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How would teenage non famous matty healy influence aardman animation in 2006 "You know that pannelist in loose women? Lets make a movie based on her son"
🚨 IMPORTANT ADDITION: 🚨 the film Barnyard, released August 2006, gave us the appearance of Biggie Cheese, a.k.a. Mr. Bombastic, arguably one of the most iconic animated rats of all time 💅🐀
when he said 3/10 for chipmunks my face DROPPED lmao 😭 I love that movie a girl i was friends with would lie about shit and said she voiced brittany and we went to see the squeakuel in theaters so she said christina applegate was her stage name
I'm telling you, that g-force plot twist villain reveal had me so flabbergasted and impressed at 8 years old that I've been having random flashbacks to it throughout my entire adolescence. truly changed the course of cinematic history.
Over the hedge was banned in our house because it taught my sister the word fart and my parents were fuming because we were meant to call it passing wind 😭 Flushed away ignited my love for Bob Marley though
My passionate Ratatouille accent defense: 1) The rats speak rat, not French. Yes, within the canon of the world they understand French, but they themselves are not speaking French. Their accents do not need to be French, and in fact could be anything. No more needs to be said. 2) Linguini's mother is canonically American, so yes he's speaking French and so should probably have a French accent, but at least the story gave a *reason* for him to be American, which is more than a lot of stories can offer. 3) This movie is perfect, give it back it's 0.4
I came here to say this same thing. And he didn't know he was close to paris because they were living on the outskirts before he went through the sewers.
Eugene Levi and Catherine O’Hara have actually acted together as an on screen couple for multiple occasions, and are often casted together because of their admiration for each other and wonderful hilarious chemistry! So their pairing isn’t as crazy or as much as a coincidence, more so they just love to work together :D
We need to talk about the cultural impact of flushed away in contributing to the popularity of the phrase "hes sexy in kind of a rat way" when referring to thimothee chalamet
As someone who works in animation, yes, studios will copy each other in content to hit a trend so its no coincidence when theres 5 studios making a similarly themed movie. Shoutout to the yeti trend of 2018
I immediately thought of Madagascar and The Wild, like it's so wild (pun not intended) that two studios decided to make a movie about New York zoo animals who end up in the wild at the same time.
The GRIP the urge to rewatch any mike video over and over again until he posts a new one has on me is truly diabolical and I’m not mad about it. I may remain in this cycle forever.
@@c3ru1ean41yes I remember watching over the hedge and open season at different birthday parties the same year and both times being like wtf…. this is garbage😒 Like even at age 6 my tiny dumb brain knew that these movies did NOT serve what they were trying to serve, unlike ratatouille which absolutely ate (in more ways than one!!)
The "drawing of squidward" that you mentioned at 12:18 is actually a reference to Kilroy! Around WWII people would draw a picture of Kilroy on walls and write "Kilroy was here." It could probably be known as one of the first memes of the modern era
If we are going to speak on the Animated Rodent Agenda, we must talk about how (in 2006 when Ice Age: The Meltdown came out) you could not escape Scrat from Ice Age. That squirrel was everywhere.
I think about the film as a testament to the fact that if you have a calling for something: answer it. That rat found his life’s purpose- and he would’ve moved heaven and earth just to be in a kitchen. And I think it’s beautiful that he ends up following his bliss🥹
I haven’t seen g-force in like 10 years but it never occurred to me that the mole was the mole. That, to me, is story writing genius bc I still never saw it coming.
@@karissaridge8145 I was originally joking as someone who grew up in the 2000-2010 era of being bombarded with only animated rodents, but now I am interested in your rat. what is their name?
every time mike mentioned Bill Nighy i kept thinking Bill Nye and kept getting whiplash by the thought of Bill Nye in every single Bill Nighy role featured in this video
The “squidward” drawing is actually a WWII era meme from Britain! The character is called Chad, normally painted alongside the phrase “Kilroy Was Here” which is believed to have come across from America. Nobody knows who came up with it but it was ubiquitous, and according to urban legend even showed up on captured american equipment and convinced the Nazis that Killroy was a code name for a high level spy.
The “squidward” drawing you saw in Flushed Away is actually a reference to a drawing that was popular during WWII where Americans would draw this little guy peeking over a wall with the phrase “Kilroy Was Here”. It became a very popular graffiti drawing and kind of became a meme in a sense during the 40’s lol but the more you know!
I also think its worth mentioning that Enchanted (released November 2007) also has an animated rodent in it! Although he is not the main focus this is highly notable!
