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Yeah, I found the world design actually really good. (Characters a bit uncanny, could probably use more work against that.) Shame the plot and story isn’t as good.
My guess is they wanted to make her stand out from the rest of her people, while also communicating that she was more reasonable and down to Earth by giving her more modest attire.
So basically Forspoken? But ironically if Forspoken was a mid 2000's game it probably would have been so bad it's good, written halfway decent and had some unique fun game loop. Instead of the crap Square pushed out
Here's a fun fact about Forspoken: One of its credited writers is Amy Hennig, the woman behind the legendary Legacy of Kain series -- which I consider a personal influence on my vocabulary growing up -- as well as the Uncharted series. This is the equivalent of watching Leonardo da Vinci go from painting the Mona Lisa to drawing stick figures with a lump of dried poo.
This movie simply doesn't know which target audience it wants. If it was made for kids, why go so deep into political issues? If it was made for people who like fantasy epics with political intrigue, why have a comic relief and cookie cutter characters? If it was made for fans of worldbuilding, why is the worldbuilding so plot convenient?
The bare minimum compliment I can give to this movie is that the wing severing, and having a collection of fake wings, was a cool little bit of world building.
"Remember the annoying character from the Dungeons and Dragons movie?" "Yeah. I liked the part where he died." "But what if we made a film where he _didn't_ die?" "Here are millions of dollars for some reason."
I actually managed to see this in theaters for the one week that it played. Went and saw it with my dad after a particularly rainy and miserable fishing trip. The movie only further soured our sense of disappointment.
"But after some, they start realize that letting in millions of migrants unchecked, might be causing some societal problems" I spit out my drink and had a hearty laugh
Remember that boring Dinosaur movie by Disney with the bizarre character designs? The characters in this movie look to me like if the dinosaurs in that dinosaur movie were turned into humanoid bipeds.
I'm pretty sure the monkey soldier who said "You're on your own, kid" is the same one as blue guy. The point is that the blue guy killed the frog kid's parents, but then later unwittingly ended up helping him. That's why it was thematically significant.
Whe n he helped da kid. Dat made me kry yo... I wuz like he killed da kidz mam n pops n now he helpin him? I wuz like dam yo.. dat deep. Ong no cap. I kryd yo
Let me tell you some facts about the production of this movie. Fathom Studios, the company behind this movie, began development in 1999 and animation work began in 2001. As you can tell, their in production hell for too long. This explains why Anne Bancroft and John Vernon passed away before the film was released in theaters and lost 40 million dollars at the box office. You can tell that this film was inspired by Lord of the Rings, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and that game by EA called Spore. Oh, and to end it all off, these ground-dwelling Loknis look like shellless turtles other than frogs.
Jason Maurer, one of the directors of the film, was one of my professors in art College. If I remember correctly, he got two opportunities at once, he could do this film or direct a Halo game. We all kind of laughed when he told us this, considered how things turned out, but he doesn't regret the film. Despite how things turned out. He even has tattoos on his arms that are references to the movie. I think he saw it as a learning opportunity for him, and in a way, an accomplishment, how often does one get the opportunity to direct a film. Though, I'm sure he wished things had turned out better. Hopefully, I got all that right, it was like ten years ago since I was in college.
Wow, yeah, I bet he felt like the people working at Dark City when the Matrix came out. But yeah I don't hate this movie, it is not very good but you can see the effort.
Any offer for a Halo job would have been a couple years in after the Delgo work started, a choice to keep going with the movie or jump ship. Wikipedia says that Delgo began in 1999 but by late '97 concept "art, " sculptures, 3d scanner work and rough scripts were already being written. I know because I was there, and dislike revisionist history.
@surly_mel I said straight up, if I remember correctly and that this was like 10 years ago, perhaps it was a different game, or perhaps my professor came in on the film late in production so it could have been Halo in the end. Anyway, the point of my comment was he had two choices and he chose Delgo, something that didn't pan out but still took it all in stride and respect.
