I, for one, will NEVER ignore the accomplishments of Chris Columbus. Home Alone is a GREAT movie and Galaxy High School is an underrated Saturday Morning masterpiece.
@@mightyfilm "Home Alone, a Family Comedy, Without The Family". Factoid: Macaulay Culkin's Baby Brother Rory used to date Columbus' Daughter Elenore Columbus.
I submit Giuseppe Garibaldi as a replacement for Columbus. A revolutionary, whether that be his own country, those far away, or equal rights for woman. He spent time working in a candle factory in New York and was asked by Lincoln to be a general in The Civil War (Garibaldi refused because Lincoln wouldn't unequivocally declare the war to be about freeing slaves). These two things give him more connection to the United States than Columbus, who never set foot in North America
The evil advisor being an anti-Semitic stereotype would be a sin in any movie. But especially one where he's advisor to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Also, Ferdinand being the tyrant while Isabella is just some floozy is remarkable in it's backwardness
Nope, the advisor was clearly caricature of Catholic. Because the outfit is clearly from priest at the time - he wears a capelo -broad-brimmed hat wears by cardinal. And I think the evil advisor is priest, because Spain was one of the leading Catholic countries of the time (and called itself Arch Catholic :P) and is a misconception that the Catholic Church was against development (and Germany doesn't like Catholics). Also antisemitic stereotypes or jokes aren't possible in Germany media anymore because of some Austrian dude.
Im mexican and, when I was a kid, my elementary history teacher put us that movie everytime she was feeling too lazy to do classes. Even as a little kid I knew there was something nauseatingly wrong about that movie.
Was there a law that decreed every 80s/early 90s comic relief character had to be played by Dom DeLuis or Buddy Hackett? There were in every animated movie for awhile there.
Yeah. But if we went with that then we couldn't have a dream sequence with a spyglass seemingly in a pocket located in the crotch area of the pants Columbus is wearing.
“In 1492, Columbus got us all a day off school. With just three ships, he sailed over so we could have some 'me time' in October. And, yes, millions were slaughtered and throats were cut. But if we don't get that day off school, then for what?” -Eric Cartman
@@HBarnill You do realize that Eric Cartman is a terrible person and the show makes it painfully obvious of that, whatever he says isn't meant to be taken seriously, and you injecting your preconceived biases in this single quote just strengthens their satire.
@@Treeeee2008 Cartman has also been a voice for Matt & Trey's more controversial opinions. I ain't saying they're antisemites but they both hate hippies, Family Guy, and don't forget, Cartman has been used to give the final moral in some episodes. Not to mention the fact Matt & Trey have said that Cartman's the character they identify with the most.
As I've gotten older I've added Columbus to "useless, but at least it's a" Day off of work void next to the likes of Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day - and, funny enough, Queen Isabella hated Columbus and thought he was an idiot with bad science too. Also the whole idea of it just gives me, "celebration of a village idiot." vibes. Plus, thank you for giving light to the notoriously awful Girlboss Cinderella from Amazon.
@@colleen4ever Columbus Day is usually celebrated as some sort of Native American appreciation sort of thing in most school districts. It's not like it's gone or something.
One of my Papa's indigenous (I mostly call them Native) friends actually didn't mind people calling them Indian because it reminds them that Columbus got lost!
As a (partial) Italian, I would rather twirl my spaghetti with a SPOON than acknowledge Christopher Columbus as a hero of this part of my ethnic heritage (for those of you who don't know, spoon-twirling your pasta is a MAJOR sin in Italy). Christopher Colombus can stay in the Bad Place FOREVER. Also, Diego definitely belongs in the Antisemitically Designed Villains In Children's Media Hall of Infamy.
Diego is actually also wearing the robes of an Inquisitor…a group that persecuted Jewish people. I read the Tooncrap review of this movie in 2010 or so and was initially convinced from screen caps that Diego was the Swarm Lord’s human form. And how weird is it that we’re supposed to hate him based on his design and his opposition to the Genocidal Idiot, but he never does anything bad. Also, can we talk about how this movie could never be made today because modern animated adventure stories don’t have pleasant opinions of violent colonising conquerors.
As some of the responses said: He's clearly a priest / inquisitor. A green skin-tone and crooked nose isn't enough to override that, and is a pretty trivial thing to get "infamous" for -.-
@@themysteriouscrumpet I was talking about the fictional character in the movie, not the real life Catholic Church. “Fun” fact: The Catholic oblation/monastery structure was most likely modelled at least partially upon Roman military barracks.
This movie is the textbook example of too much noise. It’s why I appreciate shows like Thomas the Tank Engine and Samurai Jack, which are renowned for their share of quiet moments.
I’ll defend it actually. Considering paintings of royals were so dependent on the artist trying to curry favor with either the royal or their enemies, nothing short of genetic testing would give us an accurate view of what Ferdinand and Isabella actually looked like. Seriously, check out portraits of Anne Boleyn done before and after Henry’s death; they put photoshop and instagram filters to shame.
@@C.V317 as they once said on Blackadder, "My cousin says that he's heard that all portraits look the same these days, 'cause they're painted to a romantic ideal rather than as a true depiction of the idiosyncratic facial qualities of the person in question."
Oh god, I remember this. It was one of many imported films that didn't have a finished script, they just let the actors Ad-lib whatever they were seeing on screen when there was no set dialogue, literally describing what was happening in real time. It made the films very cringey.
I liked it more when Dom DeLuise did this voice for the baker in that one episode of MAGIC SCHOOL BUS. The one where they learn about chemistry & get baked in a cake. Also Marilyn looks like a lost member of the Winx Club.
Speaking of Winx Club, just like that most common English dub of Magic Voyage and Walking with Dinosaurs the movie, there is not a single episode where the girls(or any other characters) don’t just spew out unnecessary dialogue like “Awesome” “Sweet” “Wow” “Cool” “Amazing” “Check this out” the list goes on.
Why does Columbus look like a younger, stupider, and marginally less well animated version of Captain Hook from Peter Pan? Also, I am very excited to hear your take on the film that features Pierce Brosnan singing about as much as Idina Mendel.
@@Heroshii15 But you don't understand the true movie of this movie! Actors acted, animators animated, and composers composed! Truly a movie of it's time!
Dom DeLuise just isn't enough to motivate me to watch this movie in full. Especially given that they had that sort of budget and still couldn't find a VA for the wood mite who could sing?
Corey Feldman voices Pico.(And He Sings too.) If you've never heard Corey Feldman sing, Check this out: ua-cam.com/video/7MSTQ1073T0/v-deo.html You'll WISH you didn't. The fact that Magic Voyage lets him sing is a FELONY.
You know an adaptation is bad when you would rather watch the Cinderella-esque films taking place in contemporary cities, and started with the theatrical one starring Hillary Duff, that or Sneakerella, hell I'll just watch the live-action Remake Disney gave us a few years ago
Both Idina Menzel and Minnie Driver deserved better than this. And knowing that Pierce Brosnan is in the movie, I can already hear the litany of jokes at his expense being written up by Christie right now.
Ah, The Magic Voyage; a film I once saw in my childhood and stuck around in my memory just enough for me to wonder if it was real or if I had just imagined it on a sugar high.
