Fun fact: I have no idea if this was deliberate on the part of the filmmakers, as they are exceedingly common Russian names, but the two male leads in this movie share the names of two of the three guys who helmed Rasputin's assassination (Dmitri Pavlovich & Vladimir Purishkevich). It easily could be a coincidence but I just thought that was interesting.
I thought I was the only one who noticed that! As a history interested person, that truly feels like either a good coincidence or a well-thought-out parallel
On your pocahontas point: when i was a kid a descendant of pocahontas came to speak with us about her work on that movie. Apparently, disney had storyboarded a very respectful and accurate story, and she'd worked with them to make it authentic. Then they invited her back to show the reworked plot a year later, and she said it was so painful to see what they'd done she cried. So... i mean... they didn't have to do what they did. They chose to.
Very unfortunate DX That's why I choose to watch Disney's Pocahontas as it's own thing rather than a story based off history that is painfully inaccurate. As long as we can acknowledge and respect the real Pocahontas' story then I think it's safe to watch the movie without believing anything from it as non-fiction.
About the accent...Honestly, as someone from a non-english-speaking country....This was never something that bothered me as a kid. I very early realized that they are speaking my language so that I will understand them, but in their universe they are speaking their own language. Kinda like how sometimes animals in cartoons speak our language but no humans in the cartoon understands them.....Sometimes, there were dubbers that had a different dialect than the norm, but mostly it was reserved for comic relief-characters because it would sound too funny. I remember though, in An American Tale, they did have accents, which I think is just because they wanted to emphasise on the fact that they were immigrants.
I get what you’re saying, hence why I never got why people were mad when games like Atomic Heart have an option for everybody to be speaking in English since in-universe they’re obviously speaking their native language, it’s purely so that the player is able to understand them without having to learn an entirely new language or constantly having to read subtitles.
Fun fact: Voiced by the one and only Christopher Lloyd who also voiced Master Xehanort from Kimgdom Hearts, another creppy old villain who refuses to die.
@Dracobyte Oh, snap! Doc Brown from Back to the Future was the villain in this film and I never realized it until you pointed it out?! That’s awesome! 😆
Even for? I grew up in the 90s and ALL Don Bluth's movies were greater than what disney had produced in the 80s.. While disney started its renaissance in 1989.. Don Bluth was firing on ALL cylinders. (not get me wrong Disney movies of the 90s were awesome... i just was more exposed to Fox Animation). Titan AE, An American Tales, the land before time, ANASTASIA. In the early 90s disney was still surviving on the classics of the 50s and 60s and a few later classics (but bombs at the cinema) like Robin Hood, the Rescuer, Bednocks and Broomsticks, who framed Roger Rabbit.. the 70s and 80s were VERY rough for disney animation studios And yes by the mid 90s Bluth's movies were on the way out (a couple of heavy bomb were key) and Disney was IN but there was a time in the early 90s were disney was still "the past" and Bluth was the cool new kid on the block.
@@lukekuchera1928There’s magic and a zombie sorcerer in it, so I don’t think it’s really.. meant to be taken as fact or claims to be accurate to history..? It’s mostly based on the legend of the lost Anastasia (since back then they didn’t know she had died with her family like we do now)
Shout out to the artist Kosperry. Have you seen them? They are a master of the Don Bluth art style, using it to re-imagine everything from Super Mario and Five Nights at Freddy's to furry versions of Seinfeld and Columbo. It's pretty dope.
Always loved this one. The scene where Anastasia is walking through the old palace and starts singing about memories and the ghostly figures come out and start dancing was real haunting.
Bartok the Magnificent was weirdly far better than you would expect it to be. Like probably the best example of a comic relief becoming a lead and actually pulling it off.
Fun fact: did you know…….. that the voice actor of Rasputin is Christopher Loyd who also played as uncle fester in the live action version of the Addams family and Dr. emmet brown in all 3 back to the future moives?
I still remember the songs, once upon a December and in the dark of the night, the best songs hands down. I've never knew Angela Lansbury was in this, but now after watching all of Murder, She Wrote I can tell she is in this.
In the Dark of the Night song is perhaps the best thing about this film. Sure the film took extreme creative liberties with Rasputin, but if you were going to make a Disney-like film involving actual historical events, may as well make him the insane villain character and have fun with him.
