Steve Reviews: Samson and Sally 

4 hours ago ?

Hi

@@thebignigga69420 It's not that weird. He uploaded the video 4 hours ago, but he made it public just now.

@@y-stylzz ah that makes sense

Yo Steve how’s it been

just another goofy episode with silly jokes for kids vibes

Mhmm

Anyways, kids need to be exposed to dark stuff such as this, it will help them process hard emotions like sorrow grief and loss later on… As a dane, I grew up on this

They absolutely did not watch before slapping that rating on

​@@EmilReikoI "grew" up in a similar matter. I still must disagree protection of childhood seems worthwhile it's not something one can get back.

It danish. What else could you expect from the country that have the soft porn moves called "stjerne filmene" (the star movies and rate them suitable for humans under 18. xD I remember seeing Samson and Sally in 3. grade and the teachers thought it was a kids movie. xD o_O

You know what else is a kids movie? Heavy Metal.

UK doesn't have R, we have 18

Probably wanted to scare them into eco warriors.

​@@jcaesar19871 yup, totally a kid's movie

I love the unrecognizable stuff! It means I could potentially find a new favorite thing I might not have known about

It's not all that surprising. His audience suggests similar works and so his range of knowledge is broadened by the knowledge of the masses

I grew up with this movie but thats prob cus im swedish, danish, finish

@@19danjel I remember finding the Danish Vhs in my Brothers box of old Vhses

@@Zeagods-CyberShadow dude u should try to find them northern europeans during the 70-90 s were shameless

Bruh where do u live

it's 2 am here where i live gonna watch this before I sleep 😢

Mornin’? Che dici? Homie, here in Italy are 21:00 of the evening.

@@sihiri_kabari In your walls

Went from a boring Saturday to a questionable Saturday on what weird cartoons i should watch out of curiosity

These types of memes are 100 times funnier when unintentional, so it makes sense

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Jeg så den en eneste gang og det var nok til at huske den i årevis.

@@axelgidius3324 "Det hemmelige våben" "fuglekrigen" og "Valhalla" Vi var måske en smule fucked up her i Danmark XD

I saw this too! I thought I was like, the only one. I'm from america, so how that movie ended up here is beyond me.

@@icanbreathfireyo446 That's wild. This movie is pretty niche, even here in Denmark.

I watched it as a smol swedish child. It terrified me and one of the reasons why im scared of the ocean..

Nostalgia critic approves (I think).

Exactly what my mind went to.

To me it's kinda like when the "i just can't wait to be king" in the Lion King. When you think of it, it is far more stylised and colourful than the rest of the movie, whimsical amd totally random. With all the drama happening in Samson and Sally the few lighter tones moments are well deserved.