As a guy from Germany I could add a few things too: First of all: I never met anyone in Germany who has ever heard of this movie, neither by the English title nor of the German original title "The Adventures of Pico and Columbus" or the novelisation of it "Pico and Columbus" which came out one year before that. Even the Wikipedia article was created long after the English one. Also: This seems to be less a DVD or VHS release and rather a TV movie (apparently it was also in movie theaters), as the second German Television Station ZDF was in production of that. According to the opening credits. Which makes it even worse. But I never saw it on TV. And I guess it will never be shown. Also the And about the earth being a cube: recently a comedy movie "The Kangaroo Conspiracy" was released where this idea was picked up, poking fun at the Flat Earth Theory (as well as other conspiraty theories).
There's something very on-the-nose about every single visual idea this movie has being ripped off from Disney and Don Bluth movies at the time (and some times reaching back further, like the bubble sequence from Cinderella).
I'm beyond ecstatic to discover that the next review will be the notoriously awful "Girlboss" Cinderella. I wasn't surprised to find out that it was James Corden's bright idea.
@@colleen4ever Now I REALLY HOPE this year's Christmas case is TMNT We Wish You a Turtle Christmas. I can imagine an opening line for it "I'm Diva. Your judge, jury, executioner. And I CAN'T BELIEVE there's another bad Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles musical. Let alone a christmas musical"
@@SuperEasywalker Nope, that wasn't a musical. (And it's actually one of the better Disney live-action remakes, mainly because they added some new wrinkles that really worked. If Diva wants to do more Disney live-action remakes, there's always Aladdin and Pinocchio...)
@@GatorRay There's also Eight Crazy Nights, A Christmas Story Live (a real disappointment to me since I loved the cast album of that show), the animated version of A Christmas Carol from the nineties with the voices of Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jodi Benson...)
Phil Nibbelink worked on this? Huh. Judging by how surprisingly fluid some parts of the animation in this film are, I can see his influence now. The "Mr Puppet" scene in particular reminds me of his solo work.
From what I can tell he's not a bad person, but he has an odd and creepy fetish for damsels in distress he inserts in everyone of his movies. Including this one apparently, where he had I imagine little creative power.
I think Spain should sue this animation's creators for obnoxious way they portrayed Isabel and Fernando. They are most famous monarchs of the country and two of the most important figures in history of Europe and they did sth like this with them. My heart of the historian hurts so much after seeing this kind of things. Anyway thanks for great and funny review. I like your channel and work very much. Greetings from Poland!
Yeah, they were terrible people in their own right. It's injustice that they never got an awful whimsical cartoon made about them. (Last sentence is sarcasm.)
I found out about this film from Nostalgia Critic, and...my god. It's like the makers of this film saw the incredibly inaccurate Colombous Myth reported by schools and car dealerships and said "Hold my beer, I can make an even more ridiculous and absurd Colombous tale." Just an absolute pile of WTFery that few can match. Super excited for your next trial, that disaster had a long time coming.
4:00 Just for notice: "woodworms" are only the larva - their actual adult status is a beetle. And the individual species differ in whether they're eating dead wood (furniture, planks and such) or only living plant matter.
The dialogue in this film feels like the equivalent of jingling keys in front of a child's face so they don't lose interest and just annoying them instead of engaging them.
The only thing this movie got surprisingly correct was Isabella's hair color. She's often portrayed as a brunette when her hair was more of a light auburn.
Also when I was reading the comic book series Bone and I heard of it's villain The Lord of the Locusts, my first thought was that Swam Lord villain from The Magic Voyage and I was not far behind.
Fun fact, Harald Kloser composed the score for the English dub of this movie. He went on to do the soundtracks for a ton of Roland Emmerich movies like The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 B.C., 2012, Independence Day Resurgence, and Moonfall.
I was wondering, would you be interested in doing a "Know the Score" on Cartoon Network's "Over the Garden Wall"? It's kind of a Halloween-themed musical in its own right, and it has some catchy and classy songs.
8:06-The only exception (I would say) of ad-libing in a dub of a foreign animated movie is the original 1998 Disney English dub of Kiki's Delivery Service, where they added new lines, mostly from the late Phil Hartman as Jiji. An example is when Jiji is in a cage after Kiki loses the stuffed cat for a customer, after Kiki says, "Just pretend to doll until I find the real one!", Jiji (Hartman) adds in "Why don't you pretend to be stuffed and I go get the stupid doll!" This was also the dub that controversially added a line for Jiji at the end of the movie (the "Kiki, can you hear me?" line) to imply that Kiki is able to speak to Jiji again, while the later 2010 Disney English dub (the current version that's available on all home media and streaming in the US) omitted this (as to be close to the original Japanese version) to imply that Kiki is no longer able to communicate with him.
We watched this movie in my grade one class, (along with the pebble and the penguin, and Pocahontas 2, I genuinely don't know why my first grade teacher was like that -apart from the obvious racism-, also it's a little bizarre we watched this cause I live in Canada) and I totally forgot about it for the last 15 years, so thank you for bringing back that very weird memory.
Doug Walker reviewed this travesty over a decade ago, but he attributed the never-ending cascade of dialogue to bad editing rather than its true culprit, childish improv from the dubbing actors. Kudos to you, Diva, for your superior attention to detail. Columbus's "exploits" are just another of the many horrible bits of propaganda that should've never been introduced to American schools in the first place. This is why we're the laughing stock of the world.
@@carlosalbuquerque22 I know, right? He and the CinemaSins guys are so hypocritical - they criticize filmmakers for lack of attention to detail while hardly being any better themselves. That's why I don't watch them anymore.
This movie is 25 miles of coo coo for coco puffs. (And to a degree I kinda love it for the chaos) But I gained an appreciation for it's ending song Heaven Is. I find the song calming and it gained new meaning after I started listening to it as a way to cope with losing my pet fish Cider and Chacha. If I'm glad the movie exists for anything it's that song.
It’s such a beautiful song. Though of all movies they could’ve put it in, it’s incredibly odd they would put it in The Magic Voyage. Tone wise, it just doesn’t fit. Heck, the movie doesn’t even really correlate with what this song is about. I could see it at the end of a Disney movie though or even a DreamWorks or Don Bluth film. I REALLY wish it got a legitimate public release outside this movie. It would’ve been nice to hear it on one of Al Jarreau’s albums. Meh…perhaps he wasn’t proud of it or something. :c Also, does anybody else get emotional when they hear this song or is it just me??? 🥺💔 Lol I’ve cried a few times hearing it. Either way, it’s a phenomenal song and deserves to be heard by everyone other then animation pop culture nerds like me lol 🥹💛
@@tristenrodriguez4144 I couldn't agree more. It was such an odd choice for The Magic Voyage. It's such a shame too that the song is so obscure because of it. Nah I get emotional hearing it too haha. After over a decade of not seeing the film since childhood I couldn't help but tear up too hearing that song.
The very first thing I noticed when I saw what Columbus looked like in this was that they literally just copied the face of Captain Hook from Peter Pan and put it on him. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
Oh God I remember seeing this movie in theaters back in the day! I was so bored, I left and played in the arcade in the lobby after 10 or so minutes! I gotta give this movie credit only in 2 ways: 1. The Swarm Lord’s animation is really cool looking! 2. Dom DeLuise puts his all into every role, I have to respect that! Other than that, as usual, spot on review!
