1:49 "But is too much british a bad thing?" Native americans, Africans, Indians, Chinese, Australian aborigines, and literally every other ethnic group in the world: *Yes*
Don't forget the Chinese Australian aborigines! Probably at least some non-African Arabs, too. The French and Germans would also agree, but for different reasons.
So the guy who did this went on to voice Robotnik in The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog? Well at least his voice acting career only went up from here.
@@GatorRay Well, on top of that, Rose Maybud is voiced by Julia McKenzie who would regularly star in Sondheim theatre productions, playing Miss Adelaide in 1982 Guys and Dolls and Mrs Lovett in 1998's Sweeney Todd, earning an Olivier Award for both and nominated for four more! She would then play the titular character in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple from 2008 to 2013, a show I actually very much enjoy, being British myself and into the cozy murder-mystery shows our nation gives to the world. And in fact, five years after this film, she would star in The Wildcats of St. Trinians, another film with art done by Ronald Searle! So, she went from H-Cup Barmaid to a beloved dowager detective with a fruitful history in theatre to show for it... Funny how things work out.
Of course, a dog Emoji to reference your earlier Disco Worms review and how you called the boobs "sweater puppies", among other things, during your worm-boob rant.
The animation reminds me of the style used to display the rough cut original storyline of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, aka the Richard Purdum version. (If you don't know what I mean watch Pt. 2 of Brows Held High's Beauty and the Beast review).
I really like your interludes, especially your "Spaceballs" ones! Well, I know very little about musicals and music history, but I'm a fan of obscure old animated movies, the weirder the better, so I'll be hunting this one out. Thanks for alerting me to this strange, if flawed work of art!
Me when the thing about the cat and the chameleon first pops up on-screen: Uh... But... They're different species? They're different classes of species!!! Well, I guess I've seen a lot weirder pairings in fiction. I can live with this. Me when it hits me that Diva emphasized the cat "trying to get with," while showing the cat simultaneously getting the chameleon drunk and making the moves on it: Oh.... Oh no.... No! Bad Kitty! That's a bad kitty!
Yeah, Searle's drawings are just plain UGLY in animation. They're fine when they're still pictures (such as his illustrations and cartoons, or the opening credits of Scrooge) but animation just makes them look hideous.
9:37 One would think a sorcerer would not be so easily taken (or threatened) what with the whole "being a sorcerer thing", but I guess he must have gone to the same magic school as Gargamel. 😅
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference. HA (Also THANK GOD the crappy film adaptation of that book series didn't have enough if any songs to qualify for this show)
Having been a loyal follower of Bill Melendez (particularly the Peanuts Specials) through my college years, and having done my best to log through every project of his catalogue throughout his career as an animator, I do remember him mentioning having done this one time (in an animation division he owned in London at the time). Now I'm surprised to have it brought back to my attention and see what it really was about-and why it found itself into the court of Musical Hell! And I know you wish you could escape your musical prison, Diva, but the real tragic thing is that's your refuge from the hell that is humanity here on earth!
Are you kidding, the fact that she's trapped down there is probably torture for her. I bet she;d love to be up in Seattle and New York City adding to the havoc! AND EXCUSE ME, not ALL of humanity is like those disgusting mobs, thank you!!! You realize you're talking about yourself when you say that, right?!
@@colleen4ever Well, I do realize that I am guilty of more than I realize, and am trying to be as self-aware as possible. I never meant this as anything akin to throwing every human being on the planet under the bus.
I've learned something weird. Either this recording or the movie itself is sped-up by about five percent. I know this since a friend found a recording of the Modern Major General Song from this film's soundtrack with more lyrics and comparing the audio show's the film's audio seems to be the result of speeding the audio up by five-percent, making it faster and the voices higher pitched, if only slightly.
To be honest, I kind of liked the movie's take on A Policeman's Lot, as well as a few of the other songs. What you said about the rest of the movie, though...yeah, I agree.
Knowing the batsh*t insanity of good ol' Gilbert and Sullivan, a crossover of their works could work pretty well. They already make cross references in their lyrics. "Infernal nonsense Pinafore" anyone? I love how the secret was from a throwaway line from "When You Go In" from Iolanthe.