Drugged-up fever-dream

Viewing it in full, it's possible to view it as wielding some kind of symbolic relevance to the remainder of the film: - The walruses have effectively assumed the role of junk dealers within a post-apocalyptic (or at least post-climate change) landscape; whereas the film's remaining animal characters are visibly and palpably endangered by the hunting quotas and pollution this prior cataclysm has incited (and know it), the walruses have instead (to some degree) benefitted from the gradual decay of both human society and the natural environment, selling the detritus generated by human/environmental fallout in a form that (initially) does not appear to fatally damage them. Given the joyous tone of their subsequent scatting, both walruses thus equate this lack of "immediate" personal detriment to a rejection of the issue's scope; the environmental rot ain't harming them directly, so why assume it's an issue at all? Even the idiomatic cartoon gag in which the pink walrus appears to be compressed into the oil barrel (before returning to the shot having inexplicably materialized outside of it) complies with this reading: lost in their initial conjectures (which the song sequence exemplifies, possibly "explaining" its surreal tone and imagery), both walruses figure that they can somehow (albeit in a way neither, in their naivete, can explain, hence why it's framed as a zany visual gag) escape the ramifications or "confinements" the film's dismal setting imposes on them. - The sequence in which the walruses plunge into the wreckage beneath the oilrig (or on which the oilrig, as a concept, "rests" symbolically), while bizarre, further elaborates on the faults of their mindsets. Note that, upon reaching the seafloor, both walruses re-enact or interact with images and material equipment from idiomatic human "history" in chronological order. The walruses "play" the role of humans guiding animals out of Noah's ark (indicating that they broadly and naively assume their trade is "aiding" other animals through an environmental catastrophe involving rising water levels despite an artifact of their trade later leaking into the water and poisoning a school of fish). In this context, it's fitting that a pair of sperm whales resembling Samson and Sally are the final pair of animals to emerge from the "ark" - the walruses offer Samson an anchor and a barrel of garbage in their entrance, illogically assuming (based on minimal material evidence) that either artifact would be of any use to a goddamn sperm whale. Partially due to the emergence of the whales, the ark abruptly collapses, as if the walruses are underlyingly aware of the flimsiness or implausibility of this basic premise through being encouraged to display this to the pair of whales presumably "watching" this scene (although this is muddied by the film's presentation). - The scene subsequently "leaps" forward chronologically to later periods in human history, with the pink walrus gathering a set of medieval Viking raiders' shields (apparatus of warfare, or destructive human activity) and utilizing them as dinner platters (see also the Georgian buccaneer skeleton's gun merely producing a fish (food) instead of a bullet (among the junk the walruses implicitly deal), which the pink walrus immediately consumes). When faced with the precarious assumptions their position is built upon, the walruses merely opt to cover the more probing or self-implicating questions by emphasizing the bottom line (that human destructivity equates to their food, possibly indicating that their dealing occurs in payment for fish, or that their "work" doesn't immediately equate to the destruction of their personal food supply and thus should be "celebrated" rather than condemned as calamitous or detrimental). Given that the pink walrus is immediately tripped up by the brown walrus attempting to row the adjacent Viking longboat, the walruses thus seem to be hubristically attempting to play the role of humans (beings who, as this sequence seems to imply, frequently emphasize the bottom line to turn a blind eye to widespread destruction in favour of immediate pleasures such as food and short-term hedonistic partying) to capitalize naively on an unideal circumstance. Note that the brown walrus' actions also hinder the pink walrus (in addition to dragging him off the oilrig previously, alluding to the ease with which their precarious position could go south) - whereas the interpersonal relationships between the film's remaining characters are largely mutually-beneficial kinships ensuring security and emotional support (to some degree), the walruses' mutual relationship is equated more to two self-destructive sinking ships "chained together" amidst the detritus they (both figuratively and literally) "feed off". - The pair frolic in a chest of human gold/treasure and subsequently witness a skeletal authority figure commanding a group of marching subordinates, all of which (authority figure included) disintegrate into fragmentary bones. Initially alarmed by this interruption to their song-and-dance routine, the pink walrus merely dons two bones (remnants of the destruction created by human hierarchy systems, akin to radioactive waste or a derelict polluting oilrig) and utilizes them as drumsticks, further reinforce the points above. - The walruses rise to a higher water level and engage in a 1940s-style "big band" routine (complete with an Andrews Sisters-esque chorus of singing sardines whom the pink walrus merely consumes), correlating with marching regiments of crabs and the use of WWII machinery and armaments (items used contemporaneously with the big band craze in several western cultures). Remaining mostly blind to their assumptions implausibility, the pair's naive hedonism escalates as the human weaponry with which they interact becomes progressively more destructive. Eventually, the walruses hit the elastic limit of their ignorance (and re-enact the human events leading, presumably, to the environmental catastrophe depicted in the film's setting) through "playing with fire" (by using an underwater mine as a drum). - Returning to the present, the walruses and flung back onto their oilrig (now contextualized as the decrepit, increasingly-invalidated surface of a gangly mass of human destruction and ignorance) and merrily continue to neglect the issues of the present, concluding with a barrel of radioactive waste (presented as one of the final "mutations" or products of the tower of human history depicted in the previous scenes; the walruses, of course, being the other products, or the continued present of individuals either ignorant to or willing to ignore the surrounding bigger picture) poisoning a source of immediate pleasure and leading the wider issues of the present to hit them squarely (and brutally) in the face. Basically, while the walrus song is definitely a tonally-jarring scene given the more somber, understated tone of the rest of the film (although this could simply be a deliberate exemplification of the walruses' detachment from the material realities surrounding them) and feels somewhat clunkily-integrated into the film's "flow" (given that Samson and Sally barely seem to acknowledge or glean anything from it - did they even watch the part of the sequence set underwater?), I'd say you could make an argument that it's not complete irrelevant to the film thematically.

