ANASTASIA & DIMITRI ARE GOALS!! Anastasia Movie Reaction! WHAT A GREAT BUT DARK ORIGIN STORY
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When her family is killed, Anastasia barely makes it out alive. Later, with vague memories of her past, she travels to Paris with two cons who want to portray her as the real princess and get rewards.
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Original Movie: Anastasia (1997)
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Actually Anatasia was NOT a Disney film.... Disney merely bought the rights to it. It was a Century Fox film IIRC.
@@DigiVixen Yeah don Bluth was an animator for Disney him and Gary Goldman they were both lifelong friends who worked for Disney until they Quit
@TimotheeReacts Frollo: Hellfire, dark fire, now gypsy it's your turn.
Rasputin: Come my minions rise for your master, let your evil shine.
Frollo: Choose me or your pyre.
Rasputin: Find her now yes fly ever faster.
Rasputin and Frollo: But she will be mine or she... will... burn!
So as a psychology major, I love that it was the smell of the peppermint oil that triggered her memories, because of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory. The olfactory bulb, which processes smells, is connected to the amygdala, which processes emotions and the hippocampus, which stores memory. That's why a scent can bring back memories more vividly than an image or a sound.
Yes! That’s amazing! I’ve heard about this psychology fact before. That is SO COOL!
Although it’s my understanding that music works pretty well too-?
@@StoryMing you are correct. And the music box did help.
That's very interesting
As someone who also studied psychology (for a few years), I can vouch for this.
Anastasia is actually suffering from amnesia due to hitting her head when she fell off the train. Which is why her memories keep popping up in fragments
Oh, also worth noting, Rasputin actually WAS drowned in an icy river. And legend has it he was notoriously difficult to kill. Supposedly they had to try multiple times including poison, shooting, stabbing... but apparently it was the river that ultimately did him in.
I’ve heard that too
It was hemophilia, not epilepsy. Anastasia’s mother was granddaughter of the famous Queen Victoria, therefore Anastasia’s little brother inherited hemophilia. Rasputin SEEMED to be able to stop little Alexi’s bleeding, earning him the devotion if The czar and czarina.
@@michellelamar8965 Sorry, I knew it was either epilepsy or hemophilia as those were the most common diseases in Eastern Europe at the time, however wasn`t quite sure which.
And the "curse" was should anything happen to him which people didn't like this man being chummy with the Royal family so tried to kill him. I think could be wrong on the details
What i found really interesting is that singer from Boney M (Rasputin song) died in Saint Petersburg in the same day as real Rasputin die. He die in hotel near from place where Rasputin was killed
Fun fact; Dimitri was a real person. He worked in the kitchens with his father at the palace and in the Romanov kid's childhoods, he was Alexi's best friend ( Anastasia's little brother.) They would have been around the same age so conceivably she knew him, too. When the family was forced to go from the palace, Alexi insisted Dimitri and his father be let go so that they could escape. Luckily they were able to, but no one know what happened to Dimitri and his dad after.
That’s actually kinda cool
"Another Disney animated classic."
*Movie opens with mid 90's 20th Century Fox logo...*
It is not Disney.
I had the pleasure to work for 6 months on this movie doing digital ink and paint on the night shift, in Phoenix Arizona where the studio was located. I also worked on Titan A. E. there. Fox shut the Animation Studio down after that. It was directed and produced by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Fun while it lasted
@@sandraecheverria4695 That's what the comment was pointing out.
Technically it is Disney now…..
Disney purchased Fox. Disney purchased this reply.
I really enjoy how they paid attention to detail in this film, like the fact that when Anastasia is seeing memories of Balls in the palace, her family walks in, and if you look close enough Alexei who suffered from haemophilia is actually limping, which in real life there were times he couldn't even walk. The story of the Romanovs is quite sad to be honest.
Even after finding out about how bad a ruler Nicholas II was and how many people were hurt during his reign (chiefly the pogroms but also Russia's Bloody Sunday) you still feel sorry for him because of Alexei's condition and because of what happened to him, his wife and their children
@@agenttheater5 Alexei was just 13, a little boy. Breaks my heart
@@agenttheater5 I feel sorry for his kid,but definitely not him nor his wife,he willingly commited mass murders the first time the people tried to revolt, and his wife loved him,so she was just as bad.
