@@andrewmagee1711 Dude just 20 years before a huntsman was about to cut out Snow White's heart at the command of the queen, who then proceeded to poison her out of vanity. Things were different back then
Is it weird that this scene thoroughly terrifies and disturbs me, and yet I can't stop appreciating it for such a well-made creepy song and the artwork?
I was watching this movie by the time I was 3-5 years old. I can’t believe I was never afraid of it. I FELT IT. I was so into it. It’s one of the greatest animated movies not made by Walt Disney or his company.
@@nickperkins8477 oh yeah, but I've owned it on DVD since the early 2000s. It was a go-to for my brother and myself. My dad copied it from the library VHS. (I was born in 80, brother in 82). So we were the people that were always making our friends watch it during the 90s! LoL. Our kids watch it now. 😂👍❤️
@@goldilox369 sounds like me. Born in 1978, I was watching by ‘82, at the latest. Me and my sister would watch with a group of friends. It was actually on HBO, then. I was overjoyed to find a DVD of it on Amazon around 2005 or so.
It might be weird of me to say this but this scene is quite brilliant. Everything works to present this warped reality that witch has bestowed upon them both. It gives us an insight into each of the characters. We begin to see how reality looks to each of them and what their plans are for the future. The music is perfectly eerie, making us feel like we are falling deeper and deeper into the madness of their delusions. Heck even the paper people work in that aspect as they are yet another product of this twisted reality brought upon us all. The constant questioning 'are you happy?' works to disturb us and to make us question this world we have been brought to. It's all merely an illusion just a twisted reality that spirals quickly into insanity as the song draws to a close before Jack finally breaks it. It's still creepy but there is brilliance in madness. In a more adult movie a scene like this would be amazing.
Listen to the paper minister closely enough and it sounds like he is FULLY AWARE OF THE SITUATION AT HAND BUT CANNOT DO ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF WHAT HE WAS CREATED/SUMMONED FOR!!!
Jack is a rock solid badass, just crashing through a church window like it was nothing, landing impeccably, and confronting the villains without missing a beat.
Jack, his mother, Madame Hecuba, and the harp all share the same voice actress in dub acting legend Billie Lou Watt. Some of the dialogue in this movie was likely written by her, as was the style at the time. She acted in anime dubs from the beginning of dubbing anime, getting her start in voice acting with the dub for Astro Boy. An immensely talented woman, and a foundational figure in the art of dubbing in America.
I actually feel really bad for the giant son. Awful, narcissistic literal witch of a mother who I think was plotting to turn him into a mouse(?) and steal his money after he was married and it was legally his, whose only shot at being really happy was an arranged marriage to Princess Valium.
hydraloveingman1 Valium ...? So that's her name. (Was watching nostalgia critic review and didn't get her name).... I believe that's an over the counter drug.
KROSS777RLSH No, the princess' name is Margaret. Valium was just a joke about how she was so spaced out throughout the movie because of her bewitched state
This movie is so good that it is legitimately my favorite ever screen adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk. What was added in adaptation (witch, giant as witch’s son, a princess, and princess/animal enchantments/Jack’s dog Crosby) always should have been there in the original story.
It's kinda funny how, in their attempt to copy Disney's formula to appeal to Western audiences, they accidentally wound up making the story significantly fresher than it ever was before or, frankly, since. It's a lousy fairy tale, frankly, which is why most faithful adaptations stink. By deviating so far from it, the team behind the movie made one of the best adaptations. More of an ur-fairy tale that happens to use Jack and the Beanstalk as its foundation. Despite all its flaws, there's something strangely captivating about it. It keeps popping back into my head, long after I watched the Nostalgia Critic's video about it (the last I ever watched from him,) then watched the film and as many of its dubs as I could find.