I grew with that movie of War of the Birds. Aka, Oliver and Olivia. It's something I'll tell you that.

That movie was my childhood

I absolutely loved that as a kid!

@@Nico_2202 i still can that movie bye hart love war of the birds!! pleas see it. better that samson and sally i promes!!

@@piapedersen2209 I’ve seen it many times haha, I love it

in 80s apocalyptic reality is not something so strange when i was kid i watched so many movie and cartoon happening in apocalyptic world

If you said is true taking place in the future there a lot wrong 1. The kraken whales we followed are the descents of dwarf species and the large whales are extinct 2.killer whale would evolve into a bigger and meaner predator and have a hyena like lifestyle 3.walruses are extinct while there least concern and near threatened cousins would evolve into a more aquatic creatures 4.don’t know what type of baleen whale for some baleen whales would be extinct 5.gulls would evolve into a pterodactyl like creature 6.polar bears would be gone but not extinct in their hybrids decades 7. Coral reefs would be more stranger and many of the fauna would become more specialized 8.lastly humans shouldn’t be around ether extinct or left earth This after all those years after man is not get it respect

Awful dubbing, maybe they wanted to make people think Samson had a “father” and he was part of a family complete family? Sometimes they do weird things when they dub a Cartoon.

I always thought that that character was Samsons teacher or something

Billy: My Damomdy!

@@XxAmayaSanxX I thought they were the same person but he went back to the past to raise himself during an inception dream... No?

@@ammagnolia that sounds too crazy

Even though this film came out before ADGTH

@@matthewfranks2198 So did Dumbo, but the Pink Elephants scene is still referred to a Big Lipped Alligator Moment.

@@IndigoDragoness So true. But damn, they are funny as they are weird XD

@@matthewfranks2198 You ain't just whistlin' Dixie, brother.

Yep ! Typically what happen exactly to Watership Down (the most famous example of this weird classification), but also others animated movie. We are completely in this kind of scenario where the people in charge to rate these movies just see the jacket, the surface level with the cartoon pictures and characters, think that because it's an animated movie that is only for kids, and put the U rating without even watch the movie itself ! Litterally the definition of lazyness !

Based.

@@dudotolivier6363 ye

My attitude from when I was four hasn't changed on this: _Bloody and gruesome deaths are not inappropriate for small children_

@@dudotolivier6363 Here in the USA Watership Down was always a PG movie. This was before the PG-13 rating. G is the same as U so a PG is the next rating up. I think PG fits more as the old 70’s-80’s Star Wars films were PG too.

SAME HERE. literally, this movie was magical to me as a kid and idk just something about it was captivating to me. Yes it’s kind of weird but like you said, maybe that’s why we loved it so dearly. Your comment couldn’t of summed up my opinion better, I get so annoyed at people saying “it traumatized me” like yeah no, fuckin movies like “The Omen” traumatized me as a kid! Not dramatic, foreign cartoon films.