The artstyle is hideous! I'm sure it works well with a single still image in a political cartoon. But in motion and for a longer length of time it's just way too busy and grotesque.
It was also used to illustrate not only the cartoons in the “St Trinian’s” series (which is briefly referenced in the 2007 movie) and a series of books about young Nigel Molesworth. (The spelling in those books-written by Geoffrey Willans-is delightfully atrocious, as any fule kno)
Grotesque isn't always bad, depending on what you're trying to do. But busy is bad, both in terms of audience reaction and in terms of production. Busy images are harder to process _and_ draw.
Apologies if I've asked this before, but would you ever consider reviewing "Lisztomania?" It's a parody rock/opera/softcore porno about the life of Franz Liszt, who is played by Roger Daltrey from "The Who." The tap dancer from "Rocky Horror" is one of his conquests, and Ringo Starr is the pope. I'd die to see your take on this one.
Owen Purdy yeah😅 honestly Zombies as a whole reminds me of Descendants. I found descendants 3 ok but was a little disappointed that all those fan theories about Mal’s dad was proved right and the books are completely disregarded 😅 and the whole not so tense sword fight dance with magic knight armour
Actually I do think a fair amount of time has passed, but I have Patreon requests taking up the remainder of the year and several months into the next. Patience, it will come.
I love Linda Lewis's The Moon and I, it's a beautiful song and much more heartfelt than the rather brittle original The Sun Whose Rays. Dick Deadeye is very flawed but it has some great moments. It really suffered from lack of budget, hence the short length, not great animation, and mixed bag of vocal performances. I've always thought it merits a stage version.
@@elsie8757 Nope. Yellow Submarine was made in 1968 and uses a 60s hippy aesthetic. This travesty was made in 1975 and reflects the godawful tastes of that wretched decade to a tee.
You know what would be a wierder mashup? It would be to replace agnes de mille choreography from rodgers and hammerstein musicals and replace it with bob fosse choreography.
Good review and I have a request for a movie you should review and that is The Fearless Four a musical animated movie from Germany featuring the voices of James Ingram and BB King. Think you can do a review of that in the future please?
Pennies from Heaven? With Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin? Oh man is this gonna be good! I'm so glad you finally posted your new one. I was beginning to get worried about you! Wouldn;t know what to do without Diva once a month!
I don't know whether you're looking for recommendations, but I would love to hear what the court of Musical Hell has to say about Girltrash: All Night Long 😈🙏
Seriously Diva We need to talk about CATS, OR I'M GONNA GET DONNA ON YOU. The Jellicle Tribe is meant to be human, yet feline to convey the Musical, and lets not have that Argument about the plot again. However Tom Hooper Should've payed more attention to the Noses and lips. there is a reason I marked Tom Hooper's Adaptation as Okay.
Oh! The life of a toon is the life of a goon if you listen to popular youtuber, From the morn to the night he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit and raw humor! He's so quaint and so terse in prose and in verse, Yet people forgive his transgression! There are 1 or 2 rules, which all family fools, Must observe if they love their profession, There are 1 or 2 rules, Half-a-million may be, That all family jewels, of whatever degree, Must observe if they love their profession! If you wish to succeed as a jester you'll need to consider each person's matricula, What is alright for B would quite flabbergast C, (for C is so very particulah!) And D is so dull, but E's very thicc skull, is as empty of brains as a table, While F is F sharp, and will cry like it's larp, "I've known that old joke from me cradle!" When your humor they flout, a punch you can't throw, but it does put one out, When a comment says "O! I've known that old joke from me cradle!" If the director is surly from getting up early, and patience is short in the morning, An inopportune joke is enough to provoke him to give you, at once a month's warning, But if you refrain, he's at you againe, for he likes to get value for money, He'll ask then and there, on an insolence tear, "If ye know yer paid to be funny?" It's an up to the task, take a drink from a flask, Of a looney-tunes place, When your principle asks, With a trowel in his face, "If you know your made to be funny?" -an excerpt from The Cartoon Character's song, from UA-cam: The musical. With apologies to the late and still totally great Gilbert and Sullivan
I usually don't reaquest things but I want to ask. Will you do a Musical Hell episode on Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Fire Saga? Eurovision is an event to connect countries thru music and was created to unite europe after war. The story of Fire Saga is just a Will Ferrel comedy. I, as a huge Eurovison fan, is very dissapointed. I could write a whole essay on what potential Eurovision has to become a movie but I should waste your time.