I don't think it was just the head injury that did Anya's memories in. In a matter of minutes, she lost her family, her home, and she was only eight. I reckon her brain couldn't process the trauma, and locked away everything pertaining to that night, including her family and her life before the revolution.
That's what I've been thinking too. Do you perhaps know what exact type of memory loss she suffered from? The one where her brain processed the concussion as defense for the trauma?
Good point about how the whole night being traumatizing. As a kid, I just accepted it was amnesia from her hitting head.
It was safer for little Anastasia, physical as well as emotionally, to forget she was a Romanovs after her entire family if killed
@@user-nf6cl7jm8j Could be some kind of repressed memory trauma due to the events of that night. On top of the head injury, it isn't implausible that her brain couldn't process everything that happened and locked away the memories.
One thing to remember is that this movie is still fiction: Anastasia was almost 20 when the Bolsheviks overthrew Czar Nicholas II.
Interesting facts: A drawing which young Nastya shows her grandma was drawn by Nastya in real life. And The second one: The Musicbox was in Real life too, but instead of Nicolas dancing a waltz it had a ballerina.
Every time I hear someone say that Anastasia is a Disney film, I facepalm on command. 😅 I know that Disney+ has this film, since Fox was bought by Disney. But I, myself know that Anastasia was a Fox child first.
With that red hair of cause she is a Fox child xD
Anastasia was originally a Don Bluth film. Don Bluth started as a Disney animator, but left to start his own studio because they treated him like crap
@@kateiannacone2698 Yes, I know.
@@SpacialRend7 I figured you did lol. That was for anyone reading the comments who didn't 😀
I literally was in 20 seconds of the video and heard “Disney movie”. I had to pause and find a comment about it because it’s not a Disney movie and Anastasia was a Disney princess. Thank you for commenting about it lol
Even if he didn't have as much control over this film as he did his others, Don Bluth was a firm believer that you can get away with making 'kids' films as dark as you can just as long as you give those kids a happy ending. Pure examples of this include American Tail, Land Before Time, and Secret of NIHM.
Which is why as a kid who didn’t have the happiest childhood I loved his movies way more than Disney.
And All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Titan AE
This movie was almost a return to form for Bluth at least in terms of that philosophy, after having lost complete creative control over Rock A Doodle and The Pebble And The Penguin to MGM. I don't know how much Warner Bros was breathing down his neck for A Troll In Central Park or Thumbelina but I can't imagine A Troll In Central Park turning out the way it did if he'd been allowed free reign
I thought he have a lot of creative control of this movie? Because Fox didn't really pressure him to do anything in particular other than basing the animated movie from Fox own movie catalogue (Anastasia was also based on Fox 1959 movie Anastasia)
Like John R. dilworth with Courage.
sadly the real Anastasia and her whole family died during the revolution. and there actually were Anastasia imposters
I think they found her remains of Anastasia relatively recently
@@Hanmacx yes they did. I think it was her and her brother they found. If I remember right there had been an attempted to burn their bodies and they were buried a little ways away from the rest of the family
Not just Anastasia, all siblings had imposters. At one point Anna Anderson who claimed to be Anastasia met an impostor claiming to be Olga and at first they recognized each other, but later they called each other a fraud. 😂
Sadly about her & the other kids in the family they were all executed by the revolutionary troops after being held at the Ipatiev House after the revolution, but let's also not ignore the adults in this family, in real life, were not great. this movie blames the Revolution on Rasputin's curse and sort of washes over the massive amount of government corruption and the detrimental effects on the russian economy due to Czar Nicolas's "leadership". As his people were starved and beaten, he partied in a palace. As did his father before him, it's no wonder the people revolted. Rasputin never really betrayed him. The biggest role he played in the story is that Russian nobility HATED him, it shook some of the nobles' faith in the Czar that he kept him around. The Nobles murdered Rasputin a year before the Czar and his family were executed. I love this movie but the inaccuracies surrounding who Rasputin was and role he played in the death of the Romanov's is... abundant
@@creatingpulsars9979 At this point, I'd consider this musical Anastasia film taking place in a parallel universe, that way I enjoy the film as it is.
