Obviously children being slaughtered is terrible but the Czar was in the wrong and the Russian Revolution caused Russia to pull themselves out of the WW that was going on at the time.
I found a book in my grandfather's collection, "Nicholas and Alexandra" by Robert Massey. Little did I know that it provided one of the first references about the family's life. They lived such an extreme life.
The reason why sometimes the character design look weird or awkward it’s because they’re animating in ‘rotoscope’ technique. They recorded real life actors performing the scenes and then they drew/traced the actors movements, which is why the mevements look real, more humane, more like a theatre performance rather than more animation like.
omg thank you for confirming lmao I'm taking an animation class and we're doing a rotoscope assignment rn so while I was watching this movie I was just sitting there like "am I crazy or did they rotoscope this whole movie"
one of my all time comfort movies. i first saw it when i was sick as a kid and immediately after i finished it, i watched it two more times. it's always held a special spot in my heart.
I actually thought this movie was really underrated when I first watched it last year. The ballroom song with the phantoms of the past was beautifully done
Since Anastasias corpse wasn't found until a few years ago, there were a lot of people who said to be the real Anastasia, one of most famous was for example Anna Anderson. I love this movie because it depicted so many details around the Romanove and the cult around Anastasia. But it really traumatized me as a child to find out that she actually never got her happy ending.
Actually, there are some inconsistencies to the story. It is also said that the body that was missing along with Alexei's was her sister's, Maria, known as the most beautiful of them.
Not to mention how hard it is to recall something so long ago as an adult when the details are fuzzy. I literally barely remember anything from before I was 12 and I never really had too much trauma.
I loved this movie growing up. I loved the song "Once Upon a December" so much that I sung that song to my daughter when she was a newborn/infant to soothe her. She's 12 now and watches this movie all the time.
I loved this movie as a kid, however the Broadway version of Anastasia is incredible. Much more realistic, emotional and heartbreaking. Plus the Broadway music is brilliant
@@beverleyeliane I know! Lol but the Broadway version is amazing. The antagonist is the son of one of the soldiers who murdered the royal family. So it is an interesting look at his character dealing with his duty like his father. Tiny spoilers but the climax gives me chills every time where he and Anastasia have a stand off: “Still/The Neva Flows (Reprise)” I looked it up and this character/plot was actually originally supposed to be in the animated movie but producers wanted a comedic relief since the film was aimed towards a younger audience.
Here is the real story if you are interested: Late on the night of 16 July, Nicholas, Alexandra, their five children and four servants were ordered to dress quickly and go down to the cellar of the house in which they were being held. There, the family and servants were arranged in two rows for a photograph they were told was being taken to quell rumors that they had escaped. Suddenly, a dozen armed men burst into the room and gunned down the imperial family in a hail of gunfire. Those who were still breathing when the smoke cleared were stabbed to death. The remains of Nicholas, Alexandra and three of their children were excavated in a forest near Yekaterinburg in 1991 and positively identified two years later using DNA analysis. The Crown Prince Alexei and one Romanov daughter were not accounted for, fueling the persistent legend that Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter, had survived the execution of her family.
You're a bit off in your account, but mostly correct; they'd been brought into the cellar with the story that there were anti-imperial riots taking place, so they had to be moved for their own safety, and would shelter in the cellar until transportation arrived. Nicholas requested a chair for his wife and son, who were both in poor health. The chairs were brought for them, and then after a few minutes of waiting, the execution squad entered, and Yurovsky (the commander) read the one sentence execution order for the Tsar, his family, and their four remaining companions. According to Yurovsky's report, Nicholas's last words were "What? What?", as the entire group was shocked by the abrupt escalation. Yurovsky then hastily repeated the orders, and shot Nicholas int he chest before he could respond, while the rest of his men also opened fire, killing Alexandra and three of the retainers. All five of the royal children survived the initial onslaught (though 'children' is a bit of a misnomer, given that the older three were already adults, while Anastasia was 17 and Alexei was 13 - for some reason movie Anastasia is like eight years younger than the real one), then the executioners left to let the smoke clear. Upon returning, Yurovsky executed Alexei and Tatania by shooting them in the head, while his very drunk colleague Ermakov repeatedly failed to stab Anastasia before giving up and also shooting her in the head, and other soldiers finished off Maria, Olga and Anna Demidova. The bodies were then driven out into the woods, and met with a bunch of drunk men Ermakov had gathered up, who were enraged to find that the royal family was already dead, as Ermakov had promised they'd get to help lynch them. Several of the drunk men started sexually assaulting the corpses of Alexandra and her daughters (eugh), which prompted Yurovsky to order the lot of them back to town, so that the destruction of the remains would be handled by people who weren't distracted by being drunken necrophiliacs. Yurovsky spent a solid fifty hours struggling to get the bodies properly hidden, but finally their truck got stuck in mud and he realized his men were close to turning on him, so he gave up and buried nine of the victims under the road right there. Yurovsky then intentionally separated out the bodies of Alexei and one of the women to be buried a short distance away, to throw people off the scent if they found the mass grave only containing nine bodies. This was already two days after their deaths, and they'd done quite a bit of damage to hide the corpses identities, so the killers were no longer certain of who was who; Yurovsky believed he'd buried Anna Demidova in the second gravesite, but had been trying to take Alexandra's body. The second grave site was located in 2007, and the remains were ID'd as being Alexei Romanov, and one of his sisters; its either Anastasia or Maria. The first grave was found in 1979 by local amateur investigators, who pulled three skulls out, realized they'd probably found the grave of the Tsar, then panicked and reburied the remains the next year, for fear of being forcibly silenced over their discovery. In 1989, Gorbachev brought about a state policy of openness, honesty and reform, prompting one of the investigators to report the Romanov gravesite to the state. They were exhumed in 1991, identified, and laid to rest in Saint Petersburg. The second grave was found in 2007, again by amateur enthusiasts, and the remains were identified as the missing Alexei and one of his sisters; it's either Anastasia or Maria, criminal forensic and geneticist teams aren't exactly sure. They have not been laid to rest, as the church demands further investigation... somehow; until the church is satisfied, Alexei and his sister's remains are being kept in storage in the state archives.