@Rebecca Woolf I was more hoping for an review from the perspective of an non ESC fan but still a music fan. If she won't, then fine. If she doesn't know much about ESC I don't think she will make a I Know The Score episode. I personally have mixed feelings about the movie. I like the music and the tributes to the contest (I needed it now). But the story is garbage.
Also, Diva just PLEASE give us a Cats Musical Hell review already. You've referenced it enough times that we KNOW you're dying to do it. Otherwise, I'll settle for an Atlantis Squarepantis review too.
Having briefly mentioned Ruddigore does this mean there might be a future episode based on the Halas and Batchelor Ruddigore animated film? It's certainly a little more faithful to the original works without the electric guitar riffs XD. I'd be curious to see how it fares in the Court of Musical Hell!
4:00: Interestingly, this is the opposite problem which many movie musicals on this channel face. I suppose that's not surprising, since it crams together plot elements from several fully-fledged musical stories. 4:55: And yet, it also has the normal problem. That's always an impressive one-two punch. 6:50: The more things change... 8:25: Wait, that's the same allegedly "eastern" name as in _Princess and the Cobbler._ What about "Yum-Yum" sounds exotic, let alone Middle Eastern or East Asian? 14:05: Yes you are. They're not even half-clothed! 16:20: Sounds like a prime candidate for a remake that trims the fact and focuses the production. Shame that only movies which were good the first time get remakes...
@Rebecca Woolf Which still leaves the question of why _The Thief and the Cobbler's_ princess had that name. (IIRC, it was in the original, not a Miramax change.)
I’ll be honest, really enjoy this movie. In a word it’s just zany. Gilbert and Sullivan tunes sound excellent in a 70s rock setting and lyrics are cleverly changed to the fit the new happy mess of a plot. I tend to prefer the tracklist of this to most of the G&S originals. Also the drawings and illustrations are just fabulous. So much character. Prithee Pretty Maiden sequence is so dreamlike and a complete delight and generally movie is just a good romp.
After nearly *10* months, I finally made time for the "Dick Deadeye, or Dirty Done" episode. EDITS- 9:39 P.M.: *finishes episode 19 minutes later* I had never heard of this movie until now. 9:40 P.M.: It looked... interesting to say the least! 😆
@Rebecca Woolf She did and I think it was much better for it. Especially given how it included her referencing the Schumaker Phantom towards the end which inspired the whole series (Which you'd know if you watched her commentary on that episode)
This art style is both interesting and YEESH at the same time
I know, it's like "Popeye" gone grotesque! 😦
Trina Q or an even more grotesque “Flapjack”
It reminds me of the grungy comics of Robert R. Crumb
that's Ronald Searle for you
This whole movie reminds of a Philipp Ardagh-book.
The idea of crossing Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas has potential. I hope someone does a better job pulling it off someday.
Submitted for your approval, the one and only Anna Russell. The entire thing is worth watching, but G&S section begins at about 20.25. Enjoy!
Oh, and immediately after is her famous Ring Cycle analysis.
Agreed
I would love to see this film remade with the music done in the period they came from.
1:50 "Is too much British a bad thing?"
Well, I'm Irish, so you can probably guess my answer. (Sorry, couldn't resist)
So I guess Princess Yumyum from the Thief and the Cobbler was named after the Yumyum from the Mikado, huh?
Three little maids from school are we....
Also PBS Kid's show Ruff Ruffman has "Princess Blossom Pepperdoodle Von Yumyum"
A YumYum is also a type of pasty treat in the Uk, not sure where the name originates beyond them being yummy.
1:49 "But is too much british a bad thing?"
Native americans, Africans, Indians, Chinese, Australian aborigines, and literally every other ethnic group in the world: *Yes*
Don't forget the Chinese Australian aborigines! Probably at least some non-African Arabs, too.