@@sarafontanini7051 Fate series and so many Sengoku era entertainment, even if historical characters are turned into waifus at least much of them still have some parts of their historical accuracy. And then there are reincarnation stories of modern day characters sharing memories of their past life as historical figures like in Nobunagagun.
That song absolutely slaps. The music gets more "colorful" and the lyrics don't hit as well as it goes on, but the beginning and ending verses, the sinister really shows through, and the lyrics by themselves are quite poetic.
Don Bluth, while not without his own flaws, did produce some Animated Films from the 80s and 90s that stood up and challenged the might of Disney long before Dreamworks did. Secret of Nymph, American Tail, Land Before Time as well as Swan Princess and Anastasia are classics in their own right and deserved to still be watched by families to this day even for the scarier moments.
Well Anastasia's younger brother Alexis had hemophilia that came from his mother's side of the family from Queen Victoria cuz she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria
I'd assume they don't have any non-Native-English accents because the characters would be speaking Russian and maybe Russian-Upper-Class French throughout the entire film. Like the characters are in-universe speaking their native languages without a foregin accent and it's "translated" for the audience. So I guess the real question is; do we want to exist in the alternate reality where the entire cast of Mulan and Aladdin were doing their best Chinese and Arabic accents the entire movie?
I will argue that while Anastasia had better animation, Bartoc the Magnificent had the better story. Probably because Bartoc was inspired by Russo-Finnish folklore and had more wiggle room for artistic liberties. Anastasia doesn't have that luxury.
@@hpalpha7323 Fun Fact: Bartok was originally suppose to be played by Woody Allen, however Fox considered him controversial so Hank Azaria was cast instead.
As a child I loved the Bartok movie more, maybe because of the wacky characters, but the dragon transformation scared me 😅 (But I always was a scaredy-cat child, so not exactly the best reference). I think I still prefer the sequel, although the art on anastasia is sooo pretty
@@luisjaime2567 I feel the same way I do about all live action remakes. If they want to make them, go ahead. Live action remakes used to make me angry, but honestly now I kinda just laugh at them. Even the less terrible ones are still really mediocre, and they make no difference in changing the popularity of the original animated versions. If anything, they just remind everyone to rewatch the originals again :)
@@pinkdruid2347 in my opinion, I think it would be a great live action movie but the way Disney is I think they’re not on the right foot on making a good live action anymore
Someone compiling Saber having fun messing around with character’s faces is going to be great, as well as most of his streams taken out of context would be hilarious XD
13:40 I'm just saying, Papa Mouskowitz and Vlad are basically the furry/nonfurry forms of the same character 31:28 Impressionism, especially pointilism (as in, little points of color). As for the artist they're referencing, it might be Georges Seurat?
I remember the first time I watched this movie. I honestly thought it was a spin-off of Cinderella because I remembered Cinderella’s step-sister is named Anastasia.
Loved this movie as a kid and the "Once Upon a December" song has stuck with me my entire life. However its weird coming back to this movie as an adult though now that I know more about Russian history. For example the massive party at the beginning of the movie would have to be taking place during WWI, as millions of of the Czar's subjects were starving and dying. Still an awesome movie with a great soundtrack though.
Ok, Anya just tackling Rasputin is one of the coolest things I've ever scene! She just goes nuts, and that final 'Do Svidaniya' was awesome! Girl boss! Also, rest in peace Angela Lansbury 🌹
Anastasia is one fo my favourite movies and I'll sing Once Upon A December without realizing it... Aspirin is a blood thinner and Alexi couldn't stop bleeding, it's actually pretty simple so it really doesn't make Rasputin all that magical, not to mention he was known to be insane, would attend sex parties people really didn't want him at, and was just a garbage gross man lol.
I like Journey to the Past, Rumors in Petersburg, and Once Upon in December were far more memorable in my head and I can't help it's a pretty good Don Bluth Anastasia animated film.
Another Don Bluth animation that still deserves to be watched these days is a little known game called Dragon's Lair. Those cut scenes were animated by Don Bluth when the arcade game was in development.
I mean, a very small amount of people have seen the Broadway show compared to the movie. It's good, but no Rasputin is sad. I needed a good villain song.
