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Here's a vid edited in 2 days as filler. I didn't want to do this but I had to. I have 2 Videos Delayed: Michael Jacksons Halloween Review: CBS Copy Right Claim The Adult Flinstones Remake by Seth McFarlane: Waiting for insider source to dish some more info It's edited with less audio cues from what I'm reviewing edited between my dialog. I dunno if you all prefer less of that. Feels like an earlier Pan Vid.
@@MysteryMii honestly I blame the fact that the world loves garbage, especially in the realm of children's entertainment. Did you know the minions movie made more than triple what spirited away did?
When I was 9 I spent two weeks in the hospital for chronic illness. No matter how much pain I was in, watching Mars Needs Moms still sticks out as one of the worst part of that stay.
Did they? Seems like they actually did pretty damn well. Static Shock, Jackie Chan Adventures, Batman: TAS, Superman: TAS and LOADS of others that are classic 2D Western Animation. They might not have created em, but they did fund them pretty well. Oh, how about the Animaniacs? Pinky and the Brain?
I remember in an animation history course I took, the professor told a story about how while attending the wrap-up party for the Iron Giant he was talking with Brad Bird about the movie's commercial failure, and was about to tell him a joke but shut up just as Brad's kid walked up to him. The joke went like this: "Hey Brad, they finally figured out how they're gonna stop the spread of AIDS; they're going to let Warner Bros. distribute it!"
Dude that Iron Giant marathon... I thought I was the only person who remembered it. Pretty sure it was in 2002, as it aired on my 7th Birthday c: Just glad I’m not the only person to remember this airing all day long. It really is a fantastic movie.
I recently bought the special edition blu-ray and it has the extremely interesting documentary on it about how the film bombed, but became a cult classic
I remember seeing Titan: A. E. in theaters. About a 1/3 left after the opening scene, many of those parents were vocally upset a Kids Film opened with the genocide of humanity, Earth blown up and a few of their kids were upset about that. Good thing they left before all the not so subtle adult targeted jokes, I personally liked the film and own it but I understood their beef in retrospect (Still don't agree), I was already watching Mutant Football League and Aeon Flux so I got to enjoy my slushee and animated Matt Damon. Also I think the same Animators worked on Heavy Metal 2000...
Nightmare Before Christmas, a movie where Santa Claus-a practical god to children-gets tortured by the Boogieman Little Shop of Horrors style: "..."-parents. Titan AE, film where Earth-just the place kids live and is not as important or beloved to them as Santa Claus-gets blown up: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"-parents.
@@connorlee3704 Are you really trying to say the Earth is less important than Santa Claus? Besides, he just gets kidnapped, they don't ever show any of the actual torture.
The Thief and The Cobbler could have been great if it weren't for the execs changing it at the last second to better compete with Disney's Aladdin. Duke Nukem Forever could have been great if it hadn't been for the developer getting obsessed with making the game look better than any other game by using the latest engine someone else made. There's a reason the best looking games often use engines created by said games' developers. By the time the engine is ready, you already know how it works and half the game's already using it.
Actually if you watch it muted with closed captions it's not so bad. But the animation is still cheapened knowing how hard he worked on something that will never be done justice...
my brother first job was working several days as telemarketer for that Oz cartoon. In Ukraine. In office staffed with ukrainians who could barely speak english.
I'm must legitimately admit , it was sad to see some of these animated film bomb at the box office , considring a good portion of them are underrated classics.
@@SomebodyStoopid How considered Mars Needs Moms a "classic"? It's considered one of the worst movies in history. But I'm glad that movie stopped the cringe of Yellow Submarine reboot.
I remember Monkey Bone was actually kinda popular among the 18-25 set. I think MTV even aired it once or twice. Guess the super-experimental art style and "mostly sex jokes" writing was right up college kid's alley.
it makes me kind of depressed to know that some of my favorite western animated films are complete comercial flops so they are never getting a sequel/something like it. Atlantis, Treasure plantet, the road to el dorado
@@RebelTaxi Hope you are right I rely do but even if Treasure plantet got a sequel It would never look as good as the original. Disney made damn sure to kill off its 2d division with that one, and later with princess and the frog
Pinkie Pie fun fact: that movie was effectively a series of pilot episodes for an animated series that was cancelled and thus the animations were mashed together into one film. A Frankenstein’s monster of a sequel sewn together with the scrapped animations of a cancelled tv show.