Zach story about the Anastasia girl actually made me lol. I’m sure Anastasia will love the fact you shared that story with the 1000+ people that watched this video 😂
My favourite part of this movie are the voices behind the characters. Meg Ryan brings so much charisma and character to Anastasia, I want her to voice more animations.
Fun fact Rasputin actually look like that and this is one of my favorite non-disney Disney feeling movies and there is also a Broadway musical that's based on this version of Anastasia in the 1950s version of Anastasia and it incorporates a lot of historical aspects like the fact that when they were executed by the Bolsheviks the women were wearing diamonds zoning to the bodices of their dresses and it acted like a bulletproof vest they also changed how Anastasia calls her grandmama because apparently in real life she called her Na na (Nawnaw)
The voice of Bartok is Hank Azaria. If you've ever seen Friends, you will recognize him as David the scientist who goes to Minsk. Hank Azaria is also the voice actor for a lot of the characters in the Simpsons.
AAAAAH! SHOCKINGLY underrated. I absolutely adore it, my older sister too. Her dogs name is Pooka 😂 Shes a mom in her mid-30s but we still love this 😀 YAY! Thanks lads! Merry Crustmass!
When you guys randomly started singing Owl City, I died for a second! 😂💀 Loved how you were basically just loving on Pooka ad Bartok the whole time. Bartok is one of my favorite impressions to do. He's just so adorable. He reminds me of Kronk from Emperor's New Groove in that he works with the villain, but isn't a villain and is mostly there for comedic relief.
I still listen to “Once Upon A December” it’s such a beautiful song and this movie made me look into the story behind it. Awesome reaction and Bryce love your sweater 😊
You guys never cease to amaze me with your film coverage 😊 Anastasia is one of my favorite films from childhood, so seeing you witness for the first time is refreshing and endearing. HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🎄
This is one of my all time favorite childhood movies. I saw this 5 times in the theaters. I still watch this movie to this day. Plus the real history is so sad and I became obsessed with learning about this family
I loved that you finally get to watch this movie, its been my favorite since it came out, I was just 2 years old, and I have seen it at least once a year every year. I am now playing as Anastasia in a musical.
living in Orlando. This reminds me of when hundreds and hundreds of hand drawn artists were “let go“ from their jobs, because toy story had just come out and throughout the city streets of Orlando, there were people protesting. Toy story was the first movie I remember being in that Pixar style, and then the movie cars. After that there were no more animated artist from the era of sword in the stone, Robin Hood, Alice in wonderland, the rescuers, snow, white, Cinderella beauty and the beast, Aladdin, all of those artists were put on indefinite furlough. It was crazy times here in Orlando. Sending love to you and yours from Orlando, Florida, Heather
When I was in college one of the Anastasia writers who got pulled in to fix drafts and primarily write for Bartok came to lecture us theatre majors. He was cool.
"Who knew something so graphic could be in such a light movie!" Welcome to Don Bluth lol. He did NOT coddle children. His animated movies got DARK! Like, this is arguably the least dark of his movies. The Secret of Nimh, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Titan A.E... All of those were way darker than this one!
I've lost track of how many times I've watched this movie. It was made into a Broadway musical, and I thought I would never see it, but it was showing in a city 2 hours away, so my hubby took me this past May. It was such a great experience. They changed several things from the movie, but it was very well done.
The real life event and mysteries that surrounded Rasputin was more interesting than the fiction but yeah it's a wholesome take to a very tragic historical event in history. Since you're watching anime as well historical / period anime that deal with conflicts abroad during this time, if we're going to trace history, anastasia's father tsar nicholas was somehow involved in it.
I love this movie. Random fact that picture that Anastasia gave her grandmother in the beginning of the film is actually an actual drawing she drew for her grandmother in real life. And the people that were in that dream scene I’m pretty sure that was her little brother & sisters & dad. But when I found out that it’s based off the real story I was like “that’s so sad but the movie is really really good. Just wish that the real life story didn’t have a sad ending but wish it ended with a happy one.” Also I’m pretty sure the dog represents or symbolizes (or whatever the word I’m looking for is) is the dog that used to be her sister Maria’s dog but during their quarantine/lockdown the pup became more of Anastasia pup. If I remember correctly I read that in one of the books about their family and what actually happened. Also the live action is also really really good. Definitely recommend the live action Anastasia:once upon time. (It’s not a musical but it has music in it.)