Saber, you're close to when Don Bluth gain notoriety. His first movies came out in the 80s, not 70s (he was still with Disney in the 70s). I actually wasn't a huge fan of Land Before Time because this was the movie that scarred my childhood. I remember seeing it on the big screen and the death of Littlefoot's mom, that killed me (I was 6). I had much preferred Oliver and Company that came out earlier that year. I loved this movie when it came out, I actually prefer it to some of the Disney Renaissance movies (that's my hot take). I was in HS when the movie came out. It does have one of my favorite movie soundtracks too and my favorite song is Once Upon a December. Fun fact- at the time this movie was released, it still wasn't a known fact yet if Anastasia was dead yet (it was later confirmed she did die that night). @31:29 The art style here does remind me by Degas who IS a French Painter from the Impressionism movement.
37:30 Yeah, I remember seeing this movie and thinking that Rasputin feels like he should be a more actively feared villain, but the things he does are just kind of magic that's seen as weird problems that just happen, and then he finally shows up and is just some weird dude who confronts her. Like, she has no idea who this guy is, while he's obsessed with killing her, and I remember it feeling so weird that the main antagonist who's caused all this trouble is just this creep in Anastasia's eyes who's just coming at her for no reason.
Yes and no, Anastasia Is technically a Disney princess. However, she isn't marketed like Belle, Tiana, Cinderella etc. Sooo sadly she falls into the Grey area, but hey each to their own ^^
Given on how bad the compression from the true story to the animation, I still like this over most Disney princesses movies. It has very good lighting and not too cute. True aimed for kids, but doesn't hold back on being dark and edgy like the 'Black Cauldron.'
Saber complaining about how the movie is about a real person and whether its ok or not Meanwhile at Disney Oh lord do NOT look up the real history of Pocahontas oh jesus its depressing
Even if this movie has sort of a meh story, it interested me into knowing more about the russian revolution (the only things I knew about it before were this movie and Animal Farm, czar/king -> communism but not how that transition ocurred). If anyone is as lost as I was and is interested in the topic, I recommend the two parter youtube video The Russian Revolution by Oversimplified, I think it makes a good breakdown of the topic. Kudos!
16:30 you know picking Dimitri its what the girls think its a straight up pretty boy and then his weird facial was very funny. 😂 Dude why do you mess up the facial animation?
The sing you’re humming to is journey to the past. Also the songs found wonderful in their native Russian language as well, Paris is not translated to Russian though but for the other songs it fits.
Thanks Saberspark for uploading this full movie and it’s more fun with your animated characters reaction. I hope the license accepts it. I think I saw the original video the one who holds it by Magic DreamClub.
That's the first time I've seen him sit there and just talk about the communist uprising every 5 seconds and then play around with the characters .. how is drunk you?
I wonder how would you rank all of the historic set movies / animated movies ? Anastasia, Balto, Titanic, Patch Addams, Pocahontas, the Elephant man, Everybody's Hero, Fly Me to the Moon, Mulan, Prince of Egypt, Fat Albert, Weird the Weird Al Yankanich Story, Ben and Me, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Mother Tarisa, Liberty Kids, the King and I, The Wind Rises, Young Thomas Edison, the man in the iron mask, The is America Charly Brown, The Adventures of Mark Twain, the flying house, super book, back to the future, Carmen Sandiego, hachi a dog's tale, Valant , Sgt. Stubby, The Queen's Corgis, Where Is Anne Frank, America the Motion Picture, Barefoot Gen, Grave of the Fireflies, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Finding Neverland, the Man who invited Christmas, Slight Night, the man of 1,000 face, Stan and Ollie, The Fablemens, loving Vincent, In This Corner of the World, Ed Wood, Man on the Moon, Shakespear in Love, Secret of Kells and many others Im not thinking of where would they fall on a list based on quality, accuracy, enjoyability etc ?
1:10 that's not how being a Disney Princess works. She is not a Disney Princess Aaaand I saw someone say it again. Anastasia. Is. Not. A. Disney. Princess. Just. Because. Disney. Owns. It. Now. Not how it works
Guys.. it’s confirmed he’s not a furry. (I looked it up because of comments hating on them both) He isn’t a furry.. I think she may be though? Idk how to spell her name. But now you know..
