So awesome. I think the reason the Mouse of Minsk was so unsettling and scary-looking was not only it's monstrous appearance, but how it moved! It looks gargantuan the way it moves slowly, yet with such fluidity, it looks eerily realistic. At first, I thought it was an old version of CG...but it's actually rotoscoped! No wonder! (They filmed live models of it, then overlapped it with animation) Once you realize how DIFFICULT and time-consuming it is to animate like that, you appreciate this epic scene even more. :D
don bluth: I need you to make a terrifying mechanical high octane fuel mechanical murder mouse to freak everyone out m'kay? *leaves* animator:...............*blink*........................................................................................*blink*.................................................................GOD I love my job
That roar sells it completely. I don't know what sound effect they used, but it sure does the damn job. Even now at 30, its still has that slightly unsettling feel to it.
Dear God, this scene is amazing! The fury of mice from every corner of the world, denied their American dream, embodied in a terrifying monster with one message; "We crossed the globe to get away from your shit! Now GTFO!"
Fortunately I've never seen that kind of er...mouse-dragon hybrid, but that rotoscoping was great! Seriously, something like 30 cats get terrorized by a 25 ft mechanical monster based on a fable character. Which spits "fire" (rockets) and has a scorpion-like tail. Not bad, Don Bluth!
I'm literally not gonna lie. When I was 6 years old and whan I saw this part of the movie, I literally always had nightmares about that damn giant mouse of minsk. That thing still freaks me out to this day. >:(
I wouldn't want to be the dock master there at 5:00am in the morning trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. Was that a festival float from Chinatown in storage or something...? xD
This sent me into a full blown panic attack when I saw this at like age nineteen. I guess I'd blocked it out from my brain from my childhood, parents had to give away the tape, but ended up watching it on a livestream with a friend. That night ended in tears and hallucinations.
@@mahlahflutterthepegasus859 That implies that Warren T., Digit, and the rest of Mott Street Maulers cat gang died on the way in Hong Kong, which knowing Don Bluth, it's canon that happened.
It's very funny that they ADRed in "I can't swim!" at 1:31. Any kid watching this already knows the villain is defeated and doesn't care about anything beyond that, but the filmmaker, on a personal level, _needed_ us to know he was gonna die.
The all mice defeats Warren T. Rat and his gang with a secret weapon, a Giank Mouse of Minsk. Looks like Wreck-It Ralph punches a secret weapon to destroy the cy-bugs and Turbo, the diet cola lava!
Major animation error: Tiger is clearly visible among the cats both when the Mouse of Minsk attacks and on the anchor. Yet later, he's with Tony, Bridget, Gussie and Fievel's family as they look for him. Oops.
Warren T. Cat was a total prick and I always loved watching him get what he deserved here, but at the same time, that giant mouse also scared the bejesus outta me when I was a kid! Granted, the scene is epic, but the way the monster is designed here is definitely what nightmares are made of! Ever see the movie "Event Horizon"? Imagine if Mickey Mouse died and went to Hell and then came back. Chances are, he be would be a gigantic mouse demon that looks EXACTLY like that huge abomination!
...Well, looks lik I'm not going to sleep...for the next millenia. Also; WE DEMAND AN EDIT OF THIS WITH EGO'S "WHAT IS THIS?!" COMMENTARY IN THE BACKROUND!
Fievel came up with a really amazing plan to scare Warren t cat and his gang away when fievel told gussie about his plan To build a mechanical version of the giant mouse of Minsk to scare Warren t cat and his gang away she totally agreed with fievels plan talk about using the stories of a legendary monster from your home country to your advantage
***** Yep! Him and Steven Spielberg! This was the first animated film he ever produced, and he was amazed at just how time-consuming it turned out to be, but it was clearly worth it.
That's so weird. I was super impressionable as a kid and I got plenty of nightmares from movies, but I feel exactly the opposite here--I always thought the Mouse of Minsk reveal was an overwhelmingly triumphant, "take that!" moment, like when George McFly punches Biff. To me, this is 100% distilled victory, and I remember for a long time I couldn't watch it without tearing up a little.
Unibrow, I was the same way when I saw this in theaters as a kid. With the build up to this moment, I saw it as the final victory come at last. The only thought on my mind was, "Ha! Take that, cats!" However, I can see why some people would be freaked out by this. Don Bluth animated the Giant Mouse of Minsk the same way he animated the tractor in "Secret of NIMH": by tinting live-action objects and putting it in a 2D animated movie. It gives a weird kind of uncommon valley vibe.
Daily reminder that the Giant Mouse of Minsk was rotoscoped and an actual model of this thing that looked exactly like it does in the movie actually existed at one point.