I know this is late but since this movie came on Nostalgia Critic's editorial of the WEIRDEST, I came to listen to this too. Btw I think someone asked for lyrics and this is a hard one to follow so it would probably help everyone and be fun. Two of you stand, here in front of me tonight Are you HaPPY??? It's your wish to be married now, am I right? Are you HaPPY??? Will you both stay together till you're old and grey? Can you stand living with eachother till that day? Well then CaN yOu??? Sickness or in health Will you help each other OuT??? Will you share your wealth? You must tell me if you have ANY-doubts- Is this the man whom you take as your husbend, Tell me it (p)is(z) Is this the women you take as your wife? Tell me is ShEEEE??? (he loves her) Are you two in love? (she loves him) Speak, is it true? (a perfect match) Do you love this man (yes, they will be very happy) Do(oo) you- (say that you love him) take this women to (say that you love him) be with you too (say that you love him) Are you in love? A(aaaaaa)re you are you in love, I- (speak it is true)... (STOP) * Also the mother was BOOKING annoying to try to hear over, but I think it's saying that she put a spell on both of them to be "HaPPIly in love", that is why the daughter is so blank and HaPPY!!! probably to get the treasure herself, so while none of it is explained and it's all...CRYPTIC AS HELL, there is a story and plot hidden under even this bat shit insane...master piece. >:D
Tulip the giant is under the belief that Margret the princess is genuinely in love with him rather than under a spell. (Also love that you emphasised every high pitched shriek LOL!
I can correct the few mistakes that you made on the part where the mother is talking over the song. It goes like this: (He loves her) Are you two in love? (she loves him) Speak if it's true (a perfect match) Do you love this maaan? (yes, they will be very happy) DOOOooo youuu? (say that you love him) And this woman too? (SAY THAT YOU LOVE HIM!) Speak if you doo (SAY THAT YOU LOVE HIM) Are you two in love? Aaare youu? Are you two in love? Speak if it's true.
When I was a lot younger, me and brother would watch this over and over again. Then years later I heard the song ‘top of the world’ by the carpenters and it reminded me of this song again
I can see that. My brother and I loved this version. Grew up on it. We watched it all the time. We also loved the Carpenters. 'No one's happier than I' is played at the end of this scene, and that one really sounds like 'top of the world'.
Lowkey I can't stop listening to this song cause it's catchy af but then everytime the guy's voice does that "I've been kicked in the balls" slide thing, I laugh everytime like SeNd HeLp
I watched it when I was very little and i found it fascinating, it inspired me to do art and to be weird in a good way and appreciate it. I think it was made by a genius cast. They had real fun doing it and it's so original. I also think they made some scenes so odd and psychedelic to contrast simple story behind it.
As I understood it was all about the main character choosing between recognition (from a mother who always accused him of being naive fool and a waste) and believing in miracles despite of appearing to be an idiot. Farmboy helps the princess to get away from her poisoned illusions and gain her true self even if she stays in her homeland forever. In reverse she thanks him and accepts him as a brave good guy not some sort of trash as he used to hear from his mother. There is a great parallel between main character and antagonist the giant. Antagonist also has a mother witch who accuses him (but in a more hateful way) and even when he tried to take control of himself he didn't succeed cause it was a rebel act, not a grown up move. The crashed witch robot doll (as an allegory) hinted he saw her as a play\game rather a human. So in the end main character instead of wealth gains self recognition and in the same time returns in a real world without loosing faith in miracles. I think this story shows more if you will see through and has a deep meaning. It's just wasn't told straight in the face and uses lots of allegories. The truly weird part of all was a translation cause it's damn awry and lost a lot meaning. Dialogs weren't so sweet and puppy, just simple to understand what was hidden behind words and to understand motivation of the characters. Thanks for reading, if you made it here. I'm in love with this cartoon from early childhood and find it underrated.
Not even joking, I have been searching for this movie for decades. I ONLY remember this scene with the paper doll congregation and the pastor's creepy singing, and I've been dying to know where it was from. I remembered nothing else about the movie at all, not what it was about, any of the other characters or the name of the movie. I finally found it by typing in 'old kid's movie paper doll wedding' and Jack and the Beanstalk came up! Absolute nightmare fuel.
Guarantee many people are here from Nostalgia Critic. Me, I was one of the 80s who were plopped in front of the TV and remember this creepy wedding ceremony quite vividly. I drew alot of pictures in green because of this!
The music that plays during this in the intro and when they first show Tulips portrait gives me such strong vibes of Pink Floyd - The trial. Sort of cool considering this came out first.
I feel kinda sorry for Tulip tbh. He genuinely loved Margaret, but of course she only "loved" him because his mom put her under a spell (not that I blame her for not loving him of course--he's not really her type, if you know what I mean). And his mom is an abusive old hag who was using him to claim Margaret's throne.