It’s sad that you don’t see this type of animation much anymore. At least, not on the same scale. Quality? That’s the debatable. But, that makes me all the more greatful, that indie animation is filling that void. Hullabaloo, for instance, has a Disney-esche style to it. I recommend Saberspark, and others, check it out. Episode 1 released months ago.
I just started watching the video and u guys r talking about the accuracy and I’d like to point out Pocahontas was a real person she was like 12 not 18/19 and John smith was in his 40s not 20s he also adopted her, took her from her home and then married her after she became a women. Anastasia was my favorite movie growing up tho 👌🏼
I love how they portey the royal family as being loved and revered when in reality Nicholas was an absolutely horrible ruler tbh. Finally the people had enough and thus the legend of Anastasia was born. Though knowing now what really happened........yea; this movie would be rated r for violence and essentially murder
Fun fact: I have no idea if this was deliberate on the part of the filmmakers, as they are exceedingly common Russian names, but the two male leads in this movie share the names of two of the three guys who helmed Rasputin's assassination (Dmitri Pavlovich & Vladimir Purishkevich). It easily could be a coincidence but I just thought that was interesting.
I thought I was the only one who noticed that! As a history interested person, that truly feels like either a good coincidence or a well-thought-out parallel
why would they have done that thou?
On your pocahontas point: when i was a kid a descendant of pocahontas came to speak with us about her work on that movie. Apparently, disney had storyboarded a very respectful and accurate story, and she'd worked with them to make it authentic. Then they invited her back to show the reworked plot a year later, and she said it was so painful to see what they'd done she cried.
So... i mean... they didn't have to do what they did. They chose to.
Very unfortunate DX That's why I choose to watch Disney's Pocahontas as it's own thing rather than a story based off history that is painfully inaccurate. As long as we can acknowledge and respect the real Pocahontas' story then I think it's safe to watch the movie without believing anything from it as non-fiction.
About the accent...Honestly, as someone from a non-english-speaking country....This was never something that bothered me as a kid. I very early realized that they are speaking my language so that I will understand them, but in their universe they are speaking their own language. Kinda like how sometimes animals in cartoons speak our language but no humans in the cartoon understands them.....Sometimes, there were dubbers that had a different dialect than the norm, but mostly it was reserved for comic relief-characters because it would sound too funny.
I remember though, in An American Tale, they did have accents, which I think is just because they wanted to emphasise on the fact that they were immigrants.
I watched on Latin American Spanish.
I get what you’re saying, hence why I never got why people were mad when games like Atomic Heart have an option for everybody to be speaking in English since in-universe they’re obviously speaking their native language, it’s purely so that the player is able to understand them without having to learn an entirely new language or constantly having to read subtitles.
Ah yes... my childhood. I loved this movie. The music, the animation, the action and Rasputin... oh man.
Fun fact: Voiced by the one and only Christopher Lloyd who also voiced Master Xehanort from Kimgdom Hearts, another creppy old villain who refuses to die.
Saber finally embraced his iner furry!
@Dracobyte Oh, snap! Doc Brown from Back to the Future was the villain in this film and I never realized it until you pointed it out?! That’s awesome! 😆
Even for a Don Bluth film this movie is an absolute classic masterpiece! I still watch it to this day!!!
BRO YOU ARE SO RIGHT
It’s good
Even for?
I grew up in the 90s and ALL Don Bluth's movies were greater than what disney had produced in the 80s..
While disney started its renaissance in 1989.. Don Bluth was firing on ALL cylinders. (not get me wrong Disney movies of the 90s were awesome... i just was more exposed to Fox Animation). Titan AE, An American Tales, the land before time, ANASTASIA.
In the early 90s disney was still surviving on the classics of the 50s and 60s and a few later classics (but bombs at the cinema) like Robin Hood, the Rescuer, Bednocks and Broomsticks, who framed Roger Rabbit..
the 70s and 80s were VERY rough for disney animation studios
And yes by the mid 90s Bluth's movies were on the way out (a couple of heavy bomb were key) and Disney was IN but there was a time in the early 90s were disney was still "the past" and Bluth was the cool new kid on the block.
What do you mean “even for”? Don Bluth is an animation legend
This movie is a triumph of animation
Don't you mean "Hot Wheels Triumph TR6"?
And a disgrace to true Russian history
@@lukekuchera1928 20 Century Fox said that Don's only options were My Fair Lady, King and I, or Anastasia????