You know, I'm a whaler and my dad and his ancestors going back 8 generations were whalers; We're mostly honest workers and decent folks and there's no reason for you to hate us.

not traumatized, but damn the oil part was brutal when i watched the anime at christmas holiday when i was 6 old year 😅

@@Firguy_the_Foot_Fetishist I do have reason to hate. Whalers almost hunted these endangered, intelligent, and highly social animals into extinction. Historically, it was a long, painful, and terrifying experience for the animal as their family could only watch in horror. "Decent" people do horrible things to this world. If it was done sustainably and out of necessity, that would at least be understandable. But no, it is almost all commercial. If the whales went extinct, your people would find something else to hunt into extinction because you don't see an intelligent social being, you only see flesh and oil that can be exploited.

@@Firguy_the_Foot_Fetishist There is no reason to hunt endangered whales in the modern age. They are also some of the most social and intelligent animals on the planet, meaning killing them is only a few steps down the ladder of morally evil things as killing people.

@@Firguy_the_Foot_Fetishist There is no reason to hunt endangered whales in the modern age. Claiming innocence while hiding behind a thin layer of ignorance doesn't make it right.

I do think that children being more aware of issues (such as ocean pollution for example) are more likely to be empathetic towards others and aware as adults. Imo we need more of it. Now if only we could ensure the points were evidence based we'd be golden. (I'm not implying anything specific here, just that it's easy to propogandize people and care to be based in reality should be important.)

Where did you find a copy online?

Where did you find it!?

Kids today: COCO MELON!!! *Eats banana peel and throws away the rest*

You can send those people this way now so they can see it for themselves

@@spicybeantofu already done... 😅 A few are quite disturbed by this movie now too. 😂

Hope you know IRL when a whale sinks down to the bottom of the ocean it will end up feeding the animals down there for about 30 years. it's called a Whale fall. it's quite fascinating to learn about.

@@ghoulchan7525 this piece of knowledge came to me by binge-watching documentaries one evening about 15 years later. Nature is quite fascinating, but having seen this scene at six years old I wasn't able to grasp my limited knowledge of the sea and find solace in this case...

@@lavaya1147 ah i see. hope you can look back at the film through a different lens nowadays.

I was that kid too, found it in the most obscure video place, Pine Grove Video, it was on VHS early 90s

Oh my God, I watched that in French class my freshman year of college! That's a blast from the past, and a good one at that!

This sounds incredible Definitely going on my to-do

There's also some pretty dark scenes like the tree trap if you wanna check them out.

They probably darkened it just so you would think that and not that the whale actually died.

I distinctly remembered this movie from when I was a kid. That specific scene in fact. I thought the entirety of the movie was about a group of migrating whales trying to escape an oil-slick. Turns out my little kid brain had let itself forget about the Made-in-Abyss-ian nightmare this is. So many memories are surfacing back up. Sigh, time to look for a therapist I suppose. Didn't forget the whale trying to go back to the surface though. It was the part that stuck with me the most. Dunno which version I saw, but that little fella got dead for sure, and little kid me was terrified by his oil-covered body tumbling down into the darkness as the others looked on completely helpless to save him. Thanks, oilfish! Your memory led me back here over 30 years later. :D

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@@wintermoon7003 sorry but later we see samson whale friend die from oil spill, so after that you understand it is rip for the poor young whale and anyway the first time i saw this movie when i was kid, for me the young whale was dead, you can see the fear reaction from other whale, for them oil is death itself

This one looks like a random mess though. Not worth the watch

DAMN YOU!!!!

It would have been funnier if he added the clip of Homer saying “wait a minute… that was our world!” Followed by the “you maniacs!” line

@@osmanyousif7849 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qqPOeC-tnKI.html

Gave me AOT season 3 feels 😮

Same

And the seagull pooping was clearly a fetish, which i bet several danish cartoons have... weird fetishy content.

Do You not Remember Terkel in trouble

@@finland4ever55 Have you heard of Bonbon land

@@finland4ever55 it’s not a fetish, and saying that you think a lot of danish children’s movies has “fetishized content” clearly shows you ignorance. Poop/fart jokes are not meant as a fetish but a humorous joke that children find funny, literally look at any kids movie or show now a days and you’ll find a ton of those types of jokes, no matter the films origin Stop trying to turn everything negative or make it weird and say it’s a fetish when it’s just kid’s entertainment and what that targeted audience find funny :/

@@Mikkel-of-Lolland. Honestly, I would pay to see Steve review that movie. It's possibly the biggest example of how the standards of Danish films and shows differ to those in the US/UK.