The French and Germans would also agree, but for different reasons.
Well done, sir.
Huh?😅 should I leave the Internet?
Timothy McLean oh Um sorry😶
left out the Irish
15:20 Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak wandering minstrels stronger!
@DragonBat362 the show could definitely make for a good episode of know the store. It has a very distinctive musical style that's ripe for analysis.
As someone with absolutely no knowledge of Gilbert and Sullivan, this movie just looks like a fever dream lurching from one plot to another.
Also, Nenki can’t be the good twin, because he clearly doesn’t know how to read the room during that whole “Flowers that Bloom in the Spring” song.
Also found out...The Major General is voiced by Long John Baldry!
The man who gave us 'Pingas'!
So the guy who did this went on to voice Robotnik in The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog? Well at least his voice acting career only went up from here.
@@GatorRay Well, on top of that, Rose Maybud is voiced by Julia McKenzie who would regularly star in Sondheim theatre productions, playing Miss Adelaide in 1982 Guys and Dolls and Mrs Lovett in 1998's Sweeney Todd, earning an Olivier Award for both and nominated for four more!
She would then play the titular character in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple from 2008 to 2013, a show I actually very much enjoy, being British myself and into the cozy murder-mystery shows our nation gives to the world.
And in fact, five years after this film, she would star in The Wildcats of St. Trinians, another film with art done by Ronald Searle!
So, she went from H-Cup Barmaid to a beloved dowager detective with a fruitful history in theatre to show for it...
Funny how things work out.
And who gave Elton John the latter half of his name!
He was just the singing voice. He also sang for the Rear Admiral. The speaking voices were by other people.
@@nickcopeland6915 Still, Baldry in a project like this? That’s cool, because apparently, he also spoke for a trailer on this film.
Of course, a dog Emoji to reference your earlier Disco Worms review and how you called the boobs "sweater puppies", among other things, during your worm-boob rant.
She did say on Twitter that she was going to go with further visual puns but just didn’t have the time
The animation reminds me of the style used to display the rough cut original storyline of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, aka the Richard Purdum version.
(If you don't know what I mean watch Pt. 2 of Brows Held High's Beauty and the Beast review).
Richard Williams was offered to direct but declined in favor of completing "The Thief and The Cobbler", he recommended Pudrum for the job.
First cheese zombies now this?? feel like these movies materialize just to be part of your reviews.
I guess the world just wasn't ready for a gilbert and sullivan extended universe
Sush!🤫 Don't give Hollywood any ideas!
The songs sound like Gilbert and Sullivan as taught by School House Rock.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
I feel like I'm watching a poor version of school house rock
That's what I said.
"I'm looking for a man of PURE EVILLL, so I can reform him." -every fangirl on Tumblr
Almost every teenage girl in high school too! (I ought to know, I went to school with about 75% of them!)
Bold of you to assume those fans are willing to admit their faves are evil
@@elsie8757 ....I was low key talking about me...
@@ouijacorn And you're valid. (And so are they, really. I was just stating facts)
Me: *cackles like a witch*
8:43 Man, Kubo must be kicking himself now for keeping his old Shamisen.
I really like your interludes, especially your "Spaceballs" ones!
Well, I know very little about musicals and music history, but I'm a fan of obscure old animated movies, the weirder the better, so I'll be hunting this one out. Thanks for alerting me to this strange, if flawed work of art!
You can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/3cG7VZ3T4bM/v-deo.html
Me when the thing about the cat and the chameleon first pops up on-screen: Uh... But... They're different species? They're different classes of species!!! Well, I guess I've seen a lot weirder pairings in fiction. I can live with this.
Me when it hits me that Diva emphasized the cat "trying to get with," while showing the cat simultaneously getting the chameleon drunk and making the moves on it: Oh.... Oh no.... No! Bad Kitty! That's a bad kitty!
Yeah. I watched the movie. The cat basically sexually assaults the chameleon three times until the end.
Ronald Searle also did "not enough drawings" for the songbook "Too many songs by Tom Lehrer".
I actually would have first heard the name through a book tie-in to this movie, believe it or not.
Also he did St Trinian’s and Molesworth.
