normally review
The nonsense combined with real life, really reminds me of Raggedy Ann and Andy a Musical Adventure.
It’s Czechoslovakia what do you expect they have lovely characters like Ratafák Plachta to haunt your fever dreams
I died 3:20 at “Washing up and cooking dinner Wives wives wives”
You’ve made me a Sean lock fan now
Also Rest In Peace to Sean lock man will go down as one of the greatest comedians in history
I’m still sad now with the loss of Norm Macdonald
Uhm little mistake, it's just Czech
@@prosteradlo590 sorry but it was Czechoslovakia at the time Ratafák plátcha was popular.
@@lemmythebulldog8812 you said it is, that means you are talking about it now, yes it was Czechoslovakia but now it's Czech, sorry if I'm being rude, I'm from Czech Republic and it makes me mad when people still call Czech Republic Czechoslovakia. Also sorry if I miss read
@@prosteradlo590 Ratafák Plátcha wasn't exclusively czech however
@@prosteradlo590 just being historically correct, no offense
This film feels like a perfect depiction of nightmares
8:54 -Its like the clapping scene in Peter Pan. Its all your childhood innocence cried out in the tears you shed during the viewing and condenced into one single droplet. Your participation brought Buttercup back to life eveyone! 😂😢😅
"Mom, can we have Toy Story?"
"We have Toy Story at home."
Toy Story at home:
Child: Mom, can we have Toy Story?
Mom: No sweetie sorry but We already have Toy Story at home.
Toy Story at home:
Edit: you should also review Twice Upon a Time to it’s just like Toys in the Attic to
Some movies to review:
Perfect Blue
Allegro non troppo (it's italian)
Azur and Asmar
Fantastic Planet
Song of the sea
Strange magic
Yes, Allegro non troppo is the italian Fantasia.
I remember watching Song of the Sea, it was beautiful! (I think it's Irish?)
And I have vague memories of Azur and Asmar, I think I watched it a long while ago, when I was a little kid?
Yes, it's Irish
dude i remember watching this film in my grandma’s house at around the age of 3-5 and happened to forget literally everything that happened (including the horrifying buttercup kidnapping scene) EXCEPT for a vivid image of the scene where the teddy bear is being baked alive in a nightmare by some evil chef. i’d been trying to find this film for ages since and happened to stumble upon your review. if you hadn’t shown it in the first few minutes of the vid i would’ve thought i made it up!! great review by the way!
I WATCHED THIS MOVIE RELIGIOUSLY WHEN I WAS 7 AND I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR IT FOR YEARS THANK YOU
This movie is one of my favorite movie❤️ especially the grotesque creatures, but also the embodiment of it😊
I agree with ur theory, specially since the clock goes backwards. But honestly. I think they just wanted to add as many cool scenes as possible. Ya know. Like they did with Spy Kids 3D. Lots of added scenes that were just to show how cool 3D was.
The name in czech means "who has birthday today?" (I'm czech lol)
I remember watching this when I was younger and I just loved it for how creative it was. I really think it’s a good movie
Literally the only person whose reviewed this movie. Thank you
me: about to finish a video
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No your not
@@user-pc7bn5cv8m thats the joke
I saw this movie when I was kid and had memory of only one scene and thought that it was only a wierd dream..... It wasn't
"although technically a kids film, it certainly does have a lot of creepy and disturbing moments throughout."
80s kids: *Return to Oz flashbacks*
And animation is used in the movie two types to be exact puppetry and stop motion in particular claymation
oh my god I've seen this movie once and was trying to find it again but my searches brought up NOTHING. Thank you for putting a name to this film!!! I was starting to think I'd just made the whole thing up.
"Mom, can we have Toy Story at home?"
"We already had Toy Story at home."
*Toy Story at Home:*
I would love to see a review of “The little engine that could” that movie honestly terrified me when I was younger, and the reboot did the same
OMG I LOVED THIS MOVIE. My mom got it in Netflix mail while scouring the site for any animated movie we hadn't seen. Before I knew officially who Laika was, I would say this movie buried itself in my subconscious as a stellar stop motion--which it still is imo. The way they animated stuff here was really inventive and creative! I should give it a rewatch...
I think the bad movements add to the creepiness. I’ve since I was I child, for some reason thought stop motion is really scary. Especially badly done ones
When I was a child me and my family would have "sleepovers" where we would bring the mattresses into the living room and basically fall asleep watching movies. This movie came on when I was the last person awake, i just remember feeling uneasy as I sat in the darkness watching the tv. it felt so surreal and I was so disturbed that the imagery has not left my memory as an adult.