The crazy thing about Mars Needs Moms, I remember it being HEAVILY advertised. I remember seeing constant commercials for it on TV, hell even youtube ads at the time. But hey, the film never looked that good in the first place.
Fun Fact: Spirits Within is actually the origin story for Jenova from VII and explains the apocalypse between XII and Tactics. It is a very important film in the franchise.
@@mistwolf 7, 10, 12, Tactics, and Spirits Within are all set in the same universe. Well all of the entries are in the same universe really but those entries form their own interconnected cluster. Spirits within happens between 12 and Tactics (flashbacks) and after tactics (rest of the movie., 10 is before 7 and 7 is after tactics.
The best thing I remember about Strange Magic is a quote from a review that said, This is what Frozen would have looked like if LucasArts bought Disney instead of the other way around :D
I'm happy Cats Don't Dance made the list. The whole history is very interesting and how the movie wasn't marketed so much & was barely advertised. The whole movie's my favorite one ever for real,and how much it bombed makes me so sad despite the movie being released theatrically nationwide in over 1,250 screens. If it was heavily marketed enough it would have made loads more money that what it got back then,it isn't quite fully considered a cult classic but I think it has been for years even with the Widescreen DVD on sale now. If Cats Don't Dance gets it's Widescreen DVD sold financially well,we will officially get a complete Blu-Ray release of the film in 16:9 Widescreen-1080p HD ,all special features from the previous DVD's and maybe some new ones & everything. So yeah,It's a cult classic to me still under-appreciated but a wonderful film,plus I wanna find and check out the full video of the making of Cats Don't Dance so bad!
Don't forget, both Wizard of Oz and Princess Bride also failed in their original box office returns. Distribution and marketing are most important in theater tickets. Quality drives home video sales.
It's crazy, but some movies will spend tens of millions on graphics but then they literally wont even advertise for it. I only found out about Strange Magic until it made it to DVD and then I was like, "wait, this was in theaters?"
@@ConnorNotyerbidness I didn't even know it made it to theatres considering it's a Netflix film. Sandler probably made all his money back through Netflix's paycheck anyway.
Yeah, I remember that Cartoon Network used to air Iron Giant throughout the whole day on Thanksgiving I believe. Probably the only enjoyable part of Thanksgiving for me.
WeegeeSlayer - I remember that too and to be honest, that special kinda had me burnt out from watching The Iron Giant for a while. Maybe it's fact that there was nothing else good on that day, or maybe it's the fact that I was 6 at the time and just now discovering Cartoon Network, but being forced to re-watch the same thing over and over with nothing else better to do made me not want to watch again for a while, no matter how good the movie was.
How would you feel about a Diddy Kong Racing sequel that added characters from My Hero Academia, Little Witch Academia, Kirby, The Amazing World of Gumball, **Persona 5,** Family Guy, Sonic, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Digimon Tamers, The Simpsons, Invader Zim, Pokemon Sun and Moon anime including Serena from X and Y, Crash Bandicoot and RWBY with Haruko from FLCL, Hat Kid, Popuko and Pipmi from Pop Team Epic, Bomberman, Doom Slayer, Beavis and Butthead also being there? Kirby gets pushed as a second Protagonist to go along with Diddy Kong. Imagine racing against Akko with Izuku, shooting a missile at Gumball, Gumball, Izuku, and Akko smoking pot with their friends, throwing an oil slick at Ren, Ryuji using a bat to knock opponents sideways, Ann using her whip to whip a nearby rival, Yusuke asking Momo if she’d be painted nude, Fregley putting his foot in his mouth to distract the other drivers so they can crash, Futaba showing everyone rule 34, Makoto dodging bombs that Bomberman planted on the race track, etc.
I saw Doogal in theaters and had Happy Meal toys of it. I think a lot of kids in my class saw it too. I was surprised when I learned years later that it bombed (and that it was a dub of a cartoon already in English).
One's you miss: The Trumpet of The Swan (Sony's version of The Wild) Igor (It gain a cult following already?) Leap (Nobody wants to see Chicken Little w/ humans) The Wild (Groin jokes, you know, for kids) 8 Crazy Nights (Guilty pleasure for me) Free Birds (Does this even count? I heard it's a smash hit at the box office)
I remember quite a bit of the advertisement for Cats Don't Dance, even as a young child, I thought it looked too stupid. They didn't show any of the story, they just showed the animals screaming and dropping pianos on the girl. Now at least I know it's good
Akira was so expensive to make it was near impossible to make back it's budget. It was also release right as an economic crash happened. For the next half of a decade, most anime that could get made were either kids shows or safe adaptations of popular manga, until Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion showed more original anime could be popular.