Oh@@Thomagata I wasn't taking issue with you, sorry if I came off that way. I once looked to Jason as a brother, so I understand having him as a teacher was probably a great experience. A cool aside: another 3d dev who was there at the same time tried to sell the boss on doing short films at first, instead of a full feature all in one go... Boss wasn't hearing any of it. The 3d dev left for Turner and went on to do (at least) the early years of TOM for Toonami. The shorts panned out well.
So the lizard people have no guards at all around their SUPER-IMPORTANT HOLY TEMPLE and one guy can fly in and spend a crap-ton of time knocking HUGE ROCKS OVER WHICH WOULD MAKE A LOT OF NOISE... and doesn't get caught, not even seen! BY ANYONE!! This is some "Twilight Saga"-level writing right here.
The "comedic" relief guy is like, every single bad aspect of that trope all at once. He's A) Goofy to the point of being a hindrance to the group. B) Every line of dialogue is nothing short of punchable, from voicing, to the very lines as written. C) Instead of actively contributing to the strength of the party, his actions work in direct service to the villains. And D)He has a randomly undeserved "hero" moment with little to no development to make it funny, or a satisfying cap to a character arc. Like sure, we know he has a slingshot. But last time he used it, he was literally so incompetent he ended up compromising the mission. What, did he levelgrind offscreen? He should have been an annoying bumbling henchman to the big bad, as this would make the well better written (though still terrible) monkey kingdom give him a reason for his position despite being a militarized court jester, and subsequently, cut significantly down on the available screentime for him.
"Your on your own" blue guy is a good guy because he spared a kid years ago... While murdering that kids parents, and entire village. But he did spare the one kid. So he's good. Okay?
Perhaps blue guy was the soldier that spared Delgo's life back then idk. Never heard of this movie before. Seems I wasn't missing much. Also that is the cutest goddamn Kraken I have ever seen.
This has such XSI/softimage vibes. People are giving this flak for looking like bad CG, but this is an incredibly good result to get from the tools they were using. I think it comes full circle and works really well. It's just a shame it came out during the fastest period of development in CG. 5 years isn't much now, it was an eternity in the early 2000's
You could make incredible looking stuff with XSI in the time this movie was being created wtf are you on about. Like the other guy said it’s just a hideous art direction.
Love how the dad suddenly becomes racist in the interest of stealing Romeo and Juliet, even though he was perfectly fine with them during the lore dump. 👌
@@deathsheadknight2137That occurred to me too, the warlike monkey people in ornate armor certainly share a similarity, plus they live on floating citadels and fly on dragons? And the zen buddhist turtle people can move things with their minds and shape the world, like the Githzerai...
Yeah, but Food Fight was a limited release after having been carted off to multiple other distribution companies. Delgo, inexplicably, got a 2000 theater release and the studio that made it held onto it from inception to release.
Fun fact: when Marc and Jason went to New York and drove Bridge Hampton in New York to meet Anne Bancroft and record her lines in a recording studio that became defunct where she lives after her death in 2005 in the studio they recorded her was a little cabin they have a recording booth that was small as a phone booth and she was uncomfortable with close spaces so they left the door open and they can hear construction work outside while they were toilets flushing in the background so some of lines they try to clean up because of not so best quality but they try to clean it up to do the best they could because they really want to get her voice until she died from uterine cancer
I had a fever dream when I was a kid while Cartoon Network or nick was on and I fever dreamed that I watched a weirdly abridged version of this movie I pieced together from the ad for this movie that kept playing at the time. Channels like you who cover stuff like this is the only reason I know what the actual name of the movie is.
Am I the only one that looks forward to seeing Victor Alexander in the patreon credits. I noticed he hasn't been in the past few videos, which I can't complain, but for me my head cannon was that he was a running "joke" on the channel. I miss seeing his name 😢
it was somones passion project but got tangled in studio bullshit and so the creator left ending in the studio releasing it to recoup some of the losses
Great review! I haven't seen the film, but it looks wretched. One thing though: someone has their wings cut off and starts collecting fake wings? I... kinda like that.