One fun fact is that Rasputin was voiced by Christopher Lloyd while his character's singing was done by Jim Cummings, I barely knew the difference the first time I watched it 😆
Jim Cummings also dubbed the last part of Be Prepared from Lion king after Jermey Irons threw his voice out
Cummings is especially talented for being able to mimic voices but also sing, in character.
I watched it when it first came out in 1996 😊
@@mckenzie.latham91 Ya, Jim Cummings and Fred Tatasciore both started out as impressionists and you can tell by how perfectly they mimic the vocal patterns of other celebrities!
@@EternalPhoenix33 It was released in 1997.
I was today years old when....
“I thought Rasputin was stuck here, but I guess not?”
Yes, he was stuck in Limbo. The only way he was able to transport to the real world again was because he got the green glowing flask back, remember? Bartalk came down with it.
It came back to life when Anastasia was close to it.
For years she was in the orphanage and Bartalk held onto the flask and stayed in the palace. So she was too far away for the flask to detect her.
Once Anastasia walked back into the palace, the green flask started glowing again because it recognized her. It then headed to Limbo where Rasputin was, and Bartalk went with it because his leg was tangled up in it.
Btw, in that dream, Anastasia sees not some random people but her family, her father, her sisters, and younger brother, so Rasputin is even more messed up than it seemed. To drown the girl using faces of her family, ugh
No one talks about how underrated Kelsey Grammer is as Vlad, his own singing and charm in the role are unmatched 😌
Apparently the problem with Tsar Nicholas II was that he wasn't strictly a bad man, just not a very good ruler. Not out of maliciousness but out of stubbornly clinging to the old ways of doing things, not intending to hurt people but not willing to give them what they asked for. And was by all accounts a loving husband and father.
The main issue I have with this movie now is that they all but ignore her brother Alexei having haemophilia which would have preventing him from running or jumping like he did in the dream, too risky. Apparently that's why they kept Rasputin around as long as they did - he was somehow able to calm him down and stop the bleeding.
Well from what I’ve heard when Rasputin came in, while it’s debatable if his faith based healing did much, he basically saved the poor boys life by putting an end to the insane doctors “treatments”. Treatments like give him more cuts or snake venom. Early 20th century medicine or medical knowledge was never the best.
@@brandonlyon730 Yeah, there was that. Though from what I can tell he still scared or creeped out the masses, don't know how or why. I'd rather not have him anywhere near my child but it would be a relief not have to rely on completely insane 'cures' like they had to before.
in the ballroom ghost scene her little brother is limping so i always just kinda assumed that the dream scene was more of a “perfect life” scenario, which was why he was able to jump around and run in it? idk if that’s just me trying to rationalise mistakes in the movie though lmao
@@agenttheater5 "The problem wasn't that he was a strictly bad man,just that he was bad at ruling"
He slaughtered his own people when they tried to revolt the first time,this dude was not a nice guy.
@@cbfranco3307 yeah, that's what I've heard. Bloody Nicholas.
Almost every reactor missed the part where she HIT HER HEAD. 🤦🏽♀️ The girl has amnesia. She was found wandering the streets with no idea of her past and was placed in an orphanage.
She was surrounded by strangers, so no one familiar was there to help her remember.
Gotcha! Thanks so much for clarifying because that was a toss up when we were watching it. Hitting her head is such a clear explanation haha 😅
The reason nobody caught it was cuz it was so poorly animated. No sense of impact; it just looked like she fell and passed out randomly. As an artist, I wouldn’t have guessed it either because there was NO attention drawn to it. Bad design. Bad design.
@@azuroslazuli6948Not poorly animated. I caught it when I first saw this movie and I know several others who did as well. It's just a matter of missing it.
@@azuroslazuli6948 I think she kinda bounced off the rails tho.. it was maybe too quick and perhaps a bit more subtle than it should have been since it was very important to the following story
@@azuroslazuli6948Are you kidding me?
This movie has WAY better animation than lots of movies from that time especially Disney!
My family escaped Russia just a few years before the Revolution. So this movie always hit a little different cuz of that connection.