Anyone else really confused about what's going on because they have no idea about Gilbert and Sullivan?
It doesn't make any more sense even if you _do_ know Gilbert and Sullivan
Yeah, I think it's probably worse if you do because you feel like it should make sense, and yet...
Could you possibly review the Raggedy Anne musical?
Patreon is your best bet here.
9:48-9:50 - I'm actually watching The Emperor's New Groove when that clip played. How about that?
YIKES at the horrible antisemitic stereotype with the sorcerer, as if the racism wasn't enough.
Or Droopy Dog, or Done Deal, or Dink the Dinosaur...
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Are you dissin' Dink the Little Dinosaur, Hero? LOL
Trust me, there was a lot of Dinking Around in this cartoon.
Anna Russell recorded a fantastic guide to writing your own Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and I highly recommend it.
I find this art style irredeemably creepy.
Studio Hannah it’s like Quentin Blake’s Roald Dahl illustrations come to life and put on a West End musical together.
Yeah, Searle's drawings are just plain UGLY in animation. They're fine when they're still pictures (such as his illustrations and cartoons, or the opening credits of Scrooge) but animation just makes them look hideous.
I will never get over the strawberry birthmark...
9:37 One would think a sorcerer would not be so easily taken (or threatened) what with the whole "being a sorcerer thing", but I guess he must have gone to the same magic school as Gargamel. 😅
Are the Trolls movies worthy of a Musical Hell episode or Know the Score episode?
I don't think the Trolls movies are bad enough to warrant a Musical Hell episode. Know the Score maybe.
Yes.
The first one sucks, but I don’t think it’s bad enough to warrant one of these.
Know the Hell? (Seriously, though, my daughter loved the first one when it came out - now, not so much........)
This thing is so 70s it hurts...
11:00 Mary Crawford: "Certainly, my home at my uncle's brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears and Vices, I saw enough."
I got that reference. I just finished rereading Mansfield Park a little while ago.
You mean the ultimate secret was not 42!?
How dissapointing!
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference. HA (Also THANK GOD the crappy film adaptation of that book series didn't have enough if any songs to qualify for this show)
I’m not sure how you managed to make me want to see this hot mess, but you did.
Come on guys... The production is tremendously 70's. Everything about it is intentionally abstract and 100% hits the spot. I grew up loving this.
Given the reference to the thief and the cobbler earlier, I'm surprised it wasn't brought up again with yum yum
Given that The Mikado came first…
Diva, have you ever seen Anna Russell's bit about how to write your own Gilbert and Sullivan opera? It's quite humorous.
Having been a loyal follower of Bill Melendez (particularly the Peanuts Specials) through my college years, and having done my best to log through every project of his catalogue throughout his career as an animator, I do remember him mentioning having done this one time (in an animation division he owned in London at the time). Now I'm surprised to have it brought back to my attention and see what it really was about-and why it found itself into the court of Musical Hell!
And I know you wish you could escape your musical prison, Diva, but the real tragic thing is that's your refuge from the hell that is humanity here on earth!
Are you kidding, the fact that she's trapped down there is probably torture for her. I bet she;d love to be up in Seattle and New York City adding to the havoc!
AND EXCUSE ME, not ALL of humanity is like those disgusting mobs, thank you!!! You realize you're talking about yourself when you say that, right?!
@@colleen4ever Well, I do realize that I am guilty of more than I realize, and am trying to be as self-aware as possible. I never meant this as anything akin to throwing every human being on the planet under the bus.
10:22 "what do you do successfully" omg christi, that bianca del rio reference 😂
I've learned something weird. Either this recording or the movie itself is sped-up by about five percent. I know this since a friend found a recording of the Modern Major General Song from this film's soundtrack with more lyrics and comparing the audio show's the film's audio seems to be the result of speeding the audio up by five-percent, making it faster and the voices higher pitched, if only slightly.
That's probably also explains why a show or a movie on a TV sounds very slightly pitched compared to a silver screen.
It was common in the days of analogue television, as the PAL format used in Europe and Australia refreshed at a rate of 25 fps instead of 24 fps.