@@613harbinger316 Worse, because if they're not fake they were stolen from someone. I guess the thing is we have all these aliens and fantastic races who can fly or breathe underwater and all that, and it makes sense that if they lost their special ability they'd feel as crippled as a human who suddenly lost their legs or something. So getting all these fake wings is pathetic butn understandable, someone trying to deal with a rather horrible emotional trauma.
I have heard told in tones incredulous mockery the story of the epic flop, horrendous animation, and inexplicable voice cast that was Delgo, but I thought it was all just myth.
This video sure does warm my cold, dead heart. For anyone who might think that there was any spark, any promise early on... No, no there wasn't. Like an old roomate of mine Delgo just stole art/ideas from anything successful and made poor copies of them, lumpy and awful. From the very beginning there was no desire to tell a good story, no heart in its chest.
Cheap discount Master Oogway"If you wish to control the stones you must first..." Me, "Control yourself? In other words, learn self-control, which would actually be a decent lesson?" Yoda's much uglier inbred cousin,"... let go..." Me, "Wow... that could not possibly have been lamer. I've read fortune cookies with better life advice."
I think the implication is that it was Blue Guy who Delgo remembers saying that same line to him during the genocide. So Blue Guy sacrificed himself to save Delgo over feeling guilty for participating in destroying Delgo's village all those years ago. Also the movie isn't even that bad, just mediocre. It's the huge budget and long production time that makes it look like a disaster.
I have a weird nostalgia for this movie. Not because I like it or have even seen it, but because my reactions to how it looked from the trailers back in 2008 are forever seered into my memory.
Weird, I was thinking about this movie the other day. Thinking about how shitty it was, and why nobody ever talks about how shitty it was.I guess the universe agreed.
What, even worse than "Foodfight!"? That's impressive! My favourite part of Foodfight! is when the idiotic bad guys try to create a huge corporation called "Brand X", which has a big white "x" on a black background as its logo, and use Brand X to try and take over, replacing other, more popular brands with a big white "X". But that could never happen in real life, right? RIGHT?!
So what you're saying is... Elon Musk is actually a robot piloted by an old female food mascot... Wait... Aunt Jemima was cancelled a few years ago and then Elon bought Twitter... oh my god... :O
This doesn't look worse than Foodfight, IMHO. It seems like the story doesn't attempt to step outside the limits of their production abilities, and the animation, in general, doesn't look like the fever dreams of an insane coke addict drizzled in pure liquid shite.
Yes, because clearly that was a prediction of Musk taking over Twitter. You are so simply, real life does not have good guys and bad guys. And you pretend Twitter was a wonderful place full of love and community, instead of the toxic hashtagMeTwee cancel culture nightmare it was. Now we have a place where you can post without worrying about banned for life if someone takes umbrage at your opinion. That's so bad?
I need this ma... Possum, to review either The Two Towers, which could be a reañly good comparing point to critisice other movies, or Babylon A.D. that is the prime example of wasted potential
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Ouija Shark is the worst movie of all time go see it
Why would someone copywrite claim this?
Its like you want the world to know that you make hot garbage
algorithm
Someone actually took the time of day to submit a copyright claim for this 'film'? O.O
Dam that sucks I know the feel and my videos are five times more crappy than yours
This is one of those cases where the concept art was probably way more interesting than the actual movie.
Yeah, I found the world design actually really good. (Characters a bit uncanny, could probably use more work against that.) Shame the plot and story isn’t as good.
Unironically why young me loved the movie. Watching frogs and fairies go to war while orcs just rampage was always amusing to a young Jacob.
Why is everyone in the kingdom dressed royally, while the princess has on workout clothes?? 😂
Shabby chic.
She's a main character and clothes are expensive to animate
Those are royal workout clothes.
My guess is they wanted to make her stand out from the rest of her people, while also communicating that she was more reasonable and down to Earth by giving her more modest attire.
Because she's the rebellious quirky heroine who goes against the status quo.