At my lil k-12 private school alma mater, we didn’t have Columbus Day, we had a holiday called Mrs. Mulligan’s Birthday. The story is that it’s supposedly based on a woman one of the Founders knew who ran a shop and whenever she wanted a day off she’d close up and hang a sign that said “CLOSED FOR MY BIRTHDAY”. In my father’s era, it was a total surprise day off that wasn’t on the calendar, so parents would be left scrambling. This was back it was guaranteed that either the mom didn’t work or there was a full-time housekeeper to press into babysitting. But even then, it was obviously still inconvenient to throw a holiday at the very last minute. My dad lived far from school, too, unlike most of the other kids, so it was a pain to turn around and go back home. By my era they put it on the calendar from the start of the year so we knew it was coming, and it coincided with Columbus Day in First Semester and President’s Day in Second Semester. Now I think it’s still around but they also have additional days off we didn’t have, like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and all of Thanksgiving Week instead of just two days. Since coming back from the uncertainty of the Pandemic, they seem to want to put MORE official Off days on the calendar rather than fewer - probably a preference for planning, since they know they’re often taken off by a huge number of families every year anyway. I like the school coming up with its own mythology and traditions. That way we can avoid unintentionally celebrating genocide, which I think is something we should always err on the side of HELL NO. And it’s something unique. As long as nobody named Mrs. Mulligan starts up, we’ll be good.
ALL of Thanksgiving week?! Where the hell did YOU go to school?! I went to a private high school and we only had Thanksgiving and the following Friday off.
@@colleen4ever A school where half the families always took the whole week anyways, to go to Europe or their ranch or something, and the school caved in and just gave up trying to get anything done that week. It’s crazy how much people pay to send their kids there but then take them out for vacations without giving first thought to the academic repercussions. It’s a college prep school, VERY competitive! But gotta go to Aspen!
13:50 I get that they were going for the old "ha-ha, we can see your underwear" joke, but was anybody else ever confused as to how hanging made his clothes spontaneously fall off?
"Halloween-themed musicals are a little thin on the ground..." Gee, it's a shame they didn't try to do a TV-remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (hint, hint, for next October...) Anyway, I haven't watched the 2021 Cinderella, though I'm usually all about any fairy tale. I've loved Pierce Brosnan since the eighties, but even that wasn't enough to make me want to see it after the reviews I read. (I hate to see his name associated with a lousy movie. For his sake, I hope Black Adam does well. Even though I normally wouldn't know Black Adam from, well, Adam, I'll see it for Pierce.)
I'm almost laughing at the fact that they made the "hero" portrayed as a bumbling idiot who fell prey to his greed and spent most of his time in the New World in his underwear.
This movie had a high budget they no doubt blew on popular celebrities of the time because it certainly did not go into the animation. The animation is just short of a Saturday morning cartoon.
I was somewhere between kindergarten and second grade when we watched this at my after school program. Even as a small child when my concept of a "bad movie" hadn't been developed yet, watching this was torture.
I was unsure what she meant there. I think the quirkiest lines were in “Something Bad is Happening in Oz” but even the more forced lines flowed really well and worked for the song.
If I remember right, Wicked also had some "Oz-isms' if you will, where they occasionally throw out words that are based on a real word but embellished to fit the melody. Nothing wrong with that, it is a fantasy world, but it does make the line seem forced when it has to be filled out.
the fact that this movie full of misinformation is targeted at kids makes it infinitely more reprehensible. This movie is teaching lies to children. How can anyone be ok with that?
The Swarm Lord is a villain that deserves to be in a better movie. He's the only character I could stand in this whole thing and he's supposed to be the bad guy. Also his animation is cool. ( Well better than the rest of the animation anyway. )
You brought back a memory of a memory with this review. I remember this movie from when I was a kid and it made feel bad, like some weird reverse nostalgia
Between this, Dingo Pictures, and Digital World (I THINK that’s the company that did masterpieces such as The Frog King), German animation is truly an oasis away from quality that you can retreat to again and again. Edit: and it’s funny, my mom told me about the wonderful cartoons she used to watch growing up, and I was hoping I too could have some nice things from Germany to share with my own children. Turns out the cartoons she watched were animated by Japanese studios.
In Germany, animation just isn't such a big thing outside of TV productions (where it doesn't have to meet cinematic standards). German production houses spend a lot of money co-producing with other European countries, but I can only name one director (Gerhard Hahn) and one or two companies that have produced cinematic output, preferably on our own cultural landmarks... and it's at least decent. In their favour I can say: "Magic Voyage" hadn't involved any of them.
I don't understand the constant need to fill the space with ad-libbing from this era of movies. Like, let the movie breathe a little. I promise five seconds of silence won't drive off the toddlers these movies are aimed at.
Has Diva ever done the 1992 Tom and Jerry film? I would like to submit it for review. Friends to the End alone is a sin against musicals (despite the fact that I somewhat like it).
I think this was the film that opened my eyes to the fact that movies can be bad. When I was little, i tolerated just about anything, but one day this vhs made its way into the house, I watched it and for the first time in my life, i though "wow, this film is shit"
Yeah, it's not a great movie. Even if Columbus WAS the heroic explorer of legend, this version of him would not have been a good representation - he makes Elmer Fudd look like the picture of dignified reserve. (I do think the Swarm-Lord is a pretty cool concept for a villain, though, even if he could have been pulled off better.)
frankly if someone somewhere on the production chain came out and said this whole affair was a psyop to stoke hatred for columbus amongst the concerning subset of the population who would voluntarily watch this movie... I would be inclined to believe them.
have you heard of Razia's Shadow? it was a concept album by emo band forgive durden and featured the singers from panic at the disco and say anything. there is a great performance of it here on youtube with puppets!
I just got out of bed, and now I'm pouring myself a shot of gin just to get through this nightmare. I watched the Nostalgia Critic review this film... Not pretty. Cheers. 🥃
Yo, could you do Roadside Romeo? I know it's not really a bad movie (hell, the opening song is still stuck in my head), but I think it'd be cool to hear you talk about it. Edit: And to hear your 2 cents on "Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart?" Maybe for Valentine's Day?
Yeah, you see the thing is, the whole misconception that ‘Columbus wanted to prove that the world isn’t flat’ was practically engraved in the public consciousness at that point much like the ‘Mrs O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern and cause the Chicago fire’ myth. If you want proof of this go watch the VERY underrated Disney hybrid film So Dear to My Heart from 1948. Thankfully those inaccurate myths have been long dead and buried nowadays but I agree that I also still get annoyed whenever I see all those ‘flat-Earthers’ memes on social media.
@@colleen4ever No. it turned out that the story was actually made up by some people wanting to sell quick papers, and despite being in the American public consciousness for over a century, O’Leary was posthumously exonerated in the 1990s, finally putting that cruel myth to rest. If you want more information, go watch several documentaries on the 1871 Chicago fire on UA-cam and Defunctland’s Freedomland USA video. It’s really a fascinating story.
13:30 I was pleasantly surprised by the Viking joke XD Given how this movie functions on a first-graders understanding of history, I wasn't expecting that XD
I remember this being my favorite movie as a child and I also remember thinking the fairy girl was cute. I should mention that I wasn't in school yet (I was 5 or 4) so I didnt know who Columbus was yet.
Swarm Lord deserves his own movie. But Marvel came up with the similar villain Swarm fifteen years earlier (first appearance in The Champions #14, July 1977). I remember him from the animated Saturday morning Spider-Man series in the early '80's.
I’m not on the usual misdirected-validation excommunication of Columbus, but in addition to the Earth-is-flat thing, Columbus wasn’t an enlightened thinker who was grilled by the Spanish Inquisition for his theories: That was made up in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s version, and pretty well takes the entire “1492: Conquest of Paradise” off the table.
1:11- Ya forgot Amerigo Vespucci! He was Italian and America WAS named for him! Buuuut then again, he was influenced by Columbus's journey. However he did NOT do half the things Columbus did to the Native Americans, so...... Well, Columbus still said that he could find a shortcut to India by sailing West instead of traveling East regardless of what people believed about the Earth at that point.
fucking golden films made fun of the misconception that people though the world was flat back then. Golden. Films. Even they know that people knew the earth was round!