I’VE BEEN REALLY WAITING FOR YOU GUYS TO WATCH THIS! But I didnt know how to recommend it to you guys! It’s one of my most favorite animated movies, the acting of the actors are the dominant push, the visuals are crazy for 1997 animated movie. The music is beautiful too. Although the real story is depressing, the movie is a great comfort for dreamers
Late to the game but I love how the first thing you three said when Grandmama was reaching for Anastasia from the train was “why didn’t she put Anastasia on first!?” Absolute facts.
Omg, when Rob said 1997 was before he was even born was a reality slap that burned 😂 i forget that it makes total sense for some people to have never watched this movie (and many others 😅).
"Who knew something so graphic could be in such a light movie?" Lol this is animated but it's incredibly dark. Rasputin sells his soul, murders her entire family, and then sends evil spirits to literally kill her. Plus her whole story from the amnesia to a tragic childhood as an orphan to being literally homeless. The whole movie has this wistful, melancholy tone to it from the visuals to the musical elements. That's so unique for an animated children's movie- it's a fairly serious movie and the few jokes are toned down or even scary (the gags with Rasputin decomposing). Plus, the animation style is like no movie I've seen before. It uses so much texture for 2D animation and adds those dynamic sparkles to really give certain places and things a sense of grandeur. The color grading isn't very bright or saturated like you'd expect in a children's movie. I think the songs, while maybe not as fun and dance-y, are some of the most beautiful to come from an animated movie. They are quite orchestral, have choruses, and have a sadness to them that touches some blue part of my soul. Even the fun ones and the whole score. They also have a minor (as in chords) feel which is such a vibe. Once Upon a December is a song that lives in a melancholy part of my heart, though there aren't many animated movie songs vying for the spot. In the Dark of the Night is also a favorite childhood song. Overall, I'm glad this movie is getting more attention nowadays. I think it's one of the most visually stunning animated children's movies with a haunting theme and score that really sticks with you. It's so wonderful when movies trust children with dark and/or sad movies. Young kids don't only like happy, light-hearted, even optimistic movies. Their feelings are deeper and more complicated than you'd think and they deserve a range of movies that reflect that.
Bartok the Magnificent! Yeah, I haven't seen that movie in ages but I've found myself thinking about it lately. 🎵My underwear got frozen standing here all week🎵😂 And RIP to Angela Lansbury, who voiced the grandmother; she was such a huge part of the childhoods of so many of us. They're in Purgatory/Limbo, so I guess you were close. Dimitri & Anastasia didn't grow up together; she was royalty & he worked in the palace kitchen, so they would've spent absolutely no time together as kids. Have you guys never actually been in love before? His head was in those proverbial clouds & he pretty much couldn't focus on anything but her face, so of course he "forgot" she was wearing the dress & didn't notice they'd stopped dancing. The male head of the Russian royal family wasn't called a king; he was a tsar/czar & his wife was the tsarina/czarina. Something I didn't learn until years after seeing this movie is this was based on the woman who claimed she was Anastasia but was actually a mentally disturbed woman who jumped off a bridge in Berlin, survived, & developed amnesia; she kept claiming in the hospital she was taken to that she was a Romanov but when her fingerprints were taken as part of the investigation into her identity, it was discovered that she was Franziska Schanzkowska (aka Anna Anderson), a Polish factory worker with a history of mental illness. It suddenly hit me, what that bearded guy in Titanic was talking about (that Russian babe, Anesthesia 😂) & I learned the basics of the case from an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
To be honest, Anastasia is arguably the best 2D animation movie up to present day (as of year 2023) and still counting.. it beats all Disney’s 2D animation films so far. By the way, Anastasia is not under Disney, it’s under 20th Century Fox studio. Great 👍 🎉 This film has become an icon of an era. It’s broadway 🎭 musical performance are even better than the animation. People love Pooka and Bartok so much. All the songs in the film 🎞️ were entertaining and filled with feelings and emotions as well. Definitely not just another princess movie, like Disney’s 😊
First reaction I've seen from you guys and it was great! When I bought this one VHS as a kid it came with a pooka cuddly toy!!! It was adorable and I caried it everywhere with me as a kid 🥰
Holy ship! I have been following you guys and watching older Contant and just now discovered my tied for first place of all time, animated movies, you’ve reacted to.😮😮😮 My bad gentlemen, insert curtsy here. I am super excited to see what you think of this. This one is tied for me with the animated movie called Prince of Egypt. And I’m not religious, but it is probably by far my favorite animated movie ever because it’s BALLSY! I don’t know what you’re doing on your Friday night, but this is what I am doing and there’s nowhere else I would rather be. Let’s do this Anastasia! 0:04 Sending love to you and yours from Orlando, Florida, I Heather, Spence, McCoy
This movie is historical fiction. The intro scene is relatively true. There really was a religious figure who swore revenge on the monarchy, who took several attempts to kill. The intro scene, where the grandmother says she never saw Anastasia again, was a quote from Anastasia's true grandmother. You can watch the interview in the DVD extras.
Funny enough this was not considered a Disney movie because it is own by 20th century fox. Now that Disney bought out 20th century fox, it now officially a Disney movie.