Uhm, "Akira" was profitable and 5 years until the next big series is nothing when you consider these were made AFTER "Akira" showed more cerebral and dark-themed anime could be successful. 5 years is a blip in production terms. "Akira" cost 1.1 billion... YEN!! NOT DOLLARS!! ARG!! This is why you DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH and stop listening to Internet urban legends! At the time, that was about $9 million in US dollars, a fairly low budget for an animated film. It made $49 million worldwide, but only $6 million of that from Japan. That's why it's considered a 'flop', but only from the perspective of the home box office.
@@Alondro77 it's not that much for a western animated film from a big studio like Disney, but it was a lot for an anime studio not named Ghibli in 1998. It didn't make back it's money in Japan, and Japanese companies generally don't like risking a flop in Japan for success outside of Japan, especially in the '80s and '90s. They often don't even consider places outside of Japan when judging how successful an anime is.
To me, Osmosis Jones never seemed like a super marketable film anyways, but I don't think it should've failed as hard as it did in the box office. Thanks, WB. Also, as it's been said before, PG-13 makes more sense than PG.
I like how your videos make ads *slightly* more tolerable, due to them being scheduled and not just randomly cutting the video off(almost always when someone is talking). I know it's a small thing but I flipping love the fact that you do that! I thank you, Thank you so much for that. More channels need to do that.
Fun Fact: my dad works at Lucas films and when strange magic was in production we all got to see a test screening. I cant remember much that was different except the evil bug king's mom was originally his "match maker". They then had everyone who saw it write in what you think the name should be (it was originally something generic like "love potion") and he came up with Strange Magic. He didn't get any money or credit for it
WB it seems is like the kid with downs who poops his pants and thinks it an accomplishment. Need I mention what they are doing now with the DCMU? Especially with how they seem to be trying to taint their animation now, with Killing Joke and that Batman and Harley trash
tfw when most of those are essentially my best childhood memories, the movies I used to watch so often, and I loved them so much. Quest for Camelot, FF The Spirits Within, Iron Giant, Titan AE, Pebble and the Penguin, Treasure Island, Atlantis, El Dorado, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling (1997) and more. Ah, it's heartbreaking to see those had flopped so hard... :((
In a time where La La Land has become a major craze in the whole renaissance-like comeback of musicals that's currently going on in Hollywood right now, Cats Don't Dance might've done a whole lot better at winning over a very broad audience had it came out sometime in between the mid to late 2010's, especially now when people like us are really yearning for traditional hand-drawn animation to be brought back into the mainstream market of the whole filming industry in the U.S. and that movie alone does indeed have some spectacular-looking animation that still holds up to this day without looking so tiredly aged whatsoever.
Number 6 was WB animation's last laugh with Number 4 and Looney Tunes Back in Action till 2014 when The LEGO Movie released(that aged poorly when it's sequel released in 2019 bombed). Also, mind I review Final Fantasy The Spirits Within sometime, Pan? I'll watch both the film and the entirety of Advent Children to compare the two's quality. P.S. Love that Red Letter Media joke in Number 3!
So Cartoon Network decided that showing the Iron Giant for 24 hours was such a brilliant idea, that they did it again with Teen Titans Go...multiple times.
I didn’t expect to feel pity for any of these movies, but I adore Cats Don’t Dance so I didn’t expect it to be a flop. Shoulda known though, the only way I found out it existed was by seeing it on Cartoon Network.
its a weird balance, you dont want to spend much on the film, but you also dont want it to bomb taking in mind the effort put in and the budget, so I dont know.
4:35 Aw man, I had a great moment at my previous job where I was talking with my coworker who was playing music on his phone, and I joked saying something like "hey do you know that song that was in the trailer for Titan A.E.?" And I was mumbling the lyrics from this clip like "duh duh duh dayyyy, Can you take me higher?" without knowing what the lyrics were. Then he just said to me "I know what you're talking about," and he immediately went on his phone and looked it up and I just started laughing my ass off.
I was really surprised when I first heard that The Iron Giant was a commercial flop. Here in Ireland it was promoted very heavily and it's quite common to hear someone in their mid to late 20s claim it as one of their favorite nostalgic movies.