I agree with you about Columbus. When I was little, I was taught that Columbus set out to prove the world was round. Today, most of us would agree (a couple of flat earth mavens here and there notwithstanding) that the notion of a round world was already widely accepted throughout Europe in Columbus' time. We also know that Columbus wanted to find a route to the East Indies (NOT India, which European mapmakers of the time called Hindustan) and never set foot in North America. He landed in San Salvador (now part of the Bahamas), then other islands in the Caribbean. He also introduced Smallpox to the Western Hemisphere, killing thousands. And, finally, Columbus didn't discover America. Leif Erikson and his Vikings discovered North America in the 1100's (and the Native Americans thousands of years before that). I get that Italian Americans, who were not being accepted at that time, wanted a hero they could claim. But they could have done better than Columbus. They could have gone with the mapmaker Amerigo Vespucci, who named the new land America. Or Marconi, the inventor of the radio.
@@Kahran042 Still, British, Spanish and Portuguese colonizers did things like give out infected blankets and other acts of open biological warfare, so his "spiritual successors" would do so without shame.
@@carlosalbuquerque22 Well, they didn;t have a lot of scientific knowledge back then and not that many doctors, so they might not have really know the blankets were infected.
we have Beavers in the middle of Kentucky. One city park used to have a couple that lived in the middle of an artificial lake constructed over a hundred years ago as the cities first water reservoir. Sadly those died out and moved on. However from time to time there is news that spread of random water ways/creeks that develop a Beaver damn. Usually they are pretty popular with the local people but sadly many meet a sad fate with the nearby road ways.
I, for one, will NEVER ignore the accomplishments of Chris Columbus. Home Alone is a GREAT movie and Galaxy High School is an underrated Saturday Morning masterpiece.
You had me for a second
@@frankieseward8667 We should totally just make the day about the director. 30% off of all mattresses is best used celebrating those movies.
Oh, I get it. That’s why his company is called 1492 Pictures, right?
@@MovieFan1912 ROFL!!Columbus Also Directed The Babysitter's Club and Reach The Rock.
@@mightyfilm "Home Alone, a Family Comedy, Without The Family".
Factoid: Macaulay Culkin's Baby Brother Rory used to date Columbus' Daughter Elenore Columbus.
I submit Giuseppe Garibaldi as a replacement for Columbus. A revolutionary, whether that be his own country, those far away, or equal rights for woman. He spent time working in a candle factory in New York and was asked by Lincoln to be a general in The Civil War (Garibaldi refused because Lincoln wouldn't unequivocally declare the war to be about freeing slaves). These two things give him more connection to the United States than Columbus, who never set foot in North America
Probably more acceptable than Sacco and Vanzetti, though I would prefer those.
@@ashkitt7719 I wouldn't be against those either, but it would not go over well with many. Vito Marcantonio was also super cool
The evil advisor being an anti-Semitic stereotype would be a sin in any movie. But especially one where he's advisor to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Also, Ferdinand being the tyrant while Isabella is just some floozy is remarkable in it's backwardness
Nope, the advisor was clearly caricature of Catholic. Because the outfit is clearly from priest at the time - he wears a capelo -broad-brimmed hat wears by cardinal. And I think the evil advisor is priest, because Spain was one of the leading Catholic countries of the time (and called itself Arch Catholic :P) and is a misconception that the Catholic Church was against development (and Germany doesn't like Catholics). Also antisemitic stereotypes or jokes aren't possible in Germany media anymore because of some Austrian dude.
@@OGPUEE Oh good, we just have anti-Catholic bias. As if we don't get enough of those from the WASPs.
@@GeneralKenobi75 And Hollywood
4:12 No joke, he got one note into the song and my headphones turned off. I can only assume they were trying to protect me.
They did you a favor
Must be the noise canceling kind.
Im mexican and, when I was a kid, my elementary history teacher put us that movie everytime she was feeling too lazy to do classes. Even as a little kid I knew there was something nauseatingly wrong about that movie.
Más de una vez? Latinoamerica mágica
After watching the case, I feel like my school history books were actually lying to me all along.
Was there a law that decreed every 80s/early 90s comic relief character had to be played by Dom DeLuis or Buddy Hackett? There were in every animated movie for awhile there.
Wasn't it the Queen of Spain that called Columbus out for his bad science? Making her so lovey dovey for him is really weird.
Yeah. But if we went with that then we couldn't have a dream sequence with a spyglass seemingly in a pocket located in the crotch area of the pants Columbus is wearing.
@@GatorRay XD Yeah, always weird Sex symbolism over historic facts
She was also one of the people who were appalled by Columbus’s treatment of the natives.
In hindsight, it make you wonder if Isabella only give her patronage in hopes that Colombus would die on the trip...
She was his Mistress.
Corey Feldman, the voice of Pico in this version, said this movie was basically an easy paycheck for him, but he enjoyed ad-libbing with Dom DeLuise.
At least someone had fun with this flick.
I thought that was Corey Feldman! O,o oof.
Still better than his album
Glad he had fun because we certainly aren't.
At least he got payed
“In 1492, Columbus got us all a day off school. With just three ships, he sailed over so we could have some 'me time' in October. And, yes, millions were slaughtered and throats were cut. But if we don't get that day off school, then for what?” -Eric Cartman
Weren't Matt & Trey basically saying "stop complaining about Columbus, libtards!"
That show has always had bad takes.
@@HBarnill You do realize that Eric Cartman is a terrible person and the show makes it painfully obvious of that, whatever he says isn't meant to be taken seriously, and you injecting your preconceived biases in this single quote just strengthens their satire.
@@Treeeee2008 Cartman has also been a voice for Matt & Trey's more controversial opinions. I ain't saying they're antisemites but they both hate hippies, Family Guy, and don't forget, Cartman has been used to give the final moral in some episodes. Not to mention the fact Matt & Trey have said that Cartman's the character they identify with the most.
We don’t even get off on Columbus Day anymore.
Labor Day is the holiday
@@HBarnill So that obviously means that they're in support of genocide.
8:45 Long ago, the Moon Sprites lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Swarm King attacked.
Only the Woodworm, master of terrible improv, could stop him.
@@RANima71498 But when the world needed him most, he vanished.
@@tylerfish2701 A hundred years passed and me, Chirstopher Colombus I discovered the new Woodworm, an annoying one named Pico.
@@phonybeautrain6520 And although his singing is atrocious, he has a lot to learn before he’s ready to save anyone.
@@animeotaku307 but I believe that, Pico, will prove that the world, she’s a round
As I've gotten older I've added Columbus to "useless, but at least it's a" Day off of work void next to the likes of Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day - and, funny enough, Queen Isabella hated Columbus and thought he was an idiot with bad science too.
Also the whole idea of it just gives me, "celebration of a village idiot." vibes.
Plus, thank you for giving light to the notoriously awful Girlboss Cinderella from Amazon.
Wait, Valentine's Day is a day off where you live? Where the hell do you live?
@@colleen4ever Columbus Day is usually celebrated as some sort of Native American appreciation sort of thing in most school districts. It's not like it's gone or something.
“Celebrating the village idiot vibes” it kind of is Pioneer Day of Gravity Falls when you put it like that 😂
@@mareofmaers3590 No, it's not. I hate Valentine's Day for...reasons. Too commercial.
@@SiRenfield Yep.
One of my Papa's indigenous (I mostly call them Native) friends actually didn't mind people calling them Indian because it reminds them that Columbus got lost!