While I understand why this is the most well known Don Bluth film, The Secret of Nimh will always be my favorite. Beautiful animation, unusual but excellent protagonist, and a nuanced but simple story.
@@jlerrickson Ah, I can see that logic. The Disney connection is relatively new, so that's probably why we have different ideas of "most well-known" lol
So as we know these are all historical figures except for like Dimitri, but Rasputin’s experiences really led u to kinda believe he really was involved with dark magic. Dude was killed several times and never stayed dead. They even tried drowning him with rocks attached to him and still he survived😭
This is such a nice way of looking at the Romanov Royal Family in a pink glass but I still could not shake the fact that they are all murdered. Still, Anastasia is still my favorite princess. Even though Disney bought Fox a long time ago, Anastasia is still a Fox princess for me.
This is my childhood movie too and I specifically remind when I was in highschool, I was sick and was at home for a week. So I only watched this movie everyday (which one day, I watched it 3 times in a row) XD
The real story of Anastasia is honestly so sad, but I absolutely adore this movie, i think it’s so underrated and honestly so well made for a non Disney movie of that time The entire story surrounding Anastasia but also Rasputin is so interesting, i remember taking about all those thing in history class in Germany, and let’s just say in real life their story are the furthest away from anything in this movie….well maybe Rasputin is quite similar 👀
It seems like you sometimes stop yourselves from laughing and like you maybe edit out when you're giggling at each other. Leave it in! It's charming! Yall are hilarious and I can't imagine you're not laughing at each other behind the scenes.
Rasputin was a close friend of the family (he did look like that, except he had blue eyes), and he did die by being thrown into frozen water after surviving being poisoned and shot in the same night. No wonder people thought he had magic.
Back in the day people really thought Anastasia was alive, they hadn't found the bones yet. And lots of women came foward saying they were Anastasia, since dna wasn't a thing back then, they didn't know how to prove it. But today it's already proven that all Romanov died in that day.
It's a beautiful movie but it's also very sad as the real Anastasia was killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 during the Russian Revolution.
I believe it was her and her little brother Alexei, not many years ago a forensic team found the bones of their bodies. Really sad story 😢
@@cotevallejos7230 it was all of them
Obviously children being slaughtered is terrible but the Czar was in the wrong and the Russian Revolution caused Russia to pull themselves out of the WW that was going on at the time.
I found a book in my grandfather's collection, "Nicholas and Alexandra" by Robert Massey. Little did I know that it provided one of the first references about the family's life. They lived such an extreme life.
that messed me up when i discovered that. as a child i sqw this movie and i just wished that Anastasia would be found and reunited with her family
The reason why sometimes the character design look weird or awkward it’s because they’re animating in ‘rotoscope’ technique. They recorded real life actors performing the scenes and then they drew/traced the actors movements, which is why the mevements look real, more humane, more like a theatre performance rather than more animation like.
omg thank you for confirming lmao
I'm taking an animation class and we're doing a rotoscope assignment rn so while I was watching this movie I was just sitting there like "am I crazy or did they rotoscope this whole movie"
I think they used Opentoonz.
one of my all time comfort movies. i first saw it when i was sick as a kid and immediately after i finished it, i watched it two more times. it's always held a special spot in my heart.
Saaaame! I watched it when i was sick as a kid and its forever been my comfort movie!! Its so beautiful😊
I was like this but with Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965) both starring Julie Andrews now I own both of her memoirs🤣🤣
@@jeidamartin5496 her memoirs are soooo good!!! i'd love for these guys to react to sound of music some day! julie andrews is everything
@@promisemochi she definitely is
I actually thought this movie was really underrated when I first watched it last year. The ballroom song with the phantoms of the past was beautifully done
Once upon a December. Love the song!
Since Anastasias corpse wasn't found until a few years ago, there were a lot of people who said to be the real Anastasia, one of most famous was for example Anna Anderson. I love this movie because it depicted so many details around the Romanove and the cult around Anastasia. But it really traumatized me as a child to find out that she actually never got her happy ending.
Actually, there are some inconsistencies to the story. It is also said that the body that was missing along with Alexei's was her sister's, Maria, known as the most beautiful of them.
"While Dimitri is handsome, I don't know if he's THAT handsome."
Oh nono.. he IS indeed that handsome.
Anastasia not only lost her memory because she hit her head but because she was ten and what happened was very traumatic so her brain blocked it out
Not to mention how hard it is to recall something so long ago as an adult when the details are fuzzy. I literally barely remember anything from before I was 12 and I never really had too much trauma.
I loved this movie growing up. I loved the song "Once Upon a December" so much that I sung that song to my daughter when she was a newborn/infant to soothe her. She's 12 now and watches this movie all the time.
I loved this movie as a kid, however the Broadway version of Anastasia is incredible. Much more realistic, emotional and heartbreaking. Plus the Broadway music is brilliant
Me too.
But no Bartok 😢 lol
@@beverleyeliane I know! Lol but the Broadway version is amazing. The antagonist is the son of one of the soldiers who murdered the royal family. So it is an interesting look at his character dealing with his duty like his father. Tiny spoilers but the climax gives me chills every time where he and Anastasia have a stand off: “Still/The Neva Flows (Reprise)”
I looked it up and this character/plot was actually originally supposed to be in the animated movie but producers wanted a comedic relief since the film was aimed towards a younger audience.