The whole movie looks like a mid 2000s game cutscene but with a terrible story
Lol describe it perfectly 😆
So basically Forspoken? But ironically if Forspoken was a mid 2000's game it probably would have been so bad it's good, written halfway decent and had some unique fun game loop. Instead of the crap Square pushed out
@@buttpiratesbuttpirate5913 I forgot about that mess
saying that this is 2000s pre rendered cutscene is a disrispect to 2000s pre rendered cutscenes
Here's a fun fact about Forspoken:
One of its credited writers is Amy Hennig, the woman behind the legendary Legacy of Kain series -- which I consider a personal influence on my vocabulary growing up -- as well as the Uncharted series.
This is the equivalent of watching Leonardo da Vinci go from painting the Mona Lisa to drawing stick figures with a lump of dried poo.
My mom never let me watch this movie when I was a boy. Turns out I owe her a thanks…
Good for her this is atrocious
Your mom was straight up like “shit is trash, not for my boys developing brain” 😂 you got a good mom
The art direction is so hideous I could have told them this was gonna bomb after a single glance.
The movie might have looked better in 2D but maybe I'm just being delusional.
@@cynicalperson161 I agree with you. I think a lot of good animations were still coming out back then.
@@cynicalperson161yeah the colors would've been better in 2D.
This movie simply doesn't know which target audience it wants.
If it was made for kids, why go so deep into political issues? If it was made for people who like fantasy epics with political intrigue, why have a comic relief and cookie cutter characters? If it was made for fans of worldbuilding, why is the worldbuilding so plot convenient?
And it keeps on happening to this day, just look at the owl house.
@@theblackswordsman5039hmmmm... Please elaborate... Seriously I'm curious ☹️😭
@@theblackswordsman5039kids can handle politics, they’re not stupid.
@@saddaddytentacles9897 Yes - the number of children who love to attend planning and zoning hearings is proof of that.
@@HC-cb4ypbecause so many adults attend those…
Why didn't she poison the king first? The far more physical threat should he. You know, wake up?
Why did the goblin turn on the stove?
@@davidthecommentersame reason
Why was that foot there?@@davidthecommenter
Who was phone?
@@CruelestChris man door hand hook car door?
"Delgo blows his flute to get her to blow his flute" lmao.
The bare minimum compliment I can give to this movie is that the wing severing, and having a collection of fake wings, was a cool little bit of world building.
It is a bit darker than that, since it seems like her fake wings are taken from other monkey-fairies she killed...
I hate to be a pedant (no I dont) but it's real bad grammar to put the word 'and' after a comma. One or the other dude
@@howardsimcox5596 How the hell do you think the Oxford comma works?
Never heard of the Oxford comma?
@@Damien3210 isn't it a vampire weekend song? Good too
"Remember the annoying character from the Dungeons and Dragons movie?"
"Yeah. I liked the part where he died."
"But what if we made a film where he _didn't_ die?"
"Here are millions of dollars for some reason."
His names was "Snails" to boot.
I hate that I remember that
6:02 “Imagine these two f£€king…”
The cut to black there was so well timed that I lost it from laughter
I actually managed to see this in theaters for the one week that it played. Went and saw it with my dad after a particularly rainy and miserable fishing trip. The movie only further soured our sense of disappointment.
What happened on the fishing trip?
@@MASTEROFEVIL It rained
I feel so bad for your dad! Imagine working all week only to spend your day off getting rained out fishing then pay theater prices for THIS!
"But after some, they start realize that letting in millions of migrants unchecked, might be causing some societal problems"
I spit out my drink and had a hearty laugh
As a Swede I didn’t laugh, I cried 😅
Samma här. 🥲
@@RedlineA2Y145As a Canadian. Part of my soul died.
What a surprisingly recent sotuation.
This movie looks like an ad for an MMO that doesn’t even exist
Remember that boring Dinosaur movie by Disney with the bizarre character designs?
The characters in this movie look to me like if the dinosaurs in that dinosaur movie were turned into humanoid bipeds.
Wasn't there a brief Human Dyno 🦕 mythical trend? Early 2000s late 1990s?
The movie is dinosaur. I thought the same
“There’s probably a month’s worth of videos you haven’t seen,” said dude who uploads once month
I love how the Kraken just sounds like Squidward. It fits so well.