I can;t even pronounce that new word, I still call them Native American Indians.
@@colleen4ever It's in-DIHJ (as in digeridoo)-in-us.
That's probably the funniest way to look at it.
At least he turned that into a nice roast
As a (partial) Italian, I would rather twirl my spaghetti with a SPOON than acknowledge Christopher Columbus as a hero of this part of my ethnic heritage (for those of you who don't know, spoon-twirling your pasta is a MAJOR sin in Italy). Christopher Colombus can stay in the Bad Place FOREVER.
Also, Diego definitely belongs in the Antisemitically Designed Villains In Children's Media Hall of Infamy.
Diego is actually also wearing the robes of an Inquisitor…a group that persecuted Jewish people.
I read the Tooncrap review of this movie in 2010 or so and was initially convinced from screen caps that Diego was the Swarm Lord’s human form. And how weird is it that we’re supposed to hate him based on his design and his opposition to the Genocidal Idiot, but he never does anything bad.
Also, can we talk about how this movie could never be made today because modern animated adventure stories don’t have pleasant opinions of violent colonising conquerors.
Grande~
As some of the responses said: He's clearly a priest / inquisitor.
A green skin-tone and crooked nose isn't enough to override that, and is a pretty trivial thing to get "infamous" for -.-
@@johnvinals7423 The idea that the Catholic church was against the brutal conquest of the Americas in any way is one hell of a revision.
@@themysteriouscrumpet I was talking about the fictional character in the movie, not the real life Catholic Church.
“Fun” fact: The Catholic oblation/monastery structure was most likely modelled at least partially upon Roman military barracks.
Any worm design is tolerable so long as it doesn't involve worm-boobs
This movie is the textbook example of too much noise.
It’s why I appreciate shows like Thomas the Tank Engine and Samurai Jack, which are renowned for their share of quiet moments.
Sidebar: Can we talk about how this movie’s versions of Ferdinand and Isabella look nothing like their historical counterparts?
I’ll defend it actually. Considering paintings of royals were so dependent on the artist trying to curry favor with either the royal or their enemies, nothing short of genetic testing would give us an accurate view of what Ferdinand and Isabella actually looked like. Seriously, check out portraits of Anne Boleyn done before and after Henry’s death; they put photoshop and instagram filters to shame.
@@C.V317 as they once said on Blackadder, "My cousin says that he's heard that all portraits look the same these days, 'cause they're painted to a romantic ideal rather than as a true depiction of the idiosyncratic facial qualities of the person in question."
Honestly, Ferdinand and Isabella not looking like their historical counterparts is like at the 927th place on the list of issues of this movie
Nor do they act like their historical counterparts. Queen Isabella was friends with Columbus, but would also later confront him.
Neither does Ol Chris.
19:16 "I hope you like bathing in molten gold and boiling blood"
Khal Drogo: "A crown for a king." 😈
Oh god, I remember this. It was one of many imported films that didn't have a finished script, they just let the actors Ad-lib whatever they were seeing on screen when there was no set dialogue, literally describing what was happening in real time. It made the films very cringey.
It’s no GHOST STORY I’ll tell you that.
Yeah, I recall a lot of just random bs from this fil..
That explains a lot
@@SuperEasywalker BAAA HA ha, oh man that's just legendary. Shows what can happen when your cast isn't garbage at improv.
Did they really feel there wasn't enough drama in the story of Columbus' expeditions to America, so they needed to add in a fairy world subplot?
Yes...yes they did.
Because it's " for kids "... I think.
I liked it more when Dom DeLuise did this voice for the baker in that one episode of MAGIC SCHOOL BUS. The one where they learn about chemistry & get baked in a cake.
Also Marilyn looks like a lost member of the Winx Club.
That was him in that episode?
Speaking of Winx Club, just like that most common English dub of Magic Voyage and Walking with Dinosaurs the movie, there is not a single episode where the girls(or any other characters) don’t just spew out unnecessary dialogue like “Awesome” “Sweet” “Wow” “Cool” “Amazing” “Check this out” the list goes on.
Ugh I remember my parents renting this. I just remember thinking why on earth do they think the world is a cube???
It's kind of damning that a cyborg monkey in a Disney action cartoon is one of Corey Feldman's better roles.
I got it!
...I understood that reference.
@@juliagoodwin9510 Yeah, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go was way better than this madhouse.
@@Reapermaskhybrid I miss that show. It deserved better...
@@juliagoodwin9510 Well said. At least its creator made that awesome CGI TMNT show on Nick.
Genuinely is even when the title of said cartoon is Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go (although it is pretty good tho)
Why does Columbus look like a younger, stupider, and marginally less well animated version of Captain Hook from Peter Pan?
Also, I am very excited to hear your take on the film that features Pierce Brosnan singing about as much as Idina Mendel.
And that creepy guy talking to the king looked like a less well animated version of Jafar from Aladdin.
@@josephrowe849 Indeed.
Don't sell Columbus short! He's SIGNIFICANTLY less well animated that Captain Hook. 🙂
To me he's if Captain Hook and Shaggy had a baby.
Corey Feldman and Irerne Cara are in this film. Irene can sing, Corey CANNOT.
I could tell Mickey Rooney, Corey Feldman, Dom Deluise, Irene Cara, Dan Haggerty, and Samatha Eggar were all given paychecks to be in this!
That’s normal for actors in a movie. The question is, were they paid enough to suffer through this tripe?
@@Heroshii15 But you don't understand the true movie of this movie! Actors acted, animators animated, and composers composed! Truly a movie of it's time!
Dom DeLuise just isn't enough to motivate me to watch this movie in full. Especially given that they had that sort of budget and still couldn't find a VA for the wood mite who could sing?
Corey Feldman voices Pico.(And He Sings too.)
If you've never heard Corey Feldman sing, Check this out: ua-cam.com/video/7MSTQ1073T0/v-deo.html
You'll WISH you didn't. The fact that Magic Voyage lets him sing is a FELONY.
@@Tornado1994 R.I.P. Dom Deluise We'll miss him
@@erainmartinez8175 Yes. R.I.P. to Dom. He's been gone for 13 years.
I'm so excited for the Cinderella (2021) review!
Oh, that movie was soooo bad
@@chasehedges6775 and the Cinderella in that version is extremely unlikeable
You know an adaptation is bad when you would rather watch the Cinderella-esque films taking place in contemporary cities, and started with the theatrical one starring Hillary Duff, that or Sneakerella, hell I'll just watch the live-action Remake Disney gave us a few years ago
Me too me too me too!!! 😄
Both Idina Menzel and Minnie Driver deserved better than this. And knowing that Pierce Brosnan is in the movie, I can already hear the litany of jokes at his expense being written up by Christie right now.
Ah, The Magic Voyage; a film I once saw in my childhood and stuck around in my memory just enough for me to wonder if it was real or if I had just imagined it on a sugar high.
As a guy from Germany I could add a few things too: First of all: I never met anyone in Germany who has ever heard of this movie, neither by the English title nor of the German original title "The Adventures of Pico and Columbus" or the novelisation of it "Pico and Columbus" which came out one year before that. Even the Wikipedia article was created long after the English one. Also: This seems to be less a DVD or VHS release and rather a TV movie (apparently it was also in movie theaters), as the second German Television Station ZDF was in production of that. According to the opening credits. Which makes it even worse. But I never saw it on TV. And I guess it will never be shown.
Also the
And about the earth being a cube: recently a comedy movie "The Kangaroo Conspiracy" was released where this idea was picked up, poking fun at the Flat Earth Theory (as well as other conspiraty theories).