@@zestylemonsqueeze I saw it in Toronto and enjoyed it overall. I know they wanted to deviate from the movie a bit, but I did miss bartok lol
I loved the Broadway show as well
Here is the real story if you are interested:
Late on the night of 16 July, Nicholas, Alexandra, their five children and four servants were ordered to dress quickly and go down to the cellar of the house in which they were being held. There, the family and servants were arranged in two rows for a photograph they were told was being taken to quell rumors that they had escaped. Suddenly, a dozen armed men burst into the room and gunned down the imperial family in a hail of gunfire. Those who were still breathing when the smoke cleared were stabbed to death.
The remains of Nicholas, Alexandra and three of their children were excavated in a forest near Yekaterinburg in 1991 and positively identified two years later using DNA analysis. The Crown Prince Alexei and one Romanov daughter were not accounted for, fueling the persistent legend that Anastasia, the youngest Romanov daughter, had survived the execution of her family.
You're a bit off in your account, but mostly correct; they'd been brought into the cellar with the story that there were anti-imperial riots taking place, so they had to be moved for their own safety, and would shelter in the cellar until transportation arrived. Nicholas requested a chair for his wife and son, who were both in poor health. The chairs were brought for them, and then after a few minutes of waiting, the execution squad entered, and Yurovsky (the commander) read the one sentence execution order for the Tsar, his family, and their four remaining companions. According to Yurovsky's report, Nicholas's last words were "What? What?", as the entire group was shocked by the abrupt escalation. Yurovsky then hastily repeated the orders, and shot Nicholas int he chest before he could respond, while the rest of his men also opened fire, killing Alexandra and three of the retainers. All five of the royal children survived the initial onslaught (though 'children' is a bit of a misnomer, given that the older three were already adults, while Anastasia was 17 and Alexei was 13 - for some reason movie Anastasia is like eight years younger than the real one), then the executioners left to let the smoke clear. Upon returning, Yurovsky executed Alexei and Tatania by shooting them in the head, while his very drunk colleague Ermakov repeatedly failed to stab Anastasia before giving up and also shooting her in the head, and other soldiers finished off Maria, Olga and Anna Demidova.
The bodies were then driven out into the woods, and met with a bunch of drunk men Ermakov had gathered up, who were enraged to find that the royal family was already dead, as Ermakov had promised they'd get to help lynch them. Several of the drunk men started sexually assaulting the corpses of Alexandra and her daughters (eugh), which prompted Yurovsky to order the lot of them back to town, so that the destruction of the remains would be handled by people who weren't distracted by being drunken necrophiliacs. Yurovsky spent a solid fifty hours struggling to get the bodies properly hidden, but finally their truck got stuck in mud and he realized his men were close to turning on him, so he gave up and buried nine of the victims under the road right there. Yurovsky then intentionally separated out the bodies of Alexei and one of the women to be buried a short distance away, to throw people off the scent if they found the mass grave only containing nine bodies. This was already two days after their deaths, and they'd done quite a bit of damage to hide the corpses identities, so the killers were no longer certain of who was who; Yurovsky believed he'd buried Anna Demidova in the second gravesite, but had been trying to take Alexandra's body. The second grave site was located in 2007, and the remains were ID'd as being Alexei Romanov, and one of his sisters; its either Anastasia or Maria.
The first grave was found in 1979 by local amateur investigators, who pulled three skulls out, realized they'd probably found the grave of the Tsar, then panicked and reburied the remains the next year, for fear of being forcibly silenced over their discovery. In 1989, Gorbachev brought about a state policy of openness, honesty and reform, prompting one of the investigators to report the Romanov gravesite to the state. They were exhumed in 1991, identified, and laid to rest in Saint Petersburg. The second grave was found in 2007, again by amateur enthusiasts, and the remains were identified as the missing Alexei and one of his sisters; it's either Anastasia or Maria, criminal forensic and geneticist teams aren't exactly sure. They have not been laid to rest, as the church demands further investigation... somehow; until the church is satisfied, Alexei and his sister's remains are being kept in storage in the state archives.
Yup. The Soviet Union(the winners of the Russian Revolution) kept where of their remains were buried until they fell in 1988.
Zach story about the Anastasia girl actually made me lol. I’m sure Anastasia will love the fact you shared that story with the 1000+ people that watched this video 😂
I’m 29 and still have this soundtrack on my phone. One of my very favorite comfort movies.
My all time favorite princess movie! The chemistry between Anya and Dimitri is unmatched ❤️
Until he loved her at the end of the movie.
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"Is this hell?"
"No it's rasputin"
This made me lose it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
My favourite part of this movie are the voices behind the characters. Meg Ryan brings so much charisma and character to Anastasia, I want her to voice more animations.
Me too.
Angela Lansbury is everyone’s favorite grandmama ❤️
“once upon a december” is definitely the highlight of this one
Fun fact Rasputin actually look like that and this is one of my favorite non-disney Disney feeling movies and there is also a Broadway musical that's based on this version of Anastasia in the 1950s version of Anastasia and it incorporates a lot of historical aspects like the fact that when they were executed by the Bolsheviks the women were wearing diamonds zoning to the bodices of their dresses and it acted like a bulletproof vest they also changed how Anastasia calls her grandmama because apparently in real life she called her Na na (Nawnaw)
This movie shaped my childhood. Y’all react to the best stuff!