Is it funny that this is actually my favorite scene in the entire film? Also, the only issue I had with this movie was the logic of the Evil Witch. She has the power to basically bend reality and can turn others into mice , as we’ve seen, yet she requires her son and the princess to marry in order to meet her plans of world domination lol.
Just by going off of some stupid levels of logic: might be some artifacts she cannot use in the castle without becoming part of that royal family, even if by proxy. The right of inheritence and all. Like the wand we see her use in her fantasy, she would need to become part of royalty to use.
It's too bad you don't have the rest of this scene. The part I remember that kinda scared me as a kid was when the giant stomped on his mother. I forget if it was on purpose or accidental. After she was stomped it was revealed that she was a clock work mechanical machine.
It was on purpose. He was sick of being controlled by her. She was magically willing him to step on Jack and Princess Margaret, and he made his own decision to step on her, instead.
Sent by the Critic. I never saw this as I kid, so I find this scene more hilarious than creepy. Even though most of it is quite disturbing, I just can't take it seriously with that priest. "Are you happy?"
I used to watch this on vhs when I would visit my grandparents house as a kid. This song still pops into my head from time to time some 30 years later. Thanks for the post.
oh my god. this creepy animation has been stuck in my head for over 20 years now. just found it today. it's amazing how my mind transformed it in my memory as a grown up - this actually IS for kids - but still trippy as fuck!!
Creepy, but cool :) Definitely one of the more memorable songs. Also, here are the lyrics for your convenience: Two of you stand here In front of me tonight Are you happy? It's your wish to be married Now, am I right? ...Are you happy? Will you both stay together 'Til you're old and gray Can you stand living With each other 'til that day? Well then, can you? Sickness or in health, Will you help each other out? Will you share your wealth? You must tell me, if you have any doubt Is this the man whom you Take as your husband? Tell me if he is Is this the woman You take as your wife? Tell me if she is Hecuba: "He loves her." Are you two in love? Hecuba: "She loves him." Speak if it's true Hecuba: "A perfect match." Do you love this man? Hecuba: "Yes, he would be very happy." Do you? Hecuba: "Say that you love him." And this woman too Hecuba: "Say that you love him!" Speak if you do Hecuba: "Say that you love him!" Are you two in love...? Are you...? Are you two in love...? Speak if it's true...
Tbh this is the most clearly a demonic scene in a sense because knowing it's Japanese, Paper people tend to relate to spirits and/or demons. I genuinely haven't seen anything else of this film on my own but christ. Are you h Appy.
He gets a lot of practice jumping over candlesticks and carrying water from a well on a hill….. you guys don’t know comedy gold when you see it…. (Joking, obviously)
Even when the paper minister says "ARE YOU HAPPY?", he sounds like Barry Dennen who played Pilate in the 1973 movie version one year before this movie! When I heard Pilate in that movie, this immediately came to mind!
This feels so weirdly similar to the wedding scene in The Castle of Cagliostro, that for a while I thought it must have been an homage to it. But I recently learned that Cagliostro came out a whole year after this movie, meaning that, if anything, the scene in that movie might be an homage to this! 😂 Probably not though.
80s parents buying their kids this VHS and popping it in. "Oh what a nice dog, and cute mice".
An hour later "are you Hah-peeeeee?"
We got our VHS from the library. But yeah! This sh*t STAYED in your mind forever! 😒
I'm so old I had it on BETA
Plus Madame Hecuba's wanting to devour Jack when he first showed up at the castle. I'm sure that raised a few eyebrows.
@@andrewmagee1711 Not really. Our parents were way more chill back then.
@@andrewmagee1711 Dude just 20 years before a huntsman was about to cut out Snow White's heart at the command of the queen, who then proceeded to poison her out of vanity. Things were different back then
Is it weird that this scene thoroughly terrifies and disturbs me, and yet I can't stop appreciating it for such a well-made creepy song and the artwork?
Samantha Jacob It's actually a parody of another song.
@@porcupinepolitics1678 really? What song?
Same fluidity as Akira.
@@emilierekdal5118 Pilate and Christ from Jesus Christ Superstar.
No, it's only natural. I always felt the same. Both now and more than 30 years ago when I was around 9 years old.
This, ladies and gentlemen, will be playing on my Wedding
a song about fake happiness & love? at least its catchy
Can I be the one who sings it, I've got the voice for it 😅
MORE SUGAR COATED NIGHTMARES PLEASE!
i think you meant more moon sugar please CAUSE IM TRIPIN` MAH SHIT
"What the enchanted crack pipe are we watching here?!"