Hi, I'm a zoologist with a specialty in marine biology. You're right that they're dolphins, they're the largest dolphin on earth! But the name is incorrect. They're just called killer whales because they're predators and people mistook them for whales. ...They DO kill whales, though. Gray whales most prominently. It's pretty brutal.

@@WobblesandBean of course like any dolphin orcas are very intelligent

Oh yea I remember that one

hmm i think he should be able to find subtitles for it. Honestly it felt like a Danish Brother Bear hahaha. Still a beautifully made movie.

Wow. Sounds like it could turn really dark

Yes, it's a good film

So many horrifying things, the sight of dead Moby burned into my mind. I've seen this movie once over 20 years ago.

@Haskel of cause. Fugle krigen i Kanøfleskoven, Jungledyret Hugo, Aberne og det Hemmelige Våben, HC Andersen og den Skæve skygge, Strit og Stumme, Drengen der ville gøre det umulige, Bennys badekar, Terkel i Knibe, Ronald Barbaren, Abernes Ø, Rejsen til Saturn. There ye go mate. Looking forward to your presentation

@Haskel yeah, we have a lude and vulgar nature

@Haskel happy to oblige

@Haskel try Hans Christian Andersen his story for kid are often dark and sad

@Нaskel the little mermaid is pretty dark and not at all like the disney version… Also try read the “The Little Match Girl”

I don't know when this production was made, and even see any picture of it and know as an effect the design and artstyle of it. But I can certified that will be at least already better than what everything Nickelodeon have done in hid own TV Shows with every bullshit unoriginal stupid and totally goofy LGBT imposed and forced progressism messages, like in the Avatar TLA universe with LOK. A total disaster that have ruined this world who was beloved by fans... Truly, when it's come about LGBT people in normal TV Shows productions not centered around that subject, it's preferable and even obligatory to precise this fact when the characters are introduced for the first time. It's not surprising that japanese productions or minor productions like this one, Queer Duck, do better than the American or European movies/TV Shows, because we are all aware directly what these movies japanese and minors movies will be in them and who in question are LGBT. People who don't like LGBT pass their way and the ones interested watch them. It's a reasonnable compromise.

Same

me too

That would explain a lot

yes terkel i knibe is good den er god

The big breasted bird sings a pretty mean song tho. Its a pretty decent movie overall

There is also Strit and Stumme, quite dark, quite underrated

You mean Hasbro's excuse to get rid of all the unsellables

@@TupocalypseShakur Your comment may be true but you should *NOT* insult a movie with Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid" on the soundtrack.

that movie will always be awesome, coincidentally i've been on a transformers-binge the last couple of months and have found at least two shows of the franchise i'd say would be more fitting for an older audience, but perhaps not on a level Steve would review it; Armada, and Prime, more specifically the japanese version of Armada, since the english version removes a lot of the seriousness of some scenes including one of the characters. the mid-to-late point of that season is absolute gold. Prime surprised me with the robot-blood, dismemberment, and i think there's even a human's death on-screen (after he's been put into and fused with the corpse of a robot). it was surprisingly and delightfully gory, granted the only real gore was of robots, such as having their insides pulled out, or an eye removed from it's socket.

Or, he was already dead and is Samson’s Guardian Angel

Oh, not to worry! When everything goes belly-up, I'm sure you'll be there to tell us you were right all along! And that's what really matters!

That makes a lot of sense. That also would explain why he appears so randomly. He was Samson’s Guardian Angel

Omg I LOVED that movie as a kid!

Not to mention it has the very talented Malcolm McDowell playing the film's main antagonist the brother of the evil queen