Y’all are reacting to my FAVORITE movie since I was a kid. I used to cry watching this
The reunion with the grandmother and the ending never fails to make me ugly cry 😭 my favourite movie
The voice of Bartok is Hank Azaria. If you've ever seen Friends, you will recognize him as David the scientist who goes to Minsk. Hank Azaria is also the voice actor for a lot of the characters in the Simpsons.
Tuesdays with Morrie ❤
My all-time favorite movie from childhood. It's beautiful and the music is amazing
AAAAAH! SHOCKINGLY underrated. I absolutely adore it, my older sister too. Her dogs name is Pooka 😂 Shes a mom in her mid-30s but we still love this 😀 YAY! Thanks lads! Merry Crustmass!
‘In the dark of the Night’ has always been my favorite villain song 🔥🔥 and ‘Once Upon A December’ is great, rare from a non-Disney animation.
When you guys randomly started singing Owl City, I died for a second! 😂💀 Loved how you were basically just loving on Pooka ad Bartok the whole time. Bartok is one of my favorite impressions to do. He's just so adorable. He reminds me of Kronk from Emperor's New Groove in that he works with the villain, but isn't a villain and is mostly there for comedic relief.
Died when you said the dog has a Justin Bieber hair cut 😂
I still listen to “Once Upon A December” it’s such a beautiful song and this movie made me look into the story behind it. Awesome reaction and Bryce love your sweater 😊
This was one of the best animations I ever watched in my childhood, I'm so glad they made a reaction
Ah, this is a blast from the past. I loved this when I was kid and wore out the VHS rewinding my favourite songs again and again.
Bartok the magnificent..what a movie i remember watching it a lot as a kid. The witch was terrifying 😂
You guys never cease to amaze me with your film coverage 😊 Anastasia is one of my favorite films from childhood, so seeing you witness for the first time is refreshing and endearing. HAPPY HOLIDAYS 🎄
This is one of my all time favorite childhood movies. I saw this 5 times in the theaters. I still watch this movie to this day. Plus the real history is so sad and I became obsessed with learning about this family
This is one of the top 5 movies of my childhood! So glad y'all got a chance to experience it too!
I loved that you finally get to watch this movie, its been my favorite since it came out, I was just 2 years old, and I have seen it at least once a year every year. I am now playing as Anastasia in a musical.
living in Orlando. This reminds me of when hundreds and hundreds of hand drawn artists were “let go“ from their jobs, because toy story had just come out and throughout the city streets of Orlando, there were people protesting. Toy story was the first movie I remember being in that Pixar style, and then the movie cars. After that there were no more animated artist from the era of sword in the stone, Robin Hood, Alice in wonderland, the rescuers, snow, white, Cinderella beauty and the beast, Aladdin, all of those artists were put on indefinite furlough. It was crazy times here in Orlando.
Sending love to you and yours from Orlando, Florida, Heather
I saw this movie probably thousand times when I was a kid since it was one of the few VHS we owned. Scary movie when you were 6 years old.
When I was in college one of the Anastasia writers who got pulled in to fix drafts and primarily write for Bartok came to lecture us theatre majors. He was cool.
Rob being a real og and watching the Bartok the Magnificent sequel that no one ever talks about XD
"Who knew something so graphic could be in such a light movie!"
Welcome to Don Bluth lol. He did NOT coddle children. His animated movies got DARK! Like, this is arguably the least dark of his movies. The Secret of Nimh, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Titan A.E... All of those were way darker than this one!
The sense of smell is associated with memory because they are closer to the brain so when she smelled the peppermint, she was able to remmeber
Great memories. My kids looooooved it. I saw it like a 1000 times.
the amount of times i rewatched this as a kid on VHS. it's lowkey underrated
I haven't seen the video but I'm already commenting. Thank you for reacting to one of my favourite movies!
Favourite animated movie since my childhood - never fails to make me cry and laugh no matter how many times I’ve watched it
I've lost track of how many times I've watched this movie. It was made into a Broadway musical, and I thought I would never see it, but it was showing in a city 2 hours away, so my hubby took me this past May. It was such a great experience. They changed several things from the movie, but it was very well done.
The real life event and mysteries that surrounded Rasputin was more interesting than the fiction but yeah it's a wholesome take to a very tragic historical event in history. Since you're watching anime as well historical / period anime that deal with conflicts abroad during this time, if we're going to trace history, anastasia's father tsar nicholas was somehow involved in it.
I love this movie. Random fact that picture that Anastasia gave her grandmother in the beginning of the film is actually an actual drawing she drew for her grandmother in real life. And the people that were in that dream scene I’m pretty sure that was her little brother & sisters & dad. But when I found out that it’s based off the real story I was like “that’s so sad but the movie is really really good. Just wish that the real life story didn’t have a sad ending but wish it ended with a happy one.” Also I’m pretty sure the dog represents or symbolizes (or whatever the word I’m looking for is) is the dog that used to be her sister Maria’s dog but during their quarantine/lockdown the pup became more of Anastasia pup. If I remember correctly I read that in one of the books about their family and what actually happened. Also the live action is also really really good. Definitely recommend the live action Anastasia:once upon time. (It’s not a musical but it has music in it.)