I can only remember watching it as a VHS.
@@fermintenava5911 OK. I read that it was shown in the movies too. But as I said: I never met anyone who was aware of that movie in the first place.
There's something very on-the-nose about every single visual idea this movie has being ripped off from Disney and Don Bluth movies at the time (and some times reaching back further, like the bubble sequence from Cinderella).
I honestly thought this was a Bluth film
I'm beyond ecstatic to discover that the next review will be the notoriously awful "Girlboss" Cinderella. I wasn't surprised to find out that it was James Corden's bright idea.
She's doing that one ALREADY?! Wow...on the risk of insulting her boss, Christmas came early this year!! Now I really can't wait!!
@@colleen4ever Now I REALLY HOPE this year's Christmas case is TMNT We Wish You a Turtle Christmas. I can imagine an opening line for it "I'm Diva. Your judge, jury, executioner. And I CAN'T BELIEVE there's another bad Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles musical. Let alone a christmas musical"
Funny enough I thought she was going to review the Disney remake version since I completely forgot the “Girlboss” Cinderella.
@@SuperEasywalker Nope, that wasn't a musical. (And it's actually one of the better Disney live-action remakes, mainly because they added some new wrinkles that really worked. If Diva wants to do more Disney live-action remakes, there's always Aladdin and Pinocchio...)
@@GatorRay There's also Eight Crazy Nights, A Christmas Story Live (a real disappointment to me since I loved the cast album of that show), the animated version of A Christmas Carol from the nineties with the voices of Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jodi Benson...)
Phil Nibbelink worked on this? Huh. Judging by how surprisingly fluid some parts of the animation in this film are, I can see his influence now. The "Mr Puppet" scene in particular reminds me of his solo work.
From what I can tell he's not a bad person, but he has an odd and creepy fetish for damsels in distress he inserts in everyone of his movies. Including this one apparently, where he had I imagine little creative power.
I think Spain should sue this animation's creators for obnoxious way they portrayed Isabel and Fernando. They are most famous monarchs of the country and two of the most important figures in history of Europe and they did sth like this with them. My heart of the historian hurts so much after seeing this kind of things. Anyway thanks for great and funny review. I like your channel and work very much. Greetings from Poland!
You definitely wouldn't like that one animated titanic movie...
Yeah, they were terrible people in their own right. It's injustice that they never got an awful whimsical cartoon made about them. (Last sentence is sarcasm.)
I found out about this film from Nostalgia Critic, and...my god. It's like the makers of this film saw the incredibly inaccurate Colombous Myth reported by schools and car dealerships and said "Hold my beer, I can make an even more ridiculous and absurd Colombous tale." Just an absolute pile of WTFery that few can match.
Super excited for your next trial, that disaster had a long time coming.
Nostalgia Critic’s review of this movie is LEGENDARY!
@@chasehedges6775 nothing about that fraud is legendary.
@@AnAverageGoblin Doug’s brother Rob is absolutely a fraud. Rob is so much worse.
@@AnAverageGoblin Nothing about BAD movies is legendary either. He remembers it so we don’t have to
@@chasehedges6775 He also regularly abused and enabled the abuse of his "friends" so maybe shut the hell up with the shilling for that moron.
4:00 Just for notice: "woodworms" are only the larva - their actual adult status is a beetle. And the individual species differ in whether they're eating dead wood (furniture, planks and such) or only living plant matter.
Still, he doesn’t look like either
@@joewilenzik9119 Yeah, but that's par of the course for animation. Not my fault.
huh, thanks for the fact.
The dialogue in this film feels like the equivalent of jingling keys in front of a child's face so they don't lose interest and just annoying them instead of engaging them.
The only thing this movie got surprisingly correct was Isabella's hair color. She's often portrayed as a brunette when her hair was more of a light auburn.
I’ll give the movie this, the Swarm Lord has a decent design
It's also an interesting concept for a villain. Too bad it wasn't in a better movie.
Also when I was reading the comic book series Bone and I heard of it's villain The Lord of the Locusts, my first thought was that Swam Lord villain from The Magic Voyage and I was not far behind.
Fun fact, Harald Kloser composed the score for the English dub of this movie. He went on to do the soundtracks for a ton of Roland Emmerich movies like The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 B.C., 2012, Independence Day Resurgence, and Moonfall.
You know, Pico says the sprite's name so much that it's really starting to sound like he's saying "heroin".
Knowing how Cory Feldman is well known for having a drug addiction, he probably kept saying it that way hoping someone would give him some.
4:06 In the french dubbing I think he calls himself a "charançon" which means "weevil". I think it's closer.
You know between this, the adaptation of the four bremans and Dingo Pictures. German Animation doesn't have the best track records .
You forgot about the Tarzan movie that also came from Germany….
I was wondering, would you be interested in doing a "Know the Score" on Cartoon Network's "Over the Garden Wall"? It's kind of a Halloween-themed musical in its own right, and it has some catchy and classy songs.
8:06-The only exception (I would say) of ad-libing in a dub of a foreign animated movie is the original 1998 Disney English dub of Kiki's Delivery Service, where they added new lines, mostly from the late Phil Hartman as Jiji. An example is when Jiji is in a cage after Kiki loses the stuffed cat for a customer, after Kiki says, "Just pretend to doll until I find the real one!", Jiji (Hartman) adds in "Why don't you pretend to be stuffed and I go get the stupid doll!" This was also the dub that controversially added a line for Jiji at the end of the movie (the "Kiki, can you hear me?" line) to imply that Kiki is able to speak to Jiji again, while the later 2010 Disney English dub (the current version that's available on all home media and streaming in the US) omitted this (as to be close to the original Japanese version) to imply that Kiki is no longer able to communicate with him.
We watched this movie in my grade one class, (along with the pebble and the penguin, and Pocahontas 2, I genuinely don't know why my first grade teacher was like that -apart from the obvious racism-, also it's a little bizarre we watched this cause I live in Canada) and I totally forgot about it for the last 15 years, so thank you for bringing back that very weird memory.
Doug Walker reviewed this travesty over a decade ago, but he attributed the never-ending cascade of dialogue to bad editing rather than its true culprit, childish improv from the dubbing actors. Kudos to you, Diva, for your superior attention to detail.
Columbus's "exploits" are just another of the many horrible bits of propaganda that should've never been introduced to American schools in the first place. This is why we're the laughing stock of the world.
His observations are always wrong for some reason...
@@carlosalbuquerque22 I know, right? He and the CinemaSins guys are so hypocritical - they criticize filmmakers for lack of attention to detail while hardly being any better themselves. That's why I don't watch them anymore.
@@TheLukeMonster Yeah, they're pretty sad.
We are NOT....not for this reason. More like the dodo brain in the White House right now....but I digress.
@@carlosalbuquerque22 I stopped watching him when he got too political in his reviews and did more clipless shows.
Would you like to have an unpleasant feeling?
I remember watching this as a child... in CLASS.
This movie is 25 miles of coo coo for coco puffs. (And to a degree I kinda love it for the chaos) But I gained an appreciation for it's ending song Heaven Is. I find the song calming and it gained new meaning after I started listening to it as a way to cope with losing my pet fish Cider and Chacha. If I'm glad the movie exists for anything it's that song.
It’s such a beautiful song. Though of all movies they could’ve put it in, it’s incredibly odd they would put it in The Magic Voyage. Tone wise, it just doesn’t fit. Heck, the movie doesn’t even really correlate with what this song is about. I could see it at the end of a Disney movie though or even a DreamWorks or Don Bluth film.