Yeah I get similar feelings in regard to the French Revolution, even though my family left France like generation before it.
I remember as a young teenager I was buying groceries with my dad and he suggested stroganoff for dinner and I half-sang "I nevah cahhrd for stroganoff" then gruffly said "She said that like a Romanov". He's a hard one to make properly laugh and hadn't seen this movie but he was laughing so much he had to stop walking and wipe a tear away 🤣 I was so proud of myself hahahaha
that's adorable lol
I just realized how apt it was that they were watching "Cinderella" at the ballet. It has so many parallels.
1 a rich girl turned poor through the death of her family
2 rich people searching for said girl
3 people appear as if by magic to help her achieve her goals (true Dimitri and Vlad weren't exactly altruistic or fairy godfathers but she wouldn't have made it that far without them)
The sad thing is that no Romanovs remained alive including little Anastasia
Many Romanovs did survive, just not descendants of Nicholas II.
@@lalalalalalwlla right
Anastasia's real family story story is much more sad they were all shot and some of the girls had jewellery hidden and sewn in their dresses so some bullets missed vital parts so the guards walked up and shot again and stabbed them with bayonets the Tsar and prince where killed near instantly and to this day it is not really known who gave the execution order because the guards were very drunk so it could have been that or a cover up and the dog who survived was named Joy.
Also the movie was released when it was believed Anastasia could have survived but shortly after it's release her body was found in the woods.
@@Tribal92 Oh that I did not know sad cool but sad.
@@jonathancunningham8739 First set of bodies were found in 1991 and the 2 bodies (of Alexei and Maria/Anastasia) were found in 2007.
@@lalalalalalwlla Wow did not know it was founded that recently wow.
One of my favorite films! “Once Upon a December” and “In the Dark of the Night” are two of the best songs of all time off a movie soundtrack. I still play these songs all the time
Ditto! True works of art!! (I especially love the orchestral score in Dark of the Night! The organ, the trumpets! So good!!)
The three girls around her who gave her the necklace during "once upon a December" were her three sisters Maria, Tatiana and Olga ❤️
6:20 -- She was 8. The problem is not that she wasn't old enough to remember; it's that she has amnesia because she hit her head so hard falling off the train.
16:59 -- 10 million ruble reward offered by the Grandmother. Yes, they expect to be rewarded.
Fact: this wasn't a Disney movie. It was the competition. This was a Don Bluth film; who left Disney to create his own studio. Bluth wanted to go back to animation of old Disney. He worked with Disney during the 70s, and when he left, he took many of Disney's animators with him.
Bluth's first big film was The Secret of Nimh. He then went on to create America Tail and The Land Before Time. By the time this film came out; Bluth had suffered many heartbreak, as he had to bankruptcy his studio over and over again. This was one of his last big movies; that didn't fair so well, with the new resurgence in Disney animation of the 90s.
When Disney bought Twentieth Century Fox; they got the rights to this movie, now a cult favorite.
Don Bluth also created a video game using animation called Dragon's Lair. Later came Space Ace and Dragons Lair 2.
I went to school with the sister of two brothers who worked for Don Bluth Studios; I even got to meet them.
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I love how she indignantly says, “Stop this car immediately! Stop this car” as if she thinks that’ll actually make him stop!
🤣
don bluth was a HUGE factor in opening up tone for animation everywhere. he was famously quoted as once having said if there's a happy ending, children can take ANYTHING.
I can't believe you guys cut the casting scene : Grandma it's me Anastasia HAHAHA is a really funny moment
Anastasia reuniting with her Grandmother always makes me cry, even when I was a kid.
The final showdown takes place on Alexander III Bridge (real bridge in Paris). Alexander was Anastasia's grandpa who passed away in 1894, and was also the Duchess's husband...
These movies just keep getting better and better.
This was such an incredibly fun collaboration! Anastasia was definitely a knockout movie! Soo good! The music, score, animation, story, and characters were SOO well done. I loved it! Thank you Tim for the opportunity of collaborating with you on this one! I had such a great time! Blessings and love from me to your channel and your viewers! 😊😁👋🏼
I think the amnesia was a combination of the blow to her head and the trauma of what happened
The animation is so good in this one! And character design... I miss those times adults looked like adults in cartoons.