No joke, obsessed with this since a kid & LOVE the soundtrack. I had a cartoon crush on Dmitri
I’VE BEEN REALLY WAITING FOR YOU GUYS TO WATCH THIS! But I didnt know how to recommend it to you guys! It’s one of my most favorite animated movies, the acting of the actors are the dominant push, the visuals are crazy for 1997 animated movie. The music is beautiful too. Although the real story is depressing, the movie is a great comfort for dreamers
Late to the game but I love how the first thing you three said when Grandmama was reaching for Anastasia from the train was “why didn’t she put Anastasia on first!?” Absolute facts.
Thank you for the reaction I love this movie a lot the story and the songs are amazing❤❤❤. But Anastasia and her family real story is so sad.
Rob and Bryce with the “I can be your Pooka” 👉🏼👈🏼😳 lmaooo
This movie just has that classic animation feel overall enjoyable film
Bartok is the best. "And I'll huh and ill yuh" "woah got me dizzy"
Omg, when Rob said 1997 was before he was even born was a reality slap that burned 😂 i forget that it makes total sense for some people to have never watched this movie (and many others 😅).
9:40 this song was one of our songs to use for musical auditions
"Who knew something so graphic could be in such a light movie?" Lol this is animated but it's incredibly dark. Rasputin sells his soul, murders her entire family, and then sends evil spirits to literally kill her. Plus her whole story from the amnesia to a tragic childhood as an orphan to being literally homeless.
The whole movie has this wistful, melancholy tone to it from the visuals to the musical elements. That's so unique for an animated children's movie- it's a fairly serious movie and the few jokes are toned down or even scary (the gags with Rasputin decomposing). Plus, the animation style is like no movie I've seen before. It uses so much texture for 2D animation and adds those dynamic sparkles to really give certain places and things a sense of grandeur. The color grading isn't very bright or saturated like you'd expect in a children's movie.
I think the songs, while maybe not as fun and dance-y, are some of the most beautiful to come from an animated movie. They are quite orchestral, have choruses, and have a sadness to them that touches some blue part of my soul. Even the fun ones and the whole score. They also have a minor (as in chords) feel which is such a vibe. Once Upon a December is a song that lives in a melancholy part of my heart, though there aren't many animated movie songs vying for the spot. In the Dark of the Night is also a favorite childhood song.
Overall, I'm glad this movie is getting more attention nowadays. I think it's one of the most visually stunning animated children's movies with a haunting theme and score that really sticks with you. It's so wonderful when movies trust children with dark and/or sad movies. Young kids don't only like happy, light-hearted, even optimistic movies. Their feelings are deeper and more complicated than you'd think and they deserve a range of movies that reflect that.
“The Queeeeen of St. Petersburg” -Zaff
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Bartok the Magnificent! Yeah, I haven't seen that movie in ages but I've found myself thinking about it lately.
🎵My underwear got frozen standing here all week🎵😂
And RIP to Angela Lansbury, who voiced the grandmother; she was such a huge part of the childhoods of so many of us.
They're in Purgatory/Limbo, so I guess you were close.
Dimitri & Anastasia didn't grow up together; she was royalty & he worked in the palace kitchen, so they would've spent absolutely no time together as kids.
Have you guys never actually been in love before? His head was in those proverbial clouds & he pretty much couldn't focus on anything but her face, so of course he "forgot" she was wearing the dress & didn't notice they'd stopped dancing.
The male head of the Russian royal family wasn't called a king; he was a tsar/czar & his wife was the tsarina/czarina.
Something I didn't learn until years after seeing this movie is this was based on the woman who claimed she was Anastasia but was actually a mentally disturbed woman who jumped off a bridge in Berlin, survived, & developed amnesia; she kept claiming in the hospital she was taken to that she was a Romanov but when her fingerprints were taken as part of the investigation into her identity, it was discovered that she was Franziska Schanzkowska (aka Anna Anderson), a Polish factory worker with a history of mental illness. It suddenly hit me, what that bearded guy in Titanic was talking about (that Russian babe, Anesthesia 😂) & I learned the basics of the case from an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.
To be honest, Anastasia is arguably the best 2D animation movie up to present day (as of year 2023) and still counting.. it beats all Disney’s 2D animation films so far. By the way, Anastasia is not under Disney, it’s under 20th Century Fox studio. Great 👍 🎉
This film has become an icon of an era. It’s broadway 🎭 musical performance are even better than the animation. People love Pooka and Bartok so much. All the songs in the film 🎞️ were entertaining and filled with feelings and emotions as well. Definitely not just another princess movie, like Disney’s 😊
First reaction I've seen from you guys and it was great! When I bought this one VHS as a kid it came with a pooka cuddly toy!!! It was adorable and I caried it everywhere with me as a kid 🥰
My favorite animated film 😭
one of my favourite movies ever !! so happy about this commentary !!
Yoo i loved this movie growing up, I remember when I had the biggest crush on Dmitri
One of my favorite childhood movies!