Same here! He was too good, sweet & a big friendly, gentle giant of a Cat to join The Mott Street Maulers! & besides, like he said, he's a vegetarian! There's no way he'll ever eat mice! Not even in a million years! 😀😉😁 I'd never ever wanna be a member of The Mott Street Maulers! Would any of you fans of the very 1st "An American Tail" (1985)?
I wasn't really scared of this when I was a kid, I thought this was pretty cool. The rotoscope design, the roar it makes, fireworks shooting from it is great, but I also love the reaction from the cats. Warren T and the rest are scared out of there minds and the way that Digit screams at 1:12 and 1:16.
I just realized digit and Petrie's voices are played by the same actor (will Ryan) but their voices lol Petrie has a low voice, while digit has a high-pitched voice lol but digit's voice is more funny though
So awesome. I think the reason the Mouse of Minsk was so unsettling and scary-looking was not only it's monstrous appearance, but how it moved! It looks gargantuan the way it moves slowly, yet with such fluidity, it looks eerily realistic. At first, I thought it was an old version of CG...but it's actually rotoscoped! No wonder! (They filmed live models of it, then overlapped it with animation) Once you realize how DIFFICULT and time-consuming it is to animate like that, you appreciate this epic scene even more. :D
Whoa
Apparently the model for rotoscoping was the size of a damn motor cycle. Fuck that!
don bluth: I need you to make a terrifying mechanical high octane fuel mechanical murder mouse to freak everyone out m'kay? *leaves*
animator:...............*blink*........................................................................................*blink*.................................................................GOD I love my job
LOL
30 years later, this movie still holds up.
Yeah and the sequels are still crap it needs a Illumination/Amblin Entertainment direct sequel with the Fievel as a 21-year-old.
That roar sells it completely. I don't know what sound effect they used, but it sure does the damn job. Even now at 30, its still has that slightly unsettling feel to it.
Sounds like a mix of elephant, bear and whale. Blue or Humpback to be precise. :D
Did they use that roar for the Old King Kong ride?
never been on it so, not sure.
Dear God, this scene is amazing! The fury of mice from every corner of the world, denied their American dream, embodied in a terrifying monster with one message; "We crossed the globe to get away from your shit! Now GTFO!"
mouse of minsk: THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!
+Matthew cass Final form: GMM REBORN!!! Maximum artillery! Engage!
XD
No, that's his THIRD form
Frieza: THIS is my final form
+Matthew cass XD yeah
Fifel:..... What have we unleashed
Fortunately I've never seen that kind of er...mouse-dragon hybrid, but that rotoscoping was great! Seriously, something like 30 cats get terrorized by a 25 ft mechanical monster based on a fable character. Which spits "fire" (rockets) and has a scorpion-like tail. Not bad, Don Bluth!
25 ft.? That thing is only 7 to 9 ft. tall and 12 to 15 ft. long.
That is a typical size door there.
Digit's scream at 1:12. He has five heads!! Funniest damn scream by Will Ryan!
I'm literally not gonna lie. When I was 6 years old and whan I saw this part of the movie, I literally always had nightmares about that damn giant mouse of minsk. That thing still freaks me out to this day. >:(
I love the way he says “get aload of that” haha
So do I! Lol
I wouldn't want to be the dock master there at 5:00am in the morning trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. Was that a festival float from Chinatown in storage or something...? xD
Brandon Matthew lol
It happened at 6:00 a.m.
God they sure don't make kids movies like this anymore.... our Generation had some great flicks to grow up with. Always proud to be a 80's-90's kid.
When I was a kid and that big mouse came a roaring and fireworks it gave me goosebumps and still does today
Literally had a flashback to this the other night. Damn you Don Bluth, why were you bent on traumatizing me as a kid?!
That thing is still kinda scary O.O
Kinda?
Geeeez, you mean tremendously !!!!
ye :O
when I was a kid I hated this part because its was scary
1:44 Now, there are no cats in America
We can do just as we please
Oh, there are no cats in America
So set your mind at ease
OH god erin in game grumps was right , this is terrifying
lol The Last Guardian playthough i take it? ha i thought i was the only one who actually went back and saw it again
From which playthrough he mentioned it?
riddleman65 They mentioned it again
He mentioned this 3 years ago?? I'm here from TTYD lol
Warren T Rat is one of the notorious classic 80's villains of them all.
At least 17 of the dislikes came from Warren T. Cat and his minions.
I love how it makes you think all the cats drowned, but show them all saved on the anchor at the end.
This sent me into a full blown panic attack when I saw this at like age nineteen. I guess I'd blocked it out from my brain from my childhood, parents had to give away the tape, but ended up watching it on a livestream with a friend. That night ended in tears and hallucinations.