The CG look of the music box and various other things is called rotoscoping, where an object is filmed in real life and animated over.
EDIT: After the reply to my original comment by Mike Blatzheim, I elected to do a little research. I found that, while there is rotoscoping used frequently in the movie, the odd and un-blended look of the music box is in fact, due to CG!
Oh really?! That’s awesome. Rotoscoping makes sense for how they got that look.
Don't think that actually is rotoscoped, it looks like very early CG with flat textures and basic shading (which is the main reason you can tell it apart). Rotoscoping would have made those objects blend in far better, but would have also made the production far more expensive, something Fox animation wouldn't have been able to afford. Considering that the entire movie is filled with CG, I doubt that they'd have bothered with rotoscoping that. Also the turning is far too smooth for rotoscoping.
@@mikeblatzheim2797 Thanks for your input! I did some research and found that Anastasia utilised both rotoscoping and CG in this film, but I would agree with you that the particular detail of the music box is actually CG, with it's pretty janky look being due to the relatively low budget you mentioned, especially compared to Disney films from around the time such as Hercules and Hunchback - which clearly utilise higher quality CG. You will find it have edited my original comment. Thanks again!
This is one of the best underrated animated princess movies out there. The music is absolutely beautiful, the story is great, and the villain is actually scary.
My mom and I love Anastasia! I grew up watching it COUNTLESS times!!!! The music, the songs, Anastasia's dresses, the story based on a historical event, the animation... ALL OF IT! You know, I have a replica of the actually music box from the movie, WITH the matching necklace!
The story in the beginning about Anastasia and Rasputin was loosely based on a true story. Anastasia actually was missing for multiple years and people did believe that the princess was alive. The movie was basically a "what if" the princess was alive. What would happen? If I remember correctly, her remains were found a decade or two later in the woods. I remember my history teacher mentioning it, but it's been a while
I love how the blue dress she puts on on the boat just happens to somehow magically make her hair grow like 4 feet too 😂😂
Her hair was up before
@@morningrosie3684yes. And you can still tell by the length of the pony tail that her hair was still not near that long. Also theres a little bit of it left down and the length of that hair like at the nape of her neck. The length of the rest definitely wouldn’t be more than shoulder length when down
-"It is a perfect ending."
-"No, it is a perfect beginning."
The Dowager Empress would die the following October.
One of my favorite, animated musicals ever 👏👌
Probably one of the most underrated animated movies ever!!! Epic music! Allstar cast!!
Thank you for this reaction! Your sinceresness is always really refreshing)
As Russian myself, living in Saint Petersburg all my life, I have some mixed feelings for this movie. It…really representates those difficult and pretty dark times in very silly way) I just can’t stop laughing at the moment, when Anastasia breaks into palace- and it’s quiet, dark…And full with expensive shit, as crystal dishes, gold-framed portraits and other stuff.
Come on, it’s not enchanted sleeping beauty’s palace, it’s real place after revolution. When the poor people have taken everything from aristocracy. Well, of course, they just closed the doors of palace and returned to their life, full of suffering, without taking one silver candlestick. Yes.
It looks…just really dumb.
But also it’s gorgeous fairy tale scene.
And as a fairy tale this movie is really good.
People wasn’t so upset with fallen monarchy, as it was in the beginning of the movie- but even they were shocked by murder of all Romanov’s family. Story of real Anastasia (if she was real, no one knows for sure till now) was much darker, you know? She was shot with all her family, including even younger brother, and it was done after Tsar Nikolai had abdicated throne himself, so this bloody murder seemed really unnecessary. And people really wanted to believe, that youngest royals have survived. Also, princesses really died not quick, cause there’re diamonds, sewed in their clothes.
There were really lots of fake Anastasias, you know. And one of them had some proves.
And Rasputin was really interesting person, who was very difficult to be killed) He was It’s kinda funny he is the villain here, cause he actually was mostly on one side with royal family, even playing his own strange games. He really had reputation of sorcerer.
And last, it’s not Disney classic, as you’ve said in the beginning. It’s one of Don Bluth’s movies, best try of the great independent animator to contest vs. Disney - and Disney made a lot to exterminate his success, they even have return The little Mermaid into theatres, same time with Anastasia’s premiere. It’s really unfair…but nothing new, right.