I REALLY wish it got a legitimate public release outside this movie. It would’ve been nice to hear it on one of Al Jarreau’s albums. Meh…perhaps he wasn’t proud of it or something. :c
Also, does anybody else get emotional when they hear this song or is it just me??? 🥺💔 Lol I’ve cried a few times hearing it. Either way, it’s a phenomenal song and deserves to be heard by everyone other then animation pop culture nerds like me lol 🥹💛
@@tristenrodriguez4144 I couldn't agree more. It was such an odd choice for The Magic Voyage. It's such a shame too that the song is so obscure because of it.
Nah I get emotional hearing it too haha. After over a decade of not seeing the film since childhood I couldn't help but tear up too hearing that song.
The very first thing I noticed when I saw what Columbus looked like in this was that they literally just copied the face of Captain Hook from Peter Pan and put it on him. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
He is like a badly animated 2D version of the young Captain Hook from Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy.
He looks like he could be Hook's dumb little brother whom Hook is too embarrassed to talk about ( wouldn't blame him either )
Oh God I remember seeing this movie in theaters back in the day! I was so bored, I left and played in the arcade in the lobby after 10 or so minutes!
I gotta give this movie credit only in 2 ways:
1. The Swarm Lord’s animation is really cool looking!
2. Dom DeLuise puts his all into every role, I have to respect that!
Other than that, as usual, spot on review!
Where did this come out in theaters?
@@rjd-kh8et April of 1993... so... I was 11 at the time.
At my lil k-12 private school alma mater, we didn’t have Columbus Day, we had a holiday called Mrs. Mulligan’s Birthday. The story is that it’s supposedly based on a woman one of the Founders knew who ran a shop and whenever she wanted a day off she’d close up and hang a sign that said “CLOSED FOR MY BIRTHDAY”.
In my father’s era, it was a total surprise day off that wasn’t on the calendar, so parents would be left scrambling. This was back it was guaranteed that either the mom didn’t work or there was a full-time housekeeper to press into babysitting. But even then, it was obviously still inconvenient to throw a holiday at the very last minute. My dad lived far from school, too, unlike most of the other kids, so it was a pain to turn around and go back home.
By my era they put it on the calendar from the start of the year so we knew it was coming, and it coincided with Columbus Day in First Semester and President’s Day in Second Semester.
Now I think it’s still around but they also have additional days off we didn’t have, like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and all of Thanksgiving Week instead of just two days. Since coming back from the uncertainty of the Pandemic, they seem to want to put MORE official Off days on the calendar rather than fewer - probably a preference for planning, since they know they’re often taken off by a huge number of families every year anyway.
I like the school coming up with its own mythology and traditions. That way we can avoid unintentionally celebrating genocide, which I think is something we should always err on the side of HELL NO. And it’s something unique. As long as nobody named Mrs. Mulligan starts up, we’ll be good.
ALL of Thanksgiving week?! Where the hell did YOU go to school?! I went to a private high school and we only had Thanksgiving and the following Friday off.
@@colleen4ever A school where half the families always took the whole week anyways, to go to Europe or their ranch or something, and the school caved in and just gave up trying to get anything done that week. It’s crazy how much people pay to send their kids there but then take them out for vacations without giving first thought to the academic repercussions. It’s a college prep school, VERY competitive! But gotta go to Aspen!
@@MegCazalet Aspen?! Yuck! Give me Florida,. thank you.
It’s one of those things where we shouldn’t forget history but at the same time not glorify the bad parts😅
13:50 I get that they were going for the old "ha-ha, we can see your underwear" joke, but was anybody else ever confused as to how hanging made his clothes spontaneously fall off?
"Halloween-themed musicals are a little thin on the ground..."
Gee, it's a shame they didn't try to do a TV-remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (hint, hint, for next October...)
Anyway, I haven't watched the 2021 Cinderella, though I'm usually all about any fairy tale. I've loved Pierce Brosnan since the eighties, but even that wasn't enough to make me want to see it after the reviews I read. (I hate to see his name associated with a lousy movie. For his sake, I hope Black Adam does well. Even though I normally wouldn't know Black Adam from, well, Adam, I'll see it for Pierce.)
12:04-12:06 “The Wunder Boner.”
“My wife would like that!”
I'm almost laughing at the fact that they made the "hero" portrayed as a bumbling idiot who fell prey to his greed and spent most of his time in the New World in his underwear.
11:57 through Spaceballs clip - sums up the whole movie 😜
This movie had a high budget they no doubt blew on popular celebrities of the time because it certainly did not go into the animation. The animation is just short of a Saturday morning cartoon.
I was somewhere between kindergarten and second grade when we watched this at my after school program. Even as a small child when my concept of a "bad movie" hadn't been developed yet, watching this was torture.
I'm a big fan of Wicked and I really didn't understand your reference to strained rhymes in that musical. To my ear, every one is a clever gem.
I was unsure what she meant there. I think the quirkiest lines were in “Something Bad is Happening in Oz” but even the more forced lines flowed really well and worked for the song.
@@Nightman221k Exactly....Like when he played with "populER" vs. "populAR"
If I remember right, Wicked also had some "Oz-isms' if you will, where they occasionally throw out words that are based on a real word but embellished to fit the melody. Nothing wrong with that, it is a fantasy world, but it does make the line seem forced when it has to be filled out.
Ngl, Dom Deluise would’ve been an amazing Super Mario if he were still alive
the fact that this movie full of misinformation is targeted at kids makes it infinitely more reprehensible. This movie is teaching lies to children. How can anyone be ok with that?
Will any child be so stupid as to believe there really are Moon Sprites and Shadow Swarms?
@@colleen4ever No, but they will believe that Chris was the only one who knew the earth was round and that he wasn't a violent conquerer.
I watched this a lot as a kid, and even I knew how bullshit this movie was. Kids are smarter than most give credit to..
@@arnold20139exactly 😅
The Swarm Lord is a villain that deserves to be in a better movie. He's the only character I could stand in this whole thing and he's supposed to be the bad guy. Also his animation is cool. ( Well better than the rest of the animation anyway. )
You release this video on the German Day of Unification?
Germany can’t catch a break XD
You brought back a memory of a memory with this review. I remember this movie from when I was a kid and it made feel bad, like some weird reverse nostalgia
Nostalgia within Nostalgia
@@chasehedges6775 no it's the opposite of nostalgia. It doesn't make me long for the past, it makes me want to forget it
I remind hearing about this POS film from Nostalgia Critic
Same. Watching this as a kid with no authority to turn it off was agony.
German animation is just a gift that keeps on giving .....
😂😂😂. So it’s a horrible gift
Between this, Dingo Pictures, and Digital World (I THINK that’s the company that did masterpieces such as The Frog King), German animation is truly an oasis away from quality that you can retreat to again and again.
Edit: and it’s funny, my mom told me about the wonderful cartoons she used to watch growing up, and I was hoping I too could have some nice things from Germany to share with my own children. Turns out the cartoons she watched were animated by Japanese studios.
In Germany, animation just isn't such a big thing outside of TV productions (where it doesn't have to meet cinematic standards). German production houses spend a lot of money co-producing with other European countries, but I can only name one director (Gerhard Hahn) and one or two companies that have produced cinematic output, preferably on our own cultural landmarks... and it's at least decent.
In their favour I can say: "Magic Voyage" hadn't involved any of them.
Die Konferenz Der Tiere is another example of more apeshit Germanimation.
I would like to point the comment thread towards the movie Laura’s Star, as at least a visual palate cleanser.