This made me realise that Over the Hedge has basically the same scene as the absolute masterpiece that is Hoodwinked: in both movies a squirrel drinks something that makes them go super fast. How many squirrels on caffeine are there in the cinematic canon? It sure makes me wonder...
this was prime time to be a weird little child. i enjoyed it. i would like to give an honorable rat mention to coraline even though it came out in 2009 it is very ratty at times
G-Force scarred me as a child. I was so heartbroken by the mole's story that for at least a decade I became a radical ecology activist and it's a miracle I'm still out of prison
Flushed Away is lowkey a cinematic masterpiece. I can't be the only person who thinks so right? RIGHT? sb: Mike you wear your beanie SO fcking perfectly, I'm actually gagging. ✨
fun story: shortly after acquiring the ratatouille dvd, my sister had to go to hospital and i figured out from where to play the movies on the lil hospital tvs and made the entire paediatric ward watch ratatouille on repeat for 3 days before someone stopped me
Bill Nighy was not the name I expected to hear most in a video about Hollywood's rodent obsession of the 2000s. His career from 2006 to 2010 was essentially Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter and some rodent based animated films, legend
I always wondered what RJ’s full name was. 😂 On the Over the Hedge DvD, there’s a special features vid where the squirrel is talking to his voice actor. So I think it’s like it was all a set. There was like an animated gag reel too.
Honestly the tale of Despereaux deserves at least a shoutout, I remember watching it when I was younger and it's insane. Also giving g force such a low rating is criminal
Can highly recommend the book, it's super interesting, unique and I've never read anything quite like it since. It also tackles some quite dark concepts.
Every 4th of July my family would drive upstate to an extended family party and every year we’d play Over The Hedge on the weird tiny video player vans used to have. so it has a special place in my heart as well lol
Sorry but flushed away is so iconic, the rolling down the river scene alone kinda owned my childhood. They had toys of the toads and Le Frog at McDonalds and I did in fact own them.
This is so crazy because I’ve been confounded by the animated rodent agenda circa 1990 (Fievel, Secret of NIMH, The Rescuers Down Under, The Great Mouse Detective…) Edit: this is also around the time that MAUS was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer, which is even more rodent protagonists
Over the Hedge just brought back visceral memories of my high school health class in which my teacher only showed a random assortment of movies only vaguely related to topics we were supposed to study (over the hedge was nutrition) while the other health teacher showed her students how to put condoms on bananas and taught them about STIs.
I really like that the snooty rich rat that wants to get back to its family is the boy, while the streetwise thief rat helping them and in trouble with the sewer mafia is the girl.
Ratatouille was one of the first movies I ever watched in theaters, and the chase scene around the kitchen at the beginning of the movie scared me so much that I burst into tears and had to be escorted out (I was like 5), so my trauma surrounding rat-related, mid-2000s animated films obviously runs deep. This video is like exposure therapy to me.
Dude, SAME. Almost exactly, except while I was sobbing, my parents made me stick it out for ‘closure’. I guess they wanted me to see that the rats were okay in the end?? But dude, the grandma in the gas mask trying to shoot the rats was in my nightmares for years. Anyway, later I became obsessed with the movie and now it’s one of my favorites.
I’m blown away. I talk about this all THE. TIME. Every time someone mentions childhood movies I go… do y’all even realize the amount of rat movies there have been. The Rats of NYHM was the best.
12:21 i don’t think the drawing is squidward, i think it’s meant to be Kilroy was here. Kilroy/Chad was a british/american meme that was popular during wwii. rita’s dad is a veteran and we should thank him for his service
Honored and blessed to have a second video out so soon after the last banger. Just wanted to share that that's not Squidward on the cast - it's a "Kilroy Was Here", which was popular to draw on stuff during World War 2! Fun fact
I thought Mike WAS an adorable animated rat for at least my first six months as a loyal viewer. Was amazed by the continuity and attention to detail. Production values off the charts.
Fantastic video but you forgot one VERY important factor in considering a movie’s ranking: how fun the movie’s video game was. I personally played the hell out of the Over the Hedge video game. Ratatouille’s game was great too
I think I was consistently laughing from start to finish. I grew up watching The Chipmunk Adventure and I fully agree the Chipettes are forever those girls. Absolutely lost my whole mind at their chussies out
The callback to one of the greatest lines ever spoken on the Mike’s Mic channel has me dead 😂 “running around with their chussies out” like, he spilled!!!
I was literally just talking to my friend about how people our age are into rodents/marsupials. We all love to just look at a picture of a rat and be like “that’s me hehe”. Mike thank you for this, I feel like it could explain this phenomenon
11 year old me was obsessed with g force i had all the toys. I also vividly remember my mom telling me after we saw it that she saw the mole plot twist the whole time, and that's when I knew my mom was a genius
idk why but the entire movie of G-Force just seems like a Kia Soul commercial to me like "omg the rodents used to be secret agents but now they power my new Kia 😍😍" and then sugar by maroon 5 would start playing
You’re going to love Best in Show, another movie with Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy. Their comedic coupling is a tale for the AGES… they’ve been paired in lots of things together. Enjoy the rabbit hole bestie
mike your videos are so good and your ratings were definitely fault-proof and 100% correct. may I please suggest doing a video on the Australian show Dance Academy? it's so silly but for some reason it still holds up (at least for me!)
Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara play married couples ALL the time actually! They’re married in Best in Show too, which is a movie that NEEDS to be covered in a mikes mic episode one day. It would be of epic proportions
Flushed away deserves better!!! It was literally hilarious and that little rat city was just so cute! The only reason I can take points away from it is cuz the line "🎶That's not rice, that's maggots you're eatinggg🎶" horrified me when I was a kid and I swear I refused to eat rice for like two years after that