It’s sad how the family dies but that song “once upon a December” is actually a real Russian song. And that Anastasia was actually a tomboy too.
I would actually like to share a really cool fact about Don Bluth, one of the main creators of Anastasia, and Disney.
Don Bluth practically was the whole reason for the Disney renaissance! Disney was making pretty bad movies in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. That was considered their downfall after almost 30 years of really good movies. In the 80s (I believe) Don and a couple of other Disney workers left Disney to go create Don Bluth studios, where they made the American Tail. It was a pretty big success, making it the highest grossing non-Disney animated movie at the time, and also beating out some of Disney’s movies. That was when Disney realized that they needed to step up their game or else they would be passed up and wouldn’t keep their number one spot in animation. And then 4 years later they released The Little Mermaid, which was a hit and started the Disney Renaissance.
Moral of the story, if Don never left Disney (he left because he had problems with artistic control and training practices) the Disney renaissance probably would’ve never happened. So we wouldn’t have Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, The Lion King, or many other really good Disney movies that we all know and love.
Anastasia, Mulan, Moana...the grandmothers are always amazing
I was 16 when this movie came out, and I ended up watching it four times in the theaters that winter (right before Titanic came out!)
The visuals and use of color were absolutely gorgeous and stunning for that time. The people dancing looked more real, and moved more life-like than the crowds in Hunchback (1996), or the stampede in The Lion King (1994). It was just something I'd never seen in an animated film up that point.
The dialogue and even how the characters gestured as they talk made them look more like actual people. And the music was just hauntingly beautiful.
I saw this in a packed theater, sitting next to a family I didn't know - a very young (4-6 year old) boy, his young mother, and her infant. Near the end of the movie, the mother went to the lobby with her crying infant, leaving the toddler. And there we were at the climactic chase scene on the ice. I turned to check on the little boy and he was absolutely terrified. I'm sure it didn't help that I had a full beard at the time. I've often wondered if he was scarred by such a traumatic event in his young life. I hope not!
While I hear the notion of children being "scarred for life" by games or movies from adults a lot, I've yet to ever hear about an adult, who is experiencing difficulties in their life or has some sort of PTSD or anxiety related to a movie or game they watched/played as a child. My mother - for some weird reason - made me watch some terrifying movies when I was little. Of the English movies, Nightmare on Elm Street definitely terrified me the most. I was so scared on my way to badminton practice for at least a month (which was after dark) and hurried back home as fast as humanly possible, constantly convinced, that one of the shadows on the empty street behind me was Freddy.
Certainly doesn't affect me at 32 though xP. Some scenes from a few Danish movies I saw are still unpleasent memories thinking back, but that's it. You get scared for a while, you forget about it, you move on. Kids are extremely busy most of the time. They live in the now muuuuch more than adults do.
Хахах, они явно не видели наши мультфильмы 😂
Thimotee: "It is so nice to see history told in a song..."
Historians everywhere: Errr...
I never saw Anastasia in at my local cinema upon its release but when I saw it on home media, it became a staple part of my childhood. Next to The Secret of NIMH and The Land Before Time, this Don Bluth film is one of the most memorable masterpieces imo.
I know people prefer Bluth's earlier movies, but this was always my fav of his since his early movies I felt were too sad for me to handle. I remember seeing Land Before Time in Theaters when I was 6 I think. That was the movie that scarred me and you can probably guess which scene. I remember thinking, "She's going to get up right?" By then I was use to death in movies (looks at Disney), but NOT the death of a parent.
How did he know about the grandmother’s hands?
Hmm… aside from working for her and rescuing her and her granddaughter, I cannot fathom how.
Also, how can anyone skip over “grandmama, it is me Anastasia (hip thrust)
Fun Fact:
Rasputin in reality was almost worse, survived poisoning, gunshots, if you don't believe me search the internet
From what I recall, analysis and DNA tests were done , on both the woman who either claimed, or possibly genuinely believed, she was Anastasia, and was considered the most likely candidate and the remains found of a young female who'd died a short ways away from the palace on that night in question. They showed that the claimed woman wasn't related to the dowager empress, and the remains matched Anastasia. This occurred around the time this film was either being worked on, released, or shortly after.