Unless you look past it's inaccurate history within the movie
@@lukekuchera1928There’s magic and a zombie sorcerer in it, so I don’t think it’s really.. meant to be taken as fact or claims to be accurate to history..?
It’s mostly based on the legend of the lost Anastasia (since back then they didn’t know she had died with her family like we do now)
Shout out to the artist Kosperry. Have you seen them? They are a master of the Don Bluth art style, using it to re-imagine everything from Super Mario and Five Nights at Freddy's to furry versions of Seinfeld and Columbo. It's pretty dope.
Wasnt expecting a Kosperry reference here but YESSSS
Oh yeah! I follow them on Instagram they’re so cool!
Kosperry is very talented btw.
I love Kosperry's work!
That guy is neat!
Don Bluth really took the One Piece approach to designing characters. They’re either fuckable or the most wildly proportioned creatures as possible
What one piece character is that 💀 they all look wack
Always loved this one. The scene where Anastasia is walking through the old palace and starts singing about memories and the ghostly figures come out and start dancing was real haunting.
Bartok the Magnificent was weirdly far better than you would expect it to be. Like probably the best example of a comic relief becoming a lead and actually pulling it off.
Fun fact: did you know…….. that the voice actor of Rasputin is Christopher Loyd who also played as uncle fester in the live action version of the Addams family and Dr. emmet brown in all 3 back to the future moives?
Christopher Lloyd is in a toooon of stuff as a voice actor.
I WAS FROZEN TODAY!
That one scene,
*Accidentally hits Dimetree (however is spelt)*
"Oh I'm so so- Oh its you, nevermind."
You would think this is a disney film
But, it is, now, technically.
On a long enough timeline we are all Disney, eventually
No, it’s just owned by them. They didn’t make it.
I still remember the songs, once upon a December and in the dark of the night, the best songs hands down.
I've never knew Angela Lansbury was in this, but now after watching all of Murder, She Wrote I can tell she is in this.
In the Dark of the Night song is perhaps the best thing about this film.
Sure the film took extreme creative liberties with Rasputin, but if you were going to make a Disney-like film involving actual historical events, may as well make him the insane villain character and have fun with him.
plus its not like anime and games haven't been doing that already
@@sarafontanini7051 Fate series and so many Sengoku era entertainment, even if historical characters are turned into waifus at least much of them still have some parts of their historical accuracy.
And then there are reincarnation stories of modern day characters sharing memories of their past life as historical figures like in Nobunagagun.
That song absolutely slaps. The music gets more "colorful" and the lyrics don't hit as well as it goes on, but the beginning and ending verses, the sinister really shows through, and the lyrics by themselves are quite poetic.
Don Bluth, while not without his own flaws, did produce some Animated Films from the 80s and 90s that stood up and challenged the might of Disney long before Dreamworks did.
Secret of Nymph, American Tail, Land Before Time as well as Swan Princess and Anastasia are classics in their own right and deserved to still be watched by families to this day even for the scarier moments.
Don't forget Pebble and the Penguin and All Dogs go to Heaven
*Secret of Nihm
Well Anastasia's younger brother Alexis had hemophilia that came from his mother's side of the family from Queen Victoria cuz she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria
I see that
@@luisjaime2567 I love all the Romanov sisters and Alexis. I even have a book about them.
This movie is my all time favorite and no one could ever make me feel otherwise.
Also for some reason I find Rasputin's death scene very satisfying.
@@-katbug.The *final* one?
@@ShadiC636 yea where he turns into bones and then into dust. It's just so nice to watch along with the sound. I may be a psychopath...
Anastasia may be my #1 favorite movie growing up - hands down! And had a beautiful soundtrack. My favorite song being by the late Aaliyah❤
Same, and same!
I'd assume they don't have any non-Native-English accents because the characters would be speaking Russian and maybe Russian-Upper-Class French throughout the entire film. Like the characters are in-universe speaking their native languages without a foregin accent and it's "translated" for the audience.
So I guess the real question is; do we want to exist in the alternate reality where the entire cast of Mulan and Aladdin were doing their best Chinese and Arabic accents the entire movie?
I always think of upper-class Russians speaking French as the Russian version of upper-class ancient Romans speaking Greek.