I'm pretty sure the monkey soldier who said "You're on your own, kid" is the same one as blue guy. The point is that the blue guy killed the frog kid's parents, but then later unwittingly ended up helping him. That's why it was thematically significant.
Whe
n he helped da kid. Dat made me kry yo... I wuz like he killed da kidz mam n pops n now he helpin him? I wuz like dam yo.. dat deep. Ong no cap. I kryd yo
Dude that “shut up” you said when the guy was saying he wouldn’t help with the cage fucking killed me
Its actually tragic how many messages they tried to have and failed
"don't ask me how but I got my hands on the original animations for Reptile from Mortal Kombat 4, y'all want to make a movie with it?"
The legendary possum has returned to find us more trash movies of why the goblin turned on the stove
Unironically this show has better plot than 90% of modern movies.
The absolute state of modern Cinema
More ambition for sure.
True.
Higher than average fantasy setting when most are edgy lord of the rings lol.
No it hasn't. Today's stuff is crap but this movie was a whole new level of crap.
Let me tell you some facts about the production of this movie. Fathom Studios, the company behind this movie, began development in 1999 and animation work began in 2001. As you can tell, their in production hell for too long. This explains why Anne Bancroft and John Vernon passed away before the film was released in theaters and lost 40 million dollars at the box office. You can tell that this film was inspired by Lord of the Rings, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and that game by EA called Spore. Oh, and to end it all off, these ground-dwelling Loknis look like shellless turtles other than frogs.
oh... OH wow Spore. Lokknee skin tone/pattern looks ripped directly out of it. Yikes
I swear if I wasn’t told spore was an inspiration I wouldn’t have ever known
Yeah I mean they have scales, they are clearly reptiles not frogs.
Which would explain why it wasn’t another Shrek clone movie. (They were only marginally less rampant than Despicable Me clones)
@dorkydragon5055 Though even the simplest of Spore creatures look leagues better than this steaming pile of shit.
I remember seeing trailers of Delgo back in elementary school… and how the character designs made me uncomfortable
Jason Maurer, one of the directors of the film, was one of my professors in art College. If I remember correctly, he got two opportunities at once, he could do this film or direct a Halo game. We all kind of laughed when he told us this, considered how things turned out, but he doesn't regret the film. Despite how things turned out. He even has tattoos on his arms that are references to the movie. I think he saw it as a learning opportunity for him, and in a way, an accomplishment, how often does one get the opportunity to direct a film. Though, I'm sure he wished things had turned out better. Hopefully, I got all that right, it was like ten years ago since I was in college.
Wow, yeah, I bet he felt like the people working at Dark City when the Matrix came out. But yeah I don't hate this movie, it is not very good but you can see the effort.
That’s a good way to look at it. Hope he’s doing well!
Any offer for a Halo job would have been a couple years in after the Delgo work started, a choice to keep going with the movie or jump ship. Wikipedia says that Delgo began in 1999 but by late '97 concept "art, " sculptures, 3d scanner work and rough scripts were already being written. I know because I was there, and dislike revisionist history.
@surly_mel I said straight up, if I remember correctly and that this was like 10 years ago, perhaps it was a different game, or perhaps my professor came in on the film late in production so it could have been Halo in the end. Anyway, the point of my comment was he had two choices and he chose Delgo, something that didn't pan out but still took it all in stride and respect.
Oh@@Thomagata I wasn't taking issue with you, sorry if I came off that way. I once looked to Jason as a brother, so I understand having him as a teacher was probably a great experience.
A cool aside: another 3d dev who was there at the same time tried to sell the boss on doing short films at first, instead of a full feature all in one go... Boss wasn't hearing any of it. The 3d dev left for Turner and went on to do (at least) the early years of TOM for Toonami. The shorts panned out well.
So the lizard people have no guards at all around their SUPER-IMPORTANT HOLY TEMPLE and one guy can fly in and spend a crap-ton of time knocking HUGE ROCKS OVER WHICH WOULD MAKE A LOT OF NOISE... and doesn't get caught, not even seen! BY ANYONE!!
This is some "Twilight Saga"-level writing right here.
Oh, don't you know that armor in movies and shows never works?