So the story ends up being more a fanciful fairy tale. (It's apparently actually based on another Anastasia film with the same plotline, also from Fox, made in 1956, which would have been back the idea of waking up to find out you're actually royalty was a trending idea.)
God this movie is such an underrated masterpiece. I'll never be over it. It needs all the recognition.
I’m old enough to have seen this in theaters when it first opened, and seeing it in the big screen was spectacular. When the paintings come alive during Once Upon A December it was awe inspiring.
I just can't, THE ANIMATION IT'S SO GOOD 🤯
Out of the whole royal family ruling Russia only the dog survived he lived out the rest of his life in England and I and my grandmother love this film very sad and beautiful at the same time.
The music box is actually real. They just put it in the animation. That's amazing!
You were talking so I think you missed when the lady at the orphanage said she didn’t remember who was was before she came to them. If you notice when she fell on the train tracks she hit her head. She had amnesia
Basically Anya not being able to remember was due to falling and knocking her head on the train platform, plus a lot of trauma I figure haha
OMG I LOVE THIS MOVIE AND I LOVE YOUR CHANEL! PERFECT MATCH
One of my favorite Disney animated movies. 😊
Christopher Lloyd does a great job as the voice of Rasputin.
It’s not a Disney film. Disney recently bought Fox and now owns the rights to it, but they had nothing to do with the making of this movie.
@@nowthatisawesome5431 Yes indeed. And I feel it's legit to call that out because during the time of the films making Disney movies were much more fairytale-like with happy ending and linear stories. While Anastasia is compared to that kinda dark, but I LOVE the edge it gives the film and I actually believe it is important to show and teach kids about the dark sides of the world, in an appropriate manner, too. Many adults don't trust their kids enough with what they're capable of understanding and picking up when still young.
"she'd definitely be able to remember"
Trauma. It's the trauma XD
Amazing film very classic Anastasia produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman with the voices cast including Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters, Kirsten Dunst, Angela Lansbury, music score by David Newman and of course the incredible song "At the Beginning" single by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx. This film was nominated for 2 Oscars for best original score and best original song for "Journey to the Past" by the way the R&B singer Aaliyah performed her pop version of "Journey to the Past" at the 70th Oscars. Thank you so much TimotheeReacts great reaction just excellent bro😎👍👍👍👍
That part when the bad guy disintegrates always bothered me. I'm like ya'll " they put this in a kid's movie?"
I love collabs when it comes to movie watch or re-watches. SO GREAT JOB MY DUDE
The 2D and 3D blending is SO GOOD in this movie! Granted there are a few shots where you look hard you can tell, but for the most part they manage to merge the two mediums almost seamlessly!
Not surprisingly as Don Bluth himself worked on this.
6:32 "She'd definitely be able to remember." Unless that hit to the head she took when she fell on the train platform gave her retrograde amnesia.
The song 'In the Dark of the Night' is my favourite villain song.
I also like how you can barely tell the difference between Christopher Lloyd as Rasputin`s speaking voice and Jim Cummings as the singing voice. (In a lot of animated films, you can really tell the speaking and singing voices are different people very easily!)
RIP Angela Lansbury
Thanks, Timothee! Thanks, Clariss! 🇷🇺
This is definitely Top 3 non Disney animated movies! Love this one
Here's a off the beaten path suggestion for an animated movie that deserves more views:
Kubo and the two strings.
In the dark of the night is the biggest banger ever to be in an animated movie
YAY! I know clariss and came from her channel. (I'm one of her friends that loves Anastasia.) I'm so happy she finally watched it!!!!
This movie is so so good for so many reasons, I love it
My favorite animated movie along with Thumbelina and The prince of Egypt ♥️
Im going to be honest. I dont like musicals. In fact sometimes i dislike them…..but man if I just love this movie. The animation style the story the voice acting and the songs are all just so amazing I’ve rewatched this movie countless times. Great choice for a reaction.