Doesn’t Vlad have a Russian accent
I will argue that while Anastasia had better animation, Bartoc the Magnificent had the better story. Probably because Bartoc was inspired by Russo-Finnish folklore and had more wiggle room for artistic liberties. Anastasia doesn't have that luxury.
"Oh, sure, blame the bat. What the heck, we're easy targets."
Bartok the Magnificent also has the aggressively horny dragon tf scene
So maybe we should have a live action Bartoc remake rather than a live action Anastasia remake
@@hpalpha7323 Fun Fact: Bartok was originally suppose to be played by Woody Allen, however Fox considered him controversial so Hank Azaria was cast instead.
As a child I loved the Bartok movie more, maybe because of the wacky characters, but the dragon transformation scared me 😅 (But I always was a scaredy-cat child, so not exactly the best reference).
I think I still prefer the sequel, although the art on anastasia is sooo pretty
I had a crush on Anastasia and I still catch myself humming the remember song I love this movie
Rasputin was the only reason to watch this. Top quality villain energy. 👌
I didn't Rasputin was actually a real person til my Sophmore year in high school. It's honestly great to see how they portrayed him in the movie.
He has the best villain song besides Hellfire, hands down.
Actual Rasputin: Local Russian man literally too angry to die.
Don Bluth Rasputin: World's most beloved necromancer.
Voiced by the one and only Christopher Lloyd who also voiced Master Xehanort from Kimgdom Hearts, another creppy old villain who refuses to die.
Yep he’s that certain man in Russia long ago.
Anastasia is one of the greatest films ever!
Don Bluth my beloved.
I’m an animation student and I think he and Glen Keane are probably my two biggest inspirations.
What do u think of a live action Anastasia
@@luisjaime2567 I feel the same way I do about all live action remakes. If they want to make them, go ahead. Live action remakes used to make me angry, but honestly now I kinda just laugh at them. Even the less terrible ones are still really mediocre, and they make no difference in changing the popularity of the original animated versions. If anything, they just remind everyone to rewatch the originals again :)
@@pinkdruid2347 in my opinion, I think it would be a great live action movie but the way Disney is I think they’re not on the right foot on making a good live action anymore
Someone compiling Saber having fun messing around with character’s faces is going to be great, as well as most of his streams taken out of context would be hilarious XD
13:40 I'm just saying, Papa Mouskowitz and Vlad are basically the furry/nonfurry forms of the same character
31:28 Impressionism, especially pointilism (as in, little points of color). As for the artist they're referencing, it might be Georges Seurat?
I remember the first time I watched this movie. I honestly thought it was a spin-off of Cinderella because I remembered Cinderella’s step-sister is named Anastasia.
Loved this movie as a kid and the "Once Upon a December" song has stuck with me my entire life.
However its weird coming back to this movie as an adult though now that I know more about Russian history. For example the massive party at the beginning of the movie would have to be taking place during WWI, as millions of of the Czar's subjects were starving and dying.
Still an awesome movie with a great soundtrack though.
cannot believe nobody brought up the urban legend about irl rasputins giant dong being in a box in a museum somewhere
Kelsey Grammar came back to do Vlad's voice for some of the international dubs.
i still have this film on dvd and the memories from it live rent free in my head
Ok, Anya just tackling Rasputin is one of the coolest things I've ever scene! She just goes nuts, and that final 'Do Svidaniya' was awesome! Girl boss! Also, rest in peace Angela Lansbury 🌹
Anastasia is not Anya, Nastya is right abbreviation
Anastasia is one fo my favourite movies and I'll sing Once Upon A December without realizing it... Aspirin is a blood thinner and Alexi couldn't stop bleeding, it's actually pretty simple so it really doesn't make Rasputin all that magical, not to mention he was known to be insane, would attend sex parties people really didn't want him at, and was just a garbage gross man lol.
I like Journey to the Past, Rumors in Petersburg, and Once Upon in December were far more memorable in my head and I can't help it's a pretty good Don Bluth Anastasia animated film.
When you'll do Bartok the Magnificent? It's a follow-up from Bartok and it's almost more faithful than Anastasia did.
I was greatly remembering this movie when I read the climax of Volume 9 in Part One of “Dance in the Vampire Bund.”
Another Don Bluth animation that still deserves to be watched these days is a little known game called Dragon's Lair.