It's the same rule that dictates that main characters rarely wear helmets in a melee.
Used to work in Game of Thrones, until the writers decided you sould stab straight through plate armor.
@xFlareLeon I loved the Battle of Blackwater right up until the guy got shot with an arrow that went straight through his plate armor.
Have you met the storm troopers?
Possum, if a Locni went up to your house begging for food because they haven’t eaten in weeks, would you give them food?
he probs wouldn´t
Build a wall and make the Locni pay for it
Locni is almost incel spelled backwards!
He let them starve
I'd slit its throat and burn it to ashes. Then it would never be hungry again! And I would never have to look at it again either! Win-win!
Really, this is what got copyright struck. They could literally only make money off you reminding people this exists.
The "comedic" relief guy is like, every single bad aspect of that trope all at once. He's A) Goofy to the point of being a hindrance to the group. B) Every line of dialogue is nothing short of punchable, from voicing, to the very lines as written. C) Instead of actively contributing to the strength of the party, his actions work in direct service to the villains. And D)He has a randomly undeserved "hero" moment with little to no development to make it funny, or a satisfying cap to a character arc. Like sure, we know he has a slingshot. But last time he used it, he was literally so incompetent he ended up compromising the mission. What, did he levelgrind offscreen?
He should have been an annoying bumbling henchman to the big bad, as this would make the well better written (though still terrible) monkey kingdom give him a reason for his position despite being a militarized court jester, and subsequently, cut significantly down on the available screentime for him.
Thats a really good idea.
I'm totally stealing it!
I hope possum reviews Alpha and Omega at some point
I'd be okay with this movie consisting of nothing but Delgo's torture scene.
The you're on your own kid was supposed to reveal that blue guy was the guy who spared him as a child
That's such a fucked up twist and it's wasted 😭
@@Air_Serpent True they tried something a little too deep for how the rest of the movie is lmao
For being a hero that Blue guy won that duel in a very villain way.
"Your on your own" blue guy is a good guy because he spared a kid years ago...
While murdering that kids parents, and entire village. But he did spare the one kid. So he's good. Okay?
Sounds very modern Disney
I think he was supposed to be some kind of anti-hero.
It could've been a heart wrenching twist- the guy that you became allies with is the one that killed your family.
But it was just.. dropped.
"Hi, I'm a possum and I find garbage". Never fails to bring a smile on my face
I completely forgot about this film's existence.
Wait... The studio actually WANTED to copyright claim this? THIS movie?!
You should do the Bionicle movies. Each one is a meme goldmine.
Hey, I liked those movies.
Legend Reborn is easily the worst of them.
These creature designs are very imaginative
For people who aren't capable of imagination.
I guess in this movie they thought giving the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz a backstory was a smart idea ;)
Imagine NOT keeping up with Possum Reviews. I be going on this channel at least once a week to see if anything was uploaded
This movie looks like it was animated by the same animation department that make CGI for Syfy channel original movies
It looks a little bit like an old video game, the first Prince of Persia, I think.
Love how the kragon pops up at the end, "got any crack". So random
From how you describe this movie Possum, it sounds like a fever dream
Perhaps blue guy was the soldier that spared Delgo's life back then idk.
Never heard of this movie before. Seems I wasn't missing much.
Also that is the cutest goddamn Kraken I have ever seen.
It's always a great day waking up to a new Possum vid.
40 million to make and only made nine hundred thousand back? Lol pretty sure whoever green lit that movie got fired 😅😅
I grew up near an AC Delgo plant. I think they made batteries.
There used to be a twitch channel that had this movie playing on repeat for years
Literally 5 months of no notifications.. insane because I watch ALL your videos
This has such XSI/softimage vibes. People are giving this flak for looking like bad CG, but this is an incredibly good result to get from the tools they were using. I think it comes full circle and works really well. It's just a shame it came out during the fastest period of development in CG. 5 years isn't much now, it was an eternity in the early 2000's
The tech aspects are good, but the designs are horrific
@@idiot_city5244 Yeah so blame prepro, the actual 3d work is amazing for the time.