Sweet, a new review! And on my birthday as well! Wow, this was a weird one. I might have to give this a watch just to see how truly batsh*t it is.
You can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/3cG7VZ3T4bM/v-deo.html
The 2 Asian stereotypes made me think of Beavis and Butthead for some reason.
Dick's voice actor, the late Victor Spinetti, helped write this movie.
OOF! Reminds me of when Sandra Bullock helped produce All About Steve where she played the lead.
To be honest, I kind of liked the movie's take on A Policeman's Lot, as well as a few of the other songs.
What you said about the rest of the movie, though...yeah, I agree.
OH GOD THIS IS LIKE THE EQUIVALENT OF A HEAVY METAL GILBERT AND SULLIVAN!
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...I'm imagining it now. It is nightmarish.
Knowing the batsh*t insanity of good ol' Gilbert and Sullivan, a crossover of their works could work pretty well. They already make cross references in their lyrics. "Infernal nonsense Pinafore" anyone? I love how the secret was from a throwaway line from "When You Go In" from Iolanthe.
The artstyle is hideous! I'm sure it works well with a single still image in a political cartoon. But in motion and for a longer length of time it's just way too busy and grotesque.
It was also used to illustrate not only the cartoons in the “St Trinian’s” series (which is briefly referenced in the 2007 movie) and a series of books about young Nigel Molesworth. (The spelling in those books-written by Geoffrey Willans-is delightfully atrocious, as any fule kno)
Grotesque isn't always bad, depending on what you're trying to do. But busy is bad, both in terms of audience reaction and in terms of production. Busy images are harder to process _and_ draw.
Apologies if I've asked this before, but would you ever consider reviewing "Lisztomania?" It's a parody rock/opera/softcore porno about the life of Franz Liszt, who is played by Roger Daltrey from "The Who." The tap dancer from "Rocky Horror" is one of his conquests, and Ringo Starr is the pope. I'd die to see your take on this one.
It's easy to miss, but it was shown that Buttercup was running the ship's store, explaining why she's on board later.
This had the same twist as the Fifth Element! IT WAS (spoiler)
LOVE all along
Me: About the poster were you drowning pizza dough or you were attacked by the characters in a crazy way
It sorta looks to me like she popped up from the cobblestones after taking a wrong turn at Alba-coy-kee
"The sun whose rays are ablaze" arrangement...yikes.
Also, bonus points for the judge being voiced by Barry Cryer.
I wait every time at the credits to hopefully see Next Case: Decendents 3
Um....I’m pretty sure she hasn’t covered that yet due to Cameron’s unfortunate death last year 😔
@@gracekim1998 Very true in the Zombies video she said she would wait, wait she should do zombies 2, that was a shit show if I've ever seen one
Owen Purdy yeah😅 honestly Zombies as a whole reminds me of Descendants. I found descendants 3 ok but was a little disappointed that all those fan theories about Mal’s dad was proved right and the books are completely disregarded 😅 and the whole not so tense sword fight dance with magic knight armour
@@gracekim1998 I never read the books does how does it disregard them
Actually I do think a fair amount of time has passed, but I have Patreon requests taking up the remainder of the year and several months into the next. Patience, it will come.
I have to say, I came into this video expecting some sort of Perspective Flip of HMS Pinafore. So... good on the movie for surprising me, I guess?
I love Linda Lewis's The Moon and I, it's a beautiful song and much more heartfelt than the rather brittle original The Sun Whose Rays. Dick Deadeye is very flawed but it has some great moments. It really suffered from lack of budget, hence the short length, not great animation, and mixed bag of vocal performances. I've always thought it merits a stage version.
Yum Yum sings like the Mice from Babe.
Ok, how is the judge in this movie creepier looking than freakin' Judge Arse in The Wall?
The art style looks like every single boomer comic every
Anyone else getting weird yellow submarine vibes from the Animation?
They were both made in the 70's, that might have something to do with it
@@elsie8757 Nope. Yellow Submarine was made in 1968 and uses a 60s hippy aesthetic. This travesty was made in 1975 and reflects the godawful tastes of that wretched decade to a tee.
Watching this reminded me that The Water Babies exists, and that reminder reminded me to remind you that you should put The Water Babies on your list.