Where's my giant electric chair!
"Why all the paper people?"
Isaiah Rucker r u happyyyyyy r u happyyyyyy?! No I'm very confused and rather afraid what is this?!
R U HAHpeeeee???!!! Thanks Doug for having this stupid song stuck in my head.
TedShatner10
ARE YOU HAPPY!!!!??
ARE YOU hahPEEEE
Well tell us. Are you *hApPIEEE?*
I was watching this movie by the time I was 3-5 years old. I can’t believe I was never afraid of it. I FELT IT. I was so into it. It’s one of the greatest animated movies not made by Walt Disney or his company.
Totally agree!!
@@goldilox369 it’s completely here on UA-cam.
@@nickperkins8477 oh yeah, but I've owned it on DVD since the early 2000s. It was a go-to for my brother and myself. My dad copied it from the library VHS. (I was born in 80, brother in 82). So we were the people that were always making our friends watch it during the 90s! LoL. Our kids watch it now. 😂👍❤️
@@goldilox369 sounds like me. Born in 1978, I was watching by ‘82, at the latest. Me and my sister would watch with a group of friends. It was actually on HBO, then. I was overjoyed to find a DVD of it on Amazon around 2005 or so.
The Preist is the most Japanese sounding Non Japanese speaking Voice I have ever heard!
ARE YOU HaPPY?
No...
NO.
YEssssss
are yOU?!
wELL thEN cAN YOU?
It might be weird of me to say this but this scene is quite brilliant. Everything works to present this warped reality that witch has bestowed upon them both. It gives us an insight into each of the characters. We begin to see how reality looks to each of them and what their plans are for the future. The music is perfectly eerie, making us feel like we are falling deeper and deeper into the madness of their delusions. Heck even the paper people work in that aspect as they are yet another product of this twisted reality brought upon us all. The constant questioning 'are you happy?' works to disturb us and to make us question this world we have been brought to. It's all merely an illusion just a twisted reality that spirals quickly into insanity as the song draws to a close before Jack finally breaks it. It's still creepy but there is brilliance in madness. In a more adult movie a scene like this would be amazing.
It's kind of sad that after this scene they really don't show the giant actually loving her so much, as trying to kill her.
It's not weird because it IS brilliant. A brilliant critique of marriage and I NEVER will marry because of seeing this hahaha! :D
Pretty sure you’re over analyzing it
Nope just flat out creepy
johnatan delacuso also, notice that the distortion effect is on everything BUT the princess
Jack and the Beanstalk? More like, Jack and the Weedstalk.
Top_That_TV
I don’t think that weed we smoked
Feels more like mushroom, one big mushroom...
Where can I hire this priest for my own wedding?
I dunno, but i'm not sure if you're willing to put up with him constantly asking you, "Are you hAPPY?"
Yeah, Axel/Lea I think you're better of not doing that!
In H E L L
Just hook a regular priest's nuts to a car battery and you should get pretty much the same effect
Just get a huge sheet of construction paper, a pair of scissors, and place a spell on it XD
Well......gotta admit, the lead singer sure can sing
It's actually pretty hard to do vocal acrobatics like that without screwing up something, so props to him.
the witches face at 2:24 is my face reaction to this whole damn scene
Imjustlivingtbh
Accriet
Truth to be told, I kind-of feel bad for Tulip. He looks genuinely happy here.
He seems like a nice dude, just with a really terrible upbringing.
Listen to the paper minister closely enough and it sounds like he is FULLY AWARE OF THE SITUATION AT HAND BUT CANNOT DO ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF WHAT HE WAS CREATED/SUMMONED FOR!!!
Josh Smith
God when you put it like that it sounds even creepier man!!
What a theory!!
Just like the other father in coraline he tries to warn her with his piano song
I'm here because of the Nostalgia Critic, anyone else?
I see that you too came here to see just how bizarre it truly is!
After seeing it in his review I just had to...
I mean, after that review, it's sort of necessary to see for yourself.
This song SOLD me on this movie. #AreYouHAPPY
It made me hapPY
i genuinely like this song??
That's because it's stolen from Jesus Christ Superstar. Listen original, it's better.