Those cut scenes were animated by Don Bluth when the arcade game was in development.
Someone in chat wrote "I cannot wait for the crappy live-action remake". I was like, have you not seen the Broadway version of 'Anastasia'????
I mean, a very small amount of people have seen the Broadway show compared to the movie. It's good, but no Rasputin is sad. I needed a good villain song.
SHOTS FIRED
@@CubeGuy imagine replacing the badass undead wizard with some soviet soldier
One of my favorite movies from my childhood! Can’t wait to share it with my daughter!
i adored this movie as a kid and i still know most of the lyrics from every song
You guys should watch bartok all the way through next time XD
I will be enjoying this video before bed…in the dark of the night! 🤪🤟🏻
Love this movie, my sister and I watched it all the time as kids!
Saber, you're close to when Don Bluth gain notoriety. His first movies came out in the 80s, not 70s (he was still with Disney in the 70s). I actually wasn't a huge fan of Land Before Time because this was the movie that scarred my childhood. I remember seeing it on the big screen and the death of Littlefoot's mom, that killed me (I was 6). I had much preferred Oliver and Company that came out earlier that year.
I loved this movie when it came out, I actually prefer it to some of the Disney Renaissance movies (that's my hot take). I was in HS when the movie came out. It does have one of my favorite movie soundtracks too and my favorite song is Once Upon a December. Fun fact- at the time this movie was released, it still wasn't a known fact yet if Anastasia was dead yet (it was later confirmed she did die that night).
@31:29 The art style here does remind me by Degas who IS a French Painter from the Impressionism movement.
I love this movie so much.
Dude. You gotta get a video of yourself telling Don Bluth that Anastasia is now a Disney princess!!! Would love to see his reaction!!! 😊
One of 90's animation that cheers up my childhood beside Gold , Silver, Bronze and Rennaissance Disney classics
Even with its flaws, I love this film!
My favorite part of this movie is that it led to Bartok the Magnificent being made. I love that movie
I was scared for a second when he said Don Bluth is rolling in his grave, I was like "HE'S DEAD??"
best movie, amazing music all through and gorgeous animatioin and character design.
37:30 Yeah, I remember seeing this movie and thinking that Rasputin feels like he should be a more actively feared villain, but the things he does are just kind of magic that's seen as weird problems that just happen, and then he finally shows up and is just some weird dude who confronts her. Like, she has no idea who this guy is, while he's obsessed with killing her, and I remember it feeling so weird that the main antagonist who's caused all this trouble is just this creep in Anastasia's eyes who's just coming at her for no reason.
Yes and no, Anastasia Is technically a Disney princess. However, she isn't marketed like Belle, Tiana, Cinderella etc. Sooo sadly she falls into the Grey area, but hey each to their own ^^
Given on how bad the compression from the true story to the animation, I still like this over most Disney princesses movies. It has very good lighting and not too cute. True aimed for kids, but doesn't hold back on being dark and edgy like the 'Black Cauldron.'
Don Bluth was never afraid to go dark and edgy mind you. He made All Dogs go to Heaven, and before he left Disney, he worked on Sleeping Beauty
Saber complaining about how the movie is about a real person and whether its ok or not
Meanwhile at Disney
Oh lord do NOT look up the real history of Pocahontas oh jesus its depressing
I watched this movie not too long ago and holy shit did it blow me away!
Even if this movie has sort of a meh story, it interested me into knowing more about the russian revolution (the only things I knew about it before were this movie and Animal Farm, czar/king -> communism but not how that transition ocurred).
If anyone is as lost as I was and is interested in the topic, I recommend the two parter youtube video The Russian Revolution by Oversimplified, I think it makes a good breakdown of the topic.
Kudos!
16:30 you know picking Dimitri its what the girls think its a straight up pretty boy and then his weird facial was very funny. 😂
Dude why do you mess up the facial animation?
Absolutely gorgeous memory Saber!
As a kid, this movie was my ab-so-lute favorite movie (2nd only to Treasure Planet).
Can't believe I caught this this early!! Wish I was actually there to watch the stream though
The sing you’re humming to is journey to the past. Also the songs found wonderful in their native Russian language as well, Paris is not translated to Russian though but for the other songs it fits.