They made a musical out of the book "The Water Babies"? I'm both intrigued and horrified.
4:01 This man looks like he's being dead for few months.
3:41 That’s a domestic disturbance in the making.
Great video, though you forgot to mention that Utopia is from the G&S Opera "Utopia Limited" (can't really blame you, it's an obscure one)
4:02 That's a chameleon?
I'm glad you censored the women's tops, but considering the animation style, I feel like this whole thing should be covered with puppy emojis.
I actually think that Pennies from Heaven is massively underrated. Should be interesting to see your take on it.
Your mistake was watching it sober
Please review the animated version of ruddigore at some point. I really wanna hear your opinion on it
You know what would be a wierder mashup? It would be to replace agnes de mille choreography from rodgers and hammerstein musicals and replace it with bob fosse choreography.
Can you imagine shall we dance from king and i fosse style?
Wow, this is the most British and/or 70s thing I've seen in a while...
Good review and I have a request for a movie you should review and that is The Fearless Four a musical animated movie from Germany featuring the voices of James Ingram and BB King. Think you can do a review of that in the future please?
Pennies from Heaven? With Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin? Oh man is this gonna be good!
I'm so glad you finally posted your new one. I was beginning to get worried about you! Wouldn;t know what to do without Diva once a month!
I don't know whether you're looking for recommendations, but I would love to hear what the court of Musical Hell has to say about Girltrash: All Night Long 😈🙏
Thoughts on reviewing "Bye Bye Birdie" (1995) with Jason Alexander someday?!
I don't think he's doing UA-cam collaborations, but it would be pretty neat.
I LIKED that one! I even have it on tape!
@Rebecca Woolf I agree. Nothing like the Broadway Play!!
i love how gross the designs are tbh. an adaptation of Threepenny Opera in this style would be perfect.
Did you hear about Murder Mystery Musical? Jeremy Jordan is in it.
Seriously Diva We need to talk about CATS, OR I'M GONNA GET DONNA ON YOU. The Jellicle Tribe is meant to be human, yet feline to convey the Musical, and lets not have that Argument about the plot again. However Tom Hooper Should've payed more attention to the Noses and lips. there is a reason I marked Tom Hooper's Adaptation as Okay.
Deadeye? Someone must be a fan of Bucky O'Hare.
Or Kurt Vonnegut, or the Ballad of Eskimo Nell, or old-time detective novels, or the eponymous band...
I guess I should watch the Emperor New Groove some day. I keep seeing joke from it
What do you do successfully? Quickly. (assuming this was a drag race reference) :)))
I'd imagine this movie could have been pretty good if they cut out the filler and extended the run time.
This is like that miniseries, Dickensian. But weird and full of boobage.
Oh! The life of a toon is the life of a goon if you listen to popular youtuber,
From the morn to the night he's so joyous and bright,
And he bubbles with wit and raw humor!
He's so quaint and so terse in prose and in verse,
Yet people forgive his transgression!
There are 1 or 2 rules, which all family fools,
Must observe if they love their profession,
There are 1 or 2 rules,
Half-a-million may be,
That all family jewels, of whatever degree,
Must observe if they love their profession!
If you wish to succeed as a jester you'll need to consider each person's matricula,
What is alright for B would quite flabbergast C, (for C is so very particulah!)
And D is so dull, but E's very thicc skull, is as empty of brains as a table,
While F is F sharp, and will cry like it's larp, "I've known that old joke from me cradle!"
When your humor they flout, a punch you can't throw, but it does put one out,
When a comment says "O! I've known that old joke from me cradle!"
If the director is surly from getting up early, and patience is short in the morning,
An inopportune joke is enough to provoke him to give you, at once a month's warning,
But if you refrain, he's at you againe, for he likes to get value for money,
He'll ask then and there, on an insolence tear,
"If ye know yer paid to be funny?"
It's an up to the task, take a drink from a flask,
Of a looney-tunes place,
When your principle asks,
With a trowel in his face,
"If you know your made to be funny?"