Holy ship! I have been following you guys and watching older Contant and just now discovered my tied for first place of all time, animated movies, you’ve reacted to.😮😮😮
My bad gentlemen, insert curtsy here. I am super excited to see what you think of this. This one is tied for me with the animated movie called Prince of Egypt. And I’m not religious, but it is probably by far my favorite animated movie ever because it’s BALLSY!
I don’t know what you’re doing on your Friday night, but this is what I am doing and there’s nowhere else I would rather be. Let’s do this Anastasia! 0:04
Sending love to you and yours from Orlando, Florida, I Heather, Spence, McCoy
Me being born in the year 1997 and this being my favorite movie growing up ❤
This was one of, if not, my favourite princess movie when I was a little girl ❤️❤️ it’s so underrated
I love this movie so much it’s so beautiful and pleasing to watch
my favorite princess. favorite romance lol. favorite movie in many ways. 💕
Fun fact Meg Ryan voiced Anastasia and Demitri was the voiced by John Cusack. 🙂
This movie is historical fiction. The intro scene is relatively true. There really was a religious figure who swore revenge on the monarchy, who took several attempts to kill. The intro scene, where the grandmother says she never saw Anastasia again, was a quote from Anastasia's true grandmother. You can watch the interview in the DVD extras.
Kirsten Dunst, I believe is the voice of young Anastasia. From interview with the vampire. 🤩😍
22:14 -22:23 “maybe we should breathe” “we are breathing” LMAO💀
omg cant believe you guys reacted to one of my fav movies
Funny enough this was not considered a Disney movie because it is own by 20th century fox. Now that Disney bought out 20th century fox, it now officially a Disney movie.
You should definitely do some research into the actual Romanovs, the revolution, Anastasia, and Rasputin
While I understand why this is the most well known Don Bluth film, The Secret of Nimh will always be my favorite. Beautiful animation, unusual but excellent protagonist, and a nuanced but simple story.
P.S. I'm not sure why you guys were so musically inclined this time, but I'm here for it 😏
I'm gonna argue that Land Before Time and/or An American Tail are the most well-known Bluth films. Maybe All Dogs Go To Heaven.
@@meghanmonroe Fair enough. I guess most people think Anastasia was a Disney film, so most well known without people actually knowing it was Bluth
@@jlerrickson Ah, I can see that logic. The Disney connection is relatively new, so that's probably why we have different ideas of "most well-known" lol
Bartok was my fav as well! ❤ he did get his own movie
Bartok the Magnificent! I was weirdly obsessed as a kid lol
This is literally one of my all time favorite movies. It's sooo good!
When this movie was made, we still didn’t know what I had to happen to the actual anesthesia and it was an unsolved mystery until the tech era
Zuff’s Anastasia story was wild 😂😂 So random
So as we know these are all historical figures except for like Dimitri, but Rasputin’s experiences really led u to kinda believe he really was involved with dark magic. Dude was killed several times and never stayed dead. They even tried drowning him with rocks attached to him and still he survived😭
I think Dimitri was based on a real prince who believed in Ana strongly because he met Anastasia as a child.
Dimitri is the female gaze for real
I can’t get over it, Rob looks like Travis from the movie clueless. Giggle, giggle wink, wink nudge nudge.
This is one of my favorites! My 8th birthday party theme too 😂
I love all the songs
gosh I used to watch it every Christmas when I was a child, I still love this movie, the soundtrack is ❤️❤️❤️ even knowing the real story lol
The palace is a museum now.
This is such a nice way of looking at the Romanov Royal Family in a pink glass but I still could not shake the fact that they are all murdered. Still, Anastasia is still my favorite princess. Even though Disney bought Fox a long time ago, Anastasia is still a Fox princess for me.
Bryce, she is not a Disney Princess. She is Tsarina. The real-life Russian Empire. There is a red palace in Moscow with their all stuff in it.
This is my childhood movie too and I specifically remind when I was in highschool, I was sick and was at home for a week. So I only watched this movie everyday (which one day, I watched it 3 times in a row) XD
The real story of Anastasia is honestly so sad, but I absolutely adore this movie, i think it’s so underrated and honestly so well made for a non Disney movie of that time
The entire story surrounding Anastasia but also Rasputin is so interesting, i remember taking about all those thing in history class in Germany, and let’s just say in real life their story are the furthest away from anything in this movie….well maybe Rasputin is quite similar 👀
I still know this movie word for word at 30😊 this is one of my favorites and I cannot wait to have my daughter fall in love with it too
Yessss! This movie is a masterpiece!
It seems like you sometimes stop yourselves from laughing and like you maybe edit out when you're giggling at each other. Leave it in! It's charming! Yall are hilarious and I can't imagine you're not laughing at each other behind the scenes.
YOU HAD ANYA? OH MY GOD THANK YOU.
Rasputin was a close friend of the family (he did look like that, except he had blue eyes), and he did die by being thrown into frozen water after surviving being poisoned and shot in the same night. No wonder people thought he had magic.
I cry everytime I watch this movie, I can never watch it all the way through. I love it so much
Back in the day people really thought Anastasia was alive, they hadn't found the bones yet. And lots of women came foward saying they were Anastasia, since dna wasn't a thing back then, they didn't know how to prove it. But today it's already proven that all Romanov died in that day.