I was about 6 when I went to see mars needs moms. We were the only people in the theater. It’s been a while since then and I still remember how cool it felt to be in a theater when nobody else was in there (of course my family was in there with me cause I was 6)
I had a similar experiance with Kung Pow: Enter The Fist. My mom took me out of school for the whole day for a 15 minute minute doctors appointment, and she took me to see that movie in theaters. We were the only ones there because it was like 10am on a tuesday.
Same experience but with the live action Cat in the Hat. It was a prime time showing too, so there was no other excuse than the fact that the movie was bad XD.
AT Productions I blame shit advertising. I only caught wind of isle of dogs two months after it’s release but the boss baby got as much exposure as possible, as expected
It was alright, I saw it on Netflix or Hulu shortly after it left theatres and I'm glad I didn't see it in theatres because while the visuals were fucking astounding, the dialogue was very boring and I honestly don't even really remember the story up to the point I stopped watching.
Couple of these movies were actually good movies it's sad they bombed in the box office. Titan A.E. , Cats Don't Dance, Iron Giant especially. I love them. I remember Osmosis Jones I think it would have been great if it only was animated and left out the live action stuff. Strange Magic..get that away from me and Mars Needs Mom is a sin.
DuskCynderMaya Try checking out the Osmosis Jones series titled "Ozzy and Drix" I think it lasted 2 seasons. I remember it being decent, but it's been so long since I saw it.
@Collin McLaren Yes, I remember it showed in the intro Ozzy and Drix were sucked out of Bill Murray by a mosquito which then injected them into a child. I think it was a boy though, or maybe I'm just remembering wrong.
My eyes literally welled up with tears when I saw iron giant, that is one of my favourite animated movies...and one of the greatest movies ever!!! Just look at the rotten tomatoes score
Epic was highly anticipated but the whole plot was a dumpster fire. They made Mandrake a relatable and likable character, but the heroes had no redeeming qualities aside from being heroe. No, I will never let go of my salt, it's the only thing keeping me going in these dark times.
"Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within- Based on the video game franchise I never played, and judging by the movie, neither did the writers." It was directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the franchise. Sad, isn't it?
And then they'll put like Nightmare Before Christmas as the number 1 cause it's popular and they don't actually watch anything they put on their lists.
Can someone please make a cut of Osmosis Jones without the nasty bill murray parts. I love the movie if it means fast forwarding through the liveaction
Marisa Torres mega.nz/#!Ax9VzAwL!0I2l2UTEdHyYgoMWvdyT91UyzdwG4Zx2oc-04EHph-g here’s my version of the movie I cut 99% of the live action scenes and I added some deleted scenes from the dvd in there keep in mind the deleted scenes are low quality but the scenes are when jones sees frank on a screen at the amusement park/an extended scene at the donut place and a longer car chase scene where jones says what the hell is a uvula instead of heck I also nicknamed the movie ojac which stands for osmosis Jones the animators cut
Yeah I love watching the animated parts but as someone who is repulsed by most bodily fluids and is mildy emetophobic the live action scenes almost completely ruined the movie for me. When I watched it a few years ago in my science class I had to look away every time a live action scene came on. I will never understand gross out humor.
There actually is one person I feel really bad for in the disaster that was "The Legend of Oz: Dorothy's Return", and it's Lea Michele. That poor girl can't seem to catch a break when it comes to her acting career post-Glee, and I really don't get why. Her public persona is about as polished and unrelatable as it gets, but I don't think she's a bad person or a bad actress. She just keeps getting cast in bombs.
12:55 Pan you realize that placing countless pending murder cases on oneself is counterproductive to film making when you need a crew, not to mention it'll be a pretty massive loss in expenses since you have to hire actors.
Strange Magic is one of my favorite animated movies; despite the fact that they could've spent more time on the plot. The characters I love, and the music I enjoyed.
All of these movies on this list were a net loss. Troll in Central Park technically made a profit, just barely (though it was probably a net loss if you count the marketing costs), so misses being on this list.
@@maxbrandt6 Well funny enough according to Diva of Musical Hell, she stated that later on Don Bluth would truly admit that that film was awful and that the completely terrible and underdeveloped script was a mistake in the first place. Since Bluth said in an interview, "Development of a movie is like development of a child in a womb, it takes time and it must be done right. Building the movie A Troll in Central Park taught us this lesson, but indeed the hard way".
Dude, thank you soooooo much for talking about cartoon theatre. I remember as a kid seeing one of the bumpers and I've been looking all over for that bumper to see if it was just my imagination or a real thing I saw as a kid. You have brought me some peace FINALLY!