Alexandra Gladysh I might look stupid, but you're joking, right?
Horricule No, she's right. This is basically the "Trial Before Pilate", from Andrew Lloyd Webber's opera-rock
WickedElfie I just looked the scene up and why are roman soldiers holding machine guns?
Horricule Don't know... the 70's were a weird time...
Doug also sent me here
yeah when i saw this in the review i just had to see
Are you *hApPIEEE?*
Jack is a rock solid badass, just crashing through a church window like it was nothing, landing impeccably, and confronting the villains without missing a beat.
Imagine if all weddings in real life were like this. If that were the case I would be a lot more excited to go.
15 years ago I used to find this scene creepy. today....I find it disturbing O.o
at least there's no pedophilia which for japanese animation is OMG STEREOTYPE
I just keep laughing really hard at it
ŴHŶ
I oddy find the song likable....and absolutely hilarious. XD
Fun fact. Jack is voiced by the same woman who voiced Eustice's mother from Courage the Cowardly Dog.
And she was the English dub voice of Astro Boy and Kimba back in the 60's.
Corrine Orr?
@@gallibon1319 isn't that also the voice for Spritle in *Speed Racer?*
Jack, his mother, Madame Hecuba, and the harp all share the same voice actress in dub acting legend Billie Lou Watt. Some of the dialogue in this movie was likely written by her, as was the style at the time. She acted in anime dubs from the beginning of dubbing anime, getting her start in voice acting with the dub for Astro Boy. An immensely talented woman, and a foundational figure in the art of dubbing in America.
She was also Chris in Superbook.....that's why her voice sounded so familiar to me as Jack!
I actually feel really bad for the giant son. Awful, narcissistic literal witch of a mother who I think was plotting to turn him into a mouse(?) and steal his money after he was married and it was legally his, whose only shot at being really happy was an arranged marriage to Princess Valium.
hydraloveingman1
Valium ...? So that's her name.
(Was watching nostalgia critic review and didn't get her name)....
I believe that's an over the counter drug.
KROSS777RLSH
No, the princess' name is Margaret. Valium was just a joke about how she was so spaced out throughout the movie because of her bewitched state
This movie is so good that it is legitimately my favorite ever screen adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk. What was added in adaptation (witch, giant as witch’s son, a princess, and princess/animal enchantments/Jack’s dog Crosby) always should have been there in the original story.
It's kinda funny how, in their attempt to copy Disney's formula to appeal to Western audiences, they accidentally wound up making the story significantly fresher than it ever was before or, frankly, since. It's a lousy fairy tale, frankly, which is why most faithful adaptations stink. By deviating so far from it, the team behind the movie made one of the best adaptations. More of an ur-fairy tale that happens to use Jack and the Beanstalk as its foundation. Despite all its flaws, there's something strangely captivating about it. It keeps popping back into my head, long after I watched the Nostalgia Critic's video about it (the last I ever watched from him,) then watched the film and as many of its dubs as I could find.
why is this song so unironically good?
My dad asks me "are you happeeeyyYYY?" instead of asking how are you, all the way through the 33 years of my life so far 😅
I so want to do that now, but we'd have to watch the movie first...
You're dad is great
But.....are you Happ-eeeee?
I know this is late but since this movie came on Nostalgia Critic's editorial of the WEIRDEST, I came to listen to this too. Btw I think someone asked for lyrics and this is a hard one to follow so it would probably help everyone and be fun.
Two of you stand,
here in front of me tonight
Are you HaPPY???
It's your wish to be married now,
am I right?
Are you HaPPY???
Will you both stay together till you're old and grey?
Can you stand living with eachother till that day?
Well then CaN yOu???
Sickness or in health
Will you help each other OuT???
Will you share your wealth?
You must tell me if you have ANY-doubts-
Is this the man
whom you take as your husbend,
Tell me it (p)is(z)
Is this the women
you take as your wife?
Tell me is ShEEEE???
(he loves her)
Are you two in love? (she loves him)
Speak, is it true? (a perfect match)
Do you love this man (yes, they will be very happy)
Do(oo) you- (say that you love him)
take this women to (say that you love him)
be with you too (say that you love him)
Are you in love?
A(aaaaaa)re you
are you in love,
I- (speak it is true)...