I TOTALLY GET YOU!!!!!! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!!!!
Anastasia Alexandra That's actually a bigger relief to me than you know.
+Lassie Sandiego I know it seems to be REALLY scared of this thing but to ME, it wasn't scary, it was REALLY BADASS
"It's the Giant Mouse of Minsk! You can tell because it says so right on the side! ...Wait, what?"
I just thought about this scene while listening to Splinter by TheFatRat. What a great AMV it make.
Those cats are going to China? Oh no...
China is one of the few countries to eat cats
@@marcuscheng9398 do they eat cockroaches?! Lol! Cuz digit...
@@mahlahflutterthepegasus859 That implies that Warren T., Digit, and the rest of Mott Street Maulers cat gang died on the way in Hong Kong, which knowing Don Bluth, it's canon that happened.
It's very funny that they ADRed in "I can't swim!" at 1:31. Any kid watching this already knows the villain is defeated and doesn't care about anything beyond that, but the filmmaker, on a personal level, _needed_ us to know he was gonna die.
Later, in Hong Kong...
Warren T.: Well, we're here, guys. Hong Kong.
Lol! Oh Jessie ur way too funny! I LOVE the sound of what you just said on that 1! 😂
haven't seen that for an age, was the little bug the same guy who voiced petrie?
That's right! Will Ryan who played Petrie The Flyer also voiced Diget The Cockroach! 😃😉
@@AlexFeltcha.k.a.SonicAL Willie the Giant
I love this scene so much. The cats were so scared. Like they saw the devil coming for them.
The giant mouse of minsk fucked up my childhood! That shit was scary af!
If Arnold saw it in the forest, he would say "your one ugly motherf***er!"
The all mice defeats Warren T. Rat and his gang with a secret weapon, a Giank Mouse of Minsk. Looks like Wreck-It Ralph punches a secret weapon to destroy the cy-bugs and Turbo, the diet cola lava!
Now that's the secret weapon
Major animation error: Tiger is clearly visible among the cats both when the Mouse of Minsk attacks and on the anchor. Yet later, he's with Tony, Bridget, Gussie and Fievel's family as they look for him. Oops.
Warren T. Cat was a total prick and I always loved watching him get what he deserved here, but at the same time, that giant mouse also scared the bejesus outta me when I was a kid! Granted, the scene is epic, but the way the monster is designed here is definitely what nightmares are made of! Ever see the movie "Event Horizon"? Imagine if Mickey Mouse died and went to Hell and then came back. Chances are, he be would be a gigantic mouse demon that looks EXACTLY like that huge abomination!
And this is why you don't mess with the rats of nickel metal hydride.
IT'S THE GIANT MOUSE OF MINSK!
I think the cats would prefer fish than mice
I like this part of the movie and I like it.
Warren T. Cat is hot. I'm just going to say that. This scene also made me kind of freak out when I was a kid.
More then Tigerclaw from Warriors, what’s scary an tyrant like Tigerstar or an psychopath cat like Warren T. Cat.
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this is EXTREMELY AWESOME!
How did they animate the Mouse of Minsk?
It's it's it's the Giant Mouse of Minsk
Oh you're RIGHT!!!
I forget which episode of game grumps was this scene mentioned on
That fucking sound....still weirds me the fuck out.
2:25 The bug speaks Mandarin.
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...Well, looks lik I'm not going to sleep...for the next millenia.
Also; WE DEMAND AN EDIT OF THIS WITH EGO'S "WHAT IS THIS?!" COMMENTARY IN THE BACKROUND!
Is this part even darker due to the stereotyping of Chinese people eating cats?
For Warren, he is not one of us
Who else thought that thing was alive when you were kids?
Can you imagine what the people on the boat thought of this spectacle?
Giant Mouse Of Minsk Scared Captain Gutt and his Crew
Um is this the weapon that will finally surpass metal gear??
i can see why this scared people when they were young
(Goes to sit in the corner with my knees to my chest sucking my thumb.)
It's hard to beat rotoscoping for realistic movement.
Fievel came up with a really amazing plan to scare Warren t cat and his gang away when fievel told gussie about his plan To build a mechanical version of the giant mouse of Minsk to scare Warren t cat and his gang away she totally agreed with fievels plan talk about using the stories of a legendary monster from your home country to your advantage
funny how the others knew what it was even though those cats are from america and the mouse of minsk is a russain tale
1:57 - 2:11 Ha ha ha! Serves you right Warren T.! 😆😀 Nice try! Bad luck!
rules of nature plays
What's the giant mouse of Minsk?
WEWEASE... THE SECWET... WEAPON!!!