"he sees a plot point shining in the window" 😅
I'm dead-serious when I say just seeing the title of this movie had me reeling wih a long "Oooooooof...."
I say we replace Columbus Day with Danny Devito day. He is Italian American and a delightful man in general.
I’ve seen reviews of this movie on a few other channels, such as the Nostalgia Critic, so I look forward to your interpretation, Diva.
I don't understand the constant need to fill the space with ad-libbing from this era of movies. Like, let the movie breathe a little. I promise five seconds of silence won't drive off the toddlers these movies are aimed at.
Has Diva ever done the 1992 Tom and Jerry film? I would like to submit it for review. Friends to the End alone is a sin against musicals (despite the fact that I somewhat like it).
Yes.
This is one of those movies that I remember LOVING as a kid, but look back on it as an adult and think “Why the hell did I like this so much?”
Dom DeLuise?
Actually the money answer like with food fight most of the budget has gone for the voice actors
I think this was the film that opened my eyes to the fact that movies can be bad. When I was little, i tolerated just about anything, but one day this vhs made its way into the house, I watched it and for the first time in my life, i though "wow, this film is shit"
My grandparents owned this movie when I was a child. I watched this soooo many times because of how weird and bizarre it was.
I remember my first grade teacher showing the class this movie. It's definitely a weird memory.
Diva, you should do either Voyage of the Rock Aliens or the 2009 remake of Fame for a future case
Oh my Lord in heaven. I remember this movie. I WATCHED this movie as a child, and until now I had completely forgotten about it. Oh no.
Yeah, it's not a great movie. Even if Columbus WAS the heroic explorer of legend, this version of him would not have been a good representation - he makes Elmer Fudd look like the picture of dignified reserve. (I do think the Swarm-Lord is a pretty cool concept for a villain, though, even if he could have been pulled off better.)
Ah, such a lovely late birthday gift! Thanks for that!
frankly if someone somewhere on the production chain came out and said this whole affair was a psyop to stoke hatred for columbus amongst the concerning subset of the population who would voluntarily watch this movie... I would be inclined to believe them.
have you heard of Razia's Shadow? it was a concept album by emo band forgive durden and featured the singers from panic at the disco and say anything. there is a great performance of it here on youtube with puppets!
I just got out of bed, and now I'm pouring myself a shot of gin just to get through this nightmare.
I watched the Nostalgia Critic review this film... Not pretty. Cheers. 🥃
Yo, could you do Roadside Romeo? I know it's not really a bad movie (hell, the opening song is still stuck in my head), but I think it'd be cool to hear you talk about it.
Edit: And to hear your 2 cents on "Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart?" Maybe for Valentine's Day?
Yeah, you see the thing is, the whole misconception that ‘Columbus wanted to prove that the world isn’t flat’ was practically engraved in the public consciousness at that point much like the ‘Mrs O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern and cause the Chicago fire’ myth.
If you want proof of this go watch the VERY underrated Disney hybrid film So Dear to My Heart from 1948.
Thankfully those inaccurate myths have been long dead and buried nowadays but I agree that I also still get annoyed whenever I see all those ‘flat-Earthers’ memes on social media.
Ya mean the cow DIDN'T cause the fire?
@@colleen4ever No. it turned out that the story was actually made up by some people wanting to sell quick papers, and despite being in the American public consciousness for over a century, O’Leary was posthumously exonerated in the 1990s, finally putting that cruel myth to rest. If you want more information, go watch several documentaries on the 1871 Chicago fire on UA-cam and Defunctland’s Freedomland USA video. It’s really a fascinating story.
The Earth isn't flat because otherwise, cats would have knocked everything off of it by now.
...oh god I think I had this on VHS as a kid, why would you unlock this from the recesses of my mind?
4:14 Ruber from “Quest for Camelot” had better rhythm than this guy! Man, now that hurt to say.
13:30 I was pleasantly surprised by the Viking joke XD Given how this movie functions on a first-graders understanding of history, I wasn't expecting that XD
I remember this being my favorite movie as a child and I also remember thinking the fairy girl was cute. I should mention that I wasn't in school yet (I was 5 or 4) so I didnt know who Columbus was yet.
3:45-3:51 Nigel: Oh, would you just SHUT UP! You’re rats with wings!
Swarm Lord deserves his own movie. But Marvel came up with the similar villain Swarm fifteen years earlier (first appearance in The Champions #14, July 1977). I remember him from the animated Saturday morning Spider-Man series in the early '80's.
I’m not on the usual misdirected-validation excommunication of Columbus, but in addition to the Earth-is-flat thing, Columbus wasn’t an enlightened thinker who was grilled by the Spanish Inquisition for his theories: That was made up in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s version, and pretty well takes the entire “1492: Conquest of Paradise” off the table.
1:11- Ya forgot Amerigo Vespucci! He was Italian and America WAS named for him! Buuuut then again, he was influenced by Columbus's journey. However he did NOT do half the things Columbus did to the Native Americans, so......
Well, Columbus still said that he could find a shortcut to India by sailing West instead of traveling East regardless of what people believed about the Earth at that point.
This movie is just like the Miramax version of The Theif and the Cobbler.
fucking golden films made fun of the misconception that people though the world was flat back then. Golden. Films. Even they know that people knew the earth was round!
I agree with you about Columbus. When I was little, I was taught that Columbus set out to prove the world was round. Today, most of us would agree (a couple of flat earth mavens here and there notwithstanding) that the notion of a round world was already widely accepted throughout Europe in Columbus' time. We also know that Columbus wanted to find a route to the East Indies (NOT India, which European mapmakers of the time called Hindustan) and never set foot in North America. He landed in San Salvador (now part of the Bahamas), then other islands in the Caribbean. He also introduced Smallpox to the Western Hemisphere, killing thousands. And, finally, Columbus didn't discover America. Leif Erikson and his Vikings discovered North America in the 1100's (and the Native Americans thousands of years before that). I get that Italian Americans, who were not being accepted at that time, wanted a hero they could claim. But they could have done better than Columbus. They could have gone with the mapmaker Amerigo Vespucci, who named the new land America. Or Marconi, the inventor of the radio.
_He also introduced Smallpox to the Western Hemisphere, killing thousands_
Yes, but he didn't do it deliberately.
@@Kahran042 Still, British, Spanish and Portuguese colonizers did things like give out infected blankets and other acts of open biological warfare, so his "spiritual successors" would do so without shame.
@@carlosalbuquerque22 Well, they didn;t have a lot of scientific knowledge back then and not that many doctors, so they might not have really know the blankets were infected.
@@colleen4ever Dear, the colonisers DELIBERATELY knew that infected things = diesease. Stop being a genocide apologist.
@@Kahran042 Your link only redirects to a Pble and the Penguin poster.
we have Beavers in the middle of Kentucky. One city park used to have a couple that lived in the middle of an artificial lake constructed over a hundred years ago as the cities first water reservoir. Sadly those died out and moved on. However from time to time there is news that spread of random water ways/creeks that develop a Beaver damn. Usually they are pretty popular with the local people but sadly many meet a sad fate with the nearby road ways.
I joke you not, l loudly asked "wtf" when the tinker bell wannabe appeared and told her story
Thank you so much for finally convincing me to sell my copy of this movie!
Feel bad you had a copy.
I feel bad for Dom Delouise. Between this and a troll in Central Park, he had a habit of getting leads in terrible family films.
Oh, I am SO excited for the next case!
Me too!!! Me too!! Christmas has come early this year! (sorry, Diva, had to)
Me, too. It's got to be better than this one.