Thanks Saberspark for uploading this full movie and it’s more fun with your animated characters reaction. I hope the license accepts it. I think I saw the original video the one who holds it by Magic DreamClub.
I love watching your streams x3 especially the Rishi giggles
That's the first time I've seen him sit there and just talk about the communist uprising every 5 seconds and then play around with the characters
.. how is drunk you?
One of my favs❤❤
Holy scoots im here in the first hour
One of my favorite movie
I love this movie so much
This film actually started as a remake of the 1956 live-action version.
Also I have you consider watching Swan Princess.
If you hear the rasputin song, in two parts you can hear something that sounds a bit like gunshot sounds.
18:00 - Hey, it's Coco Kiryu!
Anastasia another of my sister's favorite movies excellent choice bruh.
balto came out in 1995 how brave
Genuinely a fantastic movie
I wonder how would you rank all of the historic set movies / animated movies ? Anastasia, Balto, Titanic, Patch Addams, Pocahontas, the Elephant man, Everybody's Hero, Fly Me to the Moon, Mulan, Prince of Egypt, Fat Albert, Weird the Weird Al Yankanich Story, Ben and Me, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Mother Tarisa, Liberty Kids, the King and I, The Wind Rises, Young Thomas Edison, the man in the iron mask, The is America Charly Brown, The Adventures of Mark Twain, the flying house, super book, back to the future, Carmen Sandiego, hachi a dog's tale, Valant , Sgt. Stubby, The Queen's Corgis, Where Is Anne Frank, America the Motion Picture, Barefoot Gen, Grave of the Fireflies, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Finding Neverland, the Man who invited Christmas, Slight Night, the man of 1,000 face, Stan and Ollie, The Fablemens, loving Vincent, In This Corner of the World, Ed Wood, Man on the Moon, Shakespear in Love, Secret of Kells and many others Im not thinking of where would they fall on a list based on quality, accuracy, enjoyability etc ?
This is one of my sister's favorite movies.
Hot take: British will forever be wimps to me for not doing what the French or Russians did
She’s a Disney Princess now, and the character on my profile picture!
1:10 that's not how being a Disney Princess works. She is not a Disney Princess
Aaaand I saw someone say it again. Anastasia. Is. Not. A. Disney. Princess. Just. Because. Disney. Owns. It. Now. Not how it works
Must always give you likes, because you deserve them.
Take care, and all the best.
38:48 looks like a burning skull part from Dragon's Lair. Like he lose for his wasted round.
Don Bluth, The True Dark Horse of Animation
Guys.. it’s confirmed he’s not a furry. (I looked it up because of comments hating on them both)
He isn’t a furry.. I think she may be though? Idk how to spell her name. But now you know..
16:42 The bite of '87
I’m so sad Don Bluth just came to Dallas not too long ago but I couldn’t go to see him
The film came out in 2000 then in 2006, they found the bone fragments of Anastasia & Alexei, proving they died. Forensic technology, everyone
It’s sad that you don’t see this type of animation much anymore. At least, not on the same scale. Quality? That’s the debatable. But, that makes me all the more greatful, that indie animation is filling that void. Hullabaloo, for instance, has a Disney-esche style to it. I recommend Saberspark, and others, check it out. Episode 1 released months ago.
There’s an awesome Overlord amv for “In the Dark of the Night.”
It is a really Good move ❤
28:39 There's CHANEL in it. We have the French ad in this movie and I wanted to have a Paris Baguette.
I would buy plushies of saberspark as a tiger and rishi as the dog thing
I just started watching the video and u guys r talking about the accuracy and I’d like to point out Pocahontas was a real person she was like 12 not 18/19 and John smith was in his 40s not 20s he also adopted her, took her from her home and then married her after she became a women. Anastasia was my favorite movie growing up tho 👌🏼
This was painful to watch with all the pauses
Well they found a way to make this film Meme-able, Mostly Vlad
Hey, its Bartok!
Bartok! The magnificent!
Saber another word for that would be ‘reprise’ I forgot motif works too but figured that might be the word you were looking for :]
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I love how they portey the royal family as being loved and revered when in reality Nicholas was an absolutely horrible ruler tbh. Finally the people had enough and thus the legend of Anastasia was born.
Though knowing now what really happened........yea; this movie would be rated r for violence and essentially murder