You could make incredible looking stuff with XSI in the time this movie was being created wtf are you on about.
Like the other guy said it’s just a hideous art direction.
The funniest thing? The orcs are actually kobolds, but the movie can't even get that right.
By the way they looked? Don’t some kobolds look like ugly cartoon rat people or anime dog people?
@@samflood5631 No, by D&D standards. Which is what a lot of modern fantasy is based on.
@@ronslayton5270 I see, little dragon people. And by the way, these orcs are actually called the Andos.
This is from 2008 and looks HORRIFIC even for the time!
It’s PS2 type cinematics
I remember my dad rented this when I was a kid and we gave up less than halfway through
Love how the dad suddenly becomes racist in the interest of stealing Romeo and Juliet, even though he was perfectly fine with them during the lore dump. 👌
Couldn't the rock benders just wear rock shoes or something so they could fly too?
If Im being honest, I think this movie couldve been great if the designs and writing were a little bit better
Are they supposed to be Githyanki?
That’s the case with a lot of mediocre films, sadly.
So would most bad movies.
@@deathsheadknight2137That occurred to me too, the warlike monkey people in ornate armor certainly share a similarity, plus they live on floating citadels and fly on dragons? And the zen buddhist turtle people can move things with their minds and shape the world, like the Githzerai...
I believe Foodfight! had a bigger budget and grossed less.
The worst timeline
Yeah, but Food Fight was a limited release after having been carted off to multiple other distribution companies. Delgo, inexplicably, got a 2000 theater release and the studio that made it held onto it from inception to release.
Fun fact: when Marc and Jason went to New York and drove Bridge Hampton in New York to meet Anne Bancroft and record her lines in a recording studio that became defunct where she lives after her death in 2005 in the studio they recorded her was a little cabin they have a recording booth that was small as a phone booth and she was uncomfortable with close spaces so they left the door open and they can hear construction work outside while they were toilets flushing in the background so some of lines they try to clean up because of not so best quality but they try to clean it up to do the best they could because they really want to get her voice until she died from uterine cancer
I had a fever dream when I was a kid while Cartoon Network or nick was on and I fever dreamed that I watched a weirdly abridged version of this movie I pieced together from the ad for this movie that kept playing at the time. Channels like you who cover stuff like this is the only reason I know what the actual name of the movie is.
Am I the only one that looks forward to seeing Victor Alexander in the patreon credits. I noticed he hasn't been in the past few videos, which I can't complain, but for me my head cannon was that he was a running "joke" on the channel. I miss seeing his name 😢
I have absolutely no memory of this movie coming out. I think that was a good thing. Now I am cursed with the knowledge it exists.
I almost took my niece and nephew to this movie
it was somones passion project but got tangled in studio bullshit and so the creator left ending in the studio releasing it to recoup some of the losses
Great review! I haven't seen the film, but it looks wretched.
One thing though: someone has their wings cut off and starts collecting fake wings? I... kinda like that.
Is it better or worse if it turns out they're not fake?
@@613harbinger316 Worse, because if they're not fake they were stolen from someone.
I guess the thing is we have all these aliens and fantastic races who can fly or breathe underwater and all that, and it makes sense that if they lost their special ability they'd feel as crippled as a human who suddenly lost their legs or something. So getting all these fake wings is pathetic butn understandable, someone trying to deal with a rather horrible emotional trauma.
@@613harbinger316would be metal for sure.
I like how Possum is male but still has a pouch
I have heard told in tones incredulous mockery the story of the epic flop, horrendous animation, and inexplicable voice cast that was Delgo, but I thought it was all just myth.
Wait did King Flying Monkey just not stop the war or do anything to help the turtle frogs after they attacked them?
This video sure does warm my cold, dead heart. For anyone who might think that there was any spark, any promise early on... No, no there wasn't. Like an old roomate of mine Delgo just stole art/ideas from anything successful and made poor copies of them, lumpy and awful. From the very beginning there was no desire to tell a good story, no heart in its chest.
I haven't been told of an upload from this guy in an entire year
40 million dollars.... Holy cow :(
He mentioned why: every character is voiced by a known actor. At least half of it went on that.