It give's me nightmare 😨😨😨😨😨😨
Game Grumps brought me here
to this day this still scares me
Giant Mouse Of Minsk Scared Twilight Sparkle = Funny
Tom from Tom And Jerry dislikes this video.
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why do i see tiger in this wanse he a rebel in this movie?
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how come nobody has made a comparison to bug's life yet
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HEY IM GRUMP!
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man, that's fuckin scary.
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Someone should bass boost (0:03 - 0:15)
o_0
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Ego??
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Hey, I wonder how you say... Trust me. In Chinese?
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The difference tween mice and men
it's mousezilla XD
Thumbs up if you think "The Giant Mouse of Minsk" is seriously one of the most awesome animated creations ever conceived.
well I'm sure they knew it wasn't a monster, but they didn't wanna get run over/blown up by it either. XD
Rotoscoping! What an amazing form of Animation!
***** Yep! Him and Steven Spielberg! This was the first animated film he ever produced, and he was amazed at just how time-consuming it turned out to be, but it was clearly worth it.
***** Yep! Spielberg clearly knew a good thing when he had it; two years later, he and Bluth came out with the Land Before Time.
***** Yep! Essentially Bambi, but with dinosaurs! Fun fact: Jurassic Park came just five years after the first was released!
I remember The Giant Mouse of Minsk looked a lot freakier when I was younger.
That's because it was. The original had a lot more black to its design because it was rotoscoped. They cleaned it up for the diigital/dvd releases. :/
Now it just looks like Deadmau5 😂😂😂
Yeah it was scary as hell!
well scientifically speaking anything that looks freaky to a younger mind is scary to that younger mind
Yeah NoirRaven I know what you mean, I had the old video cassette. The darker tones made it more... menacing.
This movie had a TON of scary characters (cossack cats, creepy Poseidon, market's cats, etc...) but this... This is the final boss of this movie !
Metroz Eegle yeah that Posiedon monster was kinda freaky too.
anybody else get nightmares from this for a while as a kid?
Didn't then but just might now.
I think this is where my sympathy for monsters came from, what an entrance.
Well, good to know I'm not the only person who was mentally scarred by it in their youth!
That's so weird. I was super impressionable as a kid and I got plenty of nightmares from movies, but I feel exactly the opposite here--I always thought the Mouse of Minsk reveal was an overwhelmingly triumphant, "take that!" moment, like when George McFly punches Biff. To me, this is 100% distilled victory, and I remember for a long time I couldn't watch it without tearing up a little.
Unibrow, I was the same way when I saw this in theaters as a kid. With the build up to this moment, I saw it as the final victory come at last. The only thought on my mind was, "Ha! Take that, cats!"
However, I can see why some people would be freaked out by this. Don Bluth animated the Giant Mouse of Minsk the same way he animated the tractor in "Secret of NIMH": by tinting live-action objects and putting it in a 2D animated movie. It gives a weird kind of uncommon valley vibe.
Yeah and I thought he roared like King Kong from the old ride!
This thing scared the hell outta me as a kid. I had nightmares for weeks! ...Ah, memories. :)
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear.
+Ocelot The Shagohod!
+GeneralOlde Exactly, just make it five or six times bigger XD
3 decades later and that Giant Mouse is still nightmare fuel!!! 😱😱😱
Daily reminder that the Giant Mouse of Minsk was rotoscoped and an actual model of this thing that looked exactly like it does in the movie actually existed at one point.
+THE MAN The rotoscoping is part of what makes it look so freaky.
@@C--kr8bk And it was the size of a motor bike.
Some say…. It still exists.
I remember this scaring the crap out of me as a kid
I'm glad Tiger's not with those other cats anymore.
Same here! He was too good, sweet & a big friendly, gentle giant of a Cat to join The Mott Street Maulers! & besides, like he said, he's a vegetarian! There's no way he'll ever eat mice! Not even in a million years! 😀😉😁
I'd never ever wanna be a member of The Mott Street Maulers! Would any of you fans of the very 1st "An American Tail" (1985)?
I just realized that there must've been some subtle Chinese cat eating joke implied here.
Death Star same here just realized it 😂😂
Yeah, it's kinda fucked up. And kinda funny.
I am pretty sure you are mistaken.
"Now shall you deal with me, o cats, and all the powers of HELL!!!"
I wasn't really scared of this when I was a kid, I thought this was pretty cool. The rotoscope design, the roar it makes, fireworks shooting from it is great, but I also love the reaction from the cats. Warren T and the rest are scared out of there minds and the way that Digit screams at 1:12 and 1:16.
Digit screaming was funny lol but he died cockroaches can't survive in water lol
I just realized digit and Petrie's voices are played by the same actor (will Ryan) but their voices lol Petrie has a low voice, while digit has a high-pitched voice lol but digit's voice is more funny though