Tim’s cam went from a circle to square
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Dark fact: You can hear gun fire during Rasputin's song I think it's supposed to reference the deaths of Anastasia's family
I think, when Anastasia and her grandmother got separated at the train. It looks like she hit her head pretty bad, she even lost consciousness that's probably the cause for her amnesia in the beginning.
A huge chunk of this movie is rotoscope animation (and probably the best example of that technique)! And if you ever have the chance to watch the stage musical go! It was worth the price of admission
This movie was so popular with my friend group when it came out and it's definitely one of my favorites!
For the beginning of the video, when it comes to her not remembering who she was, she hit her head pretty hard when she fell off the train to the point that she was knocked unconscious
I loved this movie as a kid. I was 7 when it came out.
One of the things I love about this film is it’s like watching a Broadway show on a live set but animated.
Anastasia didn’t remember because she hit her head which caused amnesia.
I love the songs in this movie.
It’s unfortunate that this isn’t how history actually played out. It didn’t have a happy ending.
This movie has to well known talent voicing these chars. Someone already commented on how Rasputin's VA was Christopher Lloyd and his singing voice was Jim Cummings (who's play over 400 roles, his most famous being Winnie the Pooh, the original one). Anastasia's adult voice is by big 90's actress Meg Ryan and her child voice is Kristine Dunst. Dimitri is voiced by John Cusack (who's been in a number of movies from the 80s to now). Kelsey Grammar (known for being in a few big sitcoms, Cheers and Fraiser) plays Vlad (he's also been on Broadway so he did sing in this movie). The Grandmother was voiced by the iconic Angela Lansbury and Sophie is voiced by Bernadette Peters who's been in plenty of movies and has down Broadway too.
If you didn't figure it out, you do see Anastasia's sisters in both Once Upon a December and that dream/nightmare. That little boy in the dream is her younger brother also. It's why the dream itself was 'cruel' because it was taunting Anya with her family.
You should react to Hamilton on Disney+ next!
The stage musical based on it is slightly more historically accurate - instead of Rasputin we get a sort of anti-hero called Gleb (I think) who's a dedicated official of the new USSR (as in he genuinely believes in communism rather than just getting on the winning side out of his own best interests) and whose father was one of the firing squad who shot the Romanov's (there was someone in the firing squad with a similar name) who becomes conflicted when the young sweeping girl called Anya he met one day is suspected of claiming to be Anastasia since he's starting to have feelings for her.
They keep something of the music from 'In the Dark of the night' but turn it into a new, calmer and sadder song called 'Stay I Pray You' where everyone who's leaving Russia for good says goodbye to the only home they've really known, the lead singer being some surviving aristocrat and intellectual who bumps into Anya, takes one look at her face, goes down on his knees, kisses her hand and says "God bless you" and quickly leaves.
Both Dmitry and Gleb get two solos in the show, and we get a bit more of Dmitry's backstory.
Frollo: Hellfire, dark fire, now gypsy it's your turn.
Rasputin: Come my minions rise for your master, let your evil shine.
Frollo: Choose me or your pyre.
Rasputin: Find her now yes fly ever faster.
Rasputin and Frollo: But she will be mine or she... will... burn!
At this rate Timothee might gather all the movie commentary UA-camrs
👀 it’s likely lol 🤣
Collecting em like pokemon. Still got a long way to go
@@TimotheeReacts Gotta catch 'em all 😂
Keep it up man, we are with you
So great, that ballroom scene is perfect!
Don Bluth's animation was most recognized in this film, but if you want to know more of his masterpieces, I would recommend Thumbelina, An American Tail, and/or The Secret of NIMH. Personally, "The Secret of NIMH" is one of my favorites as it was Don Bluth's first animated movie he put so much love and efforts with other animators left Disney (including himself). A lot of great cast in the film too!
Yesss i have been waititng for this reaction love your vidoes
6:27 she hit her head hard!
You two should also see Bartok The Magnificent!
It’s not directly connected to this, but it’s really funny!
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5 year old me watching the nightmare-walk scene without getting what's going to happen to her: Aw, that's sweet. She's memory-dreaming her family-
Dad turns into demon: WAIT, SHE ISN'T! ABORT! ABORT!!
I was 6 when I saw this movie at theater and i love Rasputin’s song ! ❤️