-an excerpt from The Cartoon Character's song, from UA-cam: The musical. With apologies to the late and still totally great Gilbert and Sullivan
I see these lyrics and I think The Maladjusted Jester from The Court Jester
@@ikarikid thank you, it's one of the funniest of the Danny Kaye movies, I think.
*sees an upload from Musical Hell
Me: better watch this before the copyright elves turn up
So when was this made?😅
The 70's
Rose Maybud has got some major "I can fix him" energy
I usually don't reaquest things but I want to ask. Will you do a Musical Hell episode on Eurovision Song Contest: The story of Fire Saga?
Eurovision is an event to connect countries thru music and was created to unite europe after war. The story of Fire Saga is just a Will Ferrel comedy. I, as a huge Eurovison fan, is very dissapointed. I could write a whole essay on what potential Eurovision has to become a movie but I should waste your time.
@Rebecca Woolf I was more hoping for an review from the perspective of an non ESC fan but still a music fan. If she won't, then fine.
If she doesn't know much about ESC I don't think she will make a I Know The Score episode.
I personally have mixed feelings about the movie. I like the music and the tributes to the contest (I needed it now). But the story is garbage.
Also, Diva just PLEASE give us a Cats Musical Hell review already. You've referenced it enough times that we KNOW you're dying to do it. Otherwise, I'll settle for an Atlantis Squarepantis review too.
(Cold take.) Just curious, where did you find a copy of this? I found one here on UA-cam, but the quality is pretty bad...
Having briefly mentioned Ruddigore does this mean there might be a future episode based on the Halas and Batchelor Ruddigore animated film? It's certainly a little more faithful to the original works without the electric guitar riffs XD. I'd be curious to see how it fares in the Court of Musical Hell!
can you do evita next
4:00: Interestingly, this is the opposite problem which many movie musicals on this channel face. I suppose that's not surprising, since it crams together plot elements from several fully-fledged musical stories.
4:55: And yet, it also has the normal problem. That's always an impressive one-two punch.
6:50: The more things change...
8:25: Wait, that's the same allegedly "eastern" name as in _Princess and the Cobbler._ What about "Yum-Yum" sounds exotic, let alone Middle Eastern or East Asian?
14:05: Yes you are. They're not even half-clothed!
16:20: Sounds like a prime candidate for a remake that trims the fact and focuses the production. Shame that only movies which were good the first time get remakes...
@Rebecca Woolf Which still leaves the question of why _The Thief and the Cobbler's_ princess had that name. (IIRC, it was in the original, not a Miramax change.)
I’ll be honest, really enjoy this movie. In a word it’s just zany. Gilbert and Sullivan tunes sound excellent in a 70s rock setting and lyrics are cleverly changed to the fit the new happy mess of a plot. I tend to prefer the tracklist of this to most of the G&S originals. Also the drawings and illustrations are just fabulous. So much character. Prithee Pretty Maiden sequence is so dreamlike and a complete delight and generally movie is just a good romp.
After nearly *10* months, I finally made time for the "Dick Deadeye, or Dirty Done" episode.
EDITS- 9:39 P.M.: *finishes episode 19 minutes later*
I had never heard of this movie until now.
9:40 P.M.: It looked... interesting to say the least! 😆
I actually did at some point read a book of this. It called Nanki “a split personality”, Poo “a personality split” and Nanki-Poo “You figure it out”.
Can you review Alladin and Spider-Man In the Dark
I don't think a good quality copy of Spider Man Turn off the Dark exists. (If anyone knows one feel free to tell me)
I don't think she'll be able to do the latter unless they make a Live recording of it for Disney Plus.
Wondering if you've seen "The Gentlemen of Titipu." From the same time period, same disco treatment, same wack-ass splintering of G & S.
Pity there's not a film or animation version of "Twang"........ (evil thoughts!)
@5:30, wow that hurts to look at.
Not to be that asshole, but when is your cats review? I've been eagerly awaiting it for a while 😍
@Rebecca Woolf She did and I think it was much better for it. Especially given how it included her referencing the Schumaker Phantom towards the end which inspired the whole series (Which you'd know if you watched her commentary on that episode)
13:24 there was a missed opportunity to reference the three doctors story from doctor who
Or "I Am The Walrus". (Which The Three Doctors also did.)