(STOP) * Also the mother was BOOKING annoying to try to hear over, but I think it's saying that she put a spell on both of them to be "HaPPIly in love", that is why the daughter is so blank and HaPPY!!! probably to get the treasure herself, so while none of it is explained and it's all...CRYPTIC AS HELL, there is a story and plot hidden under even this bat shit insane...master piece. >:D
Giga Phoenix at 01:09 I think he says "Tell me if he is"
Tulip the giant is under the belief that Margret the princess is genuinely in love with him rather than under a spell.
(Also love that you emphasised every high pitched shriek LOL!
Thank you! Now I have a better "understanding" of this mind screw.
I can correct the few mistakes that you made on the part where the mother is talking over the song. It goes like this:
(He loves her)
Are you two in love? (she loves him)
Speak if it's true (a perfect match)
Do you love this maaan? (yes, they will be very happy)
DOOOooo youuu? (say that you love him)
And this woman too? (SAY THAT YOU LOVE HIM!)
Speak if you doo (SAY THAT YOU LOVE HIM)
Are you two in love?
Aaare youu?
Are you two in love?
Speak if it's true.
Hello again Critic, I'm here because of you. Are you happEEE?
When you're wedding is in 5 minutes and you take too many Flintstones vitamins
Yep
Doug Walker sent me here.
Doug sent me.
Lie. You sent yourself here.
He sent us all here
that's his real name?
TheAltrox yup
Bought this movie at a dollar store 20 years ago...changed my life. Best song in the universe.
No offense but you really need to hear more songs if you see this as "the best song in the universe."
I love the voice of the singer who played the priest! Great job!!
As a kid, this was sooooo scary! I'm 30 now and still find this creeppy as fuck!! Reading the comments, at least I wasn't the only one! lol
Mela420Luna It looks like Tim Burton's works
+Mela420Luna No, like this for real scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!!! Like, this isn't safe Disney stuff...this is messed up!!
BONNIEJDAVIS
Remember that this movie is old. If you look at other Disney movies @ the same time, they are just as disturbing.
I imagine a live-action adaptation of that "obscured classic"
Mela420Luna Are you hapYYYYY?
I just promised my brothers girlfriend that I'd sing this at their wedding
Thatoneanime 17
Plz record, and then post on UA-cam!!
Did you?
Did you
Were they happppEEEEEE?
1:39 is so beautiful, the way the song goes all dreamlike and he slips away from her hands
Stand by the fact this goes hard
This was my first movie ever at the theater as a kid. I have never forgotten it ever. It has held up to being scary then as it is now.
When I was a lot younger, me and brother would watch this over and over again. Then years later I heard the song ‘top of the world’ by the carpenters and it reminded me of this song again
I can see that. My brother and I loved this version. Grew up on it. We watched it all the time. We also loved the Carpenters. 'No one's happier than I' is played at the end of this scene, and that one really sounds like 'top of the world'.
I use to have this movie on VHS, its one of the best movies from my childhood
Lowkey I can't stop listening to this song cause it's catchy af but then everytime the guy's voice does that "I've been kicked in the balls" slide thing, I laugh everytime like SeNd HeLp
2:25 That face perfectly illustrates my reaction to this scene 😂😂😂
This song is always stuck in my head, I want this song to play at someone's wedding ahahahhahahhaha!!
I watched it when I was very little and i found it fascinating, it inspired me to do art and
to be weird in a good way and appreciate it. I think it was made by a genius cast. They
had real fun doing it and it's so original. I also think they made some scenes so odd and
psychedelic to contrast simple story behind it.
As I understood it was all about the main character choosing between recognition (from a
mother who always accused him of being naive fool and a waste) and believing in miracles
despite of appearing to be an idiot.
Farmboy helps the princess to get away from her poisoned illusions and gain her true self even
if she stays in her homeland forever.
In reverse she thanks him and accepts him as a brave good guy not some sort of trash as he used to hear from his mother.
There is a great parallel between main character and antagonist the giant. Antagonist also has
a mother witch who accuses him (but in a more hateful way) and even when he tried to take control of himself he didn't succeed cause it was a rebel act, not a grown up move. The crashed witch robot doll (as an allegory) hinted he saw her as a play\game rather a human.
So in the end main character instead of wealth gains self recognition and in the same time returns in a real world without loosing faith in miracles.
I think this story shows more if you will see through and has a deep meaning. It's just wasn't told straight in the face and uses lots of allegories.