Cheap discount Master Oogway"If you wish to control the stones you must first..."
Me, "Control yourself? In other words, learn self-control, which would actually be a decent lesson?"
Yoda's much uglier inbred cousin,"... let go..."
Me, "Wow... that could not possibly have been lamer. I've read fortune cookies with better life advice."
I think the implication is that it was Blue Guy who Delgo remembers saying that same line to him during the genocide. So Blue Guy sacrificed himself to save Delgo over feeling guilty for participating in destroying Delgo's village all those years ago. Also the movie isn't even that bad, just mediocre. It's the huge budget and long production time that makes it look like a disaster.
It IS objectively better than the Barbie movies at that time. People forget, I guess, how horrendous animation *could* be at the time.
@therealdannymullen But 2000s Barbie movies had better stories than this. Even the ones with mediocre plots were still better than this.
I found the character and world design actually really good. Shame the plot and story isn’t as good.
Mr Possum, making shiddy films entertaining. A public service to be sure.
I thought blue armored guy was the same one who killed delgo's parents.
I mean, it doesn’t look amazing, but it isn't horrific
Like a train or car wreck...I can't look away...
Probably better than Disney stuff nowadays
Alpha and Omega somehow looks better than this
I have a weird nostalgia for this movie. Not because I like it or have even seen it, but because my reactions to how it looked from the trailers back in 2008 are forever seered into my memory.
Miss when he used to be Dr Shaym😢😢😢
A shame there wasn't a Video Brinquedo knock off of this, though it looks like one with a slightly higher budget
Weird, I was thinking about this movie the other day. Thinking about how shitty it was, and why nobody ever talks about how shitty it was.I guess the universe agreed.
What, even worse than "Foodfight!"? That's impressive! My favourite part of Foodfight! is when the idiotic bad guys try to create a huge corporation called "Brand X", which has a big white "x" on a black background as its logo, and use Brand X to try and take over, replacing other, more popular brands with a big white "X". But that could never happen in real life, right? RIGHT?!
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So what you're saying is... Elon Musk is actually a robot piloted by an old female food mascot...
Wait... Aunt Jemima was cancelled a few years ago and then Elon bought Twitter... oh my god... :O
@@Alondro77 Aunt Jemima is having her revenge. Cancel those who cancelled her
This doesn't look worse than Foodfight, IMHO. It seems like the story doesn't attempt to step outside the limits of their production abilities, and the animation, in general, doesn't look like the fever dreams of an insane coke addict drizzled in pure liquid shite.
Yes, because clearly that was a prediction of Musk taking over Twitter. You are so simply, real life does not have good guys and bad guys. And you pretend Twitter was a wonderful place full of love and community, instead of the toxic hashtagMeTwee cancel culture nightmare it was. Now we have a place where you can post without worrying about banned for life if someone takes umbrage at your opinion. That's so bad?
I need this ma... Possum, to review either The Two Towers, which could be a reañly good comparing point to critisice other movies, or Babylon A.D. that is the prime example of wasted potential
Oh this makes me happy AF! 😂😂 I just sat down to eat, and a new possum vid makes it wayyyyyy better!
If we meme enough maybe we will bait a sequel for this movie
This animation looks like a bunch of animator dropouts watched A Bugs Life and said "yeah I can do that better"
That little plop sound effect at 0:31 gets me every time
It's the sound of a quarter being dropped into a sink full of water. I recorded it myself.
Really stepping it up with the production value
i'm sure that if this movie had better character designs and real marketing, it would've made at least 1.2 million at the box office.
Man, you said NOTHING about how the annoying-comic-relief-orc-guy-who-misuses-words-all-the-time was voiced by Eric Idol.
Great job possum finding movies like this.👍👍
I imagine your PTSD after 👻👻 and you have my respect 😊
Greetings from Greece😘😘
Their world looks like a crappy abandoned map in WoW.
When the frog temple was trashed it was just like when the dojo in Karate Kid was trashed. With the same advice. Frog on, frog off.
i got this notification for the upload, it works!