The truly weird part of all was a translation cause it's damn awry and lost a lot meaning.
Dialogs weren't so sweet and puppy, just simple to understand what was hidden behind words and
to understand motivation of the characters.
Thanks for reading, if you made it here. I'm in love with this cartoon from early childhood and find it underrated.
This song is perfect for this movie. This movie is so great.
Not even joking, I have been searching for this movie for decades. I ONLY remember this scene with the paper doll congregation and the pastor's creepy singing, and I've been dying to know where it was from. I remembered nothing else about the movie at all, not what it was about, any of the other characters or the name of the movie. I finally found it by typing in 'old kid's movie paper doll wedding' and Jack and the Beanstalk came up! Absolute nightmare fuel.
i mean they actually did a pretty good job on this
woowoo678
I agree. It got great reviews on Amazon and other sights too.
Its an old film.
But You can tell they put effort into everything.
Here cuz the Nostalgia Critic?
Are you?
Troopcaptain yes
cool, but are you happy?
Oh god the paper demons!!!
m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=308jog4dp#/watch?v=pbS-pUOb15Q
Yep. Are you *hApPIE?*
This scene was a real drug trip
definitely
Something about this scene is just so mesmerizing. I just dont know why, but its hard to not have a good feeling from it.
Guarantee many people are here from Nostalgia Critic. Me, I was one of the 80s who were plopped in front of the TV and remember this creepy wedding ceremony quite vividly. I drew alot of pictures in green because of this!
The music that plays during this in the intro and when they first show Tulips portrait gives me such strong vibes of Pink Floyd - The trial. Sort of cool considering this came out first.
I remember watching this as a kid. It was crazy creepy. But we loved it!!!
I feel kinda sorry for Tulip tbh. He genuinely loved Margaret, but of course she only "loved" him because his mom put her under a spell (not that I blame her for not loving him of course--he's not really her type, if you know what I mean). And his mom is an abusive old hag who was using him to claim Margaret's throne.
I'm here cause my parents bought me a VHS tape of this in 1994. I loved it and my siblings too !!!
Is it funny that this is actually my favorite scene in the entire film?
Also, the only issue I had with this movie was the logic of the Evil Witch. She has the power to basically bend reality and can turn others into mice , as we’ve seen, yet she requires her son and the princess to marry in order to meet her plans of world domination lol.
Just by going off of some stupid levels of logic: might be some artifacts she cannot use in the castle without becoming part of that royal family, even if by proxy. The right of inheritence and all. Like the wand we see her use in her fantasy, she would need to become part of royalty to use.
It's too bad you don't have the rest of this scene. The part I remember that kinda scared me as a kid was when the giant stomped on his mother. I forget if it was on purpose or accidental. After she was stomped it was revealed that she was a clock work mechanical machine.
It was on purpose. He was sick of being controlled by her. She was magically willing him to step on Jack and Princess Margaret, and he made his own decision to step on her, instead.
I'd love an animated film if it was entirely done like this scene
I feel like this song needs to be played at all weddings 😀
Someone said it on Nostalgia Critic's video, but I'll say it here so hopefully it happens: this song deserves a doom metal cover.
I watched this movie so much as a kid, it's still captivating 20+ years later
Sent by the Critic. I never saw this as I kid, so I find this scene more hilarious than creepy. Even though most of it is quite disturbing, I just can't take it seriously with that priest. "Are you happy?"
They probably asked the paper priest's voice actor "Can you do this scene? WELL THEN CAN YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU?"
*Are you HAPPY???*
No I'm actually disturbed.
I used to watch this on vhs when I would visit my grandparents house as a kid. This song still pops into my head from time to time some 30 years later. Thanks for the post.
Such a shame this movie never got an actual soundtrack released. Some of the songs here aren’t too bad (especially this one).
It does. But only a few copies exist.
It’s great when Jack says “Make me brave.”
This is hilarious XD
Black Star of Star Clan
I know!
xD
Are you happy .
Gotta find a way to troll people with this.
xD
XD
THE HE-- YOU CAME HERE
What a trippy scene LOL This was one weird movie me and my sister would watch all the time
“This cartoon just turned into an acid trip. Are you happy?”
Did the paper priest just die?!
I think so
I wouldn't really use the word "die," since paper couldn't be alive in the first place. More like the spell on it wore off.
I really like this song. I wish I knew about this movie as a kid. I loved trippy surreal stuff.
I saw this on Showtime in the 80’s. Never forgot this song, and finally found it. Kinda wish I hadn’t now.
Drugs don't make me as confused as I am watching this tripfest.
Zachary Erickson Drugs called magic.
Why is this trippy man? I remember this when I was a kid, scared me for weeks now seeing it again it's like I'm tripping out
I AM THE OPPOSITE OF HAPPY!
oh my god. this creepy animation has been stuck in my head for over 20 years now. just found it today. it's amazing how my mind transformed it in my memory as a grown up - this actually IS for kids - but still trippy as fuck!!
Totally agree, I used to watch this with my dad, kind of a trippy film to show an infant but I love it!
god i hope no one watches this on drugs...
Creepy, but cool :) Definitely one of the more memorable songs.
Also, here are the lyrics for your convenience:
Two of you stand here
In front of me tonight
Are you happy?
It's your wish to be married
Now, am I right?
...Are you happy?
Will you both stay together
'Til you're old and gray
Can you stand living
With each other 'til that day?
Well then, can you?
Sickness or in health,
Will you help each other out?
Will you share your wealth?
You must tell me, if you have any doubt
Is this the man whom you
Take as your husband?
Tell me if he is
Is this the woman
You take as your wife?
Tell me if she is
Hecuba: "He loves her."
Are you two in love?
Hecuba: "She loves him."
Speak if it's true
Hecuba: "A perfect match."
Do you love this man?
Hecuba: "Yes, he would be very happy."
Do you?
Hecuba: "Say that you love him."
And this woman too
Hecuba: "Say that you love him!"
Speak if you do
Hecuba: "Say that you love him!"
Are you two in love...?
Are you...?
Are you two in love...?
Speak if it's true...
I remembered the lyrics as "are you in love? do you want to marry him? are you happy?"
Say hello to the most maddening scene in all of cinema history
Tbh this is the most clearly a demonic scene in a sense because knowing it's Japanese, Paper people tend to relate to spirits and/or demons. I genuinely haven't seen anything else of this film on my own but christ. Are you h Appy.
Why does it feels so nostalgic? I've never whatched this cartoon.
I have this stuck in my head now and I can't sleep
Why is life so cruel?
MORE SUGAR FROSTED NIGHTMARES, PLEASE
"What the enchanted crack pipe are we watching here?!"
Thanks Nostalgia Critic
MsFluffyninja7 *more sugar coated nightmares please*
That priest reminds me of David S. Pumpkins: "ANY QUESTIONS!?"
Sandro Algra Barradas YES! SEVERAL!
1:57 Can we talk about how Jack, a kid, burst through the window and came out unscathed?
Yes
He gets a lot of practice jumping over candlesticks and carrying water from a well on a hill….. you guys don’t know comedy gold when you see it….
(Joking, obviously)
I like Jack he's my favourite character he only bust though the window to save the Princess
Are you haaaapPYY?
Play this if your wedding takes place during the Halloween's season
are you happy?
This scene is more unsettling than all of the Regan scenes from The Exorcist combined.
Nostalgia Critic sent me.
My sister put this on my study playlist
Why are the instrumentals so good? Like I'd kill for just the instrumental track lol
I remember having this on VHS back in the 90's XD
I had it on VHS in the 80’s.
Is it just me, or does this sound oddly like Jesus Christ Superstar?
It does. It so does. "Who is this broken man, cluttering up my hallway"
"You look so small...not a king at all...ARE YOU HAPPY?"
Its definitely a parody of Pilate and Christ
Even when the paper minister says "ARE YOU HAPPY?", he sounds like Barry Dennen who played Pilate in the 1973 movie version one year before this movie! When I heard Pilate in that movie, this immediately came to mind!
THANK YOU I thought I gone mad
This feels so weirdly similar to the wedding scene in The Castle of Cagliostro, that for a while I thought it must have been an homage to it. But I recently learned that Cagliostro came out a whole year after this movie, meaning that, if anything, the scene in that movie might be an homage to this! 😂 Probably not though.
I remember watching this film so many times
Oddly I find the song soothing and hypnotic.
Someday, ALL weddings will be like this.
Great memoris
This is the kind of batshit crazy I enjoy :D